Church State category: 1367 books
Atheist Awakening
Secular Activism and Community in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Surveys over the last twenty years have seen an ever-growing number of Americans disclaim religious affiliations and instead check the "none" box. In the first sociological exploration of organized secularism in America, Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith show how one segment of these "nones" have...
America's Sacred Calling
Building a New Spiritual Reality
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
America's Sacred Calling describes a blueprint for creating an entirely new society that truly uplifts and honors the spiritual reality of the human soul, while fostering the conditions for humankind to transcend the existential fears, anxieties, and petty concerns of this temporal physical world....
Tournaments of Value
Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world.
Meneley’s data...
After Jihad
America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
A lucid and compelling case for a new American stance toward the Islamic world.
What comes after jihad? Outside the headlines, believing Muslims are increasingly calling for democratic politics in their undemocratic countries. But can Islam and democracy successfully be combined? Surveying...
Sayyid Qutb
The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Sayyid Qutb is widely considered the guiding intellectual of radical Islam, with a direct line connecting him to Osama bin Laden. But Qutb has too often been treated maliciously or reductively-"the Philosopher of Islamic Terror," as Paul Berman famously put it in the New York Times Magazine....
Enlightenment and Secularism
Essays on the Mobilization of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including...
by William Lyon Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This early work by William Lyon Phelps was originally published in 1930 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Christ of Caesar' is an essay about the comparisons and differences between the Christian religion and Nationalism between. William Lyon Phelps was born...
by Page duBois
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
As A Million and One Gods shows, polytheism is considered a scandalous presence in societies oriented to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs. Yet it persists, even in the West, perhaps because polytheism corresponds to unconscious needs and deeply held values of tolerance, diversity, and equality that are central to civilized societies.
The Holy Vote
The Politics of Faith in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Not since the Civil War has the United States been so polarized, politically and ideologically. At the heart of this fracture is a fascinating, paradoxical marriage between our country's politics and religions.
In The Holy Vote, Ray Suarez explores the advent of this polarization and how it...
No Return from Democracy
A Survey of Interviews with Fethullah Gulen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
It was rare, if not impossible, to find in ’80s and ’90s a Muslim cleric who spoke in favor of democracy, integration with the Western world, and universal human values. Fethullah Gülen was one of those. Many of his avant-garde ideas did not only earn him one of the largest and most influential...
Faith, Politics, and Power
The Politics of Faith-Based Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush made faith-based social services one of the centerpieces of his domestic agenda. These "faith-based initiatives," supporters argued, would reduce poverty, ease the strain on an overburdened welfare system, and prove more effective than...
Bridges across an Impossible Divide
The Inner Lives of Arab and Jewish Peacemakers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Marc Gopin offers a groundbreaking exploration of Arab/Israeli peace partnerships: unlikely friendships created among people who have long been divided by bitter resentments, deep suspicions, and violent sorrows. In Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Gopin shows how the careful examination of their inner...
Missionary Strategies in the New World, 1610-1690
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The study is an intellectual and comparative history of French, Spanish, and English missions to the native peoples of America in the seventeenth century, c. 1610–1690. It shows that missions are ideal case studies to properly understand the relationship between religion and politics in early modern...
by Robert P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Move beyond the rhetoric and into the heart of one of the most contentious social questions facing America today. This 2011 survey from Public Religion Research Institute explores the nation's conflicted views on abortion, discovering that majorities of Americans simultaneously believe that abortion should be legal and accessible, but also think it is immoral.