Religion, Politics & State

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591859888Author Reza SafaFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Creation HousePublisher Creation House

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This work focuses on the state of American law with respect to a broad range of controversial issues affecting religious expression, both verbal and nonverbal, along with a review of the up-to-date history of each issue to provide a full understanding...

Gandhi in a Canadian Context examines a range of intriguing and under-studied connections between India's greatest nationalist leader, Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), and facets of life in Canada, including Gandhi's interest in and contact with Canada and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307718105Author Kevin Seamus HassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472055159Author Simone RaudinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817320843Author Stephanie A MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint University Alabama PressPublisher University Alabama PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506479439Author Cyril OrjiFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143442431Author Sharat PradhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 129g

The 2010s saw an introduction of legislative acts about religion, sexuality, and culture in Russia, which caused an uproar of protests. They politicised areas of life commonly perceived as private and expected to be free of the state's control. As a...

Trumping Religion provides a detailed analysis of the five major public-interest law firms that have litigated religion cases in the federal courts between 1980 and 2000. Allied with several highly vocal, evangelical ministries, such as those of Jerry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197515884Author Ulrike Elisabeth StockhausenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

In this highly provocative investigation, C. John Sommerville examines common linguistic uses of the terms "religion," "religious," "spiritual," and "secular" in order to discern understandings of these words in...

Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular. Yet recent scholarship has called into question the simplistic narrative of a separation between law...

In the great tradition of moral argument about the nature of the economic market, Rebecca Blank and William McGurn join to debate the fundamental questions -equality and efficiency, productivity and social justice, individual achievement and personal...

How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently, this question has acquired new urgency, and in Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Persia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838213781Author Lincoln FlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem Press

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What makes religion so powerful? Why does it attract so many followers? Raise so much money? Influence how people vote? The usual answer is that religion is powerful because it offers divine hope. But there is more to it than that. Why does a worship...

This work assembles the best of Todd's (available) speeches and provides an analysis of their rhetorical and political significance. Sir Garfield Todd's (1908-2002) lifelong support of African rights earned him initial political success, subsequent...

By "the fear of freedom" Greer means the unconscious flight from the heavy burden of individual choice an open society lays upon its members. The miraculous represents a heavenly power brought down to earth and tied to the life of the community...

Pulpit and Politics presents the most current and comprehensive examination of the religious beliefs and political behavior of American clergy at the advent of the new millennium. Based on data gathered during the 2000 Presidential election, this study...

Starting in the 1530s with John Bale, English reformers found in the apocalyptic mysteries of the Book of Revelation a framework for reinterpreting the history of Christianity and explaining the break from the Roman Catholic Church. Identifying the...

American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with social action, but their work overseas is often ambivalently received. Even among East African Christians who share missionaries' religious beliefs, understandings...

Writing in response to our current "constitutional crisis," New York Times bestselling author and Christian activist Jim Wallis urges America to return to the tenets of Jesus once again as the means to save us from the polarizing bitterness and anger of...

The Church of England finds itself colliding with society at large on regular occasion. Has the time come, therefore, where the advantages of being the established church are at last outweighed by the disadvantages? Is there a case for disestablishment,...

A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authorities draw on to claim or reclaim legitimacy and control. Peace-making can be a violent, arbitrary...

Demonstrates definitively that the secularization thesis is correct, and religion is losing its grip on societies worldwide In the decades since its introduction, secularization theory has been subjected to doubt and criticism from a number of leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830844692Author Spck TbcFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 280gDimensions(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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982122867Author Robert P JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

In this timely and hopeful book, Jim Wallis shows how left and right, religious and non-religious, Christians and those of other faiths may find common ground working for the benefit of our communities, our neighbours, and our world. As Wallis writes,...

The referendum may have rent the country asunder like no other issue in recent memory, but there are significant resonances with events in the past. Almost 500 years ago, in a sixteenth-century version of Article 50, Britain made a break from Europe,...

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,...

Teresa Forcades, Spanish Benedictine nun, theologian, physician and political activist, is one of Europe's leading radical thinkers. Marrying her Catholic faith with a passion for social justice, she came to prominence for her eloquent condemnation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621384847Author Thaddeus KozinskiFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

2021 Book Award Winner, The Gospel Coalition (Public Theology & Current Events) Southwestern Journal of Theology 2021 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Baptist Studies) Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in...

What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Rather than examine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514005378Author Os GuinnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Christian Giudice's Occult Imperium explores Italian national forms of Occultism, chiefly analyzing Arturo Reghini (1878-1946), his copious writings, and Roman Traditionalism. Trained as a mathematician at the prestigious University of Pisa, Reghini was...