Religion, Politics & State

A major reassessment of England's break with Rome Henry VIII's reformation remains among the most crucial yet misunderstood events in English history. In this substantial new account G. W. Bernard presents the king as neither confused nor a pawn in the...

As hostilities in Iraq continue to dominate the media, and the US-led coalition's approach to the war and the reconstruction of Iraq increasingly in question, Andrew White's is the voice of authority, always realistic but never without hope. But where is...

Drawing on a collection of lectures that Tom Wright delivered from 1999 to 2015, God in Public brings together the message of Jesus - in its larger biblical context - and the challenges of the contemporary public and political worlds. Those new to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998182971Author Reno OmokriFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint RevmediaPublisher RevmediaWeight(grams) 263g

A complete history of Islamic political thought from early Islam (c.622-661) to the present. This comprehensive overview describes and interprets all schools of Islamic political thought, their origins, inter-connections and meaning. It examines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474454001Author Louis A FishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Most of us think God is not concerned with what we eat, but the Bible actually offers great insight and instruction about the effects of food on our bodies. Dr. Colbert introduces an antiinflammatory form of the modified Mediterranean diet that resolves...

Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world-many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom-why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? These questions may...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060580964Author Michael BurleighFormat PaperbackPage Count 557Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 481g

In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genocide. More than seven hundred thousand civilians fled to Bangladesh in what became the most concentrated flight of...

A fresh assessment of Catholic integralism and other new and radical religious alternatives to liberal democracy. According to a common narrative, the twentieth century spelled the end of faith-infused political movements. Their ideologies, like...

Friendship-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...

The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland. Based on ethnographic research collected before, during, and after the Scottish independence referendum, Joseph Webster details how Scotland's...

In April 2008, state police and child protection authorities raided Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, a community of 800 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist branch of the Mormons. State...

Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism. The book's essays use the concept as an animating principle within a variety of sites across Lebanon and its diasporas and over a range of historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996409582Author Michael LakeFormat PaperbackImprint DefenderPublisher DefenderWeight(grams) 408g

Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for social justice issues surrounding life and death--such as war, gun ownership, the death penalty, racial injustice, abortion, poverty, and the...

Liberal societies conventionally treat religion as unique under the law, requiring both special protection (as in guarantees of free worship) and special containment (to keep religion and the state separate). But recently this idea that religion requires...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179024Author Mark LillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

"I believe that the Bible speaks not merely to personal, family, and church issues, but to national, community, and governmental issues if we would take the time to listen." -James L. Garlow Conservative Christians admit that they do not speak out on...

Bad Queen Bess? analyses the back and forth between the Elizabethan regime and various Catholic critics, who, from the early 1570s to the early 1590s, sought to characterise that regime as a conspiracy of evil counsel. Through a genre novel - the...

Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the post mortem continuity of monarch and monarchy,...

Western civilization's genius is in its synthesis of reason and faith. These foundations are under assault today from Islamists and radical secularists. Unless Western society recovers its confidence in this synthesis and its capacity to magnify human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061718960Author Simone WeilFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506472652Author Rodney ClappFormat HardbackPage Count 233Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

This is an upper-level introduction to Political Theology. There is an increasingly intense interest in political theology amongst contemporary scholars and students. Yet, while there are many authors engaging in political theology, there are very few...

In this compelling account of the origins and evolution of our secular worldview, Theo Hobson shows how Christian values continue to underpin our public morality, how faith remains indispensable to Western humanism, and how atheistic humanism represents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211740Author Ruth R. WisseFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732451100Author Anne Marie WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Something or Other Publishing LLCPublisher Something or Other Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501174292Author Kamal SaleemFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Howard BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

Khaled Abou El Fadl is a classically-trained Islamic jurist, an American lawyer and law professor, and one of the most important Islamic thinkers today. In this updated and expanded edition of The Search for Beauty in Islam, Abou El Fadl offers...

An 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805077766Author Susan JacobyFormat PaperbackPage Count 417Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

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...

Available now for the first time in English, the most important work of one of the great moderate political leaders of the Muslim world Rached Ghannouchi has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker. In Public Freedoms in the Islamic...

Written by a leading authority on Baptist life and thought, this inclusive survey traces the development of the Baptist tradition in North America over the past 400 years. Shows how from a handful of churches on the Atlantic Coast, the Baptist movement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592449231Author Karl BarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm)...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the theological challenge presented by the new post-Brexit epoch. The referendum vote for Britain to leave the European Union has led to a seismic shift in the ways in which parts of the British population...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506494968Author Walter BrueggemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Across Britain, Muslims are caught up in a battle over the very nature of their faith. And extremists appear to be gaining the upper hand. Sara Khan has spent the past decade campaigning for tolerance and equal rights within Muslim communities, and is...