Comparative category: 2220 books
Conversations on Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet Movement
Dreaming for a Better World
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Conversations on Fethullah Gülen and the Hizment Movement: Dreaming for a Better World, is intended to represent an open perspective on the influence of the Hizmet Movement, including Fethullah Gülen in particular, on the theme of “dreaming for a better world,” based on a variety of Christian...
by Kate Zebiri
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Kate Zebiri analyses modern Muslim writings on Christianity and Christian writings on Islam to explore the issues central to Muslim-Christian relations.
Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Life of Wisdom
Engagements with the Theology of David Novak
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
This book inquires as to whether theological dialogue between Christians and Jews is possible, not only in itself but also as regards the emergence of communities of Messianic Judaism. In light of David Novak's insights, Matthew Levering proposes that Christian theological responses to...
by Ghulam Zikria
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Theology - Islamic theology, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (Department of Political Science), course: M Phil, language: English, abstract: The political phenomena of the contemporary world are more disturbing than they were in previous times....
Regulating Preventive Justice
Principle, Policy and Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Like medicine, law is replete with axioms of prevention. ‘Prevention is better than cure’ has a long pedigree in both fields. 17th century jurist Sir Edward Coke observed that ‘preventing justice excelleth punishing justice’. A century later, Sir William Blackstone similarly stated that ‘preventive...
Contesting Economic and Social Rights in Ireland
Constitution, State and Society, 1848–2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book presents a political understanding of socio-economic rights by contextualising constitution-makers' and judges' decision-making in terms of Ireland's rich history of people's struggles for justice 'from below' between 1848 and the present. Its theoretical framework incorporates critical...
Faithful Neighbors
Christian-Muslim Vision and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
• Virginia Theological Seminary-based program • Inspiring stories of interfaith conversation and partnership around the corner and around the world • Episcopalians and Muslims telling their stories, so you can tell yours Based on the strong, on-going work of the Center for Anglican Studies at...
Interreligious/Interfaith Studies
Defining a New Field
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A groundbreaking academic anthology that explores the emerging field of interreligious/interfaith studies
As it is now backed by an impressive number of courses, academic programs and centers, faculty positions, journals and publications, funding, and professional partnerships, there is no...
China and the Asian Economies
Interactive Dynamics, Synergy and Symbiotic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
The global economy is currently going through a period of transformation that has seen Asia emerge as the most rapidly growing, industrializing and modernizing region in the world economy. Whilst the rest of the world struggled during the financial crisis of 2007-9, Asia played the role of a linchpin...
The Politics of Islamic Law
Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In The Politics of Islamic Law, Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of ‘Islamic law.’ She demonstrates that not only is Islamic law not the shari’ah, its present institutional...
Prosecutors and Democracy
A Cross-National Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Focusing on the relationship between prosecutors and democracy, this volume throws light on key questions about prosecutors and the role they should play in liberal self-government. Internationally distinguished scholars discuss how prosecutors can strengthen democracy, how they sometimes undermine...
Beyond the Burning Times
A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
A fascinating dialogue between a Pagan and a Christian. Gus DiZerega, an American pagan and and an academic engages in debate with Philip Johnson, an Australian Christian theologian. The two debate questions such as the nature of spirituality, who or what is deity, how humans relate to the divine,...
by Jo M. Sekimonyo
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
What is the catalyzer of the ballooning the social, economic, and social gap between the gang of robber barons and captains of industry and the rest? By the end of the twentieth-century, every social, commerce and trade, and political constructs underwent more than rhinoplasties in a desperate effort...
L'Enfer C'est Lui
Génocide économique
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Le capitalisme est une histoire d`amour qui finit mal. Que penser des stériles combats de coqs entre les diverses divinités capitalistes de notre époque ? Vous devriez être aussi révulsés que moi à la vision de ces clowneries qui empêchent tout dialogue réel sur les inégalités économiques....