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Doing Theology in the Age of Trump
A Critical Report on Christian Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
This book is a work of theological resistance. It is not so much about the presidency of Donald Trump as it is about what his popularity and rise to power reveal about the state of Christianity and the moral character of the evangelical Right in the United States today. More specifically, it is about...
In Good Company
The Church as Polis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 1995
By exposing a different account of politics—the church as polis and "counterstory" to the world's politics—Stanley Hauerwas helps Christians to recognize the unifying beliefs and practices that make them a political entity apart from the rest of the world.
False Dawn
The United Religions Initiative, Globalism, and the Quest for a One-World Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
An interfaith religious movement, the United Religions Initiative (URI), is rising worldwide. This movement’s stated aims are peace among religions, and creation of “cultures of peace, justice and healing” for all. In a time of wars between Islamic nations and the West, such an organization’s...
Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians
The Religious Roots of Free Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The intellectual and political elite of the West is nowadays taking for granted that religion, in particular Christianity, is a cultural vestige, a primitive form of knowledge, a consolation for the poor minded, an obstacle to coexistence. In all influential environments, the widespread watchword...
Acting on Conscience
How Can We Responsibly Mix Law, Religion And Politics?
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Is there a place for personal beliefs in public life?Is a Catholic health minister in a fit position to legislate on women's issues such as the right to an abortion pill? When the prime minister invokes church leaders' support in going to war with Iraq - and those church leaders tacitly approve this...
by Gopi Krishna
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
An analysis of the complex and explosive state of current world affairs, presented in verse and completed by the author in little more than three weeks. It is a biting and profoundly challenging look at the power structure behind our society and lays bare the real motives of those who control the...
Muslim Rebels
Kharijites and the Politics of Extremism in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community of the saved. Their influence in the political and theological life of the nascent faith...
Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere
Comparing Nordic Countries
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries. The result of a five-year collaborative research project, the work examines how increasingly religiously diverse Nordic societies regulate, debate, and negotiate religion in...
Mapping Exile and Return
Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
One of the most persistent, if vexing, issues is the state of affairs in the ancient land of Palestine. Palestinian Christians bear the enormous brunt of suffering and dispossession in the current situation, and are burdened even more by Christian political appropriation of Zionism. Through an analysis...
Liberalism Safe for Catholicism?, A
Perspectives from The Review of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This volume is the third in the “Perspectives from The Review of Politics” series, following The Crisis of Modern Times, edited by A. James McAdams (2007), and War, Peace, and International Political Realism, edited by Keir Lieber (2009). In A Liberalism Safe for Catholicism?, editors Daniel Philpott...
by Lee A. Smithey
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
In Northern Ireland, a once seemingly intractable conflict is in a state of transformation. Lee A. Smithey offers a grassroots view of that transformation, drawing on interviews, documentary evidence, and extensive field research. He offers essential models for how ethnic and communal-based conflicts...
Church, Cosmovision and the Environment
Religion and Social Conflict in Contemporary Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Though currently only partially understood, evolving interactions among Latin American communities of faith, governments, and civil societies are a key feature of the popular mobilizations and policy debates about environmental issues in the region. This edited collection describes and analyses multiple...
Nations under God
How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
In some religious countries, churches have drafted constitutions, restricted abortion, and controlled education. In others, church influence on public policy is far weaker. Why? Nations under God argues that where religious and national identities have historically fused, churches gain enormous moral...
The Fracture of Good Order
Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Whether picketing outside abortion clinics, speaking out at school board meetings, or attending anti-death penalty vigils, many Americans have publicly opposed local, state, or federal government policies on the basis of their religious convictions. In The Fracture of Good Order, Jason Bivins examines...