11 Best Sociology of Religion, Religion Books
Sociology of Religion, Religion is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Sociology of Religion, Religion audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 11 Sociology of Religion, Religion audiobooks below.
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Uncanceled
- By: Phil Robertson
- Narrator: Phil Robertson
- Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: February 08, 2022
- Language: English
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4.65(239 ratings)
4.65(239 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDThis audiobook includes an exclusive, crowdsourced Q&A with Phil! Win the War for Your Own Integrity After Phil Robertson quoted Scripture in an interview with a national magazine, his hit show, Duck Dynasty, put him on “indefiniteThis audiobook includes an exclusive, crowdsourced Q&A with Phil!
Win the War for Your Own Integrity
After Phil Robertson quoted Scripture in an interview with a national magazine, his hit show, Duck Dynasty, put him on “indefinite hiatus.” Phil immediately knew what had happened: he had become a target of cancel culture.
Since that time, Phil has spoken out against public shaming, strategic campaigns to get Bible-believing employees fired, and other tactics that are wreaking havoc in our society. In a deeply divided country, with so many bent on condemning and silencing others, Phil calls for us to carry out the unifying message of Jesus Christ.
In Uncanceled, Phil shares his own experiences with cancel culture as he
- encourages us to turn to Scripture as we navigate politics, personal conversations, and new cultural norms;
- helps us see the psychological and political motivations behind silencing conservative voices;
- reminds us that the goal is not to convince others to like us but to win the war for our own integrity by refusing to bow down to the god of political correctness; and
- shows us how to trade retaliation for the love and forgiveness that God offers.
Uncanceled is a blueprint for standing up for the truth of Jesus Christ in a culture that has forgotten how to have respectful conversations. As Phil reminds us, when we embrace the truth that Jesus Christ already paid an enormous debt to cancel our sins, we find a path to redemption, a way to forgiveness, and a means for godly connection.
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Freeing Jesus
- By: Diana Butler Bass
- Narrator: Diana Butler Bass
- Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 30, 2021
- Language: English
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4.33(580 ratings)
4.33(580 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDThe award-winning author of Grateful goes beyond the culture wars to offer a refreshing take on the comprehensive, multi-faceted nature of Jesus, keeping his teachings relevant and alive in our daily lives. How can you still be a Christian? This isThe award-winning author of Grateful goes beyond the culture wars to offer a refreshing take on the comprehensive, multi-faceted nature of Jesus, keeping his teachings relevant and alive in our daily lives.
How can you still be a Christian?
This is the most common question Diana Butler Bass is asked today. It is a question that many believers ponder as they wrestle with disappointment and disillusionment in their church and its leadership. But while many Christians have left their churches, they cannot leave their faith behind.
In Freeing Jesus, Bass challenges the idea that Jesus can only be understood in static, one-dimensional ways and asks us to instead consider a life where Jesus grows with us and helps us through life’s challenges in several capacities: as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence.
Freeing Jesus is an invitation to leave the religious wars behind and rediscover Jesus in all his many manifestations, to experience Jesus beyond the narrow confines we have built around him. It renews our hope in faith and worship at a time when we need it most.
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AND
- By: Hugh Halter
- Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: April 17, 2010
- Language: English
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4.12(903 ratings)
4.12(903 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDIt’s time to stop asking the old questions about how to do church better and instead ask how churches can more effectively participate in and grow God’s kingdom. AND helps Christian leaders recognize the best in different church modelsIt’s time to stop asking the old questions about how to do church better and instead ask how churches can more effectively participate in and grow God’s kingdom. AND helps Christian leaders recognize the best in different church models and see how to incorporate these values into a cohesive church movement.
By the numbers, the American church enjoys the resources to profoundly impact the Kingdom. But despite the rapid growth of these evangelical movements, the church in the West is in decline. A growing schism has emerged between the movement with a strong emphasis on attracting people and the more missional communities that focus on releasing people into ministry.
Church resource specialists Hugh Halter and Matt Smay have been observing these different church models, and they challenge the idea that churches have to choose between them—between the attractional and missional approaches to ministry.
With professional insight and practical advice, Halter and Smay dial in on how to bring together the very best of the attractional AND missional models for church ministry by exploring:
- The balance between gathering a community together AND scattering them into the world.
- The harmony between centralization AND decentralization in church structure.
- The mindset necessary to invest in both the traditional AND the innovative.
- The drive to maintain both a vision for the future AND a depth of community for the present.
As churches begin to develop these ANDs, they will be better positioned to influence the world according to the design of God instead of the whims of the people or the pride associated with production.
