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Catholics and Politics: The Dynamic Tension Between Faith and Power by Kristin E. Heyer 9781589012158
RRP: £48.00£42.41Catholic political identity and engagement defy categorization. The complexities of political realities and the human nature of such institutions as church and government often produce a more fractured reality than the pure unity depicted in doctrine... -
From Pews to Polling Places: Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic by J. Matthew Wilson 9781589011724
RRP: £26.50£23.29Does 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? Does religious identity... -
Faith and Force: A Christian Debate about War by Dr. David L. Clough 9781589011656
RRP: £28.00£24.54"This book began in an argument between friends surprised to find themselves on opposite sides of the debate about whether the United States and the United Kingdom should invade Iraq in 2003. Situated on opposite sides of the Atlantic, in different... -
Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives by Amy E. Black 9781589010130
RRP: £48.00£42.41George W. Bush had planned to swear his oath of office with his hand on the Masonic Bible used by both his father and George Washington, however, due to the inclement weather, a family Bible was substituted. Almost immediately on taking office, President... -
School Board Battles: The Christian Right in Local Politics by Melissa M. Deckman 9781589010017
RRP: £48.00£42.41If there is a "culture war" taking place in the United States, one of the most interesting, if under-the-radar, battlegrounds is in local school board elections. Rarely does the pitch of this battle reach national attention, as it did in Kansas... -
One Faith No Longer: The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America by George Yancey 9781479808663
RRP: £80.00£69.56Irreconcilable differences drive the division between progressive and conservative Christians-is there a divorce coming? Much attention has been paid to political polarization in America, but far less to the growing schism between progressive and... -
Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging by Leerom Medovoi 9781478010784
RRP: £25.99£22.49Working in four scholarly teams focused on different global regions-North America, the European Union, the Middle East, and China-the contributors to Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging examine how new political worlds intersect with locally... -
The Production of American Religious Freedom by Finbarr Curtis 9781479882113
£89.88Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either "religion" or "freedom." Rather than resolve these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as religious freedom. Lacking any... -
The Crisis of Civil Law: What the Bible Teaches about Law and What It Means Today by Benjamin B Saunders 9781683597568
RRP: £19.99£15.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683597568Author Benjamin B SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Faithlife CorporationPublisher Faithlife Corporation -
Reparations and the Theological Disciplines: Prophetic Voices for Remembrance, Reckoning, and Repair by Michael Barram 9781666922462
RRP: £92.00£80.93What do the theological disciplines have to do with reparations? Historically, many churches and theologians defended and supported race-based slavery and subsequent forms of racial hierarchy and violence. While today many in our society see reparations... -
International Religious Freedom Act: Elements & Implementation Efforts by Don C. Hunter 9781626188969
RRP: £168.99£111.20Because of concerns about increasing restrictions on religious rights around the world, Congress passed the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (the Act) to strengthen U.S. advocacy of individuals persecuted in foreign countries on account of... -
Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire by SherAli Tareen 9780231210300
RRP: £117.00£90.93Friendship—particularly interreligious friendship—offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how did Muslim scholars grapple with the possibilities and dangers of Hindu-Muslim friendship? How did they... -
Faith, Hope, and Jobs: Welfare-to-Work in Los Angeles by Stephen V. Monsma 9781589011106
£54.24This title offers a front-burner issue on the public policy agenda today is the increased use of partnerships between government and nongovernmental entities, including faith-based social service organizations. In the wake of President Bush's faith-based... -
Prayers in the Precincts: The Christian Right in the 1998 Elections by John C. Green 9780878407750
£55.10In the wake of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, the Christian Right expected major victories in the 1998 elections. Instead, many of its allies lost close contests, and the movement was seen as a liability in some high-profile campaigns. In the only... -
Religion and Politics: Religious Liberty and Confronting New Ethical Challenges: What Is the Public Role of Faith in Today's Globalized World? by Samuele Sangalli 9788878393271
£27.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788878393271Author Samuele SangalliFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Gregorian & Biblical PressPublisher Gregorian & Biblical PressWeight(grams) 522g -
Essays on Religious and Political Experience by R. Feist 9789042932456
RRP: £57.00£55.20The precise nature and relationship between religious and political experiences has been the subject of much controversy and debate in recent years. It is well known that some religious experiences have been used to justify terrible... -
Two Men from Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar, Trump, and the Lord of History by Wallace Henley 9780785238768
£16.30What roles do King Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of ancient Babylon, and Donald J. Trump, 45th president of the United States, play in God furthering His kingdom? In Two Men from Babylon, Wallace Henley brings into perspective how God uses unlikely leaders to... -
Religion and Public Life in New England: Steady Habits Changing Slowly by Andrew Walsh 9780759106291
£34.28Although stoical New Englanders may not be showy about it, religion continues to play a powerful role in their culture. In fact, their very reticence to discuss religion may stem from long-standing religious divisions in the region. Beginning in the... -
Policies and Politics of Teaching Religion by Theodor Hanf 9783848709403
RRP: £59.00£44.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848709403Author Theodor HanfFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 444g -
No Separation: Christians, Secular Democracy, and Sex by Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey 9780231163453
RRP: £30.00£23.29Through a potent mix of authoritarianism, heterosexism, xenophobia, and ethnoracial nationalism, powerful illiberal Christian movements have upended liberal democracies in countries that were once seen as paradigms of secular governance. Ludger H... -
