Church State category: 1367 books
The Right to Be Wrong
Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
In the running debate we call the "culture wars," there exists a great feud over religious diversity. One side demands that only their true religion be allowed in the public square; the other insists that no religions ever belong there. The Right to Be Wrong offers a solution, drawing its lessons...
Reformation and Development in the Muslim World
Islamicity Indices as Benchmark
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book explores how the recent development of Muslim countries as a group has fallen far short of non-Muslim countries, which, some have concluded, may be a result of Islamic teachings. The authors examine Muslim countries over time, viewing their progression on the Islamicity scale. They assess...
Paranoid Science
The Christian Right's War on Reality
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Explores the Christian Right’s fierce opposition to science, explaining how and why its leaders came to see scientific truths as their enemy
For decades, the Christian Right’s high-profile clashes with science have made national headlines. From attempts to insert intelligent design creationism...
The War against al-Qaeda
Religion, Policy, and Counter-narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
In this original and provocative book, Nahed Artoul Zehr explores the theological underpinnings of al-Qaeda and related Islamic movements such as ISIS. She demonstrates how this marginal narrative transformed al-Qaeda from a relatively hierarchical and regional organization to a globalized, decentralized,...
Prophets and Patriots
Faith in Democracy across the Political Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Prophets and Patriots takes readers inside two of the most active populist movements of the Obama era and highlights cultural convergences and contradictions at the heart of American political life. In the wake of the Great Recession and amid rising discontent with government responsiveness to ordinary...
Multiculturalism and Religious Identity
Canada and India
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism? Multiculturalism and Religious Identity addresses this question by examining the political recognition and management of religious identity in Canada and India. In multicultural policy, practice, and literature,...
Pacifism and Pentecostals in South Africa
A new hermeneutic for nonviolence
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Most of the early twentieth-century Pentecostal denominations were peace churches that encouraged a stance of conscientious objection. However, since the Second World War Pentecostals have largely abandoned their pacifist viewpoint as they have taken on a more literal Biblical hermeneutic from their...
Misrecognitions
Gillian Rose and the Task of Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This collection brings together prominent thinkers from numerous disciplines to address the legacy of Gillian Rose for political theology today. Rose's work is notorious for its eclectic range, difficult style, and iconoclastic defiance of the conventions of postmodern critical theory. The theologians,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
There is currently much discussion regarding the causes of terrorist acts, as well as the connection between terrorism and religion. Terrorism is attributed either to religious 'fanaticism' or, alternately, to political and economic factors, with religion more or less dismissed as a secondary factor....
America’S Vision Vs. God’S Standard of Justice
Rethinking the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This book examines Gods standard of righteousness and justice as revealed to the nation of Israel and then compares those standards with Americas progressive vision. It discusses this nations three major branches of governmenti.e., executive, legislative, and judicialrelative to Americas perception...
by Mike Clancy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
“them against us” is the strategy of Election 2016
Class ! Class ! Class !
That’s all they talk about. It’s a shocking blast from the past
Didn’t America abolish class?
Election 2016 is a good old fashioned class war!
Clinton and Trump will save the middle...
by Kevin Snyman
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
the occupy movement continues to pose significant challenges to unjust economic and political systems throughout the world; the movement has shone light on domination systems of all kinds, including religious ones; many people of faith understand just how difficult it is to see through the illusions...
by Acton Institute
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
In the twenty-first century, increasing persecution of religious believers across the world has brought renewed attention to the importance and foundations of genuine religious liberty. Too often, however, advocates of religious freedom fail to recognize the ways in which other aspects of freedom—including...
by Mark R. Amstutz
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Gallons of ink have been spilled in examining the influence of Evangelicals on American politics. Yet the conversation--among pundits, politicians, and scholars--has focused overwhelmingly on hot-button domestic issues, such as abortion and gay marriage. In Evangelicals and American Foreign Policy,...