Church State category: 1367 books
Global Religious Movements Across Borders
Sacred Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through religious diasporas, religion has traveled from one side of the world and back again. It continues to play a prominent role in shaping world politics and has been a vital force in the continued emergence, spread, and creation...
Evangelicals in Public Policy
Sustaining a Respectful Political Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Six politically diverse evangelical Christians model a better way to do politics: respectful conversation about twelve public policy issues that uncover common ground and illuminate remaining disagreements. Current political discourse is broken, characterized by nasty sound bytes, demonizing the opposition,...
Born from Lament
The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
There is no more urgent theological task than to provide an account of hope in Africa, given its endless cycles of violence, war, poverty, and displacement. So claims Emmanuel Katongole, an innovative theological voice from Africa.
In the midst of suffering, Katongole says, hope takes the form...
When Faith Storms the Public Square
Mixing Religion and Politics through Community Organizing to Enhance our Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
To some, the notion of mixing religious groups and community organizing may seem a pleasing prospect, an idea long overdue. To others, it may be anathema. Like it or not, however, this blending is a reality that has been forged in streets and meeting halls day by day, from the very beginnings of our country to the present-day touchstones of President Barack Obama.
by Joel C. Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Conservative spokesman, author, and pastor Dr. Joel C. Hunter forges a new path with A New Kind of Conservative. Hunter takes a provocative look at how faith and politics have interacted in America, giving civic-minded people a balanced and biblically-based approach to political involvement. The author...
Introduction to Political Science
A Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2017
Introduction to Political Science: A Christian Perspective IVP Instructor Resources forthcoming.
Salafism in Lebanon
From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Salafism, comprised of fundamentalist Islamic movements whose adherents consider themselves the only “saved” sect of Islam, has been little studied, remains shrouded in misconceptions, and has provoked new interest as Salafists have recently staked a claim to power in some Arab states while spearheading...
Islam's Renewal
Reform or Revolt?
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The book considers some of the solutions proposed by Muslim activists and thinkers in their attempts to renew (tajdid) their ways of life and thought in accord with the demands of the age in which they lived. The two ways of reacting are studied – the movements led by men of action and inspiration,...
Rāshid al-Ghannūshi̇̄
A Key Muslim Thinker of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This book discusses various dynamic facets of the life of Rāshid al-Ghannūshi̇̄, a distinguished Islamic thinker and activist not only in Tunisia and North Africa, but in the entire Muslim world. It especially focuses on those aspects related to his intellectual understanding and response to a...
Religion in Development
Rewriting the Secular Script
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Development practice is full of examples of the importance of religion in the lives of people in developing countries. However, religion has largely remained unexplored in development studies. This timely new book aims to fill that gap. The authors expertly review how religion has been treated in...
Holy Humanitarians
American Evangelicals and Global Aid
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
On May 10, 1900, an enthusiastic Brooklyn crowd bid farewell to the Quito. The ship sailed for famine-stricken Bombay, carrying both tangible relief—thousands of tons of corn and seeds—and “a tender message of love and sympathy from God’s children on this side of the globe to those on the...
Religion, NGOs and the United Nations
Visible and Invisible Actors in Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
How do religious groups, operating as NGOs, engage in the most important global institution for world peace? What processes do they adopt? Is there a “spiritual” UN today? This book is the first interdisciplinary study to present extensive fieldwork results from an examination of the activity...
Advocating for Justice
An Evangelical Vision for Transforming Systems and Structures
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Christians are increasingly interested in justice issues. Relief and development work are important, but beyond that is a need for advocacy. This book shows how transforming systems and structures results in lasting change, providing theological rationale and strategies of action for evangelicals...
by Denver Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Describes Israel's turn away from God and conditions that are turning us away from God. Points to similar conditions that are developing within our society and emulates the same conditions that Israel went through. We have the opportunity, if we take advantage of it to avoid God's wrath at the end time.