Religion, Politics & State

This book takes the long-view by analysing Islamic State's beginnings in Iraq to their involvement in the Arab Spring and through to the present day. The world is watching IS's advance through the Middle East. The US risks being drawn into another war...

In Christian Zionism in the Twenty-First Century authors Motti Inbari and Kirill Bumin draw on three original surveys conducted in 2018, 2020, and 2021 to explore the religious beliefs and foreign policy attitudes of evangelical and born-again Christians...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719494Author Daphna LevitFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

In the beginning, the Bible triggered a revolution in human thought and later established Western civilization's moral and philosophical foundation. Many people though--from authors to pundits--mock it for their own purposes and political agendas...

Is religious freedom being curtailed in pursuit of equality, and the outlawing of discrimination? Is enough effort made to accommodate those motivated by a religious conscience? All rights matter but at times the right to put religious beliefs into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979361913Author Omar TobijahFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Divine Child PublicationsPublisher Divine Child PublicationsWeight(grams) 152g

This book illustrates how religion and ideology were used by Robert Mugabe to ward off opposition within his own party, in Zimbabwe and from the West. An interdisciplinary line up of contributors argue that Mugabe used a calculated narrative of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802864437Author David VandrunenFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

This is a collection of case studies and theoretical pieces which examines the importance of religion in international conflicts and diplomacy. It is co-published with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and includes a foreword by...

What could it mean, in terms of strengthening multilateral diplomacy, if the UN, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the European Union, and other regional diplomatic frameworks engaged more creatively with a religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802870810Author Allan Aubrey BoesakFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

How and why should hope play a key role in a twenty-first century democratic politics? Alan Mittleman offers a philosophical exploration of the theme, contending that a modern construction of hope as an emotion is deficient. He revives the medieval...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356293557Author Farahnaz IspahaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm

Olivier Roy, world-renowned authority on Islam and politics, finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and socio-cultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization...

Traditional, secular, and fundamentalist-all three categories are contested, yet in their contestation they shape our sensibilities and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. This interplay brings to the foreground more than ever the question...

This book advances an Islamic political philosophy based on the concept of Ihsan, which means to do beautiful things. The author moves beyond the dominant model of Islamic governance advanced by modern day Islamists. The political philosophy of Ihsan...

George Bell remains one of only a handful of twentieth-century English bishops to possess a continuing international reputation for his involvement in political affairs. His insistence that Christian faith required active participation in public life, at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506482019Author Ryan P. BurgeFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

In 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer-a theologian and pastor-was executed by the Nazis for his resistance to their unspeakable crimes against humanity. He was only 39 years old when he died, but Bonhoeffer left behind volumes of work exploring theological and...

Religion was thought to be part of the problem in Ireland and incapable of turning itself into part of the solution. Many commentators deny the churches a role in Northern Ireland's peace process or belittle it, focusing on the few well-known events of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802876010Author Stephen R. HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250823601Author Bill McKibbenFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982784402Author Alan SenaukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Clear View PressPublisher Clear View PressWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398447080Author 'Bella NzewiFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Work on culture and globalization tends to focus on dynamics of reaction or resistance. Religion generally figures as a defensive response to economic and cultural globalization, a way to assert local identities against the international. The book will...

There is a huge disconnect between the official account of church demise and the death of faith peddled in political and media circles, and the vitality of churches in every corner of the country. Why do the pundits ignore what is happening? Sean...

Life and death are commonly seen as representing the starkest of binaries: Death is the ultimate adversary of all that lives. Beatrice Marovich argues that such understandings of mortality have been deeply influenced by a strain of Christian political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307455772Author Jonathan HaidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802878519Author Daniel K WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Christopher Dawson wrote The Judgment of the Nations in 1943, in the midst of the horrors of World War II. He took four years in the writing of it, years, he claimed, "more disastrous than any that Europe had known since the fourteenth century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880595220Author Gerald R McDermottFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Acton InstitutePublisher Acton InstituteWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The essays in Theology and the Political-written by some of the world's foremost theologians, philosophers, and literary critics-analyze the ethics and consequences of human action. They explore the spiritual dimensions of ontology, considering the...

Perhaps no individual has had more of an effect on twentieth-century American Christianity than the renowned evangelist Billy Graham, whose work has been widely influential in arenas from the rising evangelical movement to the White House. Although...

In 1974 nearly 3,000 evangelicals from 150 nations met at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. Amidst this cosmopolitan setting -and in front of the most important white evangelical leaders of the United States -members of the Latin American...

Can we affirm that a political theology exists in Islam? This apparently simple question is the core of Massimo Capanini and Marco Di Donato's edited collection of essays. Considering the wide range of meanings of political theology this book contains...

Widely recognized as one of the most pressing human rights issues, human trafficking has captured worldwide attention as a crucial moral and political issue, perhaps nowhere more than in the United States. Since they were signed into law in 2000, U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604440553Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

The relationship between religion and modern culture remains a controversial issue within Christian theology. This book focuses on Paul Tillich's interpretation of modern culture and the influence of capitalism, highlighting the context of his work in...

Emilio Gentile, an internationally renowned authority on fascism and totalitarianism, argues that politics over the past two centuries has often taken on the features of religion, claiming as its own the prerogative of defining the fundamental purpose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621384847Author Thaddeus KozinskiFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...