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Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith
Religion in American War and Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
A richly detailed, profoundly engrossing story of how religion has influenced American foreign relations, told through the stories of the men and women—from presidents to preachers—who have plotted the country’s course in the world.
Ever since John Winthrop argued that the Puritans’ new...
Jewish Communities on the Ohio River
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
When westward expansion began in the early nineteenth century, the Jewish population of the United States was only 2,500. As Jewish immigration surged over the century between 1820 and 1920, Jews began to find homes in the Ohio River Valley. In Jewish Communities on the Ohio River, Amy Hill Shevitz...
The Coming Revolution
Signs from America's Past That Signal Our Nation's Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
People need a creed and a cause, and today millions of patriotic Americans are finding their voices.
They say the best indicator of the future is history. How things have been can be a powerful signal of how they will be. But what will be our role in shaping the future for this country?
In...
God's Jury
The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
“From Torquemada to Guantánamo and beyond, Cullen Murphy finds the ‘inquisitorial impulse’ alive, and only too well, in our world” (Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money).
Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred...
Ratzinger was afraid
The secret documents, the money and the scandals that overwhelmed the Pope
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
The news of Benedict XVI stepping down has come as a shock.
Perhaps the world will never know the real reasons behind a choice that will forever remain indelibly written in the history of the Church.
The Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, has decided to reveal the thorny issues within the Roman Curia...
Pontiff
The Vatican, the KGB, and the Year of the Three Popes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The story of Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II—and an assassination plot—by the New York Times–bestselling coauthors of The Day the World Ended.
The Vatican has remained one of the last unexamined mysteries of the modern world. For centuries, pomp and pageantry have hidden from view...
Fidel & Religion
Conversations with Frei Betto on Marxism & Liberation Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
A bestseller that offers an intimate insight into Fidel Castro, the man behind the beard! · This historic encounter between religion and revolution paved the way for Pope John Paul II’s historic visit to Cuba in 1999 and the rule change in the Cuban Communist Party (1992) accepting as members those practicing their religious faith ·
Secret Faith in the Public Square
An Argument for the Concealment of Christian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In this groundbreaking and provocative book, Jonathan Malesic argues that the best way for Christians to be caretakers of their tradition and to love their neighbors selflessly is to conceal their religious identity in American public life. The alternative--insisting on Christianity's public visibility...
How the Republicans Stole Religion
Why the Religious Right is Wrong about Faith & Politics and What We Can Do to Make it Right
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
For decades, Press argues, conservatives have defined religion so narrowly that Democrats and liberals have been pushed outside the fold. According to their narrow gospel, God put George W. Bush in the White House to deal with gays, guns, and abortion—and those who don’t agree are on the sure...
God's Own Party
The Making of the Christian Right
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shocked. But, as God's Own Party demonstrates, they shouldn't have been. The Christian Right goes back much farther than most journalists, political scientists, and historians realize. Relying on extensive...
by Marvin Olasky
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
The media portrayal of conservative Christians in the wake of terrorist attacks is frightening. Instead of distinguishing biblical Christianity from Islamic fundamentalism, liberal journalists lump them together. Coming from an East-Coast, leftist background, Marvin Olasky understands this antipathy....
Religious Right
The Greatest Threat to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
There is a deceptive movement to take over the government, courts, education system, media outlets, and American culture with stealth – and it's true. How is this possible? Find out in the pages of this expose, written by an insider who left the Religious Right fold, and now shares why they believe...
Believe Me
The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
A historian’s discerning, critical take on current American politics
“Believe me” may be the most commonly used phrase in Donald Trump’s lexicon. Whether about building a wall or protecting a Christian heritage, the refrain has been constant. And to the surprise of many, a good 80...
Redeemer
The Life of Jimmy Carter
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A religious biography of Jimmy Carter, the controversial president whose political rise and fall coincided with the eclipse of Christian progressivism and the emergence of the Religious Right.
Evangelical Christianity and conservative politics are today seen as inseparable. But when Jimmy Carter,...