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The Coming New World Order
The Rise of Global Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
This book proposes a step-by-step blueprint for a better world. There is a storm brewing on the horizon. A new world order is coming based on all the trends and global pressures that is facing mankind today. The question is, who's world vision is going to prevail and lead us into the 21st century and...
Reinhold Niebuhr and Contemporary Politics
God and Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
When Barack Obama praised the writings of philosopher theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the run up to the 2008 US Presidential Elections, he joined a long line of top politicians who closely engaged with Niebuhr's ideas, including Tony Benn, Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King Jr. and Dennis Healey. Beginning...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Alpha Sigma Nu Award
The collapse of communism in eastern Europe has forced traditionally Eastern Orthodox countries to consider the relationship between Christianity and liberal democracy. Contributors examine the influence of Constantinianism in both the post-communist...
The Iranian Metaphysicals
Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
What do the occult sciences, séances with the souls of the dead, and appeals to saintly powers have to do with rationality? Since the late nineteenth century, modernizing intellectuals, religious leaders, and statesmen in Iran have attempted to curtail many such practices as "superstitious,"...
by Francis Kroncke
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
How can we humans dwell peacefully and comfortably at-home on Earth? It seems impossible. The Warrior vision which placed the image of the Atom Bomb’s Mushroom Cloud in the human psyche continues to evoke dreadful fear in every human heart. “Globalization” appears to mean the successful exporting...
The Politics of Islamism
Diverging Visions and Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This book offers a nuanced and muti-layered approach towards comprehending the possibilities of democratization or likelihood of authoritarian resilience in the Muslim world. The volume highlights the complex diversity within Islamist movements and parties— characterised by internal tensions, struggles...
by Scott S. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
God Reconsidered: Searching for Truth in the Battle Between Atheism and Religion takes a provocative look at the greatest mysteries of life: Why are we here on earth? Why is there so much seemingly meaningless suffering? Why do religions disagree so much if God cares about us? Is there evidence for...
The Tenth Parallel
Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worlds
The tenth parallel—the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator—is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the world's 1.3...
Bounds of Their Habitation
Race and Religion in American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
There is an “American Way” to religion and race unlike anyplace else in the world, and the rise of religious pluralism in contemporary American (together with the continuing legacy of the racism of the past and misapprehensions in the present) render its understanding crucial. Paul Harvey’s...
Moral Geography
Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
Moral Geography traces the development of a moral basis for American expansionism, as Protestant missionaries, using biblical language and metaphors, imaginatively conjoined the cultivation of souls with the cultivation of land and made space sacred. While the political implications of the mapping...
So Many Christians, So Few Lions
Is There Christianophobia in the United States?
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
So Many Christians, So Few Lions is a provocative look at anti-Christian sentiments in America. This book does not attempt to discuss the prevalence of Christianophobia in the U.S., but rather to document it and to dig into where and how it exists, who harbors these sentiments, and how they play themselves...
Remaking Muslim Politics
Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
There is a struggle for the hearts and minds of Muslims unfolding across the Islamic world. The conflict pits Muslims who support pluralism and democracy against others who insist such institutions are antithetical to Islam. With some 1.3 billion people worldwide professing Islam, the outcome of this...
by Roland Maes
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
The Christian Enigma describes the rise of the Christian faith within the Roman Empire. We are so used to the spiritual values it imposed that the vast majority of us does not imagine that the establishment of the Christian faith and the emergence of Christendom were a highly implausible event. The...
Nostalgia
Going Home in a Homeless World
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Alone among the creatures of the world, man suffers a pang both bitter and sweet. It is an ache for the homecoming. The Greeks called it nostalgia.
Post-modern man, homeless almost by definition, cannot understand nostalgia. If he is a progressive, dreaming of a utopia to come, he dismisses...