Church State category: 1367 books
Major Issues in Islam
The Challenges Within and Without
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book explores matters that have negatively affected the public image and led to distorted depictions of Islam from the late nineteenth century to the present. The areas of uneasiness and debate among Muslims and non-Muslims alike include Islamic values and identity in the post-caliphate era,...
Faithful to Secularism
The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Religion and democracy can make tense bedfellows. Secular elites may view religious movements as conflict-prone and incapable of compromise, while religious actors may fear that anticlericalism will drive religion from public life. Yet such tensions are not inevitable: from Asia to Latin America,...
Bat, Ball & Bible
Baseball and Sunday Observance in New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, moral and social forces collided in the argument over upholding New York State's blue laws, meant to restrict social activities and maintain Sunday's traditional standing as a day of religious observation. Baseball was at the center of this...
by Glenn L. Starks
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Mega-churches—churches with congregations that number in the thousands of worshippers—are growing in popularity in America and around the world. Shockingly, a growing number of megachurch leaders have committed acts of sexual misconduct. While these scandalous crimes have received much attention...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Islam has become a potent political force around the world since it reemerged in the late 1960's and 1970's as a religio-political alternative to failed nationalist ideologies. In countries throughout the world, individuals and movements have attempted to reconstruct the political, economic, and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
In the burgeoning literature on law and religion, scholarly attention has tended to focus on broad questions concerning the scope of religious freedom, the nature of toleration and the meaning of secularism. An under-examined issue is how religion figures in the decisions, actions and experiences...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique compilation of thirteen military documents provides special insight into the role of religion in the military and wars. Contents include: Religion and the Military: A Growing Ethical Dilemma * Combatant Commander...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
In recent years the rapid growth of Christian charismatic movements throughout sub-Saharan Africa has drastically reconfigured the region’s religious landscape. As a result, charismatic factions play an increasingly public role throughout Africa, far beyond the religious sphere. This book uses a...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
From food banks to migrant welcome committees, and community organisers to internet based campaigners, civil society is central to the North Atlantic social landscape. Theology and Civil Society advances our understanding of what civil society is and offers a theologically informed re-imagining of...
Politics for a Pilgrim Church
A Thomistic Theory of Civic Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Presents an innovative, constructive alternative to Christian involvement in the "culture wars"
Church leaders and scholars have long wrestled with what should provide a guiding vision for Christian engagement in culture and politics. In this book Thomas Bushlack argues that a retrieval...
Limbo Reapplied
On Living in Perennial Crisis and the Immanent Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned. This book offers a new and provocative thesis by taking recourse to the religious discourse of Limbo, and by investigating the temporal and spatial structures of crisis and modernity. Modernity...
The Challenge of Political Islam
Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
The rise of political Islam has provoked considerable debate about the compatibility of democracy, tolerance, and pluralism with the Islamist position. As The Challenge of Political Islam reveals, Egyptian Islamists today are more integrated into the political arena than ever, and are voicing a broad...
Religion in Consumer Society
Brands, Consumers and Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Presenting an overview of an emerging field in the study of contemporary religion, this book, together with a complementary volume Religion in the Neoliberal Age, explores issues of religion, neoliberalism and consumer society. Claiming that we have entered a new phase that implies more than the recasting...
Law and Religion in the 21st Century
Relations between States and Religious Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book brings together leading international scholars of law and religion to provide an overview of current issues in State-religion relations. The first part of the collection offers a picture of recent developments in key countries and regions. The second part is focused on Europe and, in particular,...