Church State category: 1367 books
by JEAN TSHIBANGU
Language: French
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: July 20, 2018
The explosion of spiritual activism and exponential rise of occultism that dominate the end times as a source of power, cause believers to plunge in the gentle descent into the hell. The image that some have of the church because of what they have lived near or far away causes priceless damage in...
Go and Be Reconciled
Alabama Methodists Confront Racial Injustice, 1954-1974
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
During the climactic years of the civil rights movement in the Deep South, a closely related struggle was going on within the United Methodist Church. That denomination, second only in membership in the region to the Southern Baptists, was slowly moving toward integration under mandate from its national...
The Great Agnostic
Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
“Jacoby writes with wit and vigor, affectionately resurrecting a man whose life and work are due for reconsideration” (The Boston Globe).
During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America’s enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as “the Great Agnostic.” The nation’s...
American Gospel
God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham reveals how the Founding Fathers viewed faith—and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice.
At a time when our country seems divided by extremism, American Gospel draws on the...
Salem Witch Judge
The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts represent a low point of American history, made famous in works by Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne (himself a descendant of one of the judges), and...
Freethinkers
A History of American Secularism
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2005
An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" (The New York Times)
At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers...
Faith of Our Founding Fathers
A Comprehensive Study of America's Christian Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
Secular textbooks now fill our classrooms, while the Ten Commandments have been removed from their walls. Is this the vision held by those who worked to found this nation? What faith did our founding fathers truly believe and practice in their daily lives, and what does it really matter for us? Were...
Christian America?
Perspectives on Our Religious Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Throughout her history America has possessed a rich religious component largely comprised of different traditions of the Christian faith. This tide of personal religious devotion connected to government observances and policies has ebbed and flowed through time, but it has always been a part of American...
Culture and Redemption
Religion, the Secular, and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation...
Village Atheists
How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
A much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God. Yet, village atheists—as these godless freethinkers came to be known by the close...
by Joseph Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
After two thousand years of tradition, can the Catholic Church really change? Flash forward a hundred years into the future and enter a world full of possibilities. Joseph Stanley explores the possibilities of what could be. A hopeful look into the future, this book is a must read for anyone who has...
God's Politics
Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
New York Times bestseller God's Politics struck a chord with Americans disenchanted with how the Right had co-opted all talk about integrating religious values into our politics, and with the Left, who were mute on the subject. Jim Wallis argues that America's separation of church and state does not...
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God
Religious Communication in Democratic Party Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God is a collection of essays on the religious communication of members of the Democratic Party, past and present-in office, while campaigning, and in their public and private writing. While many books on the market address issues at the intersection...
A New Reformation
Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
A modern-day theologian’s call for the radical transformation of Christianity
• Echoes the Reformation initiated by Martin Luther in 1517
• Addresses the corruption and authoritarian tendencies that distinguish today’s Christian institutions from the spiritual message upon which...