Church State category: 1367 books
by Wayne A. Grudem
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Written not by a journalist or politician but rather by a theology professor with a Ph.D. in New Testament studies, Voting as a Christian: The Social Issues begins with the assumption that God intended the Bible to give guidance to every area of life—including how governments should function. Derived...
by Wayne A. Grudem
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Written not by a journalist or politician but rather by a theology professor with a Ph.D. in New Testament studies, Voting by the Bible: The Economic and Foreign Policy Issues begins with the assumption that God intended the Bible to give guidance to every area of life—including how governments...
by Abdulaziz Sachedina
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the International Declaration of Human Rights, a document designed to hold both individuals and nations accountable for their treatment of fellow human beings, regardless of religious or cultural affiliations. Since then, the...
Gaia's Gift
Earth, Ourselves and God after Copernicus
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Gaia's Gift, the second of Anne Primavesi's explorations of human relationships with the earth, asks that we complete the ideological revolution set in motion by Copernicus and Darwin concerning human importancene. They challenged the notion of our God-given centrality within the universe and within...
by James G. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Revelation through Science is written for the educated non-scientist who may be troubled by apparent conflicts between science and religion. Are science and faith incompatible? Astronomers, physicists, and biologists have now shown that the more deeply science probes nature, the more it reveals evidence...
Contested Conversions to Islam
Narratives of Religious Change in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries. The Ottomans ruled over a large non-Muslim population and conversion to Islam was a contentious subject for all communities, especially Muslims themselves. Ottoman...
by Ryuho Okawa
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
What are true historical perception and God’s justice? The basic teaching of Happy Science is ‘the exploration of the Right Mind.’ The significance of this book is in that it covers the exploration of the Right Mind for the citizen based on a macro-perspective understanding, with whom true sovereignty...
by Ryuho Okawa
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Happy Science, a new religion representing modern-day Japan, is working to realize “the happiness that carries over from this world to the next.” Not only is Happy Science helping people return to Heaven after death, but it is also trying to make this world, a training ground for the soul, a place...
The Gospels and Homer
Imitations of Greek Epic in Mark and Luke-Acts
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
These two volumes of The New Testament and Greek Literature are the magnum opus of biblical scholar Dennis R. MacDonald, outlining the profound connections between the New Testament and classical Greek poetry. MacDonald argues that the Gospel writers borrowed from established literary sources to create...
What Is an American Muslim?
Embracing Faith and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Since 2001, there has been a tremendous backlash against the very idea that it is possible to be both American and Muslim-the controversy over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" and the attempts to ban shari'a law are examples. Even within the Muslim community many leaders urge believers to integrate...
At the Altar of Wall Street
The Rituals, Myths, Theologies, Sacraments, and Mission of the Religion Known as the Modern Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Shows how economics functions as the dominant religion in America today
In this provocative book Scott Gustafson argues that economics functions in our current global culture as religions have functioned in other cultures. He describes and analyzes the rituals, pilgrimage sites, myths, prophets,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
When Joseph Smith ran for president as a radical protest candidate in 1844, Mormons were a deeply distrusted group in American society, and their efforts to enter public life were met with derision. When Mitt Romney ran for president as a Republican in 2008 and 2012, the public had come to regard...
Representing Jihad
The Appearing and Disappearing Radical
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
The jihad has been at the centre of the West's securitization discourse for more than a decade. Theorists constantly use the jihadist as a discursive tool to further their neoliberal, military and market agendas, perpetuating massive gaps of understanding between 'the West', Muslims and jihadists...
by Justine Howe
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
For many American Muslims, the 9/11 attacks and subsequent War on Terror marked a rise in intense scrutiny of their religious lives and political loyalties. In Suburban Islam, Justine Howe explores the rise of "third spaces," social surroundings that are neither home nor work, created by educated,...