Church State category: 1367 books
Cries from an Isolated Society
A Poetry Chapbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Love good and hate evil: That is what we must all remember as the world progresses in time. The sin of our fallen culture penetrates every facet of life deeper by the day, rationalizing its way from the mind to the heart as many become numb to its downward spiral away from God's grace. This is my...
Stasis
Civil War as a Political Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks...
Breaking Bread, Breaking Beats
Churches and Hip-Hop—A Basic Guide to Key Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
What is hip-hop, and how does it impact the Black Church? How do Black Churches think about hip-hop? How does it integrate hip-hop? How do these different, yet deeply interrelated communities think about the key topics of modern life—be it gender, sex, race, or globalization?
These questions...
Strangers in a Strange Land
Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
A vivid critique of American life today and a guide to how Christians—and particularly Catholics--can live their faith vigorously, and even with hope, in a post-Christian public square.
From Charles J. Chaput, author of Living the Catholic Faith and Render unto Caesar comes Strangers in a...
Religion in the Oval Office
The Religious Lives of American Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
In his highly praised book Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith cast a revealing light on the role religion has played in presidential politics throughout our nation's history, offering comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives, politics, and policies of eleven...
Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions
Discourse on Race, Religion, and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state of Haiti in 1804. Particular attention is given to the place of religion in the Haitian Revolution, as...
Religion in China
Survival and Revival under Communist Rule
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Religion in China survived the most radical suppression in human history--a total ban of any religion during and after the Cultural Revolution. All churches, temples, and mosques were closed down, converted for secular uses, or turned to museums for the purpose of atheist education. Over the last...
Australia—Where to Now?
What Bible prophecy reveals for the land down under
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Anglo-Saxons are a forgetful people. It was ever so, from their beginnings as a collection of tribes, morphing over time into the most influential of nations on Earth. So it is that in the great debate over whether or not Australia should become a republic, the true origins of the nation—the real...
Keys to National Recovery
Preparing the Nation for Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Today the atmosphere cracks with excitement and the anticipation of dynamic challenges as we transition from one government to another. We must take drastic actions to recovery because we cannot afford to elect leaders that are political Svengali who will cozen their way to the top to enrich themselves...
God on Our Side
Religion in International Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This timely book offers an accessible introduction to religion in international affairs. Shireen T. Hunter highlights the growing importance of religion in politics and analyzes its nature, role, and significance. She places the question of religion’s impact on global affairs in the broader context...
My Name is Bridget
The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century’s worth of lost souls. Shunned by society for her sins and offered no comfort for her pain, Bridget gave...
by Didymus D Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Intrusive Islam has turned the writer Edward Bulyer-Lyttons 1839 metonymic adage on its head. No longer do we find the pen is mightier than the sword. Today, ideological Islam malevolently believes that the sword is mightier than the pen. Muslims resoundingly reject the edict that civilized communication...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Published anonymously in Italy on the one-year anniversary of Ratzinger’s election to the papacy, Against Ratzinger caused a national stir and immediately shot onto bestseller lists. Now America, the home of over 67 million Catholics, will have the opportunity to wrestle with this insightful and...
Transnational Cinema and Ideology
Representing Religion, Identity and Cultural Myths
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Increasingly, as the production, distribution and audience of films cross national boundaries, film scholars have begun to think in terms of ‘transnational’ rather than national cinema. This book is positioned within the emerging field of transnational cinema, and offers a groundbreaking study...