Church State category: 1367 books
by Nelson Tebbe
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Nelson Tebbe shows how a method called social coherence offers a way to resolve conflicts between advocates of religious freedom and proponents of equality law. Based on the way people reason through moral problems in everyday life, it can lead to workable solutions in a wide range of issues, including gay rights and women’s reproductive choice.
by Mike Gagnon
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Look around at the world we live in.
Isn't there something wrong?
Don't you feel powerless to make a positive change? Don't the problems of the world feel so big, so overwhelming, that you feel defeated? Like you can't possibly make a difference? So you don't even start?
What...
Money, Greed, and God 10th Anniversary Edition
The Christian Case for Free Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A prominent scholar reveals the surprising ways that capitalism is actually the best way to follow Jesus’s mandates to alleviate poverty and protect our earth.
Christianity generally sees capitalism as either bad because it causes much of the world’s suffering, or good because God wants...
The Growth of Minds and Culture
A Unified Interpretation of the Structure of Human Experience, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The impact of science and technology on culture raises a number of questions about the ways in which people relate to each other and to their environment. Such questions cannot be answered by traditional approaches. Thus another level of analysis is needed to complement the traditional approaches...
by Jed Stone
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
The importance of storytelling in bringing about reconciliation. This book draws from the disciplines of theology, psychology, sociology and anthropology to unveil the mysteries of cognitive and affective engagement that bring about the change in attitude, behaviour and relationship that reconciliation...
If I Were President
A Road Map for Those Who Would Be Ghana's Chief Executive
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Years of mismanagement, corruption, and unwarranted military interventions in national affairs have left the country in an abysmal pit; efforts to move forward seem so little compared to the journey ahead. The enormity of the problem leaves many presidents little choice but to tinker around the edges...
by Frederico Alves
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2016
Do you know that to change the governmental system can be so easy and smooth that it may not even bring unstable changes?
The only question is: Would they accept a fair proposal or will they refuse it?
By refusing it they will have to publicly deny our right to democracy and freedom.
That can be the beginning of the end...
Are Muslims Distinctive?
A Look at the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Are Muslims Distinctive? represents the first major scientific effort to assess how Muslims and non-Muslims differ--and do not differ--in the contemporary world. Using rigorous methods and data drawn from around the globe, M. Steven Fish reveals that in some areas Muslims and non-Muslims differ less...
Religious Freedom in Islam
The Fate of a Universal Human Right in the Muslim World Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Since at least the attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most pressing political questions of the age has been whether Islam is hostile to religious freedom. Daniel Philpott examines conditions on the ground in forty-seven Muslim-majority countries today and offers an honest, clear-eyed answer...
Religion in Public Spaces
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This timely volume discusses the much debated and controversial subject of the presence of religion in the public sphere. The book is divided in three sections. In the first the public/private distinction is studied mainly from a theoretical point of view, through the contributions of lawyers, philosophers...
War's Ends
Human Rights, International Order, and the Ethics of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Before military action, and even before mobilization, the decision on whether to go to war is debated by politicians, pundits, and the public. As they address the right or wrong of such action, it is also a time when, in the language of the just war tradition, the wise would deeply investigate their...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya. Increased economic and cultural flows, growth in tourism, and new forms of governance and media, however, have brought significant changes to the religious traditions of the region in the twentieth and twenty-first...
Ethics at the Edges of Law
Christian Moralists and American Legal Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
An interdisciplinary conversation between law and Christian thought exists, but has so far been centered in the legal academy. Law scholars have fruitfully critiqued contemporary legal and jurisprudential issues by drawing upon concepts and norms from the field of religious ethics. However, the conversation...
To Care for Creation
The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, “I know who made the environment and he’s coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV.” The comment, which Driscoll later explained away as a joke, highlights what has been a long history...