Church State category: 1367 books
The Church and the Market
A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The Church and the Market is a vigorous and lively defense of the market economy and a withering attack on all forms of state intervention. It covers labor unions, monopoly, money and banking, business cycles, interest, usury, and much more. Although it makes a particular point of noting the moral...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), called by Pope John XXIII in 1959, produced sixteen documents that outlined the Church’s attempts to meet increasing calls for modernization in the wake of social and cultural changes that were taking place in the twentieth century.
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The Fight for Marriage
Church Conflicts and Courtroom Contests
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
For leaders in governments and in churches, marriage equality is the most contentious civil-rights dispute in the 21st century. During an era where nearly half of all marriages end in divorce, same-gender couples now have the federal civil right to marry, too. At a time when 62 percent of Americans...
Religion in the Neoliberal Age
Political Economy and Modes of Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book, together with a complementary volume 'Religion in Consumer Society', focuses on religion, neoliberalism and consumer society; offering an overview of an emerging field of research in the study of contemporary religion. Claiming that we are entering a new phase of state-religion relations,...
Rediscovering the Role of The Church
God's Government on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Have you ever wondered which church is the right church? Why are there many churches out there claiming to be the right ones and insisting that the others are wrong? Why are there many people having passion for the church, while others are stumbling and leaving their faith because of the church?!...
by John Morgan-Guy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
During the medieval and early modern periods the Welsh diocese of St Davids was one of the largest in the country and the most remote. As this collection makes clear, this combination of factors resulted in a religious life which was less regulated and controlled by the institutional forces of both...
Uplifting the People
Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention—its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders. Fallin demonstrates that a distinctive Afro-Baptist faith emerged as slaves in Alabama combined the African religious emphasis on spirit possession,...
The Seal
A Priest's Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
"The Seal: A Priests Story" recalls the true story of an outrageous violation of religious liberty which created an unprecedented rift between the powers of Church and State. When a priest recieved the sacramental confession of a jailed inmate, in which forgiveness is offered by God alone,...
The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint
A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early...
The Pledge
One Nation Under God
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
LEARN THE TRUE HISTORYOF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AMERICA AND WHAT YOU CAN DOTO PROTECT THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE! Atheist Michael Newdow is determined to remove "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. His allies...
by Finbarr Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either “religion” or “freedom.” Rather than resolve these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as religious freedom. Lacking any consistent content, religious freedom is a shifting and malleable...
Naked Truth
Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Across America, strip clubs have come under attack by a politically aggressive segment of the Christian Right. Using plausible-sounding but factually untrue arguments about the harmful effects of strip clubs on their communities, the Christian Right has stoked public outrage and incited local and...
Preaching Politics
Proclaiming Jesus in an Age of Money, Power, and Partisanship
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Religion, politics, and money. Three things you're never supposed to discuss in polite company. But what if you're a pastor? Forget red state/blue state divisions, what happens when your church members disagree about politics? In this age of prosperity preaching, how do you preach, "You cannot...
Between a Man and a Woman?
Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Through a probing investigation of conservative Christianity and its response to an issue that, according to the statistics of conservative Christian groups, affects only a small number of Americans, Ludger Viefhues-Bailey alights on a profound theological conundrum: in today's conservative Christian...