Church State category: 1367 books
Islam and Muslims in the West
Major Issues and Debates
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
This book analyzes the development of Islam and Muslim communities in the West, including influences from abroad, relations with the state and society, and internal community dynamics. The project examines the emergence of Islam in the West in relation to the place of Muslim communities as part of...
Politicizing Islam
The Islamic Revival in France and India
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Home to the largest Muslim minorities in Western Europe and Asia, France and India are both grappling with crises of secularism. In Politicizing Islam, Fareen Parvez offers an in-depth look at how Muslims have responded to these crises, focusing on Islamic revival movements in the French city of Lyon...
Romans Disarmed
Resisting Empire, Demanding Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Globalization. Homelessness. Ecological and economic crisis. Conflicts over sexuality. Violence. These crisis-level issues may seem unique to our times, but Paul's Letter to the Romans has something to say to all of them.
Following their successful Colossians Remixed,Sylvia Keesmaat and Brian...
by Ferruccio Pinotti
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Che il mondo laico cerchi il profitto a ogni costo potrà non piacerci. Ma che finanzieri osservanti, pii banchieri, uomini di Chiesa, esponenti politici che fanno pubblica professione di fede pratichino comportamenti economici che di caritatevole non hanno nulla, suscita forte repulsione in un'epoca...
Pentecoste nella terra di Maometto
Vivere da cristiani nei Paesi del Golfo arabo. Prefazione di George Emil Irani. Postfazione del vicario apostolico di Arabia del Nord Camillo Ballin
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Osservatori e analisti concordano nel sostenere che le rivolte all interno del mondo arabo nella primavera 2011 costituiscono uno degli eventi storici più importanti e dirompenti degli ultimi tempi. Ne hanno sentito l influsso i Paesi della sponda sud del Mediterraneo, quelli del Medio Oriente e,...
If Nuns Ruled the World
Ten Sisters on a Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
“Fascinating profiles” of remarkable nuns, from an eighty-three-year-old Ironman champion to a crusader against human trafficking (Daily News [New York]).
“In an age of villainy, war and inequality, it makes sense that we need superheroes,” writes Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times....
Quarterly Essay 22 Voting for Jesus
Christianity and Politics in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
From the Hillsong Church to the Family First Party, Australia appears to be experiencing an evangelical revival. In Voting for Jesus, Amanda Lohrey investigates that revival – its shape and scope, and what it means for the mainstream churches and the nation's politics. She talks to young believers...
by Mark David Hall
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
One of leading figures of his day, Roger Sherman was a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence and an influential delegate at the Constitutional Convention. As a Representative and Senator in the new republic, he had a hand in determining the proper scope of the...
Christendom Destroyed
Europe 1517-1648
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
**“The latest volume to appear in the Penguin History of Europe. Like its companion volumes, [Christendom Destroyed] is no breezy survey but a masterly synthesis of depth and breadth."*—*The Wall Street Journal
“The political and religious conflicts of early modern Europe receive...
America's Secret Jihad
The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
The conventional narrative concerning religious terrorism inside the United States says that the first salvo occurred in 1993, with the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. This narrative has motivated more than a decade of wars, and re-prioritized America’s domestic security...
Opus Dei
An Archaeology of Duty
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late scholasticism and modern papal encyclicals, Agamben traces...
Reading Scripture as a Political Act
Essays on the Theopolitical Interpretation of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Although scholars increasingly understand Scripture to contain political dimensions and implications, the interpretation of Scripture is often marginalized in most scholarly discussions of political theology. Reading Scripture as a Political Act takes a step toward remedying this situation by exploring...
Relativism and Religion
Why Democratic Societies Do Not Need Moral Absolutes
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Moral relativism is deeply troubling for those who believe that, without a set of moral absolutes, democratic societies will devolve into tyranny or totalitarianism. Engaging directly with this claim, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti traces the roots of contemporary anti-relativist fears to the antimodern...
City of Man
Religion and Politics in a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
An era has ended. The political expression that most galvanized evangelicals during the past quarter-century, the Religious Right, is fading. What's ahead is unclear. Millions of faith-based voters still exist, and they continue to care deeply about hot-button issues like abortion and gay marriage,...