Church State category: 1367 books
Mitgefühl
Ein Plädoyer
Language: German
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Das Thema Flucht und Migration bestimmt die öffentliche Debatte in Deutschland. Sie wird leidenschaftlich, zum Teil auch verbittert geführt. Umso wichtiger: ein klarer Blick auf die Komplexität des Problems und eine ethische Richtschnur für die Mammutaufgabe der Integration. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm...
by Wolfgang Schäuble
Language: German
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Der Protestantismus in Deutschland steht vor einer ungewissen Zukunft. Daran ändert auch das aufwändig zelebrierte Reformationsjubiläum nichts. Sinkende Mitgliederzahlen und zunehmende Überalterung zeugen von einem Akzeptanzdefizit der evangelischen Landeskirchen. Damit nicht genug, so Wolfgang...
Religion in Secular Archives
Soviet Atheism and Historical Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
What can atheists tell us about religious life? Russian archives contain a wealth of information on religiosity during the Soviet era, but most of it is written from the hostile perspective of officials and scholars charged with promoting atheism. Based on archival research in locations as diverse...
L’Église et l’État
Les événements actuels en Russie
Language: French
Release Date: August 12, 2016
L’Église et l’État est un essai de l'écrivain russe Léon Tolstoï (1828 – 1910).
Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mise en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.
Extrait :
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by Prodosh Aich, MVR Nair
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
We are what we know. We know what is handed down. Our daily life is organised by “historical narrations”. Universally. To judge over the validity of “historical narrations” and of history, we must know all about those narrators of history. Today, and during the last two centuries, all narrators...
by Michael P. Federici
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
This collection of thirteen original essays by Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803–1876), a major political and philosophical figure in the American Catholic intellectual tradition, presents his developed political theory in which he devotes central attention to connecting Catholicism to American politics....
La scomunica
Cattolici e comunisti in Italia. Prefazione di Luigi Bettazzi. Postfazione di Achille Occhetto
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Il 1° luglio 1949 la Chiesa prende posizione ufficiale nei confronti del comunismo e sancisce la scomunica per tutti i fedeli che «professano questa dottrina». Il decreto non giunge inatteso: è solo l’atto finale di un processo, iniziato alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale, che ha visto...
Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions
European Configurations
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Taking its cue from the study of 'lived religion', Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions shows how the idea of a secular public is equally marked by a display and cultivation of affect and emotions. Whereas it is widely agreed that religion is often saturated by emotion, the secular is usually treated...
Militant Buddhism
The Rise of Religious Violence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Against the backdrop of the ongoing Rohingya crisis, this book takes a close and detailed look at the rise of militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand, and especially at the issues of ‘why’ and ‘how’ around it. We are well aware of Christian fundamentalism, militant Judaism and Islamist...
by Hannes Warnecke-Berger
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research. It combines the Caribbean and Central America into a single comparative research that explores the historical (from the...
The God Strategy
How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
This volume offers a timely and dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years. The authors show that U.S. politics today is defined by a calculated, deliberate, and partisan use of faith that is unprecedented...
by Michael T. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Following an interdisciplinary approach, the diverse authors of this book suggest how seeking to become peacemakers may be a wiser path than the traditional approaches of just war or pacifist total nonviolence approaches. In this book you will gain perspectives from a philosopher, Bible scholar, multicultural expert, a psychologist, and an educator.
by Ralph Drollinger
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Oaks in Office: Biblical Essays for Political Leaders is a collection of fifty-two essays, in six parts through four volumes, intended for a year’s study. All six parts and four volumes are included in this single-volume e-version. Written for Public Servants, the objective of Oaks in Office is...
Religion, Religious Organisations and Development
Scrutinising religious perceptions and organisations
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
This collection adds to a burgeoning literature concerned with the roles played by religions in development. The authors do not assume that religion and religious organisations can be ‘used’ to achieve development objectives, or that religiously inspired development work is more holistic, transformative...