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Religious Activism in the Global Economy
Promoting, Reforming, or Resisting Neoliberal Globalization?
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Protests of neoliberal globalization have proliferated in recent years, not least in response to the financial crisis, austerity and increasing inequality. But how do religious groups organize themselves in response to these issues?
This book systematically studies the relationship of religious...
God in the Tumult of the Global Square
Religion in Global Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In the global era, religion has leapt onto the world stage, often in contradictory ways. Some religious activists are antagonistic and engage in protests, violent acts, and political challenges. Others are positive and help to shape an emerging...
Out of Many Faiths
Religious Diversity and the American Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A timely defense of religious diversity and its centrality to American identity
America is the most religiously devout country in the Western world and the most religiously diverse nation on the planet. In today’s volatile climate of religious conflict, prejudice, and distrust, how do we...
God in Action
How Faith in God Can Address the Challenges of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
"What if God has his own ways that are not always our ways? What if God acts in public affairs in ways that can, of course, be ignored from day to day but at a price for individuals and whole societies? If God is an actor, how is it possible to trace his action? . . . Can we discover God’s actions...
The Global Public Square
Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Logos Bookstores' 2014 Best Book in Christianity and Culture How do we live with our deepest differences? In a world torn by religious conflict, the threats to human dignity are terrifyingly real. Some societies face harsh government repression and brutal sectarian violence, while others are divided...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular. Yet recent scholarship has called into question the simplistic narrative of a separation between law and religion and blurred the boundaries between...
by Krzysztof Michalski
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The articles in this volume deal with the role of Christianity in the definition of European identity. Europeans often identify advanced civilizations with secularity. But religion is very much alive in other fast developing countries of the world. In Europe, nevertheless, the organized churches very...
Secular Hope
What the Religious Right Really Wants and Why Liberal Democrats Should Support Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Different understandings of the word secular are at the root of Americas domestic and international political conflicts. Academics and legal professionals, by failing to heed Harvey Coxs 1965 warning to distinguish between secularism as a closed ideology and secularization as a healthy cultural process,...
by Johannes Morsink
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Repulsed by evil Nazi practices and desiring to create a better world after the devastation of World War II, in 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Because of the secular imprint of this text, it has faced a series of challenges from the world’s...
Hizmet Means Service
Perspectives on an Alternative Path within Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Hizmet Means Service examines Hizmet, a Turkey-based but global movement dedicated to human service. Inspired by Fethullah Gülen, a Sufi Muslim mystic, scholar, and preacher, it is an international endeavor focused on education, business, interfaith dialogue, science, and efforts to promote tolerance...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of rights and modern progress, or reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals, both tend...
by Markus Dressler, Arvind Mandair
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, knowledges,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Globalization has spawned more active transnational religious communities, creating a powerful force in world affairs. Religious Pluralism, Globalization and World Politics, an incisive new collection of essays, explores the patterns of cooperation and conflict that mark this new religious pluralism....
by Paul Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Most books give some baiting information without giving away the plot details. Unfortunately, this book cannot. Why? Because you are part of a social experiment.
Certainly you can cheat, by jumping ahead, or you can trust me, and yourself, and follow the linear structure I have provided: Read Part...