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by Douglas Sczygelski
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
The author shows that Christopher Hitchens, the famous journalist and militant atheist, lied constantly. Some of the more prominent lies are: the lie that Hitler was a Catholic; the lie that atheists have a lower crime rate than Christians; the lie that the war in Bosnia was caused by religion (when...
The New Politics
The Spirit and Fate of Conservatism and Progressivism
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Dare to perilously entangle yourself inside Berengeres provocative vision of the nature and foundation of political values. He intoxicates. We are in the presence of a red comet in a smog-filled sky. His two formations of books disturb. They attack the readers prejudices. They are very learned. Each...
Ethnocentric Political Theory
The Pursuit of Flawed Universals
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Western political theory has many great strengths but also a few weaknesses. Among the latter should be included its ethnocentricity, its tendency to universalize the local. The political theorist makes universal statements about human beings, societies and states without making a close study of them,...
by Charles Tuttle
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Was Jesus a politician of His time? His disciples desired Him to be. Instead, Jesus shattered the glass ceiling on politics to display a focus on a kingdom that was not of this world.
In the The Politics of Jesus, author Charles Tuttle offers a fresh perspective on politics by contrasting Jesus’...
Religion and the New Immigrants
How Faith Communities Form Our Newest Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
The explosive growth of the immigrant population since the 1960s has raised concerns about its impact on public life, but only recently have scholars begun to ask how religion affects the immigrant experience in our society. In Religion and the New Immigrants, Michael W. Foley and Dean R. Hoge assess...
Nostradamus
A Healer of Souls in the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. Indeed, his predictions are so much the stock-in-trade of the wildest merchants of imminent Doom that one could be forgiven for forgetting that Michel de Nostredame,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This book explores the implication of diversity for humanism. Through the insights of academics and activists, it highlights both the successes and failures related to diversity marking humanism in the US and internationally. It offers a timely depiction of how humanism in general as well as how...
Humanism
Essays on Race, Religion and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Who are the "Nones"? What does humanism say about race, religion and popular culture? How do race, religion and popular culture inform and affect humanism?
The demographics of the United States are changing, marked most profoundly by the religiously unaffiliated, or what we have to...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama's years in the White House. Addressing issues ranging from identity politics, immigration, income inequality, Islamophobia and international affairs, Religion in the Age of Obama explores the religious and moral...
by Francis Kroncke
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
"Five years in a federal penitentiary!" Me? Who had been altar-boy, young monk, and Peacenik? Yeah, me, now classified as "violent felon" for destroying 1-A draft files during Vietnam era. Why did I do it? Young and crazy, sure. Heartfelt follower of the peacemaker, Jesus, yup....
Reading J. Z. Smith
Interviews & Essay
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Over the course of a career of more than forty years, Jonathan Z. Smith was among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion, distinguishing himself as perhaps the most influential theorist of religion of the last half century. Among his significant body...
by Yadullah Shahibzadeh
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
This book reveals aspects of the rise and fall of the European and Iranian Left, their conceptualization of Marxism and ideological formations. Questions regarding the Left and Marxism within two seemingly different economic, political and intellectual and cultural contexts require comprehensive comparative...
The Languages of Religion
Exploring the Politics of the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This book analyses the power that religion wields upon the minds of individuals and communities and explores the predominance of language in the actual practice of religion. Through an investigation of the diverse forms of religious language available — oral traditions, sacred texts, evangelical...
World of Faith and Freedom
Why International Religious Liberty Is Vital to American National Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Virtually every trouble spot on the planet has some sort of religious component. One need only consider Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran, Israel and Palestine, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Russia, and China, to name but a few. Looming behind national issues, of course, is the problem of regional Islamist extremism...