Church State category: 1367 books
Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?
Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities.
As a consequence of the demise of secularization theory, we live in an interesting intellectual moment where the so-called ‘post-secular’ coexists with the secular, which in turn has become...
Limits of the Secular
Social Experience and Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence. It explores two kinds of limits of the secular: the inadequacies of its assumptions with respect to the total being of the human, and how it curbs the ontological sensibilities of the human....
The Tail Wags the Dog
International Politics and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The continuing crisis in Syria has raised questions over the common perception of Middle Eastern affairs as an offshoot of global power politics. To Western intellectuals, foreign policy experts, and politicians, "empire†? and "imperialism†? are categories that apply exclusively to Europe...
The Just War Myth
The Moral Illusions of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
As the war in Iraq continues and Americans debate the consequences of the war in Afghanistan, the war on terror, and the possibility of war with North Korea and Iran, war is one of the biggest issues in public debate. Andrew Fiala in The Just War Myth challenges the apparently predominant American...
The Mediatization of Religion
When Faith Rocks
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Filling a significant gap in the literature by offering a theoretical framework by which we can understand the issues of media, religion and politics Luis Mauro Sa Martino asks how can a religious denomination have any sort of influence on people in a secular age? The author presents data which suggests...
by Jean Mary Stone
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
A fascinating collection of studies about religion and politics during the later years of the Middle Ages. Includes essays on many topics, including the influence of Henry VIII, the Tower of London, the various English translations and illuminations of the Bible, and the Society of Jesus.
Evangelicals and Empire
Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This groundbreaking collection considers empire from a global perspective, exploring the role of evangelicals in political, social, and economic engagement at a time when empire is alternately denounced and embraced. It brings noted thinkers from a range of evangelical perspectives together to engage...
Global Hindu Diaspora
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This book examines Hinduism from both a historical and contemporary perspective. It provides some interesting insights into factors that shaped and defined Hinduism in the diaspora. It also examines the challenges facing Hinduism in the twenty-first century. In recent years the growing conversions...
by Erica Baffelli
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781135117849, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license.
Japanese "new religions" (shinshūkyō) have used various media forms for training,...
by Anatole France
Language: French
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 16, 2014
L’Église et la République - Anatole France Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Anatole France (1844 - 1924), pour l'état civil François Anatole Thibault,...
by Conor Cruise O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Conor Cruise O'Brien's penetrative reading of Albert Camus, Nobel laureate and author of L'Étranger and La Peste, was originally published in 1970.
'O'Brien's Camus is brilliant. While having been himself profoundly moved by Camus's work, he asks why students have so often misinterpreted him.'...
Passion and Cunning
and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Conor Cruise O'Brien's brilliant and hugely controversial 1965 essay on the political convictions of W. B. Yeats is the title-piece for this superb 1988 collection of pieces on politics, religion, nationalism and terrorism.
'O'Brien is a man of strong views, and he writes with verve and wit....
The Bread of the Strong
Lacouturisme and the Folly of the Cross, 1910-1985
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Contributing to the ongoing excavation of the spiritual lifeworld of Dorothy Day—“the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism”—The Bread of the Strong offers compelling new insight into the history of the Catholic Worker movement, including...
Studying Religion and Society
Sociological Self-Portraits
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
How do you study religion and society? In this fascinating book, some of the most famous names in the field explain how they go about their everyday work of studying religions in the field. They explain how the ideas for their projects and books have come together, how their understanding of religion...