Church State category: 1367 books
Glauben in Wüstenzeiten
7 Predigten über Abraham, den Pionier Gottes
Language: German
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Jahrtausende trennen uns von Abraham und seiner Welt und dennoch können uns seine Abenteuer dabei helfen, im Glauben zu wachsen. Sieben alltagstaugliche Predigten wollen dazu ermutigen, auch in schwierigen Zeiten an Gott festzuhalten.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Pope Francis and the Caring Society is a thoughtful exploration of the Pope's earnest call for a dialogue on building a truly compassionate society. Francis's fervent support for uplifting the poor and protecting the environment has inspired far-reaching discussions worldwide: Do capitalism and socialism...
The Jesuits' Estate Question, 1760-1888
A Study of the Background for the Agitation of 1889
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
More than a hundred years of trouble followed the land grant of half a million acres along the St. Lawrence River to the Jesuits. The history of this land is a turbulent one that involved every area of colonial settlement and finally threatened Confederation. In 1888 the Quebec legislature passed...
Securitized Citizens
Canadian Muslims’ Experiences of Race Relations and Identity Formation Post–9/11
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Uninformed and reactionary responses in the years following the events of 9/11 and the ongoing ‘War on Terror’ have greatly affected ideas of citizenship and national belonging.
In Securitized Citizens, Baljit Nagra, develops a new critical analysis of the ideas dominant groups and institutions...
Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality
Ethnographic Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book explores the entanglements of gender and power in spiritual practices and analyzes strategies used by spiritual practitioners to attain what to social scientists might seem an impossible goal: creating spiritual communities without creating gendered hierarchies.
What strategies do...
The Transformation of Politicised Religion
From Zealots into Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Including contributions from leading scholars from Algeria, France, Germany, India and the United States this book traces the rise and turn to moderation of the New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements, often labelled in the West as fundamentalists. Arguing that culturally based ideologies are...
by Haroro J. Ingram
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Haroro J. Ingram journeys through over a century of history, from the Islamist modernists of the late-1800s into the 21st century, in the first full length examination of the charismatic leadership phenomenon in Islamist radicalism and militancy. Exhaustively researched and founded upon a suite of...
Inside the Muslim Brotherhood
Religion, Identity, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Over the past three decades, through rises and falls in power, regime repression and exclusion, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has endured, proving more resilient than any other Islamist movement in the world. In this book Khalil al-Anani explores the factors that have enabled the Brotherhood to...
Jesus Christ
The New Face of Social Progress
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Based on a careful reading of Pope Benedict’s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate (“Charity in Truth”), the essays in this substantial volume explore how an encounter with the person of Jesus Christ is the true basis for economic and social progress. The authors are experts in a wide range of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This collection addresses the perennial philosophical and theological issues of human finitude and the potentiality for evil. The contributors approach these issues from perspectives in Continental philosophy relating to phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, rabbinical traditions, drawing upon...
by Joram Tarusarira
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Religio-political organisations in Zimbabwe play an important role in advocating democratisation and reconciliation, against acquiescent, silenced or co-opted mainstream churches. Reconciliation and Religio-political Non-conformism in Zimbabwe analyses activities of religious organisations that deviate...
Terra, casa, lavoro
Discorsi ai movimenti popolari
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Sempre più spesso si ascolta il Papa pronunciare parole di condanna contro il capitalismo finanziario e industriale internazionale e a favore di una ridistribuzione delle ricchezze. Per la prima volta, un libro raccoglie tre recentissimi discorsi cruciali al riguardo. Tre gli obiettivi fondamentali...
Visions of Peace
Asia and The West
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Visions of Peace: Asia and the West explores the diversity of past conceptualizations as well as the remarkable continuity in the hope for peace across global intellectual traditions. Current literature, prompted by September 11, predominantly focuses on the laws and ethics of just wars or modern...
by Samuel Gregg
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
"Gregg's book is the closet thing I've encountered in a long time to a one-volume user's manual for operating Western Civilization." —The Stream
"Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization offers a concise intellectual history of the West through the prism of the relationship...