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Geography of Faith
Underground Conversations on Religious, Political and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
A classic of faith-based activism―updated for a new generation. Why was Daniel Berrigan wanted by the FBI? Why did Robert Coles harbor a fugitive? Listen in to the conversations between these two great teachers as they struggle with what it means to put your faith to the test. Discover how their...
The World Turned Upside Down
The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies. Millions more advance popular conspiracy...
Hope in Troubled Times
A New Vision for Confronting Global Crises
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
We want to have it all: financial strength, secure homes, clean air and water for our children. With the latest technological advances available, we deserve to have every dilemma resolved. Isn't that the way it's supposed to work? Hope in Troubled Times dares to say "no."
Poverty,...
Just and Unjust Peace
An Ethic of Political Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Winner of the 2013 Christianity Today Book Award in Missions / Global Affairs Winner of the Aldersgate Prize Honorable Mention Winner of the 2014 International Studies Association International Ethics Section Book Award In the wake of massive injustice, how can justice be achieved and peace restored?...
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading...
The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics
Extraordinary Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
The path toward modern Jewish politics, a process that required a dramatic reconstruction of Jewish life, may have emerged during a far earlier time frame and in a different geographic and cultural context than has previously been thought. Drawing upon current sociological understanding of social...
by Nick Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Last Updated January 1, 2018
The Rise of IS: Fulfilling End Times Prophecy traces how ISIS gained strength in Iraq and Syria, how they're funded, how they operate, and how, city by city, from Ramadi to Fallujah to Mosul, ISIS swept across Iraq — seizing territory, recording and broadcasting...
Los brujos del poder 3 (Los brujos del poder 3)
Nuevo compendio del ocultismo y esoterismo en la política
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 17, 2019
La relación entre políticos y brujos se remonta hasta el origen mismo de diversas sociedades alrededor del mundo.
México no es una excepción y, tal como documenta José Gil Olmos, la serie de gobernantes proclives al susurro de la magia es larga.
Las razones originales han cambiado...
A Rumor about the Jews
Conspiracy, Anti-Semitism, and the Protocols of Zion
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
In its portrayal of Judaism as a worldwide conspiracy dedicated to the destruction of Christian civilization, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion remains one of the most infamous documents ever written. Despite being proven a crude forgery, the pamphlet managed to pervade twentieth-century...
What About Same Sex Marriage and Another Look at Religion
Pseudoreligion/Pseudotheology
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
In light of the new wave of Pseudo religion Ideology, it is necessary to give a concrete response to it. Same Sex marriages have been put forth as a new civil rights issue. Which it must be determined whether it is Civil, or Right? Should credence be given to Homosexuality to be recognize by religion,...
God Gets Laid
God Gets, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
Book #1 in the "God Gets ..." series. 100 Pages of Awesome Insights with Graphics Galore! The premise of this book is that we are Godessa and God's hands and eyes on Earth and we should really get better at it. She has learned that the best way to help others is to Shut the Fork Up and listen!...
by Scott Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Navigating the ups and downs of the gay life can prove challenging when inundated by religious judgment and misunderstanding. Sticked, Stoned & Bottled, a poem by Scott Gibson, uses a prescriptive form as a metaphor for the structured life that organized religion attempts to create. Gibson's...
Religion, Postcolonialism, and Globalization
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Religion, Postcolonialism and Globalization: A Sourcebook shows how the roots of our globalized world run deeper than the 1980s or even the end of WWII, tracing back to 15th century European colonial expansion through which the 'modern world system' came into existence.
The Sourcebook is divided...
The Thistle and the Drone
How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States declared war on terrorism. More than ten years later, the results are decidedly mixed. Here world-renowned author, diplomat, and scholar Akbar Ahmed reveals an important yet largely ignored result of this war: in many nations it has exacerbated the...