Product Description: The Wendell Cocktail describes a major social problem, exemplified by the journals of a person with coexisting conditions-mental illness and addiction. Although there are resources for people with each of these conditions-psychiatry for mental illness and twelve-step programs for addiction-there are few effective resources for people with both...read more

Product Description: This book of conversations between Margaret R. Miles and Hiroko Sakomura compares the experiences of two women who grew up in different societies, with different educations, different professions, and different religious orientations...read more

Product Description: Augustine of Hippo is arguably the most influential author in the history of Christian thought and institutions. Yet he has been revered by some reviewers and vilified by others. Contemporary critical approaches to historical authors can illuminate features of Augustine's thought and activities that are not noticed when reviewers' attention is either exclusively sympathetic or intransigently critical...read more

Product Description: Miles's pathbreaking work shows how art and architecture have shaped religious understanding throughout the history of Christianity.

Product Description: When we look at Michelangelo's David, we see a nakedness that expresses physical prowess, self-knowledge, and spiritual discipline. What do we see when we look at Hans Baldung's Eve, the Serpent, and Death or Master Francke's Martyrdom of Saint Barbara? Why should those naked female images symbolize wantonness and shame? How do ideas about nakedness formed at the dawn of Christianity continue to shape today's sexual values? What must women do to take their bodies back? This revolutionary study by Margaret R...read more

Book by Miles, Margaret

Product Description: Book by Miles, Margaret R.

Margaret Miles here explores Christianity's understandings of the human body in the past and presents new concepts for the future. An enlightening investigation into how the body has been perceived through the ages, Fullness of Life offers surprising conclusions that historic Christian authors from Ignatius of Antioch to Thomas Aquinas, far from viewing the body in a negative way, have been overwhelmingly affirmative. Providing the basis for a greater appreciation of the human body as the focus of life and salvation, this unique work sheds a new light on what it means to be fully alive and fully human in the Christian tradition.

Product Description: This outstanding textbook offers an original history of Christian thought, asking what it has meant over the centuries to participate in the religion of the Word made flesh. Traces Christian ideas, conversations, experiences and practices from the first century through to the dawn of modernity at the end of the eighteenth century...read more

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Product Description: This unique Marian devotional includes hymns, prayers, songs, ballads, litanies, and other texts drawn from all centuries, bringing together a precious collection of texts from the most ancient to modern. The selection is arranged under main headings for the seasons of the Church's year, with sub-sections covering all the major feasts of Our Lady plus some others observed locally or still popular...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Miles brings Plotinus' thought alive for the twenty-first century by relating it to present day concerns. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this book, Margaret Miles proposes that the richest human life develops two interdependent qualities: enjoyment and generosity. By discussing the books that have taught her this, Miles shows that it is not enough to read books in the best possible light (as she was trained to do), but that they must also be read critically...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explores what popular films of the 1980s and 1990s say about religion and the values by which we live

Product Description: Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Cultureviii, 228 pp. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4. "Since 1973, a community of international feminist scholars has assembled each year at Harvard Divinity School to pursue a variety of questions about women and religion...read more

Product Description: Book by Atkinson, Clarissa W., Buchanan, Constance

Argues that histories of Christianity should analyze religious artwork as well as texts, discusses attitudes towards religious images, and examines the portrayal of women