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Formed From This Soil: An Introduction to the Diverse History of Religion in America by Thomas S. Bremer 9781405189262
£48.90Formed from This Soil offers a complete history of religion in America that centers on the diversity of sacred traditions and practices that have existed in the country from its earliest days. * Organized chronologically starting with the earliest... -
Politics, Religion, and the Common Good: Advancing a Distinctly American Conversation About Religion's Role in Our Shared Life by Martin E. Marty 9781118554401
RRP: £20.99£15.56The future of America, in many ways, depends upon an understanding of the proper role of religion in our shared life as a republic. Discussions and debates on the topic have too often generated noise, platitudes, stereotypes, name-calling, and the... -
The Catholic Voter in American Politics: The Passing of the Democratic Monolith by Mary E. Prendergast 9780878407248
£55.17Once a keystone of the Democratic Party, American Catholics are today helping to put Republicans in office. This book traces changes in party allegiance and voting behavior of Catholics in national elections over the course of 150 years and explains why... -
Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma for Democracy by Ronald F. Thiemann 9780878406104
RRP: £48.00£42.41Prayer in public schools, abortion, gay and lesbian rights - these bitterly divisive issues dominate American politics today, revealing deep disagreements over basic moral values. In a highly readable account that draws on legal arguments, political... -
The Christian Right in American Politics: Marching to the Millennium by John Clifford Green 9780878403929
RRP: £48.00£42.41From the first rumblings of the Moral Majority over twenty years ago, the Christian Right has been marshalling its forces and maneuvering its troops in an effort to re-shape the landscape of American politics. It has fascinated social scientists and... -
Imputed Rights by Robert V. Andelson 9780856832789
RRP: £19.95£17.80One outcome of the Second World War, Dawsey writes in his foreword, was the proposition that all human beings should enjoy certain fundamental freedoms. These were enshrined by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 in the Universal Declaration of... -
Religion, Protest, and Social Upheaval by Matthew T. Eggemeier 9780823299768
RRP: £81.00£70.41Represents some of the best, cutting edge thinking available on multiple forms of social upheaval and related grassroots movements. From the January 2017 Women's March to the August 2017 events in Charlottesville and the 2020 protests for racial justice... -
Religion, Protest, and Social Upheaval by Matthew T. Eggemeier 9780823299751
RRP: £21.99£19.19Represents some of the best, cutting edge thinking available on multiple forms of social upheaval and related grassroots movements. From the January 2017 Women's March to the August 2017 events in Charlottesville and the 2020 protests for racial justice... -
Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era by John P. Bartkowski 9780814799024
RRP: £25.99£22.49Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America's welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic... -
Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era by John P. Bartkowski 9780814799017
£89.88Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America's welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic... -
Our Non-Christian Nation: How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life by Jay Wexler 9780804798990
RRP: £21.99£16.60Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all. These non-Christians have increasingly been demanding their full participation in public life, bringing their... -
Religion and Sexuality: Diversity and the Limits of Tolerance by Pamela Dickey-Young 9780774828697
RRP: £89.00£77.22This volume will be of interest to general readers following the ongoing clashes between sex and religion, as well as students and scholars of religion, sexuality, sociology, women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, and cultural studies.Book... -
Secular States and Religious Diversity by Bruce J. Berman 9780774825139
RRP: £34.00£29.89Contemporary nation-states have seen the rise of religious pluralism within their borders, brought about by global migration and the challenge of radical religious movements. Secular States and Religious Diversity explores the meaning of secularism and... -
God Willing?: Political Fundamentalism in the White House, the 'War on Terror' and the Echoing Press by David Domke 9780745323053
RRP: £24.99£16.38The political fundamentalism, offered up by the Bush administration after 9/11, capitalised upon the fear felt by many Americans. In essence, it is a conservative-religious ideology, but via strategic communication choices, it was transformed into a... -
More Moral than God: Taking Responsibility for Religious Violence by Charlene Burns 9780742558687
RRP: £87.00£76.23In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy recent political and religious conflicts, attention to religious violence has increased exponentially. Although violence in the name of religion has been around for centuries, there is increasing need to examine the roots... -
Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence across Time and Tradition by James K. Wellman 9780742558243
RRP: £40.00£35.22Intended for students as well as scholars of religion and violence, Belief and Bloodshed discusses how the relationship between religion and violence is not unique to a post-9/11 world_it has existed throughout all of recorded history and culture. The... -
God and the Constitution: Christianity and American Politics by Paul Marshall 9780742522480
RRP: £25.00£18.54Is there room for religion in politics? In this insightfully written book, Paul Marshall argues that Christians can and should approach politics in a way informed by faith. Drawing on traditions of both Catholic and Protestant political thought,... -
Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights by Allen D. Hertzke 9780742508040
RRP: £25.00£21.09With the dawning of the 21st Century a new human rights movement burst unexpectedly onto the global stage. Initially motivated by concern for persecuted Christians around the world, unlikely alliances emerged, and the movement grew to encompass a broader... -
Religion and Regimes: Support, Separation, and Opposition by Ted G. Jelen 9780739176108
RRP: £119.00£108.77This work is a collection of essays that describe and analyze religion and regime relations in various nations in the contemporary world. The contributors examine patterns of interaction between religious actors and national governments that include... -
