In Ezbet-el-Haggana, a slum on the outskirts of Cairo, residents struggle daily to survive. Staggering unemployment, inflated food prices and problems securing housing make life here both ...

Wilson and Patricia Bonomi) and "personal piety" (addressed by Charles Hambrick-Stowe, Patricia Caldwell, David Hall, and others). Public religion in early New England was based on the existence ...

At the same time, the book challenges the picture drawn by recent historians of a great gulf between Protestantism and "popular culture," showing the continuity of many aspects of traditional ...