Interfaith relations

In recent years, Protestant churches and denominations have become increasingly concerned with issues of racial diversity and reconciliation.

Recent studies have examined martyrdom as a means of constructing Christian identity, but until now none has focused on Stephen, the first Christian martyr.

The religious landscape of the United States has changed dramatically in recent decades.

Peter Slade examines Mission Mississippi's model of racial reconciliation (which stresses one-on-one, individual friendships among religious people of different races) and considers whether it can effectively address the issue of social justice.

Religious pluralism is everywhere in today's politics.

For most of the twentieth century, the most critical concerns of national security have been balance-of-power politics and the global arms race.

In Race: A Theological Account, J.

The Copts of Egypt are the largest Christian minority in the Middle East.

The Vatican II Council of 1965 signaled a new era in the relationship of the Jewish and Christian faiths.

By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland.

In theological discourse, argues Hugh Nicholson, the political goes "e;all the way down.

Perhaps no other nation is or has ever been as religiously diverse as the United States.

How can the world's many religions overcome ideological differences and come together to promote understanding, justice and peace?

Are Islam and the West on a collision course?

Lavishly illustrated with over 100 color photographs, Places of Faith takes readers on a fascinating religious road trip.

Recent studies have examined martyrdom as a means of constructing Christian identity, but until now none has focused on Stephen, the first Christian martyr.

In recent years, Protestant churches and denominations have become increasingly concerned with issues of racial diversity and reconciliation.

Sam Cherribi is a Moroccan Muslim who became a naturalized Dutch citizen and member of the Dutch Parliament.

In On Religious Diversity Robert McKim distinguishes and examines a number of possible responses to the knowledge of diverse religious traditions that is available to all of us today.

New challenges that emerged in the postwar era have given rise to ongoing debate about the place of religion in public life, in the United States and in other established democracies, and this debate has dramatically reshaped the way scholars, policymakers, and religious leaders think about political theology.

The religious landscape of the United States has changed dramatically in recent decades.

Are Islam and the West on a collision course?

In Race: A Theological Account, J.

For most of the twentieth century, the most critical concerns of national security have been balance-of-power politics and the global arms race.

There exists today a rich and abounding diversity of religions in the world-a diversity with respect to both belief and practice.

Perhaps no other nation is or has ever been as religiously diverse as the United States.

Peter Slade examines Mission Mississippi's model of racial reconciliation (which stresses one-on-one, individual friendships among religious people of different races) and considers whether it can effectively address the issue of social justice.

Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith.

Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith.

What is anti-Semitism?

What is anti-Semitism?

Egypt's Christians, the Copts, are the largest Christian community in the Middle East.

How does the Qur'an depict the religious Other?

To the dismay of religious leaders, study after study has shown a steady decline in affiliation and identification with traditional religions in America.

To the dismay of religious leaders, study after study has shown a steady decline in affiliation and identification with traditional religions in America.

Religious pluralism is everywhere in today's politics.

This volume offers an in-depth study of key themes common to the Hindu and Christian religious traditions.

In ancient Jewish culture the ideas of purity and impurity defined the socio-cultural boundaries between Jews and Gentiles.

The Vatican II Council of 1965 signaled a new era in the relationship of the Jewish and Christian faiths.

For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP.

For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP.

This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity.

Many studies written about the Jewish-Christian relationship are primarily historical overviews that focus on the Jewish background of Christianity, the separation of Christianity from Judaism, or the medieval disputations between the two faiths.

Since its inception, Islam and its civilization have been in continuous relationships with other religions, cultures, and civilizations, including not only different forms of Christianity and Judaism inside and outside the Middle East, Zoroastrianism and Manicheism, Hinduism and even Buddhism, but also tribal religions in West and East Africa, in South Russia and in Central Asia, including Tibet.

The mid-seventeenth century saw both the expansion of the Baptist sect and the rise and growth of Quakerism.

Black Zion explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces.

The Copts of Egypt are the largest Christian minority in the Middle East.

Recent years have seen a meteoric rise in the power and importance of organized religion in many parts of the world.

This book deconstructs the boundaries between Jewish and Christian cultures while at the same time redefining what it means to be Jewish in relation to Christianity in the twentieth century.

In the well-worn debates about religious pluralism and the theology of religions there have been many different rubrics used to account for, comprehend, or engage with the religious other.