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False Dawn
The United Religions Initiative, Globalism, and the Quest for a One-World Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
An interfaith religious movement, the United Religions Initiative (URI), is rising worldwide. This movement’s stated aims are peace among religions, and creation of “cultures of peace, justice and healing” for all. In a time of wars between Islamic nations and the West, such an organization’s...
Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians
The Religious Roots of Free Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The intellectual and political elite of the West is nowadays taking for granted that religion, in particular Christianity, is a cultural vestige, a primitive form of knowledge, a consolation for the poor minded, an obstacle to coexistence. In all influential environments, the widespread watchword...
The Paradox of Church and World
Selected Writings of H. Richard Niebuhr
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
“Ultimately,” or so H. Richard Niebuhr wrote as early as 1929, “the problem of church and world involves us in a paradox; unless the church accommodates itself to the world, it becomes sterile inwardly and outwardly; unless it transcends the world, it becomes indistinguishable from the world...
by Gopi Krishna
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
An analysis of the complex and explosive state of current world affairs, presented in verse and completed by the author in little more than three weeks. It is a biting and profoundly challenging look at the power structure behind our society and lays bare the real motives of those who control the...
George Bell, Bishop of Chichester
Church, State, and Resistance in the Age of Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The story of a significant British church leader who fought for justice and freedom
during World War II
It was to George Bell, an English bishop, that Dietrich Bonhoeffer sent his last words before he was executed at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945. Why he did so becomes clear...
Muslim Rebels
Kharijites and the Politics of Extremism in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community of the saved. Their influence in the political and theological life of the nascent faith...
The Church and the Market
A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The Church and the Market is a vigorous and lively defense of the market economy and a withering attack on all forms of state intervention. It covers labor unions, monopoly, money and banking, business cycles, interest, usury, and much more. Although it makes a particular point of noting the moral...
Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere
Comparing Nordic Countries
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries. The result of a five-year collaborative research project, the work examines how increasingly religiously diverse Nordic societies regulate, debate, and negotiate religion in...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), called by Pope John XXIII in 1959, produced sixteen documents that outlined the Church’s attempts to meet increasing calls for modernization in the wake of social and cultural changes that were taking place in the twentieth century.
Catholic Education...
Uplifting the People
Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention—its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders. Fallin demonstrates that a distinctive Afro-Baptist faith emerged as slaves in Alabama combined the African religious emphasis on spirit possession,...
Mapping Exile and Return
Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
One of the most persistent, if vexing, issues is the state of affairs in the ancient land of Palestine. Palestinian Christians bear the enormous brunt of suffering and dispossession in the current situation, and are burdened even more by Christian political appropriation of Zionism. Through an analysis...
by Lee A. Smithey
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
In Northern Ireland, a once seemingly intractable conflict is in a state of transformation. Lee A. Smithey offers a grassroots view of that transformation, drawing on interviews, documentary evidence, and extensive field research. He offers essential models for how ethnic and communal-based conflicts...
by Stanford Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Contents for this 5th issue of Stanford Law Review (May 2012) include:
The City and the Private Right of Action
by Paul A. Diller
Securities Class Actions Against Foreign Issuers
by Merritt B. Fox
How Much Should Judges Be Paid? An Empirical Study on the Effect of Judicial Pay on the...
by Rolf Binder
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the optical properties of graphene. During the past decade, graphene, the most ideal and thinnest of all two-dimensional materials, has become one of the most widely studied materials. Its unique properties hold great promise to revolutionize...