Church State category: 1367 books
Righteous Rhetoric
Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Scholars who study the Christian Right often claim that the movement's distinction lies in its moral absolutism and religious fervor. Through a detailed study of the sexually-charged rhetoric of one of America's largest conservative women's organizations, Concerned Women for America (CWA), Righteous...
The Necessity of Secularism
Why God Can't Tell Us What to Do
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
For the first time in human history, a significant percentage of the world’s population no longer believes in God. This is especially true in developed nations, where in some societies nonbelievers now outnumber believers. Unless religion collapses completely, or undergoes a remarkable resurgence,...
The Future of Religious Freedom
Global Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
What is the status of religious freedom in the world today? What barriers does it face? What are the realistic prospects for improvement, and why does this matter? The Future of Religious Freedom addresses these critical questions by assembling in one volume some of the best forward-thinking and empirical...
by Jenna Reinbold
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been called one of the most powerful documents in human history. Today, the mere accusation of violations of the rights outlined in this document cows political leaders and riles the international community. Yet as a nonbinding document with no mechanism...
God Bless America?
His Rescue Plan & How We Can Be "Ruler Over All That He Has"
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
God Bless America? offers a fresh meaning to the Great Sign that was in the sky on September 23, 2017 (YouTube) because of the 9-month pregnancy image pointing to next spring.
The sign, according to astronomers, is a complex convergence of aligning planets and constel-lations that unfolds over...
The Future of Blasphemy
Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
In the days of Moses, blasphemy was the mortal offence of failing to respect the divine. In an age of human rights, blasphemy is understood as a failure to respect persons, as insult, defamation, or "advocacy of religious hatred." The criminalisation of this personal blasphemy has been advanced...
Undoing Babel
The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has produced a vast array of literary adaptations.
Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late...
by Robert Mayhew
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
The purpose of the book is to revive the spirit of real Christianity in the United States stand against our 'Adversary' and turn from our collective moral drift. Done as an analogy by telling my experiences in Basic Training in the Army and how those experiences relate to Christianity. The book...
Postsecular Feminisms
Religion and Gender in Transnational Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Postsecular Feminisms explores the contested relationship between feminism and secularism through a series of case studies, featuring perspectives from the global North and South. It offers insights beyond those of the Abrahamic traditions, and includes multiple examples from South Asia. By decentering...
by Eldon J. Eisenach
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In the current political climate it is impossible not to speculate about the correlation between American national identity and religious beliefs. Sacred Discourse and American Nationality analyzes the role of religious rhetoric and politics. Eldon J. Eisenach explores this relationship, along with...
Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism
The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Religiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn in Protestant and Catholic life in the latter part of the twentieth century, with women's mobilizations centering on defense of the “traditional” family. In Liberal Christianity and Women’s...
by Dorian Llywelyn
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Nationality continues to be an important part of how people identify themselves and others. 'Who am I?' is inseparable from the question 'Who and what are we?' Historically, many nations have made use of the Bible and Christian notions to understand themselves and to justify their political ambitions....
Theology and the Globalized Present
Feasting in the Future of God
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Theology and the Globalized Present focuses on the world's future in God and God's creativeness. In response to a globalized economy that reconfigures time to the detriment of human flourishing, McDowell presents a re-imagined theological vision of eschatological memory and Eucharistic performance....
Progressive and Conservative Religious Ideologies
The Tumultuous Decade of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book explores the surprisingly disruptive role of religion for progressive and conservative ideologies in the tumultuous decade of the 1960s. Conservative movements were far more progressive than the standard religious narrative of the decade alleges and the notoriously progressive ethos of the...