Church State category: 1367 books
Tantric State
A Buddhist Approach to Democracy and Development in Bhutan
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Today, the majority of sovereign states can be described as "democracies" because they possess elected political leadership and some measure of commitment to the protection and promotion of individual rights and equality under law. In the economic realm, most democracies are market-based and are integrated...
Within These Walls
Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Have you been brainwashed? Who is in control of your life? What is religion? Discover the answers to these questions and many more in Within These Walls, an explosive new expos by author Alan Morrison.
Within These Walls reveals how the twin pillars of societythe church and the statework in...
Desiring a Better Country
Forays in Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Douglas Farrow seldom shies from controversy. Discussing several hot-button issues such as religion in public life, educational freedom, human rights, and the definition of marriage, Farrow challenges the common misconception that secular institutions can be religiously neutral. Inspired by current legal,...
The Moot Papers
Faith, Freedom and Society 1938-1944
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The Moot was the study and discussion group set by J.H. Oldham (1874-1969) following the 1937 Oxford conference on "Church, Community and State". Its purpose was to continue, in an informal but serious way, exploration of the relation between church and society and the realization of Christian...
by J. J. Hottinger, T. C. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Author’s Preface.
“Biographers should not busy themselves so much with deeds, as their moving causes; with what motives, by what means, for what ends and under what circumstances they were performed. If we limit ourselves to a simple detail of facts, our judgment is determined by success;...
The Pariah Problem
Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception...
Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West
Sacred Landscapes in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2004
Huge mountain ranges and vast uninhabited areas characterize the Mountain West. The region is home to several dense urban centers, but there is enough space between cities for three very distinct religious cultures to develop. Arizona and New Mexico's religious public life is still dominated by the...
by V. Norskov Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
"In an era when the American church is actively pursuing political power, Christian Faith and Religious Freedom provides a timely and important analysis of the biblical and christological basis of religious freedom. Dr. Norskov Olsen has achieved a remarkable work of Scripture and history alike on...
Religion and Democracy in the United States
Danger or Opportunity?
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
The United States remains a deeply religious country and religion plays an inextricably critical role in American politics. Controversy over issues such as abortion is fueled by opposition in the Catholic Church and among conservative Protestants, candidates for the presidency are questioned about...
Holy Wars and Holy Alliance
The Return of Religion to the Global Political Stage
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Religions are reemerging in the social, political, and economic spheres previously occupied and dominated by secular institutions and ideologies. In the wake of crises exposing the limits of secular modernity, religions have again become significant players in domestic and international politics....
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...
by Joseph Bergin
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Rich in detail and broad in scope, this majestic book is the first to reveal the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. Joseph Bergin begins with the Wars of Religion, which proved to be longer and more violent in France than elsewhere...
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...
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....