伊恩·默里先生是1931年生人，毕业于英国杜伦大学(Durham University)。他曾在著名的威斯敏斯特教堂担任影响力遍及全球的钟马田牧师的助手，此后亦在伦敦的Grove教堂及澳大利亚悉尼的圣吉尔斯长老会任过职。1957年，默里与杰克·卡勒姆(Jack Cullum)一同创办了真理旌旗出版社，并始终担任主编一职。他著有二十多部历史与神学书籍，是典型的清教徒式的学者型牧者和教牧型学者。 默里曾写作多部人物传记和历史作品，包括《钟马田传》、《约拿单·爱德华兹传》、《司布真与极端加尔文主义者的论战》、《司布真传》、《教会历史素描》等，其作品多为研究大量丰富史料的结果。

In The Charismatic Gymnasium Maria José de Abreu examines how Charismatic Catholicism in contemporary Brazil produces a new form of total power through a concatenation of the breathing body, theology, and electronic mass media. De Abreu documents a vast religious respiratory program of revival popularly branded as “the aerobics of Jesus.” Pneuma—the Greek term for air, breath, ...(展开全部)

Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our sense of community remains more relevant than ever in today’s fractured America. Twenty years, ago, Robert D. Putnam made a seemingly simple observation: once we...(展开全部)

罗伯特·D. 帕特南（Robert D. Putnam），当代西方著名政治学家，现任哈佛大学国际事务研究中心主任，肯尼迪政府学院公共政策马尔林讲座教授。他的主要研究领域是政治学、国际政治和公共政策，发表的著作包括《手拉手：西方七国峰会》、《独自打保龄：美国社会资本的衰减 》、《让民主运转起来》等。

Amazon.com Review Few people outside certain scholarly circles had heard the name Robert D. Putnam before 1995. But then this self-described "obscure academic" hit a nerve with a journal article called "Bowling Alone." Suddenly he found himself invited to Camp David, his picture in People magazine, and his thesis at the center of a raging debate. In a nutshell, he argued that c...(展开全部)

Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century. The consequent interr...(展开全部)

Amazon.com Review Few people outside certain scholarly circles had heard the name Robert D. Putnam before 1995. But then this self-described "obscure academic" hit a nerve with a journal article called "Bowling Alone." Suddenly he found himself invited to Camp David, his picture in People magazine, and his thesis at the center of a raging debate. In a nutshell, he argued that c...(展开全部)

Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's polit...(展开全部)

Of all the world's major religions, Chinese Buddhism has probably experienced the most traumatic modernization. The establishment of a communist state quickly emerged from the self-contained Manchu Empire. The consequences are described in this book. Holmes Welch offers the first detailed account of the careers of recent Buddhist leaders and of the diverse organization they sta...(展开全部)