Church State category: 1367 books
Religion, Politics, and Values in Poland
Continuity and Change Since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This volume brings together leading scholars to examine how the Church has brought its values into the political sphere and, in the process, alienated some of the younger generation. Since the disintegration of the communist one-party state at the end of the 1980s, the Catholic Church has pushed its...
by Roland Maes
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The prospective ruin of Christendom was repeatedly predicted at the beginning of the fifteenth century.
In 1494, Sebastian Brant wrote “ship of fools”. In 1511, Erasmus wrote the Prize of Folly. In 1515, Thomas More wrote Utopia. It describes the repugnant state of the French...
The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 1
The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The institutionalization of Islam in the West continues to raise many questions for a range of different constituencies. Secularization represents much more than the legal separation of politics and religion in Europe; for important segments of European societies, it has become the cultural norm....
Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty
Emerging Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples. It represents the only comprehensive, scholarly appraisal to date of the church-state conflicts virtually certain to arise from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage....
The Bible, the School, and the Constitution
The Clash that Shaped Modern Church-State Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Steven K. Green tells the story of the nineteenth-century School Question, the nationwide debate over the place and funding of religious education, and how it became a crucial precedent for American thought about the separation of church and state.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
As recent headlines reveal, conflicts and debates around the world increasingly involve secularism. National borders and traditional religions cannot keep people in tidy boxes as political struggles, doctrinal divergences, and demographic trends are sweeping across regions and entire continents. And...
Did America Have a Christian Founding?
Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.
In 2010, David Mark Hall gave a lecture at the Heritage...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Should parents receive vouchers to send their children to religious schools? What limits -- if any -- should the government place on abortion? Should the government permit and fund stem cell research? Should religious organizations have the right to prohibit the employment of homosexuals? Should public...
Political Symbols in Russian History
Church, State, and the Quest for Order and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2007
Political Symbols in Russian History is one of the few works that presents an analytical and comprehensive account of Russian history and politics between the years of 988 to 2005. From Kievan Rus to Putin's Russia, this book traces the development, evolution, and impact that political symbols have...
Is God Back?
Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Is God Back? Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion examines the shifting boundary between religion and the public sphere in Europe and the Middle East. Asking what the 'new visibility of religion' means and challenging simplistic notions of living in a 'post-secular' age, the chapters explore...
Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter
The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914–1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
When an independent Poland reappeared on the map of Europe after World War I, it was widely regarded as the most Catholic country on the continent, as “Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter.” All the same, the relations of the Second Polish Republic with the Church—both its representatives inside...
Politics in the Pews
The Political Mobilization of Black Churches
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
"Politics in the Pews probes the internal dynamics of political decision making within the Black church."
---William E. Nelson, Jr., Research Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University
As Eric McDaniel demonstrates in his study of Black congregations...
by David Sehat
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American history, David Sehat writes, Protestant Christianity was intimately intertwined with the state. Yet the...