Redefines American religion through bold case studies and fresh theoretical approachesAmerican Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume 5 continues the groundbreaking series from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. Edited by Rachel E. C. Beckley, Jacob Lassin, Andrew Klumpp, and Michael J. Altman, this volume features seven innovative essays that challenge conventional understandings of religion in America.

Responding to the most widely read breastfeeding manual, La Leche League’s The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Robyn Lee’s The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding explores breastfeeding as an art that must be developed through skillful application of effort and distinguished from a merely natural or physiological process.The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding challenges the dominant understanding of breastfeeding and cultivates an alternative conception ...

A story of enduring love and remarkable courage in the outback. Early morning was the time Roxy liked most of all. There was a calmness, a stillness about the river, the water stretching away glass-like, bathed in a thin mist. Paddles foamed the surface and with each thrust she imagined herself being drawn closer to the unknown... Roxy: Beautiful, cultured and talented, she forsakes a promising stage career for marriage and station life at Wirra Downs. But life in Adelaide's social classes co...

Early morning was the time Roxy liked most of all. There was a calmness, a stillness about the river, the water stretching away glass-like, bathed in a thin mist. Paddles foamed the surface and with each thrust she imagined herself being drawn closer to the unknown. Roxy: Beautiful, cultured and talented, she forsakes a promising stage career for marriage and station life at Wirra Downs. But life in Adelaide's social classes could never have prepared her for the dust, the isolation, the fl...

Following the tragic early death of her sister, Maddie, Kitty is forced into a hasty marriage of convenience to Maddie’s husband, Ted. She has also just lost the only man she has ever loved. Can she make a new life from the ashes of all she has lost? Kitty’s sons, Edward and James, are as different as they could be. Edward, the eldest, finds only unhappiness in love and escapes to war to forget the past, while James’s enduring love for his childhood sweetheart stops him from embracing the ...

Michael’s thoughts went back to the Corduke house at 27 Brunswick Street — and to Bonnie and Freya, and Callie with the grey eyes. Why did Michael’s father have a keepsake with Hannah Corduke’s name engraved on the back? And just who was Ben? Callie’s family home — a symbol of security and love — is to be sold and she is trying hard to shake off the feelings of sadness and loss. When a sandy-haired stranger named Michael knocks at her mother’s door asking questions about the family and gre...

South-east Queensland, 1875. Three pioneering women, one epic struggle – in an unforgiving land where love carries the highest price. Bridie … Caught between the love she feels for her husband and her hatred for her scheming stepson – she is the keeper of family secrets. Patiently she waits for the day when she can finally reveal the truth. Maddie ... While devoted to her family, she soon discovers that love alone will not protect them from the harsh and hostile land that they have made th...

As his arms wrapped her in a tight embrace she swayed against him, savouring the moment. There had been times during the past years when she had wondered if she would ever see him again, would ever be enclosed in those same arms. So many men hadn’t come home. After four years facing the horrors of the trenches in France, Frank Carmody returns to make a life for himself and his wife, Nina. But it’s now 1919 and everything has changed. As Frank and Nina deal with the post-war boom and the bi...

It's been years since Gemma visited the small country town where she grew up. She probably wouldn't have returned at all if it weren't for her father's passing. Seeing the town's dusty old buildings and her parent's run-down house reminds her of events in her childhood that she's tried to keep in the past, even though they colour her every decision in the present. Memories of strained silences and reproving looks overwhelm her, as do fragments of things her mother said to her father before...

'Her voice sounded wooden and came from far away. There was a dreamlike quality to the scene. Everything seemed to be happening in slow motion. Her whole life seemed to be reduced to this one moment, telescoping into that one fraction of time and space. She took in the images, surprised she could examine them singly: the press of onlookers; Michael's white face; a pool of dark blood congealing in the dust.' Jess and Brad's marriage is in trouble. They are two good people who don't know how...

Two strangers. One scorching outback. A single kiss that changes everything.When HR officer Maggie Perkins trades coastal comforts for the red-dust heart of western Queensland, she's determined to make her marriage work no matter the many lonely nights she has to endure. Then Grayson Reeves, a tall, deep-voiced British engineer escaping heartbreak and drawn north by big skies and bigger distances, walks into the Cloncurry office.From their first dust-choked...

The gold rush begins, and Kate O'Mara is determined to never go hungry again.Kate O'Mara, orphaned by the great potato famine, is driven by her fear of hunger – first to take the four-month voyage to the other side of the world, then to consider the long, dangerous journey along an unformed track to the remote north of South Australia. Brigid Mulcahey has been with her since the workhouse, and begs her not to put her life in danger, but Kate must secure a job....