Church State category: 1367 books

Where do American Jews stand on the political, ideological, and ethical issues facing the nation today? Public Religion Research Institute's 2012 Jewish Values Survey analyzes the American Jewish experience, focusing on Jewish identity in public life, Jewish views on inequality and the economy, and the Jewish vote in the 2012 election.

Come vivono i numerari. La caccia alle vocazioni. I documenti “non ufficiali” occultati alla Chiesa. Il violento distacco dalla famiglia. La manipolazione delle coscienze. L’espropriazione dei beni. Il lavoro non retribuito. Questo libro nasce da un forum on-line privato e non accessibile. Qui...

How did religions appear? How are they entwined with politics at the local and national levels? Who truly holds the balance of power in society? This insightful and persuasive essay covers a wide range of topics that the author seamlessly ties together in a biting critique of politics, religion,...

If prayer life is central to our faith, then it is important to understand how we can relate the act of praying to our political engagement. How do we pray when we face complex political difficulties?

They Make a Difference: Men Say NO contains a selection of nine interviews conducted by journalist Hada Sarhan during the tumultuous years following the 2003 occupation of Iraq. Each of the nine men she interviews rejects, in part or in whole, the Western orthodoxy regarding the Palestinian conflict...

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book explores the strategic effect the Army is achieving by removing God and religion from its doctrines of Soldier or leader development and the unintended negative impacts this will have on soldier conduct....

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book examines the role of military chaplains in the modern U.S. Army.The Army's operational tempo and demand on the force over the past 10 years have significantly increased the religious and pastoral...

Un pamphlet che, attraverso uno stile sciolto e senza retorica, consente di capire che cosa sta realmente accadendo alle relazioni tra l'Europa e quella parte del mondo islamico a noi più vicina, dal Medio Oriente al Maghreb fino alle comunità islamiche europee, illuminando nessi storici dimenticati...

The essays in Theology and the Political—written by some of the world’s foremost theologians, philosophers, and literary critics—analyze the ethics and consequences of human action. They explore the spiritual dimensions of ontology, considering the relationship between ontology and the political...

"In Our Time," that is, within the last fifty years, the world has witnessed the greatest improvements in Catholic-Jewish relations since the death of Jesus of Nazareth. Many courageous people contributed to this improvement. Catholics and Jews have embarked on a historic engagement with one another....

In this stirring call to arms, the activist, spiritual leader, and New York Times bestselling author of the classic A Return to Love confronts the cancerous politics of fear and divisiveness threatening the United States today, urging all spiritually aware Americans to return to—and act out of—our...

Lets be honest with one another, we live in a world of good and evil. Whether you're an atheist, agnostic, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu or Jew - there are good and evil people in all sects of humanity.Why is it we can invent vaccines that can cure various diseases, but others use...

Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic, i.e., syncretism, materialism, communal living or social collectivism, democracy, individuality, cosmopolitanism, spirit...

OUR FOUNDERS understood that America was the greatest experiment on earth. And they sealed it with these words: E pluribus Unum: "Out of Many We Are One." "America is the story of us. And us isn't doing so great right now." Says award winning journalist and author Sophia...