How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of
their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word …

Winner of the Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction The first comprehensive history of lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender America, from pre-1492 to the present" Readable, radical …

“Ghosts of Futures Past is a path-breaking book of vast learning and scrupulous scholarship
by a gifted writer. With an impressive command of a variety of cultural domains, Molly …

This is a history of how twentieth-century Britons came to view themselves and their world in
psychological terms, and how this changed over time. It examines the extent to which …

For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century
bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred …

First taking hold of the American cultural imagination in the 1990s, the sexual purity
movement of contemporary evangelicalism has since received considerable attention from a …

During the past several decades, the fetus has been diversely represented in political
debates, medical textbooks and journals, personal memoirs and autobiographies, museum …

Given the popularity of television shows such as Finding Bigfoot, Ghost Hunters,
Supernatural, and American Horror Story, there seems to be an insatiable public hunger for …

Positive psychology has figured itself as no less than a revolutionary reorientation of
psychology, one that makes individualflourishing'the primary object of study and …

New Religious Movements (NRMs) can involve vast numbers of followers and in many
cases are radically changing the way people understand and practice religion and …