Church State category: 1367 books
American Religion, American Politics
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Essential primary sources reveal the central tensions between American politics and religion throughout the nation’s history Despite the centrality of separation of church and state in American government, religion has played an important role in the nation’s politics from colonial times through...
by Michael Corbett, Julia Corbett-Hemeyer, J. Matthew Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
There is a complex relationship between religiosity and secularism in the American experience. America is notable both for its strict institutional separation of church and state, and for the strong role that religion has played in its major social movements and ongoing political life. This book...
Pastors and Public Life
The Changing Face of American Protestant Clergy
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
America's clergy are not just religious leaders. Their influence extends far beyond church doors. Houses of worship stand at the center of American civic life-one of the few spheres in which relatively diverse individuals gather together regularly. And the moral authority granted to pastors means...
by W. T. Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
W.T. Jeffrey’s The Arguably Immoral Agenda of the Reverend R.I. Twinger provides a critical look at the rising trend of Christian fundamentalism in the US. Cast as a satirical parody, the talk show Common Sense with host Paine Thomas uses a question and answer format to bring readers face to...
Political Augustinianism
Modern Interpretations of Augustine’s Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Alongside Saint Thomas Aquinas, the thought of Saint Augustine stands as one of the central fountainheads of not only theology but Western social and political theory. In the twentieth century especially, Augustine has been pivotal to the development of modern and contemporary political and social...
by Carl P. E. Springer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Reformer of the church, biblical theologian, and German translator of the Bible Martin Luther had the highest respect for stories attributed to the ancient Greek author Aesop. He assigned them a status second only to the Bible and regarded them as wiser than "the harmful opinions of all the philosophers."...
Religion and Reaction
The Secular Political Challenge to the Religious Right
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
While the Religious Right has received considerable scholarly attention and media coverage in recent years, the story of the growing number of Secular Americans—those who identify themselves as atheists, agnostics, or as not having any religious ties—has yet to be told. In the first book devoted...
Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society
Ethnographies of Catholic Hegemony and the New Pluralism in Lithuania
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Since the end of state repression against religion, two major processes have taken place in the formerly socialist countries: historically dominant churches strive to reassert their position in society, while new religious groups and ideas from various parts of the world are proliferating. This generates...
Deep Commitments
The Past, Present, and Future of Religious Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Throughout our history, Americans have been a highly religious people. Indeed, many of the original colonists came to the New World specifically to escape religious persecution. And though somewhat less devout than we once were, the United States still leads the developed world in religiosity. Today,...
Copts at the Crossroads
The Challenges of Building Inclusive Democracy in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the light of the escalation of sectarian tensions during and after Mubarak's reign, the predicament of the Arab world's largest religious minority, the Copts, has come to the forefront. This book poses such questions as why there has been a mass exodus of Copts from Egypt, and how this relates...
The Invisible Caring Hand
American Congregations and the Provision of Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Popular calls to transform our current welfare system and supplant it with effective and inexpensive faith-based providers are gaining political support and engendering heated debate about the separation of church and state. Yet we lack concrete information from which to anticipate how such initiatives...
Bible and National Defense
What the Bible Has to Say About War & the Price of Our Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Should Christians fight to defend their country? Is world peace possible? Bob Yandian discusses the Bible's answers to these topics as well as how to pray for our nation and leaders. Topics include: ∙ The Purpose of Government ∙ Crime and Immorality ∙ Capital Punishment ∙ Separation of...
Secularism, Catholicism, and the Future of Public Life
A Dialogue with Ambassador Douglas W. Kmiec
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
How can religion contribute to democracy in a secular age? And what can the millennia-old Catholic tradition say to church-state controversies in the United States and around the world? Secularism, Catholicism, and the Future of Public Life, organized through the work of the Institute for Advanced...
The Catholic Church in Polish History
From 966 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The book chronicles the evolution of the church's political power throughout Poland's unique history. Beginning in the tenth century, the study first details how Catholicism overcame early challenges in Poland, from converting the early polytheists to pushing back the Protestant Reformation half a...