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Mission and Development
god’s work or good works?
Edited by Matthew Clarke
• Addresses practical questions of how
mission work complements, competes
and co-exists with development
interventions
• Provides historical and contemporary
case studies illustrating the nexus
between evangelization and
development
• Discusses theological motivation for
mission and development from evangelical and catholic
perspectives
constructive appraisal of the relationship between secular
development and christian mission, demonstrating the
opportunities and problems associated with the work of faithbased
organizations.
MATTHEw cLArKE is Associate Professor and Head of the School of
International and Political Studies, Deakin university, Australia.
uK January 2012 uS March 2012
216 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441182630 - £65.00 / $120.00
PB 9781441108111 - £19.99 / $34.95
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Muslim Youth
challenges, Opportunities and Expectations
Edited by Mohammad Siddique
Seddon and Fauzia Ahmad
• covers topics from positive engagement
and role modelling to issues of exclusion
and religious radicalism
• Addresses localized and global
perspectives in this area of current
policy concern
• Perspectives from academics,
international, national and local
government agencies and youth work practitioners
Insight into key contemporary global issues relating to the lives
and experiences of young Muslims.
MOHAMMAD SIDDIQuE SEDDON is Lecturer in Islamic and religious Studies,
university of chester, uK.
FAuZIA AHMAD is research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Muslim
civilizations at the Aga Khan university, uK.
uK January 2012 uS March 2012
336 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.375 x 8.5 inches
HB 9781441122995 - £60.00 / $110.00
PB 9781441119872 - £18.99 / $32.95
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Becoming Buddhist
Experiences of Socialization and Self-Transformation in
Two Australian Buddhist centres
Glenys Eddy
• Presents contemporary views of religious
conversion, and interrelated notions
of religious seekerhood and identity
transformation
• Provides rich contemporary Australian
western Buddhist ethnographic data for
analysis
• Examines the individual level of
involvement with Buddhism, and its
implications for religious change
• Illustrates the process of socialization from encounter to
commitment
Exploration of the nature of the socialization and commitment
process in western Buddhist contexts through use of interview
material with individual Anglo-Australian converts.
gLENyS EDDy completed her doctoral thesis in the Department of Studies
in religion at the university of Sydney, Australia, in 2007.
uK February 2012 uS April 2012
288 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441118462 - £65.00 / $120.00
continuum Advances in religious Studies
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Tradition and Equality in Jewish
Marriage
Beyond the Sanctification of Subordination
Melanie Malka Landau
• Provides an analysis of traditional Jewish
texts that form the basis of Jewish
marriage
• Facilitates a much deeper understanding
of both Jewish Marriage and rabbinic
Jewish culture in general
• Offers two main alternatives for
partnership, both having a basis in
rabbinic sources
An exploration of Jewish marriage and its alternatives in
traditional Jewish texts from a feminist perspective.
MELANIE MALKA LANDAu is Lecturer in the Australian centre for
Jewish civilization, Monash university, Australia. She is the Director of
Facilitation at Encounter Programs.
uK April 2012 uS June 2012
208 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441138064 - £65.00 / $120.00
continuum Studies in Jewish Thought
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