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Islamism and Globalisation in Jordan
The Muslim Brotherhood's Quest for Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This book explores the activities of the local Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan. It examines how the Brotherhood, working to establish an alternative social, political and moral order through a network of Islamic institutions, made a huge contribution to the transformation of Jordanian society. It reveals,...
The Babylon Complex
Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Babylon is a surprisingly multivalent symbol in U.S. culture and politics. Political citations of Babylon range widely, from torture at Abu Ghraib to depictions of Hollywood glamour and decadence. In political discourse, Babylon appears in conservative ruminations on democratic law, liberal appeals...
Catholics and US Politics After the 2016 Elections
Understanding the “Swing Vote"
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book examines both the evolution of the Catholic vote in the US and the role of Catholic voters in the historic 2016 elections. There is a paucity of academic works on Catholics and US politics—scholars of religion and US politics tend to focus on evangelical Protestant voters—even though...
by Gary L. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Author Gary L. Wilson has studied the Bible extensively for many years with the goal of saving the American people and the people in Europe who will be caught in the famine of the Antichrist. In World War III: Nuclear War, he provides Biblical evidence of how to prevent nine possible nuclear wars...
Everyman’S Prayer Book
Democratic Governments and Their Courts: the Other Great Religions
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
The world is replete with conflicts between various governments and various religious factions. Author and retired educator H. Kenneth MacLennan has come to realize that these conflicts will not be resolved until the believers of these religions and governments better understand the true nature of...
Christianity and Culture in the City
A Postcolonial Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach offers an introduction to the broad diversity of contemporary Christianities in a rich, complex, changing, and challenging city context. Cruz focuses upon a variety of changing communities with dynamic and striking cultural experiences,...
Religion, Politics, and Polarization
How Religiopolitical Conflict Is Changing Congress and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
In Religion, Politics, and Polarization: How Religiopolitical Conflict are Changing Congress and American Democracy, three esteemed scholars trace the confluence of religion and party in the U.S. Congress over time. Drawing on forty years of congressional roll call votes as well as public opinion...
A Passage to Peace
Global Solutions from East and West
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
The seas do not separate us; rather, they bring us closer together.' Daisaku Ikeda's opening words to this consistently wide-ranging dialogue set the scene for what follows. For the overarching theme of the book is that of the insights and meeting of minds that follow interaction between peoples who...
End-Times Super Trends
A Political, Economic, and Cultural Forecast of the Near-Term Prophetic Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Making Sense of Crucial Last-Days Signs
Pressure is rising. The global atmosphere is morphing as never before. It's time to pay attention to the warnings around us that point to inevitable catastrophes to come.
Bible prophecy expert Ron Rhodes surveys 15 current trends that affect us...
by Johnnie Moore
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This ancillary booklet to The Martyr’s Oath will introduce people to the scope and depth of the persecution of Christians in today’s world. Christians are in a fight for their lives in the Middle East, Africa, and even in parts of Asia. For Western Christians, who typically run into cultural pressures...
Behind the Public Veil
The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
What was Martin Luther King Jr. really like? In this groundbreaking volume, Lewis V. Baldwin answers this question by focusing on the man himself. Drawing on the testimonies of friends, family, and closest associates, this volume adds much-needed biographical background to the discussion, as Baldwin...
by Edited by Nicholas P. Cafardi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A collection of essays by noted Catholic scholars on how Catholics should participate in the political process.
Religion, Science, and Democracy
A Disputational Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Despite the increasing popularity of “religion and science” as an academic discourse, the intersection of science and religion remains a front line in an ongoing “culture war.” The reasons for this lie in an approach to discourse that closely resembles the model of discourse promoted by John...
by Scott A. Merriman Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book examines the countervailing arguments in the religious exemption debate and explains why this issue continues to be so heated and controversial in modern-day America.
• Provides up-to-date coverage that highlights the full history of religious exemption cases from the 19th through...