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If the Oceans Were Ink
- By: Carla Power
- Narrator: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.1(1634 ratings)
4.1(1634 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDHailed by the Washington Post as “mandatory reading,” and praised by Fareed Zakaria as “intelligent, compassionate, and revealing,” this powerful journey will help bridge one of the greatest divides shaping our worldHailed by the Washington Post as “mandatory reading,” and praised by Fareed Zakaria as “intelligent, compassionate, and revealing,” this powerful journey will help bridge one of the greatest divides shaping our world today.
If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power’s eye-opening story of how she and her longtime friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Their friendship–between a secular American and a madrasa-trained sheikh–had always seemed unlikely, but now they were frustrated and bewildered by the battles being fought in their names. Both knew that a close look at the Quran would reveal a faith that preached peace and not mass murder; respect for women and not oppression. And so they embarked on a yearlong journey through the controversial text.
A journalist who grew up in the Midwest and the Middle East, Power offers her unique vantage point on the Quran’s most provocative verses as she debates with Akram at cafes, family gatherings, and packed lecture halls, conversations filled with both good humor and powerful insights. Their story takes them to madrasas in India and pilgrimage sites in Mecca, as they encounter politicians and jihadis, feminist activists and conservative scholars. Armed with a new understanding of each other’s worldviews, Power and Akram offer eye-opening perspectives, destroy long-held myths, and reveal startling connections between worlds that have seemed hopelessly divided for far too long.
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Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization
- By: Samuel Gregg
- Narrator: John McLain
- Length: 6 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.06(124 ratings)
4.06(124 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWestern civilization’s genius is in its synthesis of reason and faith. These foundations are under assault today from Islamists and radical secularists. Unless Western society recovers its confidence in this synthesis and its capacity toWestern civilization’s genius is in its synthesis of reason and faith. These foundations are under assault today from Islamists and radical secularists. Unless Western society recovers its confidence in this synthesis and its capacity to magnify human freedom and achievement, our future is limited.
This sharp commentary on the rise and current decline of Western Civilization touches on historical moments–including the building of early universities in the Middle Ages and the American Revolution–and figures–including Augustine, Aquinas, Edmund Burke, and Adam Smith–that exemplify the faith-reason synthesis at the heart of Western Civilization, as well as the modern villains that threaten to destroy it.
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Letter to a Christian Nation
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrator: Jordan Bridges
- Length: 1 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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4(35974 ratings)
4(35974 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.95 USDImmediate New York Times Best Seller . . . The Challenge to Religious Dogma that has Sparked a National Debate! “Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime inImmediate New York Times Best Seller . . .
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The Challenge to Religious Dogma that has Sparked a National Debate!
“Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years,” writes Sam Harris. “Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government actually believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this, purely on the basis of religious dogma, should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.”
In response to his award-winning bestseller The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriating him for not believing in God. Letter to A Christian Nation is his courageous and controversial reply. Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity. Addressing current topics ranging from intelligent design and stem-cell research to the connections between religion and violence, Letter to a Christian Nation boldly challenges the influence that faith has on public life in our nation. -
How Christianity Changed the World
- By: Alvin J. Schmidt
- Narrator: Alvin J. Schmidt
- Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: July 07, 2009
- Language: English
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3.97(276 ratings)
3.97(276 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDWestern civilization is becoming increasingly pluralistic,secularized, and biblically illiterate. Many people todayhave little sense of how their lives have benefited fromChristianity’s influence, often viewing the church withhostility orWestern civilization is becoming increasingly pluralistic,secularized, and biblically illiterate. Many people todayhave little sense of how their lives have benefited fromChristianity’s influence, often viewing the church withhostility or resentment.How Christianity Changed the World is a topicallyarranged Christian history for Christians and non-Christians. Grounded in solid research and written in apopular style, this book is both a helpful apologetic toolin talking with unbelievers and a source of evidence forwhy Christianity deserves credit for many of thehumane, social, scientific, and cultural advances in theWestern world in the last two thousand years.Photographs, timelines, and charts enhance eachchapter.This edition features questions for reflection anddiscussion for each chapter.
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On the Verge
- By: Alan Hirsch
- Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: May 03, 2011
- Language: English
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3.96(127 ratings)
3.96(127 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDHow the Church can recover her original, apostolic ways and become a high-impact Jesus movement again in the West. The church is on the verge of massive, category shifting, change. Contemporary church growth, despite its many blessings, has failedHow the Church can recover her original, apostolic ways and become a high-impact Jesus movement again in the West.
The church is on the verge of massive, category shifting, change. Contemporary church growth, despite its many blessings, has failed to stem the decline of Christianity in the West, and we are now facing the fact that more of the same will not produce different results.
We are already seeing this new form of the church emerge in our day‚Äîan apostolic, reproducing Movement that’s driven by a desire to see Biblical Christianity reestablished. Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson call this the “apostolic movement” because it’s more resonant with the form of church that we witness in the New Testament and in the great missional movements of history.
