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All My Bones Shake
Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
A thought-provoking reassessment of religious faith and progressive politics from an author whose “wonderful writing is both a surprise and a relief” (Naomi Klein).
In All My Bones Shake, author and political activist Robert Jensen sheds light on the spiritual unrest at the root of our nation’s...
by A. F. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The birth control insurance coverage debate involves many issues that have far reaching consequences This booklet, from the author of the best selling book "Religious Right: The Greatest Threat to Democracy," delves past the rhetoric and delivers a commentary on what is really at stake while debunking...
by Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls "enlightened doomsaying," has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of religion and reason that has set us on...
A Heart for Freedom
The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China's Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The dramatic and fascinating story of Chai Ling, commander-in-chief of the student protesters at Tiananmen Square and witness to the massacre of thousands of Chinese civilians. Risking imprisonment and possible death for her leadership role in the student democracy movement, she was on the run in...
How (Not) to Be Secular
Reading Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times.
Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007)...
Red Letter Christians
A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In today's political environment, who speaks for whom is not always clear. Over the past couple of decades, evangelical Christians have tended to be associated with the religious right and the most conservative positions of the Republican Party. Rebelling against this designation are those who prefer...
Absolute Power
How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority
In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. With cardinals scattered...
Rejoicing
Or the Torments of Religious Speech
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Bruno Latour’s long term project is to compare the felicity and infelicity conditions of the different values dearest to the heart of those who have ‘never been modern’. According to him, this is the only way to develop an anthropology of the Moderns. After his work on science, on technology...
Violence Taking Place
The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "culture," has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher examines the case of the former...
The Daniel Prayer
Prayer That Moves Heaven and Changes Nations
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Bestselling author Anne Graham Lotz will teach you how to pray effectively for your nation, for your families, and for yourself.
Many people today find that their prayers don’t “work.” And like a broken cell phone, DVD player, or TV remote, they throw prayer out as unnecessary “clutter”...
by John Slight
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
The British Empire governed more than half the world’s Muslims. John Slight traces the empire’s complex interactions with the Hajj—the annual pilgrimage to Mecca—from the 1860s, when an outbreak of cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of pilgrims, to the Suez Crisis of 1956. He gives voice to pilgrims and officials alike.
Beyond Jihad
The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual answer is that Islam spread by the sword-believers waged jihad against rival tribes and kingdoms and forced...
The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China
A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
A major new work in modern Tibetan history, this book follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's trülku (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China's efforts to control its development. By illuminating the political aspects of the trülku...
Extremist for Love
Martin Luther King Jr., Man of Ideas and Nonviolent Social Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In spite of extensive research and publishing on King, not nearly enough attention has been given to the convergence of ideas and action in his life. In an era where people are often sorted into the categories of ‘thinker’ and ‘doer’, King stands out—a rare mix of the deeply profound thinker...