Church State category: 1367 books
Violence and Islam
Conversations with Houria Abdelouahed
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Adonis' influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot in the English-speaking world. Yet alongside this spearheading of a modernist literary revolution, the secular Syrian-born poet is also renowned for his persistent and staunch attacks on despotism across the Arab world.
In...
by Lahouari Addi
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
In Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam, Lahouari Addi attempts to assess the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction. While the revolutionary regimes promised economic and social development and sought the unity of Arab...
Authenticity And Islamic Liberalism
A Mature Vision Of Islamic Liberalism Grounded In The Quran
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
"Authenticity and Islamic Liberalism" is a collection of four original and highly stimulating papers on the liberal existentialist approach to religion with special reference to Islam in India. Each paper deals with an independent theme; yet, a consistent analytical existentialist approach...
by G. Elijah Dann
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
In God and the Public Square, Elijah Dann discusses the central issues on the forefront of ethical debate among Christian conservatives in North America. He discusses the hot-button issues of the day, including same-sex marriage, abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia, and the role of religion in...
Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy
Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
Islam's relationship to liberal-democratic politics has emerged as one of the most pressing and contentious issues in international affairs. In Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy, Nader Hashemi challenges the widely held belief among social scientists that religious politics and liberal-democratic...
Religion, Politics, and Globalization
Anthropological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe. The complex connections between religion and politics, and the ways in which globalization shapes these processes, are central themes...
by Ross Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
In 1996 agents working for the British and American governments witnessed, participated in and recorded a sequence of events that were designed by God to give them absolute proof that God exists.
It was done in such a way that they could show that proof to the world if they elected to do so.
The author...
A Time for Fusion
A Spiritual Guide for America to Work Toward Globalization and a Coalition of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Fusion offers a backward look at the policies of American and how these policies have failed to advance the broad goals for America. We did come out of World War II at a high point in the ascendency of America, but we lost that high point with our failed attempts to rule the rule as per the Heartland...
Evangelicals and Israel
The Story of American Christian Zionism
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Most observers explain evangelical Christians' bedrock support for Israel as stemming from the apocalyptic belief that the Jews must return to the Holy Land as a precondition for the second coming of Christ. But the real reasons, argues Stephen Spector, are far more complicated. In Evangelicals and...
Progressive & Religious
How Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist Leaders are Moving Beyond Partisan Politics and Transforming American Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Progressive & Religious tells the story of the emerging progressive religious movement in America through an analysis of over 80 in-depth interviews with contemporary religious leaders including nationally known figures such as Rabbis David Saperstein and Michael Lerner, Revs. Jim Wallis and Brian...
by Dennis "SpecialistET" Allen
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Columbia and nations abroad stumble towards a financial collapse and tempers flare across the globe, causing wars and rumors of war; the feeling of an apocalypse consumes the atmospheres oxygen. As a result, desperately and privily the leaders of the world search for a universal mediator/savior, designated...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
In The Future of Evangelicalism in America, thematic chapters on culture, spirituality, theology, politics, and ethnicity reveal the sources of the movement's dynamism, as well as significant challenges confronting the rising generations. A collaboration among scholars of history, religious studies,...
Religion and Progressive Activism
New Stories About Faith and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
New stories about religiously motivated progressive activism challenge common understandings of the American political landscape.
To many mainstream-media saturated Americans, the terms “progressive” and “religious” may not seem to go hand-in-hand. As religion is usually tied to conservatism,...
Redeeming America
Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This balanced and comprehensive study of Christian conservative thinking focuses on the 1980s, when the New Christian Right appeared suddenly as an influential force on the American political scene, only to fade from the spotlight toward the end of the decade. In Redeeming America, Michael Lienesch...