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A Saint in the Sun
Praising Saint Bernard in the France of Louis XIV
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This volume contains translations or summaries of the most important panegyrics in praise of Saint Bernard that were preached during the reign of Louis XIV. Some of the preachers were and are regarded as the greatest orators ever to grace the French pulpit. All the translations are extensively annotated,...
Luke and Vergil
Imitations of Classical Greek Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
These two volumes of The New Testament and Greek Literature are the magnum opus of biblical scholar Dennis R. MacDonald, outlining the profound connections between the New Testament and classical Greek poetry. MacDonald argues that the Gospel writers borrowed from established literary sources to create...
The Collective Dimension of Freedom of Religion
A Case Study on Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
The right to freedom of religion or belief, as enshrined in international human rights documents, is unique in its formulation in that it provides protection for the enjoyment of the rights "in community with others". This book explores the notion of the collective dimension of freedom of...
by Kenneth R. Himes, OFM
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Drones have become an essential part of U.S. national security strategy, but most Americans know little about how they are used, and we receive conflicting reports about their outcomes. In Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing, ethicist Kenneth R. Himes provides not only an overview of the role...
Confronting Secularism in Europe and India
Legitimacy and Disenchantment in Contemporary Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Can secularism continue to provide a foundation for political legitimacy? It is often claimed that one of the cultural achievements of the West has been its establishment of secular democracy, wherein religious belief is respected but confined to the sphere of private belief. In more recent times,...
by Gopi Krishna
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Here are clear and direct answers to questions that millions of scholars, spiritual seekers and scientists have been asking – questions such as:
What is higher consciousness?
What is Kundalini?
How does Kundalini work?
What is the biological imperative for the next step in mankind’s evolution?
Is...
by Dion Gibbs
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Fourth International theory is a book that attempts to put into place a framework of how to implement Direct Democracy as envisioned by the Ancient Greeks and many other political theorists and thinkers. This is an attempt to find a British way of implementing the will of the people more effectively....
Heritage of Light
The Spiritual Destiny of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Heritage of Light is an accessible look at the American Bahai community, and a penetrating look at the spiritual destiny of America. The author focuses on the American Bahai community, and traces the historical and spiritual connections that link its members with the early Bahai's of Iran, who displayed...
by Uzi Rebhun
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Jews and the American Religious Landscape explores major complementary facets of American Judaism and Jewish life through a comprehensive analysis of contemporary demographic and sociological data. Focusing on the most important aspects of social development—geographic location, socioeconomic stratification,...
My Political Race
An Outsider's Journey to the Heart of British Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
As Labour MP for Gloucester, when things were good for Parmjit Dhanda they were very good. He was rolled out for Labour conferences and media appearances as a poster boy for the party - a shining example of a new Britain, where white constituencies chose ethnic minorities as their candidates and then...
For God and Globe
Christian Internationalism in the United States between the Great War and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
For God and Globe recovers the history of an important yet largely forgotten intellectual movement in interwar America. Michael G. Thompson explores the way radical-left and ecumenical Protestant internationalists articulated new understandings of the ethics of international relations between the...
The Kuyper Center Review, volume 4
Calvinism and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Explores the influence of Calvinism on democratic theory and practice
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) -- pastor, theologian, journalist, and politician -- is highly regarded as exemplifying how a Christian worldview can be confidently expressed in both theory and practice. Honoring the spirit of...
Imputed Rights
An Essay in Christian Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Thoughtful and informative, this essay is an analysis of the basis and nature of human rights. Arguing that human rights is an issue that is often invoked but seldom intelligently considered, this record examines concrete, immediate, moral, and social issues, including birth control, taxation, welfare,...
by Ebru Thwaites Diken
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This book explores how politics, religion and cinema encounter and re-invent each other in contemporary Turkish cinema. It investigates their common origin—the spectacle, which each field views as an instrument of governmentality. The book analyses six recent, some of which are internationally known...