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by Abhijit Naskar
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
International Best Seller
"I agree with Naskar that the path of tolerance is the only way." - Daniel C. Dennett
Two Hundred Thousand years ago, we the sapiens were just a newly evolved species in a corner of Africa. Eventually we transformed ourselves into the master of the...
The Making of a Postsecular Society
A Durkheimian Approach to Memory, Pluralism and Religion in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Drawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergence of postsecular societies. Neo-Durkheimian categories are applied to the case of Turkey, which in recent years has shifted from a strong Republican and...
Shameful Bodies
Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
What happens when your body doesn't look how it's supposed to look, or feel how it's supposed to feel, or do what it's supposed to do? Who or what defines the ideals behind these expectations? How can we challenge them and live more peacefully in our bodies?
Shameful Bodies: Religion and the...
Our Non-Christian Nation
How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all. These non-Christians have increasingly been demanding their full participation in public life, bringing their arguments all the way to the Supreme Court. The...
Why Tolerate Religion?
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
This provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory—why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why are religious obligations that conflict with the law accorded special toleration while other...
Paganism, Traditionalism, Nationalism
Narratives of Russian Rodnoverie
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Rodnoverie was one of the first new religious movements to emerge following the collapse of the Soviet Union, its development providing an important lens through which to view changes in post-Soviet religious and political life. Rodnovers view social and political issues as inseparably linked to their...
Creating Ourselves
African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Creating Ourselves is a unique effort to lay the cultural and theological groundwork for cross-cultural collaboration between the African and Latino/a American communities. In the introduction, the editors contend that given overlapping histories and interests of the two communities, they should work...
Violence and the World's Religious Traditions
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Is religion inherently predisposed to violence? Or has religion been taken hostage by a politics of aggression? The years since the end of the Cold War have shown a noticeable shift in patterns of religious extremism, accentuating the uncomfortable, complex, and oft-misunderstood relationship between...
by Matthew T. Kapstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
The Tibetan Buddhist tradition has known over thirteen centuries of continuous development. During that time, it has spread among the neighboring peoples - the Mongol, Himalayan, and Siberian peoples, Manchus and Chinese. At its height is has been practiced in regions as far west as the Volga river...
Christians and the Common Good
How Faith Intersects with Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Christians across the spectrum have soured on religious involvement in politics, tempted either to withdraw or to secularize their public engagement. Yet the kingdom of God is clearly concerned with justice and communal well-being. How can Christians be active in public life without getting mired...
by T.Collins Logan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2011
In A Progressive’s Guide, T. Collins Logan explores the progressive attitudes and activism of the New Testament that were radical in Jesus’ time, and continue to encounter the same resistance among religious conservatives today that they did in the first century. Each chapter begins with selected...
Meeting the Ideological Challenge of Islamism
How to Combat Modern Radical Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Islamist extremism is one of the most vital issues facing governments and populations today, as Islamist groups turn more violent, with increasing radicalized recruits. These leading scholar’s essays offer a detailed, compelling critique of the worldview, methodologies and motivations of violent Islamist...
The New Pilgrims
How Immigrants are Renewing America's Faith and Values
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In 1492 Christopher Columbus bore a secret agenda as he set out with his tiny fleet to discover a New World. The startling truth? Columbus himself was a Jew! And he sought a new home for his persecuted Jewish kin to escape King Ferdinand's and Queen Isabella's newly wrought Spanish Inquisition.
The Call to Conversion
Why Faith Is Always Personal but Never Private
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Put Your Faith into Action
A leading voice at the crossroads of faith and politics offers a prophetic appeal for our times: faced with a growing gap between the rich and poor, bombarded by national security alerts that ratchet up our stress levels, taxed by a government that spends billions...