Church State category: 1367 books
Democracy, Culture, Catholicism
Voices from Four Continents
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Compiling scholarly essays from a unique three-year Democracy, Culture and Catholicism International Research Project, Democracy, Culture, Catholicism richly articulates the diverse and dynamic interplay of democracy, culture, and Catholicism in the contemporary world. The twenty-five essays from...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Nation-building processes in the Orthodox commonwealth brought together political institutions and religious communities in their shared aims of achieving national sovereignty. Chronicling how the churches of Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia acquired independence from the Patriarchate of Constantinople...
America's Expiration Date
The Fall of Empires and Superpowers . . . and the Future of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2020
What is wrong with America today? Is it possible that America could crumble and our democracy fail?
Questions like these plague Americans and cause us to be anxious about the future of the "land that we love." Individuals may come to different conclusions, but there seems to be a...
Political Agape
Christian Love and Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
What is the place of Christian love in a pluralistic society dedicated to “liberty and justice for all”? What would it mean to take both Jesus Christ and Abraham Lincoln seriously and attempt to translate love of God and neighbor into every quarter of life, including law and politics?
Timothy...
Lived Theology
New Perspectives on Method, Style, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Lived Theology contains the work of an emerging generation of theologians and scholars who pursue research, teaching, and writing as a form of public responsibility motivated by the conviction that theological ideas aspire in their inner logic toward social expression. Written as a two-year collaboration...
Global Scenes of Biblical Injustice
Glimpsing the Poor and Oppressed in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
What kinds of experiences do we have with the poor and the oppressed around the world? What do we really know about the ins and outs of the lives of those who exist in a world of extreme poverty or oppression? Global Scenes of Biblical Injustice simplifies and synthesizes the bewildering array of...
by Jeffrey Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Haynes looks at religious transnational actors in the context of international relations, with a focus on both security and order. With renewed scholarly interest in the involvement of religion in international relations, many observers and scholars have found this move unexpected because it challenges...
by Ronald H. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Moral Reflections on Foreign Policy in a Religious War argues that foreign policy thinkers and actors must take religion more seriously than they have in analysis and action. The tragedy of U.S. policy in Iraq is in part due to the dangers of ignoring religious conflicts in that country until it was...
Fundamentalism at Home and Abroad
Analysis and Pastoral Responses
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
For most people, fundamentalism in the modern world has become synonymous with a radical form of Islam, but fundamentalism in many shapes and forms is also very much present in Western societies. Yes, fundamentalist economic, political, nationalistic, and religious movements are aplenty in the West....
Globalization and Religious Nationalism in India
The Search for Ontological Security
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Exploring the effects of globalization in India and the problem of identity formation, this book contributes to the theoretical and empirical debate on identity, globalization, religious nationalism and (in)security.
The author puts forward a new approach based on political psychology, to interpret...
by John Kiess
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Hannah Arendt is regarded as one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. Famous for her account of the banality of evil, her wide-ranging work explored such themes as totalitarianism, the Holocaust, statelessness and human rights, revolutions and democratic movements,...
by Lester DeKoster
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2018
"The best anti-Communism will come not only out of a determined opposition to all that Communism stands for, but it will come, even more so, out of the best dedication to the goals of freedom, of justice, of equity, of brotherhood, of the Christian life."
—Lester DeKoster
A century...
The Idol of Our Age
How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
This book is a learned essay at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion. It is first and foremost a diagnosis and critique of the secular religion of our time, humanitarianism, or the “religion of humanity.” It argues that the humanitarian impulse to regard modern man as the measure...
by Lu Mattson
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Shaman's Dream : the Modoc War is a literary non-fiction account of the 1873 standoff between besieged Modoc Indians and the United States Army on the California/Oregon border. The book – a kaleidoscope of âvested interests' – draws together eye-witness accounts by settlers,...