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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It...
Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts
Historic and Ethnographic Case Studies of Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Alternative Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Religion and magic have played important roles within Eastern European societies where social reality and sociopolitical balance may differ greatly from those in the West. Although often thought of as being two distinct, even antagonistic forces, religion and magic find ways to work together. By taking...
Jesus Untangled
Crucifying Our Politics to Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
What if the greatest threat to Christianity in America was American Christianity?
As the Church has become increasingly entangled in the pursuit of politics, the Gospel has become tarnished and often abandoned as the primary focus of the Body of Christ. Jesus Untangled is a prophetic call...
Soft Force
Women in Egypt's Islamic Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country’s public sphere. Soft Force examines the writings and activism of these women—including...
Charitable Choices
Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America’s welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty.
Charitable Choices is an ethnographic...
How the Nations Rage
Rethinking Faith and Politics in a Divided Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
How can we move forward amid such political strife and cultural contention?
We live in a time of division. It shows up not just between political parties and ethnic groups and churches but also inside of them. As Christians, we’ve felt pushed to the outskirts of national public life, yet...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace. Faced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and private actors around the world have responded with laws and policies designed to promote...
Luther and the Radicals
Another Look at Some Aspects of the Struggle Between Luther and the Radical Reformers
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
In their zeal to tell the true story of sixteenth-century radicalism, some sympathizers of the Anabaptist movement have portrayed the once maligned individuals and groups as innocent, pious people who suffered cruel persecution at the hands of the wicked state-churchmen. Their side of the story is...
by Adam Weishaupt
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
This is a formal theological disproof of the central tenets of Christianity - the Trinity and the Incarnation. The reason why most Christians continue to believe is that a) they have been brainwashed by their parents, schools, communities and governments and b) they don't know anything about...
The Angel and the Sorcerer
The Remarkable Story of the Occult Origins of Mormonism and the Rise of Mormons in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Based on Levenda’s research into Mormonism, Freemasonry, and esoteric societies over the past thirty years, this book is intended for an audience that is curious about Mormonism in light of the fact that at the beginning of 2012 there were two Mormons running for the GOP presidential nomination...
ISIS, Iran, Israel
And the End of Days
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
What's Next for the Middle East...and How Will It Affect Us?Iran has repeatedly declared its intention to destroy Israel. ISIS continues to gain ground, leaving a trail of death and terror in its wake. And Russia is inserting itself into Middle Eastern affairs in a power play prophesied long ago.ISIS,...
by Andrew Koppelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
While First Amendment doctrine treats religion as a human good, the state must not take sides on theological questions. Koppelman explains the logic of this uniquely American form of neutrality: why it is fair to give religion special treatment, why old (but not new) religious ceremonies are permitted, and why laws must have a secular purpose.
Religion and the Constitution, Volume 2
Establishment and Fairness
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Should students in public schools be allowed to organize devotional Bible readings and prayers...
Character Makes a Difference
Where I'm From, Where I've Been, and What I Believe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
How powerful is integrity? Just ask minister-turned-statesman, Mike Huckabee. As lieutenant governor of Arkansas in 1996, he was publicly cast between the ultimate rock and hard place when his boss, governor Jim Guy Tucker, refused to resign despite his felony convictions in the Whitewater scandal. ...