Church State category: 1367 books
Presumed Guilty
Why We Shouldn't Ask Muslims to Condemn Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
All of us should condemn terrorism--whether the perpetrators are Muslim extremists, white supremacists, Marxist revolutionaries, or our own government. But it's time for us to stop asking Muslims to condemn terrorism under the assumption they are guilty of harboring terrorist sympathies or promoting...
Dissident for Life
Alexander Ogorodnikov and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
This gripping book tells the largely unknown story of longtime Russian dissident Alexander Ogorodnikov -- from Communist youth to religious dissident, in the Gulag and back again. Ogorodnikov's courage has touched people from every walk of life, including world leaders such as Bill Clinton, Ronald...
Religion and Politics Under Capitalism
A Humanistic Approach to the Terminology
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
This book relates some of the major trends within religion and politics to offer a historical framework with which to assess their interactions and a point of departure for studies to come. The study of the interrelationship between contemporary religious practice and modern politics is divided between...
by Rev. Robert Antwi
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
During the exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land, God told the Israelites that the city in which He would place his name should be their center of worship or the economic capital. But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
This edited volume explores the Israeli-Turkish relations in the 2000s from a multi-dimensional perspective providing a comparative analysis on the subjects of politics, ideology, civil society, identity, energy, and economic relations. The contributors from both countries offer insights on the complex...
Claiming Her Dignity
Female Resistance in the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
To be human means to resist dehumanization. In the darkest periods of human history, men and women have risen up and in many different voices said this one thing: “Do not treat me like this. Treat me like the human being that I am.” Claiming Her Dignity explores a number of stories from the Old...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following political liberalization, media deregulation, and the proliferation of new media technologies, many African religious leaders and activists have appropriated such media...
Public Vision, Private Lives
Rousseau, Religion, and 21st-Century Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Listening closely to the religious pitch in Rousseau's voice, Cladis convincingly shows that Rousseau, when attempting to portray the most characteristic aspects of the public and private, reached for a religious vocabulary. Honoring both love of self and love of that which is larger than the self--these...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Across diverse countries and contexts in Africa, religion has direct implications for human security. While some individuals and groups seek to manipulate and control through the deployment of religion, religious belief is also a common facet of those working towards peace and reconciliation. Despite...
by JEAN TSHIBANGU
Language: French
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Lorsque nous avons besoin de construire une maison, nous commençons par le choix du type de fondation, de résistance et de forme, compte tenu de l'état du terrain sur lequel la maison sera construite. La qualité de la fondation déterminera la consistance du bâtiment. Une fondation suffisamment...
America and Other Fictions
On Radical Faith and Post-Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
At a moment of cultural and political crisis, with forces of reaction seemingly ascendant throughout the West, it's fair to ask what use does anyone have for America, God, or any other similar fictions? What use does theological language have for the radical facing the apocalypse? Among the subjects...
Postcolonial Voices from Downunder
Indigenous Matters, Confronting Readings
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
How do indigenous matters inform, irritate and advance postcolonial theologies and postcolonial biblical criticisms? What options emerge from confronting readings of religious, customary, scriptural, political and cultural texts, traditions, leanings, bodies and anxieties? These two questions epitomize...
Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System
A Theological Rereading of Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The Cincinnati Penal Congress of 1870 ushered in the era of "progressive" penology: the use of statistical and social scientific methodologies, commitment to psychiatric and therapeutic interventions, and a new innovation--the reformatory--as the locus for the application of these initiatives. The...
Formatting Religion
Across Politics, Education, Media, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
To talk about religion is to talk about politics, identity, terrorism, migration, gender, and a host of other aspects of society. This volume examines and engages with larger debates around religion and proposes a new approach that moves beyond the usual binaries to analyse its role in our societies...