Religion, Politics & State

In these firsthand accounts of the early church, the spirit of Pentecost burns with prophetic force through the fog enveloping the modern church. A clear and vibrant faith lives on in these writings, providing a guide for Christians today. Its stark...

'A valuable study, with rich insights' - Noam Chomsky Under Narendra Modi, India has changed dramatically. As the world attempts to grapple with its trajectory towards authoritarianism and a 'Hindu Rashtra' (Hindu State), little attention has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999189412Author Robert L MaginnisFormat PaperbackImprint DefenderPublisher DefenderWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 23mm

Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective sometimes feels impossible? If so, you're not alone, and it doesn't have to be this way. Learning to Disagree reveals the surprising path to learning how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993560729Author John Wilson FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Belcouver PressPublisher Belcouver PressWeight(grams) 551g

A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state "In gripping, vivid prose, Caiani brings to life the struggle for power that would shape modern Europe. It all makes for a...

Personal letters and diaries provide an intimate view into the hearts and minds of a brother and sister who became martyrs in the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II.Idealistic, serious, and sensible, Hans and Sophie Scholl joined the Hitler Youth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578073903Author Rebecca BynumFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint World Encounter Institute/New English Review PressPublisher World Encounter...

Soldier Magazine's Book of the MonthFascinating... Incredibly dangerous. The TimesGripping. Adrenalin fuelled true-life account with all the makings of a military thriller. The action unfolds like a Le Carre novel. Soldier Magazine'If there are young...

For most of us, learning abstract philosophical concepts involves literally learning a new language, a language that the initiated converse in with ease but which leaves the rest of us baffled. The SCM Studyguide to Philosophy and Christian Faith aims to...

A vivid exploration of the many ways the classical world remains relevant today, this is a passionate justification of why we continue to read about and study the lives and works of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Challenging the way the phrase 'That's...

In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental messianic texts of the West." He argues that Paul's letters are concerned not with the...

Winner of the Albert Hourani Book AwardSufis created the most extensive Muslim revivalist network in Asia before the twentieth century, generating a vibrant Persianate literary, intellectual, and spiritual culture while tying together a politically...

A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.In 2010,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955890236Author John StricklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Ancient Faith PublishingPublisher Ancient Faith PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861715589Author David R. LoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Learning how to live in today's new social and cultural environment will require examination, trial and error, and adaptation over time. But there are ways to live with integrity and follow Christ today, even in a negative world.From a peak in church...

Satish Kumar and his friend EP Menon embarked on an 8,000-mile peace pilgrimage from India to Washington. When the philosopher Bertrand Russell was imprisoned for his anti-nuclear activities, it was a call to action for Satish Kumar. If a 90-year-old...

The career of the Revd Ian Paisley raises vital questions about the links between religion and politics in the modern world. Paisley is unique in having founded his own church and party and led both to success, so that he effectively has a veto over...

The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survivalMeir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane...

Retrieving Freedom is a provocative, big-picture book, taking a long view of the "rise and fall" of the classical understanding of freedom. In response to the evident shortcomings of the notion of freedom that dominates contemporary discourse,...

Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual answer is that Islam spread by the sword-that believers...

The Clapham Sect was a group of evangelical Christians, prominent in England from about 1790 to 1830, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and promoted missionary work at home and abroad. The group centred on the church of John Venn, rector of...

This book is a translation of Aziz al-Azmeh's seminal work Al-'Ilmaniya min mandhur mukhtalif that was first published in Beirut in 1992. Both celebrated and criticised for its reflections on Arab secularisation and secularism in the modern history of...

Pacifism is popular. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only we had the will to look for them. Or they believe that war is wicked, essentially involving hatred of the enemy and...

The failure of political institutions, including national governments and the United Nations, to mitigate climate change reflects the modern constitution of the nation-state as a cultural and secular, rather than created and providential, agency...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852420Author David T. KoyzisFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 462gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 153mm *...

The concluding volume of David McCullagh's new life of Eamon De Valera. In this, the concluding volume of David McCullagh's monumental new biography of the revolutionary and statesman, we join de Valera in 1932 as he takes the reins of power in the...

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...

An urgent and necessary polemic on the government's assault on our fundamental freedoms and the proliferation of Human Rights. From 42 days detention to ASBOs, as citizens of modern Britain we are seeing some of our fundamental freedoms being...

For most of his ministry Canon Andrew White has been involved in reconciliation. 'The kind of people I engage with are not usually very nice,' he writes. 'On the whole, nice people do not cause wars.' In Baghdad he lives daily with violence, and has...

Since the 1979 revolution, scholars and policy makers alike have tended to see Iranian political actors as religiously driven-dedicated to overturning the international order in line with a theologically prescribed outlook. This provocative book argues...

In the beginning of American history, the Word was in Spanish, Latin, and native languages like Nahuatal. But while Spanish and Catholic Christianity reached the New World in 1492, it was only with the coming of the Mayflower that English-language Bibles...

Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's powerful exploration of the fraught ways in which money, race and power shape the story of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310144854Author Jemar TisbyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint ZondervanPublisher Zondervan

From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. Typically they reacted to it with fear and distrust; and such feelings were reinforced by the...

New York Times Notable Books of 2018 Financial Times Book of the Year Award-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid presents reportage of unprecedented scope in this engaging, character-driven investigation that exposes the secret dealings that armed and...

Why we need a materialist spirituality for the secular left, and how to build one. The left commonly rejects religion and spirituality as counter-revolutionary forces, citing Marx's famous dictum that "religion is the opium of the people." Yet forms...

What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church state should be? And how did this thinking evolve? Based on the author's published essays, revised and updated with a new overarching introduction, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061497261Author Walter RauschenbuschFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperSanFranciscoPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 316g