Product Description: Throughout human history, people have banded together to pass on traditions, climb the social ladder, and often just have a good time. And sometimes, keeping other people out is part of the fun. (Every hot club needs a velvet rope, after all...read more

Product Description: New religious movements both read the Bible in creative ways and produce their own texts that aspire to scriptural status. From the creation stories in Genesis and the Ten Commandments to the life of Jesus and the apocalypse, they develop their self-understandings through reading and writing scripture...read more

Product Description: New Religious Movements tend to start their lives with a number of unequivocal statements, not only of a theological nature but also about the world and appropriate behaviours for the believer. Yet these apparently inalienable Truths and their interpretations frequently become revised, ’adjusted’ or selectively adopted by different believers...read more

Product Description: The twentieth century has been marked by an unprecedented outburst of religious activity on a world-wide scale, and in particular by a mushrooming of numerous religious movements. This work, first published in 1987, takes a fresh approach to the understanding of this phenomenon, an approach which takes into account new concepts of human nature and of religion...read more

Product Description: In Reaching a Lost World students dig deep into God's Word to be equipped as more effective witnesses for the Lord, gaining confidence to talk to others about their faith and stand up for the truth. Includes in-depth studies of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witness, and the New Age movement...read more

Product Description: This work offers a student-friendly approach to the use of flexibility in use of technology. Concepts are developed through examples, illustrating the meaning of the mathematical ideas. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)