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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Alaska is the largest state of the United States of America; occupying the extreme northwestern part of North America and the adjacent islands. In the dialect of the natives first encountered by the Russian explorers, the peninsula was called Al-áy-es-ka, the name having become changed through Alaksa...
Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares
The Cold War Origins of Political Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
The Religious Right came to prominence in the early 1980s, but it was born during the early Cold War. Evangelical leaders like Billy Graham, driven by a fierce opposition to communism, led evangelicals out of the political wilderness they'd inhabited since the Scopes trial and into a much more active...
Copts at the Crossroads
The Challenges of Building Inclusive Democracy in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the light of the escalation of sectarian tensions during and after Mubarak's reign, the predicament of the Arab world's largest religious minority, the Copts, has come to the forefront. This book poses such questions as why there has been a mass exodus of Copts from Egypt, and how this relates...
The ISIS Caliphate
From Syria to the Doorsteps of India
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
The rapid rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria was almost like a fairy tale. A group that was unheard of in early 2013 captured territories as big as Great Britain by 2014 June, effectively erasing the border between Iraq and Syria. It announced a Caliphate, drew in thousands of fighters...
The Liberty Threat
The Attack on Religious Freedom in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
What happened to liberty and justice for all? Americans are losing what are supposed to be constitutionally promised rights at an alarming pace. The Founding Fathers understood the overriding essentiality of religious practice unimpeded by governmental authority, but time and vast cultural change...
The Invisible Caring Hand
American Congregations and the Provision of Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Popular calls to transform our current welfare system and supplant it with effective and inexpensive faith-based providers are gaining political support and engendering heated debate about the separation of church and state. Yet we lack concrete information from which to anticipate how such initiatives...
Bible and National Defense
What the Bible Has to Say About War & the Price of Our Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Should Christians fight to defend their country? Is world peace possible? Bob Yandian discusses the Bible's answers to these topics as well as how to pray for our nation and leaders. Topics include: ∙ The Purpose of Government ∙ Crime and Immorality ∙ Capital Punishment ∙ Separation of...
Secularism, Catholicism, and the Future of Public Life
A Dialogue with Ambassador Douglas W. Kmiec
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
How can religion contribute to democracy in a secular age? And what can the millennia-old Catholic tradition say to church-state controversies in the United States and around the world? Secularism, Catholicism, and the Future of Public Life, organized through the work of the Institute for Advanced...
Bonhoeffer on Resistance
The Word Against the Wheel
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Bonhoeffer thought and wrote a great deal about political life, but he did so neither as a political theorist nor a political activist but rather as a Christian pastor and theologian. Most of what he said about political resistance was said as a theologian, as one speaking on behalf of the church....
The Messiah Conquers the White House
Uncover the Sacred Weapons of the First African American President of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
On November 4, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama, a senator from the state of Illinois, was elected to the White House as the forty-fourth president of the United States. This momentous event overwhelmed America and took the whole world by surprise. Although he had led his opponent, Senator John McCain,...
God in Captivity
The Rise of Faith-Based Prison Ministries in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
An eye-opening account of how and why evangelical Christian ministries are flourishing in prisons across the United States
It is by now well known that the United States’ incarceration rate is the highest in the world. What is not broadly understood is how cash-strapped and overcrowded state...
Law, Darwinism, and Public Education
The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2002
In 1987, in Edwards v. Aguillard, the United States Supreme Court declared as unconstitutional a Louisiana statute requiring the state's public schools to teach creationism if evolution is taught and to teach evolution if creationism is taught. It was a serious blow to creationism in public schools,...
Vocation and the Politics of Work
Popular Theology in a Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Since Martin Luther, vocations or callings have had a close relationship with daily work. It is a give-and-take relationship in which the meaning of a vocation typically negotiates with the kinds of work available (and vice-versa) at any given time. While “vocation language” still has currency...
Persecuzione
La repressione della Chiesa in Spagna fra Seconda Repubblica e Guerra Civile (1931-1939)
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Le persecuzioni a cui fu sottoposta la Chiesa cattolica all’avvento della Seconda Repubblica spagnola (1931) e sino al termine della Guerra Civile (1939) sono state a lungo omesse o trascurate dalla storiografia, perlomeno fuori dalla Spagna franchista. L’interesse del Caudillo per quella che...