Faith on Trial: Communities of Faith, the First Amendment, and the Theory of Deep Diversity by David E. Guinn 9780739104347
RRP: £90.00£78.81American Supreme Court jurisprudence in the area of religious freedom has been, for the most part, predicated upon a form of liberal theory commonly known as 'procedural liberalism.' Faith on Trial explains how the Court's reliance on this theoretical... -
Religion and Politics in Burma by Donald Eugene Smith 9780691624242
RRP: £48.00£37.60The interaction of Buddhism and politics in the Theravada Buddhist countries since their independence is considered. Burmese attempts to relate Buddhism to the ideologies of nationalism, democracy, and socialism are analyzed. Originally published in... -
Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy by Anna Grzymala-Busse 9780691164755
RRP: £95.00£74.51In some religious countries, churches have drafted constitutions, restricted abortion, and controlled education. In others, church influence on public policy is far weaker. Why? Nations under God argues that where religious and national identities have... -
Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War by Jonathan H. Ebel 9780691162188
RRP: £22.00£17.36Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War. Recovering the thoughts and experiences of American troops, nurses, and aid workers through their letters, diaries, and memoirs, Jonathan Ebel describes how... -
Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature by Tracy Fessenden 9780691049632
RRP: £58.00£45.58Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy... -
Why I Am a Liberal: A Manifesto for Indians Who Believe in Individual Freedom by Sagarika Ghose 9780670088973
RRP: £24.99£18.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670088973Author Sagarika GhoseFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Religion and Broken Solidarities: Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism by Atalia Omer 9780268203856
RRP: £90.00£78.08The contributors to this original volume provide a new and nuanced approach to studying how discourses of religion shape public domains in sites of political contestation and "broken solidarities." Our public discourse is saturated with... -
Human Nature and the Freedom of Public Religious Expression by Stephen G. Post 9780268038274
RRP: £90.00£78.08Drawing on current research in science and religion, distinguished bioethicist Stephen G. Post provocatively argues that human beings are, by nature, inclined toward a presence in the universe that is higher than their own. In consequence, the... -
At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd 9780231198998
RRP: £30.00£23.29From right to left, notions of religion and religious freedom are fundamental to how many Americans have understood their country and themselves. Ideas of religion, politics, and the interplay between them are no less crucial to how the United States has... -
Sino-Vatican Relations: From Denunciation to Dialogue by Ambrose Mong 9780227177020
£77.21For 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... -
Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy by Usaama Al-Azami 9780197613610
£72.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197613610Author Usaama Al-AzamiFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics by Thomas Banchoff 9780195323405
£104.67Religious pluralism is everywhere in today's politics. Increased immigration flows, the collapse of communism, and the globalization of communications technologies have all fostered a wider variety of religious beliefs, practices, and organizations... -
Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism by Thomas Banchoff 9780195307221
£104.67Religious pluralism is everywhere in today's politics. Increased immigration flows, the collapse of communism, and the globalization of communications technologies have all fostered a wider variety of religious beliefs, practices, and organizations... -
Religion, Politics & Law by Peter Lodberg 9788779344259
RRP: £19.95£11.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779344259Author Peter LodbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Walking With God in a Fragile World by James R. Langford 9780742514508
RRP: £16.99£14.18This is a book of genuine wisdom, one that invites readers not to go back to the way things were before September 11, but to see how they might try to walk with God in a world that now seems more shattered than before. In these essays written expressly... -
God and Government: Twenty-Five Years of Fighting for Equality, Secularism, and Freedom Of Conscience by Barry W. Lynn 9781633880245
RRP: £14.99£13.16A central player in every major church-state-separation battle for decades, the Rev. Barry W. Lynn understands the complexities of this divisive issue like few others. As a long-time activist, a civil rights lawyer, and an ordained minister in the United... -
From Pews to Polling Places: Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic by J. Matthew Wilson 9781589011731
£90.82Does religion promote political mobilization? Are individuals motivated by their faith to focus on issues of social justice, personal morality, or both? What is the relationship between religious conviction and partisanship? And does religious identity... -
Religion and Public Life in the Middle Atlantic Region: Fount of Diversity by Randall Balmer 9780759106369
£94.65The Middle Atlantic region's religious diversity began in the 17th century and continues today. European religious minorities recognized the need to tolerate other faiths if they themselves were to be tolerated. From Quaker Pennsylvania to English... -
Religion and Public Life in the Midwest: America's Common Denominator? by Philip Barlow 9780759106314
£46.10Not just in the middle geographically, the Midwest represents the American average in terms of beliefs, attitudes, and values. The region's religious portrait matches the national religious portrait more closely than any other region. But far from making... -
The Origins of Christian Anti-Internationalism: Conservative Evangelicals and the League of Nations by Markku Ruotsila 9781589011915
£54.48The roots of conservative Christian skepticism of international politics run deep. In this original work, Markku Ruotsila artfully unearths the historical and theological origins of evangelical Christian thought on modern-day international organizations... -
Uncompromising Positions: God, Sex, and the U.S. House of Representatives by Elizabeth Anne Oldmixon 9781589010727
£91.74Cultural factions are an intrinsic part of the fabric of American politics. But does this mean that there is no room for compromise when groups hold radically different viewpoints on major issues? Not necessarily. For example, in a June 2003 Time/CNN...