Church State category: 1367 books
by Liz S. Alexander, Rose Mary Amenga-Etego, Rabiatu Ammah
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
In this collection, continental and diasporan African women interrogate the concept “sacred text” and analyze ways oral and written religious “texts” intersect with violence against African-descended women and girls. While the sanctioned idea of a sacred text is written literature, this project...
by Stuart McAnulla, Steven Kettell, Marcus Schulzke
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
New atheism is best known as a literary and media phenomenon which has resulted in the widespread discussion of the anti-religious arguments of authors such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, yet it also has strongly political dimensions. This book analyses the political aspects...
Islamophobia in Britain
The Making of a Muslim Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives and tropes. Since 2001, Muslims...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
It has long been assumed that religion is in decline in the West: however it continues to have an important yet contested role in individual lives and in society at large. Furthermore half a century or so in which religion and belief were barely talked about in public has resulted in a pressing lack...
Religions as Brands
New Perspectives on the Marketization of Religion and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
During the twentieth century, religion has gone on the market place. Churches and religious groups are forced to 'sell god' in order to be attractive to 'religious consumers'. More and more, religions are seen as 'brands' that have to be recognizable to their members and the general public. What does...
Choosing Honor
An American Woman's Search for God, Family and Country in an Age of Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Choosing Honor is an award winning book that provides a curious and uninhibited take on modern politics and economics: an unexpected tonic for what ails the United States and in affect the World. Add a heavy sprinkle of pop references from Mr. T to Pink Floyd to the mix and Choosing Honor presents...
by Bill Underwood
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
In "American Babylon" journalist Bill Underwood takes readers down a road few Bible prophecy scholars have traveled before - straight into America's heart of darkness. In a genre dominated by super-patriots and diehard nationalists, Underwood offers a patriotically irreverent view of a once...
Heroic Conservatism
Why Republicans Need to Embrace America's Ideals (And Why They Deserve to Fail If They Don't)
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Michael Gerson, who worked with George W. Bush on his most inspiring speeches, is considered by many Democrats and Republicans to be the most influential White House speechwriter since the Kennedy administration. He was also more than a speechwriter, he was a trusted insider who helped shape policy.
In...
The Scandal of Evangelicals and Homosexuality
English Evangelical Texts, 1960–2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
English evangelicals give the appearance of being a community at war, with each other and with the world around them. The issue of homosexuality is one of the key battlegrounds. How has this issue become so significant to evangelicals? Why is it provoking such violent responses? How is it changing...
Power and Purpose
Paul Ramsey and Contemporary Christian Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Not long ago, Paul Ramsey (1913-1988) was a leading voice in North American Christian ethics. Today, however, his intellectual legacy is in question, and his work is largely ignored by current scholars in the field. Against the tide of that neglect, Adam Edward Hollowell argues in Power and Purpose...
by Dr Shabir Choudhry
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
CPEC is no doubt a big project with many dimensions and many targets. It is hailed as a game changer. However, debate still goes on in Pakistan and around the globe, about whose favor the game will change. As a weak partner in any game, trade or pact does not dictate terms or win the game.
What They Wished For
American Catholics and American Presidents, 1960–2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Roman Catholics constitute the most populous religious denomination in the United States, comprising one in four Americans. With the election of John F. Kennedy as president in 1960, they attained a political prominence to match their rapidly ascending socioeconomic and cultural profile. From Vietnam...
Pagans and Christians in the City
Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very...
Said the Prophet of God
Hadith Commentary across a Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Although scholars have long studied how Muslims authenticated and transmitted Muhammad’s sayings and practices (hadith), the story of how they interpreted and reinterpreted the meanings of hadith over the past millennium has yet to be told. Joel Blecher takes up this charge, illuminating the rich...