And we are on the verge of a new apostolic movement…
In this book, Christian thought-leaders Hirsch and Ferguson share a rich array of theology, theory, and best practices, along with inspiring stories about leaders who have rightly diagnosed their churches’ failure to embrace a biblical model of mission and have moved toward a fuller expression of the gospel.
On the Verge will help church leaders:
- Imagine the contemporary Church from the apostolic perspective—how we got from there to here.
- Shift our mindset from technique (how to “do church”) to embodiment (how to live as Christ’s Church)
- Learn how to value, approach, and understand innovation.
- Move whole-heartedly toward the apostolic, missional movement.
Many of the best and brightest leaders in the contemporary church are now making shifts in the way they think, lead, and organize. On the Verge will help church leaders discover how these forerunners and their insights are launching a new apostolic movement?and how any church can get involved.
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Why Government Can’t Save You
- By: John F. MacArthur
- Narrator: John F. MacArthur
- Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: June 08, 2021
- Language: English
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3.91(117 ratings)
3.91(117 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDThe Lord did not come as a political deliverer or social reformer. He did not rally supporters in a grandiose attempt to “capture the culture” for morality or greater political and religious freedom. Rather, His divine calling was toThe Lord did not come as a political deliverer or social reformer. He did not rally supporters in a grandiose attempt to “capture the culture” for morality or greater political and religious freedom. Rather, His divine calling was to rescue the lost souls of individual men and women from sin and hell.
In Why Government Can’t Save You: An Alternative to Political Activism, John MacArthur illustrates through Scripture that regardless of the numerous immoral, unjust, and ungodly failures of secular government, believers are to pray and to seek to influence the world for Christ by godly, selfless, and peaceful living under that authority, not by protests against the government or acts of civil disobedience. Dr. MacArthur will explore the following areas:
- Christians’ responsibility to authority
- How and why we should support our leaders
- How to live righteously in a pagan culture
- Principle of paying taxes
- Jesus’ lessons on tax exemptions
- Biblical purpose of government
- Principle and reasons for civil obedience
“To devote all, or even most, of our time, energy, money, and strategy to putting a facade of morality on the world or the appearance of ‘rightness’ over our governmental and political institutions is to badly misunderstand our roles as Christians in a spiritually lost world.” ?John MacArthur
A study guide is available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Grateful
- By: Diana Butler Bass
- Narrator: Diana Butler Bass
- Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 03, 2018
- Language: English
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3.82(707 ratings)
3.82(707 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDThe author of the multiple award-winning Grounded and leading trend spotter in contemporary Christianity explores why gratitude is missing as a modern spiritual practice, offers practical suggestions for reclaiming it, and illuminates how the sharedThe author of the multiple award-winning Grounded and leading trend spotter in contemporary Christianity explores why gratitude is missing as a modern spiritual practice, offers practical suggestions for reclaiming it, and illuminates how the shared practice of gratitude can lead to greater connection with God, our world, and our own souls.
More and more people are finding God beyond the walls of traditional religious institutions, but these seekers often miss the church community itself, including its shared spiritual practices such as gratitude. While four out of five Americans have told pollsters they feel gratitude in their daily lives, cultural commentator and religion expert Diana Butler Bass finds that claim to be at odds with the discontent that permeates modern society.
There is a gap, she argues, between our desire to be grateful and our ability to behave gratefully–a divide that influences our understanding of morality, worship, and institutional religion itself. In Grateful, Bass challenges readers to think about the impact gratitude has in our spiritual lives, and encourages them to make gratitude a “difficult and much-needed spiritual practice for our personal lives and to make a better world.”
Grateful is partially an individual, emotional response to our circumstances, but research has shown that what we often miss is how much more it is a communal, actionable response. Bass examines this more unexpected experience of gratitude, and reveals how people and communities can practice it and thrive, whether or not they are part of a traditional religious community.
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The Language God Talks
- By: Herman Wouk
- Narrator: Bob Walter
- Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 05, 2010
- Language: English
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3.19(303 ratings)
3.19(303 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.98 USD“More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman.” So begins The Language God Talks, Herman Wouk’s gem on navigating the divide between science and religion. In one rich, compact volume, Wouk draws on stories from“More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman.” So begins The Language God Talks, Herman Wouk’s gem on navigating the divide between science and religion. In one rich, compact volume, Wouk draws on stories from his life as well as on key events from the 20th century to address the eternal questions of why we are here, what purpose faith serves, and how scientific fact fits into the picture. He relates wonderful conversations he’s had with scientists such as Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Freeman Dyson, and Steven Weinberg, and brings to life such pivotal moments as the 1969 moon landing and the Challenger disaster.... Read moreBrilliantly written, The Language God Talks is a scintillating and lively investigation and a worthy addition to the literature.
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