Author: Linda Woodhead
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introductions, introduction, christianity
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0192803220
ISBN-13: 9780192803221

At a time when Christianity is flourishing in the Southern Hempisphere but declining in much of the West, Linda Woodhead offers a bold new overview of the world’s largest religion. In a fascinating and engaging fashion, she explores the cultural and institutional dimensions of Christianity, and traces its course over two millennia. Christianity addresses topics that other books neglect, for example the competition for power between different forms of Christianity, the churches’ uses of power, and their struggles with modernity. Also considered is the recent charismatic explosion

Author: Linda Woodhead
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: introduction, religion, christianity
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-09-27
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 052178655X
ISBN-13: 9780521786553

An Introduction to Christianity examines the key figures, events and ideas of two thousand years of Christian history and places them in context. It considers the religion in its material as well as its spiritual dimensions and explores its interactions with wider society such as money, politics, force, gender and the family, and non-Christian cultures and societies. This Introduction places particular focus on the ways in which Christianity has understood, embodied and related to power. It shows how the Church’s longstanding love affair with ’higher power’, both human and di

Author: Linda Woodhead
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: transformations, traditions, world, modern, religions
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2001-11-09
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0415217849
ISBN-13: 9780415217842

This comprehensive guide offers an unrivaled introduction to the latest work in the study of religion. Bringing together the methods of both the humanities and the social sciences, the editors consider the main religious traditions of Asia and the West, as well as new forms of religion and spirituality such as New Age. With a historical introduction to each religion and detailed analysis of its place in the modern world, this book is ideal for newcomers to the study of religion.

Author: Linda Woodhead
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: transformations, traditions, world, modern, religions
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2001-12-14
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0415217830
ISBN-13: 9780415217835

This comprehensive guide offers an unrivaled introduction to the latest work in the study of religion. Bringing together the methods of both the humanities and the social sciences, the editors consider the main religious traditions of Asia and the West, as well as new forms of religion and spirituality such as New Age. With a historical introduction to each religion and detailed analysis of its place in the modern world, this book is ideal for newcomers to the study of religion.

Authors:R. Kendall Soulen, Linda Woodhead,
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: dignity, human, god
Number of Pages: 341
Published: 2006-07-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0802833950
ISBN-13: 9780802833952

Authors:Mathew Guest, Karin Tusting, Linda Woodhead,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: practical, pastoral, empirical, theology, explorations, context, studies, christianity, post, christian, congregational
Number of Pages: 223
Published: 2004-08-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 075463289X
ISBN-13: 9780754632894

This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to congregational studies in the UK. Through a series of innovative essays, it explores the difference that the increasingly post-Christian nature of British society is making to life in Christian congregations, and compares this to the very different scenario which exists in the USA. Contributions from leading scholars in the field include rich case studies of local communities and theoretical analyses which reflect on issues of method and develop broader understandings. Congregational studies is revealed as a rich and growing fiel

Authors:Grace Davie, Paul Heelas, Linda Woodhead,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: series, bsa, interdisciplinary, religion, perspectives, theology, sub, futures, christian, secular, alternative, predicting
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2003-11
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0754630102
ISBN-13: 9780754630104

In "Predicting Religion", 20 experts in the study of religion present their predictions about the future of religion in the 21st century - predictions based on careful analysis of the contemporary religious scene from traditional forms of Christianity to new spiritualities. The range of predictions is broad. A number predict further secularization - with religion in the west seen as being in a state of terminal decline. Others question this approach and suggest that we are witnessing not decline but transformation understood in different ways: a shift from theism to pantheism, from outer to in