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Exceptional America
What Divides Americans from the World and from Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Why did Donald Trump follow Barack Obama into the White House? Why is America so polarized? And how does American exceptionalism explain these social changes?
In this provocative book, Mugambi Jouet describes why Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including...
Politics in a Religious World
Building a Religiously Informed U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Politics in a Religious World examines why US diplomacy often misunderstands, if not ignores, the role of religion in international conflicts.
After the Cold War, it became evident that religion was a key factor in many conflicts, including Bosnia, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. However, the US failed...
Sects & Social Disorder
Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Nigerian society has long been perceived as divided along religious lines, between Muslims and Christians, but alongside this there is an equally important polarization within the Muslim population in beliefs, rituals and sectarian allegiance. This book highlights the crucial issue of intra-Muslim...
by José Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
In a sweeping reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of modern societies.
During the 1980s, religious traditions around the world, from Islamic fundamentalism to Catholic liberation theology,...
Chamanismo y sacrificio
Perspectivas arqueológicas y etnológicas en sociedades indígenas en América del Sur
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Con motivo de la exposición «Los Espíritus, el Oro y el Chamán», organizada por el Museo del Oro del Banco de la República de Colombia y la Reunión de Museos Nacionales de Francia, con la colaboración del Musée du Quai Branly, se organizó el coloquio científico «Chamanismo y Sacrificio»...
Irreverence and the Sacred
Critical Studies in the History of Religions
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Irreverence and the Sacred brings together some of the most cutting edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today in order to debate key issues in the critical and comparative study of religion. The project is inspired in large part by the work of Bruce Lincoln, whose influential...
by Rachel Sheherazade
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 13, 2015
"O Brasil tem cura" faz uma radiografia, sem máscaras, da nossa pátria. Em busca de soluções, põe sob os holofotes as principais mazelas que assolam o país. Partindo de uma análise histórica, Rachel Sheherazade identifica alguns dos problemas que adoecem o Brasil e propõe caminhos para saná-los....
by Passerino Editore
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2018
59 curiosità sul più piccolo stato sovrano del pianeta.
I mini-ebook di Passerino Editore sono guide agili, essenziali e complete, per orientarsi nella storia del mondo.
Our Country
Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
“A welcome contribution to the growing literature on religion during the Civil War era.” —Civil War News
Northern evangelicals’ love of the Union arguably contributed to its preservation and the slaves’ emancipation—but in subsuming the ex-slaves to their vision for a Christian...
Political and Spiritual
Essays on Religion, Environment, Disability, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Roger S. Gottlieb is internationally known for his groundbreaking studies of religious environmentalism, passionate account of spirituality in an age of environmental crisis, and enlightening vision of the role of religion in a democratic society. Political and Spiritual brings together for the first...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Professionally converted for accurate e-book format reproduction, this ebook reproduces two U.S. Coast Guard chaplain corps and religious support documents: the USCG Chaplains Orientation Manual and Lay Reader Handbook. Contents include: Coast Guard Chaplains, History of Coast Guard Chaplains, Mission,...
What Is Your Passion?
In the Light of Time and Eternity
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The author served in the United States Marine Corps during WWII and was a combat veteran in the South Pacific. He graduated from a Theological School and became a minister for many years. He graduated from Temple University, magna cum laude, earning his Doctoral Degree in Urban Education. He was employed...
by Mohammed Jafar Amir Mahallati
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Nearly four decades after a revolution, experiencing one of the longest wars in contemporary history, facing political and ideological threats by regional radicals such as ISIS and the Taliban, and having succeeded in negotiations with six world powers over her nuclear program, Iran appears as an...
Faith Under Fire
What the Middle East conflict has taught me about God
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
The 'Vicar of Baghdad' encounters daily tragedy. What happened to his faith when a young girl in his congregation died, after much hope and prayer? He has met the best and worst: articulate, agreeable imams and rabbis; Christian venality and dishonesty. What has kept him willing to see the best? Every...