The author relates how her faith in God helped her overcome abuse, fear, and other challenges on her quest to lead a life of adventure, and issues a call-to-action to readers to embrace God's wisdom and strength for themselves.
what the faith of our teenagers is telling the American church
Dean, Kenda Creasy
2010
Discusses the religious beliefs of American teenagers in the early twenty-first century and provides suggestions for Christian leaders and churches to reconnect to the young people of America and help them to want to lead Christian lifestyles.
Presents a comprehensive study of American Jewish women beginning with the first Jewish settlers in New Amsterdam in 1654 to the end of the twentieth century and shows how they helped to shape American society, politics, and culture.
negotiating race, class, and gender within the ummah
Karim, Jamillah Ashira
2009
An ethnographic study of American Muslim women that focuses on African-American and South Asian immigrant Muslims in Chicago and Atlanta and discusses how the two groups interact as well as confront race and class inequalities.
Cecilia, a teenage girl in Imperial Rome whose father has indulged her love of learning, is happy in her marriage to Valerian, but she must keep one of her life's greatest joys from him when she becomes a Christian, an act punishable by death.
