Church State category: 1367 books
Taming the Gods
Religion and Democracy on Three Continents
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western-style...
by Sheval Anthony Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This publication builds on all efforts to date to achieve and are achieving global reach as God requires for and in “Serving all.”This publication builds on my hope of us all being established in and one with Christ in all the ways that fulfill righteousness; and on the hope we all with...
Resurrecting Christianity
Rising to the Challenges of a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali interviewed by Psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Beecroft. Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali was the 106th Bishop of Rochester, for 15 years, until 2009. He is originally from Pakistan and was the first non-white Diocesan Bishop in the Church of England. He was appointed in 1994. Before that...
by Henry J. Pratt, Ronald Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Beginning in the 1890s, the social gospel movement and its secular counterpart, the Progressive movement, set the stage for powerful church and city governance connections. What followed during the next 100 years was the emergence of religious bodies as an important instrument for influencing City Hall...
The Nation That Fears God Prospers
A Critique of Zambian Pentecostal Theopolitical Imaginations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Through its strength in numbers and remarkable presence in politics, Pentecostalism has become a force to reckon with in twenty-first-century Zambian society. Yet, some fundamental questions in the study of Zambian Pentecostalism and politics remain largely unaddressed by African scholars. Situated...
Empire of Fear
Inside the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Tourists killed in Tunisia; Jihadi John targeted by drone strikes; carnage in Paris; and hundreds of thousands of Syrians risking everything to reach Europe in an attempt to escape the violence. Islamic State’s reign of terror continues.Back in June 2014 Islamic State had launched an astonishing blitzkrieg...
Building God's Kingdom
Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
For the last several decades, at the far fringes of American evangelical Christianity has stood an intellectual movement known as Christian Reconstruction. The proponents of this movement embrace a radical position: that all of life should be brought under the authority of biblical law as it is contained...
Baptists in America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The Puritans called Baptists "the troublers of churches in all places" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in America, and their influence matches their numbers. They have built strong institutions, from...
Religion, Culture, and the State
Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
The Canadian principle of reasonable accommodation demands that the cultural majority make certain concessions to the needs of minority groups if these concessions will not cause 'undue hardship.' This principle has caused much debate in Quebec, particularly over issues of language, Muslim head coverings,...
by Charles W. Colson
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
How should Christians live their faith in the public arena?Twenty years ago, the first edition of Chuck Colson’s Kingdoms in Conflict became a bestseller, a must-read for people interested in politics and the relationship between church and state. Now, with a passion for truth and moved by the urgency...
The Church in Brazil
The Politics of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
In 1980, Brazil was the largest Roman Catholic country in the world, with 90 percent of its more than 120 million people numbered among the faithful. The Church hierarchy became aware, however, that the religion practiced by the majority of its members was not that promoted by the institution, a point...
Islamic State
Rewriting History
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The world is watching Islamic State’s lightning advance through Syria to the gates of Baghdad. For the third time in fifteen years, the US risks being drawn into another war in the Middle East despite its experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. IS are creating catastrophic waves across the region,...
Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires
Balancing Memory, Architecture, and Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Berlin, inaugurated in 2005, and the Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism within the Memory Park (Parque de la Memoria) in Buenos Aires, partially unveiled in 2007, have been controversial from start to finish. While these sites differ in many respects, Germany...
Our India the Best
Saaray Jahan Se Achcha Hindostan Hamara
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
A strong yet balanced tone of emotional fervor rings in Asif Siddiqis plea for the political and economic re-union of India and Pakistan, which gives fresh relevance and urgency to this long -standing theme of postcolonial South Asian politics. Was Pakistan ever the pan-Muslim state it claimed to...