Religion, Politics & State

A political theorist teases out the century-old ideological transformation at the heart of contemporary discourse in Muslim nations undergoing political change.The Arab Spring precipitated a crisis in political Islam. In Egypt Islamists have been crushed...

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...

_______'Timely and troubling' Evening Standard'A necessary book' David Aaronovitch'Frequently jaw-dropping' Huffington PostFrom UFOs to the New World Order, the inside story of how conspiracy theories won over America.In November 2017, a serial climate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514003640Author Craig G. BartholomewFormat PaperbackPage Count 379Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 570gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

For more than a millennium, beginning in the early Middle Ages, most Western Christians lived in societies that sought to be comprehensively Christian--ecclesiastically, economically, legally, and politically. That is to say, most Western Christians...

Jim Wallis' major new book is a scathing indictment of the way that conservative evangelicals in the US have self-righteously attempted to co-opt any discussion of religion and politics. And, while the Right argues that God's way is their way, the Left...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385471909Author Antonia FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

How should Christians be faithful disciples in the political turbulence of Trump and Brexit? Christopher J H Wright unpacks the Biblical theme of idolatry and connects it to discipleship in today's world. As Christians, we desperately need to name and...

Abolition can be a spiritual practice, a spiritual journey, and a spiritual commitment. What does abolition mean and how can we get there as a collective and improvisational project?To posit the spirituality of abolition, is to consider the ways...

Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it? In the...

Surveys over the last twenty years have seen an ever-growing number of Americans disclaim religious affiliations and instead check the "none" box. In the first sociological exploration of organized secularism in America, Richard Cimino and Christopher...

Wu Zhao (624-705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she-in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society-ascend the dragon throne?...

The Apostates is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context. Drawing on life-history interviews with ex-Muslims from the UK and Canada, Simon Cottee explores how and with what consequences Muslims leave Islam and become...

"Heartfelt, incisive, and worthy of thoughtful consideration."--Library Journal "A fascinating investigation of politics and racism in American Christian evangelicalism."--Foreword Reviews "An important book with an important message."--Englewood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353570057Author Ather ZiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735221178Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250112644Author Fellow William McCantsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593311097Author Benjamin M. FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882641423Author Richard WurmbrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Voice of the Martyrs BooksPublisher Voice of the Martyrs BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528970525Author John FlemingFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

30 January 1972, the day that became known as Bloody Sunday, is remembered as one of the darkest and bloodiest events of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Thirteen people were killed when members of the British Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on...

Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans...

This book brings together leading historians of Catholicism and other notable historians of early modern English society in order to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography, and to ask readers to suspend their assumptions and...

This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514004135Author Hannah NationFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 162mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802870728Author Walter BrueggemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922810090Author Kevin DonnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wilkinson PublishingPublisher Wilkinson Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506482163Author Bradley OnishiFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller!An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in...

Christianity is often assumed to be pro-capitalist and socially conservative - in short, necessarily aligned with the political Right. But can this be straightforwardly true of a religion founded by a figure who drew his early followers from among the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684515349Author Paul BegleyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Salem BooksPublisher Salem BooksWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807057407Author Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

The biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is a cornerstone of Western civilization, yet there are still many mysteries concerning its origins and meaning. In The Mythology of Eden, Arthur and Elena George utilize new historical and...

After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid. Peace efforts have failed because of one, inconvenient truth: the Israeli maximum on offer does not meet...

'Send Back the Money!' is a thorough and gripping examination of a fascinating and forgotten aspect of Scottish and American relations and Church history. A seminal period of Abolition activity is exposed by Iain Whyte through a study of the fiery 'Send...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626983687Author Massimo FaggioliFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)