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RELIGION

FORTHCOMING

Sacred Texts Interpreted

Religious Documents Explained

2 VOLUMES | CARL OLSON
Sacred Texts Interpreted: Religious Documents Explained gives readers the opportunity to
examine—directly—the primary sources of different religions and to better understand
these texts through expert commentary on selected passages. The interpretative material
investigates the nature of sacred texts along with the relationship between sacred
scripture and canon, and it explains why these sacred texts have enduring significance and
influence. The author provides suggestions on how to read a sacred text before turning to
the textual selections from 13 religious traditions arranged alphabetically, beginning with ABC-CLIO
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FEATURES
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• Guides readers through some of the most important religious texts in world history,
providing significant interpretative material to help students understand the history and
ideas within these writings CARL OLSON is professor of religious
studies at Allegheny College in
• Discusses the nature of a sacred text and suggests ways of reading a sacred text to more Meadville, PA. He has published 18
fully appreciate its significance books as well as numerous essays in
• Provides insightful comments from the editor that accompany the selected texts, journals, books, and encyclopedias.
explaining the context of passages to enhance readers’ comprehension

FORTHCOMING

Evangelical America

An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American
Religious Culture

TIMOTHY J. DEMY AND PAUL R. SHOCKLEY, EDITORS

What makes evangelical or “born-again” Christians different from those who identify
themselves more simply as “Christian”? What percentage of Americans believe in the
Rapture? How are evangelicalism and Baptism similar? What is the influence of evangelical
religions on U.S. politics?
Readers of Evangelical America: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religious ABC-CLIO
Culture will learn the answers to these questions and many more through this single- September 2017, 522pp, 7x10
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American society and culture. It also illustrates the Evangelical movement’s influence
internationally in key issues such as human rights, environmentalism, and gender and TIMOTHY J. DEMY, MSt, ThD, PhD, is
sexuality. professor of military ethics at the U.S.
Naval War College, Newport, RI.
FEATURES PAUL R. SHOCKLEY, MA, ThM, PhD,
• What makes evangelical or “born-again” Christians different from those who identify is professor of Bible and theology
themselves more simply as “Christian”? What percentage of Americans believe in at the College of Biblical Studies-
Houston.
the Rapture? How are evangelicalism and Baptism similar? What is the influence of
evangelical religions on U.S. politics?

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