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Religion and Regimes: Support, Separation, and Opposition by Ted G. Jelen 9780739176108
RRP: $153.51$140.31This 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: $116.10$101.66American 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: $61.92$48.50The 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: $122.55$96.12In 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: $28.38$22.39Faith 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: $74.82$58.80Many 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: $32.24$24.02Apologies 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: $107.07$93.02The 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: $107.07$93.02Drawing 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: $38.70$30.04From 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
$99.60For 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
$93.06Apologies 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
$87.26Religious 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
$87.26Religious 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: $25.74$15.12Apologies 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: $21.92$18.29This 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: $19.34$16.98A 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
$117.16Does 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
$122.10The 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
$59.47Not 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
$70.28The 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
$118.34Cultural 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... -
Islamist Movements During the Tunisian Transition and Syrian Crisis: The Power of Practices by Teije H Donker 9781399506182
RRP: $109.65$99.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399506182Author Teije H DonkerFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All--and What We Can Do about It by Sean Faircloth 9780984493258
RRP: $18.00$12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984493258Author Sean FairclothFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Pitchstone LLCPublisher Pitchstone LLCWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm... -
The First Liberty: America's Foundation in Religious Freedom, Expanded and Updated by William Lee Miller 9780878408993
$38.49At a time when the concept of religion-based politics has taken on new and sometimes ominous tones-even within the United States-it is not only right, but also urgently necessary that William Lee Miller revisit his profound exploration of the place of... -
The American Search for Peace: Moral Reasoning, Religious Hope, and National Security by George S. Weigel 9780878405190
RRP: $61.92$54.71Revolutions and aborted revolutions and bitter civil and "local" wars in the 1980s and since have raised new questions about national security, its definition, and its implementation. Nevertheless, a number of basic philosophical and political... -
Imputed Rights by Robert V. Andelson 9780856832727
RRP: $23.16$15.39Thoughtful and informative, this essay is an analysis of the basis and nature of human rights. Arguing that human rights is an issue that is often invoked but seldom intelligently considered, this record examines concrete, immediate, moral, and social... -
Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive: And the Truth That Sets Us Free by Jonathan P. Walton 9780830845583
RRP: $18.05$14.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830845583Author Jonathan P. WaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint IVP BooksPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 272g -
Writing of the Formless: Jose Lezama Lima and the End of Time by Jaime Rodriguez Matos 9780823274079
RRP: $114.81$99.61In this book, Jaime Rodriguez Matos proposes the "formless" as a point of departure in thinking through the relationship between politics and time. Thinking through both literary and political writings around the Cuban Revolution, Rodriguez... -
The Invisible Caring Hand: American Congregations and the Provision of Welfare by Ram A. Cnaan 9780814716182
RRP: $32.24$27.95Popular calls to transform our current welfare system and supplant it with effective and inexpensive faith-based providers are gaining political support and engendering heated debate about the separation of church and state. Yet we lack concrete... -
The Invisible Caring Hand: American Congregations and the Provision of Welfare by Ram A. Cnaan 9780814716175
$116.46Popular calls to transform our current welfare system and supplant it with effective and inexpensive faith-based providers are gaining political support and engendering heated debate about the separation of church and state. Yet we lack concrete... -
A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left by David C. Kirkpatrick 9780812250947
RRP: $64.50$56.00In 1974, the International Congress on World Evangelization met in Lausanne, Switzerland. Gathering together nearly 2,500 Protestant evangelical leaders from more than 150 countries and 135 denominations, it rivaled Vatican II in terms of its influence... -
A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America by Stephen Prothero 9780807857700
RRP: $48.96$43.85The United States has long been described as a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of religions in which Muslims and Methodists, Buddhists and Baptists live and work side by side. This book explores that nation of religions, focusing on how... -
Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada by Richard John Moon 9780774814973
RRP: $112.23$97.95Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada will appeal to lawyers, legal academics, political scientists, religious studies scholars, and anyone interested in the issue of religion in the public sphere.Book InformationISBN 9780774814973Author Richard John... -
Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence across Time and Tradition by James K. Wellman 9780742558236
RRP: $139.32$121.66Intended 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... -
Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach by Samuel Cruz 9780739176757
RRP: $118.68$103.88Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach offers an introduction to the broad diversity of contemporary Christianities in a rich, complex, changing, and challenging city context. Cruz focuses upon a variety of changing communities... -
Participation, Representation and Global Civil Society: Christian and Islamic Fundamentalist Anti-Abortion Networks and United Nations Conferences by Jane W. Muthumbi 9780739144619
RRP: $112.23$98.34This book focuses on religious fundamentalists' mobilization efforts against abortion in three United Nations Conferences. Using U.S. Christian and Egyptian Islamic fundamentalist groups as empirical cases, this account highlights these groups' efforts... -
Political Symbols in Russian History: Church, State, and the Quest for Order and Justice by Lee Trepanier 9780739117880
RRP: $123.84$108.33Political Symbols in Russian History is one of the few works that presents an analytical and comprehensive account of Russian history and politics between the years of 988 to 2005. From Kievan Rus to Putin's Russia, this book traces the development,... -
Becoming Religious in a Secular Age by Mark Elmore 9780520290549
RRP: $32.25$25.27Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered its religion only after India became an independent secular state. Based on extensive... -
American Religion, American Politics: An Anthology by Joseph Kip Kosek 9780300203516
$38.84Essential primary sources reveal the central tensions between American politics and religion throughout the nation's history Despite the centrality of separation of church and state in American government, religion has played an important role in the...