Religious issues and debates

No question has been as persistently nettling as the proper relationship of Christians and the Christian church to political power, and the results have often been calamitous.

The Saudi "e;ulama"e; are known for their strong opposition to Shi'a theology, Shi'a communities in Saudi Arabia, and external Shi'a influences such as Iran and Hezbollah.

Despite its title, this is not a morbid or depressing book, but one that it is hoped will bring encouragement and comfort to all who are experiencing life's difficulties, even to the point of wondering if they wish to continue living.

Significant advances in science bring new understandings of the human as a unity of mind, body and world and calls into question the deep-seated dualistic presuppositions of modern theology.

This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression.

The enigmatic relation between religion and science still presents a challenge to European societies and to ideas about what it means to be 'modern.

Like many Americans, Paul Wallace grew up as a church-going Christian.

An indispensable guide to Islamic political thought from Muhammad to the twenty-first centuryThe first encyclopedia of Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, this comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference provides the context needed for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond.

This volume puts Barth and liberation theologies in critical and constructive conversation.

Argues that fundamentalism in religion and law threatens democratic values, and discusses Obama''s resistance to originalism.

Are there dinosaurs in the Bible?

stellar cast of leading theologians and scientists debating science and religion in the public arena.

The church has a duty to fight corruption and injustice.

For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy.

In Wild Experiment, Donovan O.

Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.

Christianity and politics cannot and should not be divided.

The 1893 Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, presented the Latter-day Saints with their first opportunity to exhibit the best of Mormonism for a national and an international audience after the abolishment of polygamy in 1890.

Based on extensive original research at the local level, this book explores the relationship between Russian Orthodoxy and politics in contemporary Russia.

The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon left us stunned, angry, and uncomprehending.

The nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Max Perry Mueller argues, illuminates the role that religion played in forming the notion of three "e;original"e; American racesred, black, and whitefor Mormons and others in the early American Republic.

This book provides a critical discussion on how different discourses of nationalism in the Turkish media construct contested concepts of New Turkey's identity, which has great importance for mapping modern Turkey's place in the world of nations.

The landscape of the Middle East has changed dramatically since 2011, as have the political arena and the discourse around democracy.

Christians have an increasingly complex and often conflicted relationship with technology.

The dialogue between theology and science has blossomed in recent decades, but particular beliefs about Jesus Christ have not often been brought to the forefront of this interdisciplinary discussion even in explicitly Christian contexts.

The comparative method is an integral part of religious studies.

It is often claimed that we live in a secular age.

Sunni Islam has played an ambivalent role in Turkey's Kurdish conflict--both as a conflict resolution tool and as a tool of resistance.

What is the nature of the Qur'an?

This volume situates itself within the context of the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that is dedicated to the study of the complex interactions between science and religion.

Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia.

Terrorism, radicalization and violent extremism dominate sociological, political and cultural concerns in today's polarized social and political world.

The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history 'A first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of their faith.

The biblical foundations of a Christian communal movement that has stood the test of five centuries.

In recent years, Islam whether via the derivatives of 'Political Islam' or 'Islamism' has come to be seen as an 'activist' force in social and political spheres worldwide.

This scholarly biography and collection of writings by and about an early leader of the Hutterites, a pacifist communal Anabaptist group, sheds light on a persecuted religious minority during the Reformation.

Philip L.

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.

Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures?

This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature, and what this reveals about its medicine and religion.

In recent years, there has been an increased attention to temporality in political theory, and such attention is sorely needed.

Finalist, Best LGBTQ Nonfiction Book, Lambda Literary Awards 2020 On October 14, 1998, five thousand people gathered on the steps of the U.

What does it mean to understand the world religiously?

The subject of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East and indeed in the West attracts much academic and media attention.

As a Christian who has functioned at the interface of biomedical science and faith for the whole of his professional life, Gareth Jones is aware of the tensions and misunderstandings that frequently arise both inside and outside the church.

Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman?