Religion, Politics & State

Jocelyn Maclure and Charles Taylor provide a clearly reasoned, articulate account of secularism how it may offer the only path to religious and philosophical freedom.Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical and urgent as income...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532613609Author Joshua B DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Exposes the invisible ways in which white Christian privilege disadvantages racial and religious minorities in America The United States is recognized as the most religiously diverse country in the world, and yet its laws and customs, which many have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802865953Author Betty Jane BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

The relationship between religion and human rights is complex and problematic throughout the world. Most of the world's religions have been used for violence, repression, and prejudice. Yet each of these religions can play a crucial role in the modern...

An incisive look at Hmong religion in the United States, where resettled refugees found creative ways to maintain their traditions, even as Christian organizations deputized by the government were granted an outsized influence on the refugees' new lives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398447073Author 'Bella NzewiFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

For those interested in Christianity in China, the state-church relationship, and the present Communist regime and its attitude towards religion, Sino-Vatican Relations offers a wealth of information and insights. This work traces the tortuous history of...

According to current polls, about 85 percent of Americans identify with some religious faith and more than 40 percent say they attend religious services at least once a week. In recent years, religious observance -and even religious belief -have become...

The question of whether Islam is compatible with democracy may best be answered not from the classical sources or even from the cauldron of Middle East politics but from the lived experiences of Muslim communities around the world. In large and diverse...

The rise of the modern Christian Right, starting with the 1976 Presidential election and culminating in the overwhelming white evangelical support for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, has been one of the most consequential political developments of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578949437Author John WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Cross Stone PublishingPublisher Cross Stone PublishingWeight(grams) 372g

This accessible introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases. The authors provide extensive analysis of the formation of the First Amendment religion clauses and the plausible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692689769Author The Dark LordsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sith Academy PublishingPublisher Sith Academy PublishingWeight(grams) 154g

The fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the 2005 Danish cartoon fracas awakened many people to the potency of blasphemy accusations in the Muslim world. Accusations and charges such as "blasphemy," "apostasy," "insulting...

Over the past 50 years, the architects of the religious right have become household names: Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson. They have used their massively influential platforms to build the profiles of evangelical politicians like Mike...

The Religious Origins of Democratic Pluralism focuses on explaining one of the riddles that fascinated historians and political scientists for much of the twentieth century, namely, the origin and development of Swedish social democracy. While other...

In this eloquently argued work Carys Moseley provides an original angle of criticism on the issue of nationhood and Christianity, asserting that Christianity must relate to nationhood as the nation structure is part of God's plan for humanity. The book...

The current economic crisis stems from a deeper crisis of cultural imagination and civilisational ethics: here is the starting point of this collection of essays which draw a new political economy facing the crisis of Western civilization. This book...

Faith in the Voting Booth by National Association of Evangelicals leaders Leith Anderson and Galen Carey will help you clarify your own positions in light of your faith before you enter the voting booth. Anderson and Carey show that biblical wisdom is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532653971Author Michael WelkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 676g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532618499Author Meg GorzyckiFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645567137Author Michael John SuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Hidden Road PublishingPublisher Hidden Road PublishingWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997893205Author Ronald BarksdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint TkohPublisher TkohWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674730427Author Ira V BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 626g

Drawing from research conducted in Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda, Christianity, Islam, and Liberal Democracy offers a deeper understanding on how Christian and Islamic faith communities affect the political attitudes of those who belong to them and, in...

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...

Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads explores the development of ideas of morally justified or legitimate war in Western and Islamic civilizations. Historically, these ideas have been grouped under three labels: just war, holy war, and jihad. A large body of...

An eminent religious leader and political activist considers the future of religious freedom throughout the world Father Robert F. Drinan-priest, scholar, lawyer, politician, activist, and ethicist-has spent his life working to strengthen human rights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974744Author Steven WaldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Random House TradeWeight(grams) 132g

The 1960 presidential election, won ultimately by John F. Kennedy, was one of the closest and most contentious in American history. The country had never elected a Roman Catholic president, and the last time a Catholic had been nominated-New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978526436Author Christopher NAFormat PaperbackPage Count 556Imprint Worldwide United PublishingPublisher Worldwide United PublishingWeight(grams) 808g

Tracing the religious history of Siler City, North Carolina, Chad E. Seales argues that southern whites cultivated their own regional brand of American secularism and employed it, alongside public religious performances, to claim and regulate public...

A collection of essays by noted Catholic scholars on how Catholics should participate in the political process.Book InformationISBN 9780809147670Author Nicholas P. CafardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Paulist Press International,U.S.Publisher...

The Sacred is the Profane collects nine essays written over several years by William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon, specialists in two very different areas of the field (one, a scholar of Christian origins and the other working on the history of the...

This fascinating study examines America's complex and confusing history of arguing with itself over religion and secularism, God and politics, church and state. Hundreds of books are devoted to the ever-timely subject of the separation of church and...

This title is a collection of essays from top scholars in the field of Religion and Ecology that stimulates the debate about the religious contribution to ecological debate. This collection of essays brings to the surface vital dimensions in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307729682Author Dr D James KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814644676Author Steven P. MilliesFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Liturgical PressPublisher Liturgical PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313247545Author William A. AuFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO