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“Epistemology, rationalism, empiricism: the vocabulary which introduces this work would seem to presage a dry academic text and yet that could not be further from an accurate description of this truly remarkable book. By examining the teaching and...

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) -- whom President Barack Obama famously named as his "favorite philosopher" in a 2007 interview -- was arguably the most influential American theologian of the twentieth century. Gabriel Fackre's Promise of Reinhold Niebuhr...

The path toward modern Jewish politics, a process that required a dramatic reconstruction of Jewish life, may have emerged during a far earlier time frame and in a different geographic and cultural context than has previously been thought. Drawing upon...

Over the past three decades, scholars, government analysts and terrorism experts have examined the relationship between Islam and politics. But specialists have tended to limit their analysis to a specific country or focus. Few works have provided a...

A prominent scholar reveals the surprising ways that capitalism is actually the best way to follow Jesus's mandates to alleviate poverty and protect our earth.Christianity generally sees capitalism as either bad because it causes much of the world's...

A Bíblia deixa claro que o amor de Jesus não depende de cor, nível social, escolaridade e, muito menos, orientação sexual. Cristo quer dar a todos vida plena e abundante no mais amplo sentido da palavra, a despeito de qualquer circunstância. Assim,...

The fastest growing religious group in America are the "Nones". They experience alienation and frustration with traditional evangelical Christianity and are leaving the pews in large numbers. Some are traumatized by the transition from a rigid religious...

Buddhist Violence and Religious Authority is a tribute to the work of Michael Jerryson, one of the initiators of the academic discourse on Buddhism and violence, whose intellectual pursuits have resulted in a trailblazing shift in the academic study...

Gananath Obeyesekere calls his contribution to this volume a peon to 'foolishness'. But this is a fertile foolishness that implies a positive freedom to engage passionately in comparison, to avoid disciplinary overspecialization, to understand that the...

In the aftermath of the Cold War, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer offers his most challenging book to date: a probing assessment of the meaning and implications of what U.S. leaders have called a ""new world order."" While the end of the Cold War and the...

The love of money and the denial of living wages cast dark shadows on almost every aspect of life of this planet. Washington is full of millionaires who seem to have forgotten their duty to the American people. And corporate executives seek to increase...

Your Next Step in the American Political Arena Begins Here!Witnessing the U.S. political scene with intrigue and ambition? Have the aspiration to make a real difference but daunted by the complex electoral process? If so, "Pathway to the Podium: How to...

""Defensa de los principios de 1789: El Concordato de 1801 (1884)"" es un libro escrito por Gustavo Lamarque que presenta una defensa de los principios de la Revoluci������n Francesa de 1789 y su influencia en el Concordato de 1801 entre Francia y la...

In the 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature has already shattered the illusion...

The Rule of Law and the Rule of God examines the competing regimes of law and religion, using the concept of rule to illustrate the patterns of their interactions, and a multidisciplinary approach to demonstrate the global scope of their influence. It...

The book chronicles the evolution of the church's political power throughout Poland's unique history. Beginning in the tenth century, the study first details how Catholicism overcame early challenges in Poland, from converting the early polytheists to...

This volume addresses forced migration and mobility in the Muslim world. It explores the tensions between Muslim religious conceptions of space and place and new policies of "migration management" and secure borders. People from Muslim territories make up

In addition to showing how Sherman's march was decisive in leading to the collapse of slavery, this book demonstrates that the events of the Civil War lead directly to a greater scale and scope of independent activity on the part of Black churches. By...

Many of America's political debates stem from media-constructed opposition between the religious right and secular left. However, the contentious dialogue between two seemingly-contrasting camps is based upon assumptions and stereotypes, rather than...

Can ethnography open new possibilities for theology in the often unlikely places where we live our faith? This book breaks new ground by using reflexive ethnographic methods to get academic theologians and everyday Christians talking to each other about...

In this book, Isaac Amada Cornelison examines the complex relationship between religion and civil government in the United States. He argues that while America is a state without an established church, it is not without a religion. Cornelison explores...

John Fea offers a thoroughly researched, evenhanded primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective,...

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This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities. The authors investigate the use...

Based on Catholic and Confucian social ethics, this book develops an ethic of solidarity and reciprocity with the migrants in Asia who are marginalized. Mary Mee-Yin Yuen draws off her own pastoral experiences in the Church, the situation of the wider...

This book introduces political science of religion - a coherent approach to the study of the political role of religion grounded in political science. In this framework, religion is viewed as a political ideology providing legitimation for power and...

This book contains fresh insights into ecumenism and, notwithstanding claims of an "ecumenical winter," affirms the view that we are actually moving into a "new ecumenical spring." It offers new theological insights in the areas of Christology,...

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine explores the analogy between the self and political society in the thought of St. Augustine of Hippo. This analogy is an important theme in the history of political thought. Attempts have been made to...

How can we feel at home in this world without clinging to false certainties? This book offers a humanist re-reading of philosophical pragmatism and explores its potentials for a worldview that relies only on human resources. Thinking along with authors...

أخذ عنوان هذه الرواية من كتاب عجائب الآثار في التراجم والأخبار للجبرتي. كتب الجبرتي عن القاهريين أيام ثورة القاهرة ضد الحملة الفرنسية أنهم صاحوا "يا سلام من هذه الآلام" عندما سقطت عليهم قنابل نابليون بونابرت ولم يكونوا قد شاهدوا قنابل من قبل. لعل الجبرتي...

With all the social, moral, and ethical turmoil in this country, what can Americans learn from George Washington that will help restore the values we hold so dear? In Finding Washington: Why America Needs to Rediscover the Virtues of Her Most Essential...

This book advances an Islamic political philosophy based on the concept of Ihsan, which means to do beautiful things. The author moves beyond the dominant model of Islamic governance advanced by modern day Islamists. The political philosophy of Ihsan...

In 'Philosophy and Religion in Colonial America', Claude M. Newlin offers a comprehensive survey of the intellectual landscape of early America. From the Puritan divines of New England to the rationalists of the Enlightenment, Newlin explores the complex...

This seminal work by F. de la Mennais explores the relationship between religion and politics. With insightful analysis and thoughtful reflection, de la Mennais offers a nuanced perspective on this complex topic.This work has been selected by scholars as...

‘The inability to marshal his own side of the story has always been a baneof the Jonathan Presidency and has resulted in a vacuum in contemporarypolitical history accounting of Nigerian. This is the vacuum to which RenoOmokri has admirably...

Through an ethnographically driven study of expressions of sanctuary in San Francisco, Church as Field Hospital constructs an ecclesiology that expands notions of public engagement and sacred space in Christian theology. Sanctuary practices that create...

Edited by P. C. Kemeny, these five essays represent five major views of the relationship of the church and Christian teaching with respect to matters of public justice administered by our government. Each essay includes a response from the other four...