No Separation: Christians, Secular Democracy, and Sex by Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey 9780231163446
RRP: £117.00£90.93Through a potent mix of authoritarianism, heterosexism, xenophobia, and ethnoracial nationalism, powerful illiberal Christian movements have upended liberal democracies in countries that were once seen as paradigms of secular governance. Ludger H... -
Unity in Faith?: Edinoverie, Russian Orthodoxy, and Old Belief, 1800–1918 by James White 9780253049704
RRP: £67.00£57.77Established in 1800, edinoverie (translated as "unity in faith") was intended to draw back those who had broken with the Russian Orthodox Church over ritual reforms in the 17th century. Called Old Believers, they had been persecuted as heretics. In time,... -
Religion in the New Europe by Krzysztof Michalski 9789637326493
RRP: £47.00£43.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789637326493Author Krzysztof MichalskiFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint International Debate Education AssociationPublisher International Debate... -
The Political Theology of Paul Tillich by Rachel Sophia Baard 9781793608895
RRP: £88.00£77.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793608895Author Rachel Sophia BaardFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
Seeing and Believing: Religion, Digital Visual Culture, and Social Justice by Ellen T. Armour 9780231209045
RRP: £109.00£84.81Social media platforms are often denounced as “bubbles” or “echo chambers.” In this view, what we see tends to reinforce what we already believe, and what we already believe shapes what we see. Yet social movements such as Black Lives Matter rely heavily... -
Capitalist Humanitarianism by Lucia Hulsether 9781478016564
RRP: £90.00£78.08The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades---to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the Left's critiques but incorporated them for capitalist expansion. Venture funds expose their ties to... -
The Politics of Ritual by Molly Farneth 9780691198910
RRP: £84.00£65.69An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political livesThe Politics of Ritual is a major new account of the political power of rituals. In this incisive and wide-ranging book, Molly Farneth argues that rituals are social... -
Follow the New Way: American Refugee Resettlement Policy and Hmong Religious Change by Melissa May Borja 9780674989788
RRP: £37.95£30.51An 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... -
Catholicism and Contemporary Liberal Democracy: Forgotten Roots and Future Prospects by James Martin Carr 9780813235929
RRP: £75.00£63.64Catholicism and Liberal Democracy seeks to clarify if there is a place for Catholicism in the public discourse of modern liberal democracy, bringing secular liberalism, as articulated by Jurgen Habermas, into conversation with the Catholic tradition. ... -
Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools: Rethinking the Role of Law by Dia Dabby 9780774862370
RRP: £81.00£70.41Canadian public schools have long been entrusted with socializing children. Yet this duty can rest uneasily alongside religious diversity questions. Grounding its analysis in three seminal Supreme Court cases, Religious Diversity in Canadian Public... -
When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends by Mark Juergensmeyer 9780520384729
RRP: £80.00£61.89A gripping study of how religiously motivated violence and militant movements end, from the perspectives of those most deeply involved. How does religious violence end? When God Stops Fighting probes for answers through case studies and personal... -
Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 by Felipe Hinojosa 9781479804511
RRP: £89.00£77.22Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community building Too often religious politics are considered peripheral to social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 seeks to correct this... -
Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 by Felipe Hinojosa 9781479804528
RRP: £33.00£29.05Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community building Too often religious politics are considered peripheral to social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 seeks to correct this... -
"My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole": Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scripture by Robin L. Owens 9781647122737
RRP: £40.00£35.53How Barbara Jordan used aacred and aecular acriptures in her social activism US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan is well-known as an interpreter and defender of the Constitution, particularly through her landmark speech during Richard Nixon's 1974... -
Religion and Broken Solidarities: Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism by Atalia Omer 9780268203863
RRP: £29.99£26.50The 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... -
The Languages of Religion: Exploring the Politics of the Sacred by Sipra Mukherjee 9780415316040
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book analyses the power that religion wields upon the minds of individuals and communities and explores the predominance of language in the actual practice of religion. Through an investigation of the diverse forms of religious language available -... -
Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya by Megan Adamson Sijapati 9780367868833
RRP: £39.99£35.06Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya. Increased economic and cultural flows, growth in tourism, and new forms of governance and media, however, have brought significant changes to the religious... -
Religion and Politics Under Capitalism: A Humanistic Approach to the Terminology by Stefan Arvidsson 9780367147884
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book relates some of the major trends within religion and politics to offer a historical framework with which to assess their interactions and a point of departure for studies to come. The study of the interrelationship between contemporary... -
Religion and Politics Under Capitalism: A Humanistic Approach to the Terminology by Stefan Arvidsson 9780367786533
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book relates some of the major trends within religion and politics to offer a historical framework with which to assess their interactions and a point of departure for studies to come. The study of the interrelationship between contemporary... -
Global Protestant Missions: Politics, Reform, and Communication, 1730s-1930s by Jenna M. Gibbs 9780367785765
RRP: £41.99£36.75The book investigates facets of global Protestantism through Anglican, Quaker, Episcopalian, Moravian, Lutheran Pietist, and Pentecostal missions to enslaved and indigenous peoples and political reform endeavours in a global purview that spans the 1730s...