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Islamic Exceptionalism
How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East. Divides...
Compassionate Conservatism
What It Is, What It Does, and How It Can Transform America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2000
Compassionate conservatism is a new political force in the land, sweeping the grassroots of people of all faiths, races, and ethnicities. In its parts it offers solutions to many of our most intractable problems; in its whole it is nothing less than an innovative philosophy of government. No author...
The Unraveling
Pakistan in the Age of Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a rogue's gallery of domestic jihadist and sectarian groups?
In this groundbreaking history of Pakistan's involvement with radical Islam,...
Cold Anger
A Story of Faith and Power Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1990
"Cold Anger is an important book about the empowerment of working-class communities through church-based social activism. Such activism is certainly not new, but the conscious merger of community organizing tactics with religious beliefs may be. The organizing approach comes from Aul Alinsky and his...
by Martin Capages Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Somewhere in the preceding generations, the direction of the United States of America has careened towards an unsustainable progressive interpretation of the Constitution that will lead to further bankruptcy of the Nation and threatens individual Freedom. The Government has set itself above the...
Economics as Religion
From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
In this study, Robert H. Nelson explores the genesis, the prophets, the prophesies, and the tenets of what he sees as a religion of economics that has come into full blossom in latter-day America. Nelson does not see "theology" as a bad word, and his examination of the theology underlying...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A brief preface talks about deception and folly, about when and when not to act. The first poem: An Oracle: is a dissertation on biblical prophecy and the current state of the world, or the current state of the world for the last two thousand years. It is complex and not easy to outline. The second...
Conscience and Community
Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2001
Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important interconnections between the principles of toleration, constitutional government, and the rule of law. Conscience and Community revisits the historical...
Women of the Wall
Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In October of 2014, 12-year-old Sasha Lutt read from a tiny Torah scroll as a part of her bat mitzvah in the Women's section of the plaza at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site. Surrounded by members of the multi-denominational organization, the Women of the Wall, one of whom had smuggled...
Mainstreaming Torture
Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Within days, some began to suggest that, in these new circumstances, the new answer was "yes." Rebecca Gordon argues that September...
Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention
A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
Few foreign policy issues in the past decade have elicited as much controversy as the use of military force for humanitarian purposes. In this book Brian Lepard offers a new method for analyzing humanitarian intervention that seeks to resolve conflicts among legal norms by identifying ethical principles...
The "Inscrutably Chinese" Church
How Narratives and Nationalism Continue to Divide Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
The first half of the twenty-first century promises to be a time of great change for the Christian church in the PeopleOs Republic of China. The situation is complex and fluid, and the information gap between those on the inside and those outside of China is still significant, though shrinking. The...
by Mohammad Rehman
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Since the 9/11 attacks, Islam has been tarnished by hypocrisy, and has been globally linked to Islamic fundamentalists spreading the idea of hate and violence. It is imperative, however, to look at the actual word preached by the Quran to ascertain the true meaning of Islam, and the reasons that changed...
Islam in Pakistan
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South Asia
The first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947. Today it is the second-most populous, after Indonesia. Islam in Pakistan...