Religious issues and debates

Sir,-The enclosed ancient manuscript I found some years ago in a grocer's shop in this town, of whom I obtained it with a view of saving what remained from destruction.

Ever since PlatosRepublic, the study of statecraft has been a staple of Western discourse, and so has the study of particular leaders.

Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are "e;meaningful events.

Gandhi famously argued that society's moral measure was its treatment of the vulnerable.

The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era.

The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct.

Humanity lives inside 4 unyielding constraints, the speed of light, conservation of mass-energy, inefficiency in conversion of heat to work, and the law of demand.

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Through sections containing overview essays and reference entries related to particular religions, this resource explores the rise of religious violence, hate crime, and persecution around the world.

An engaging and accurate introduction to the Protestant Reformation, told in the words of those who led it, opposed it, and lived it.

After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party Ennahdha allowed previously silenced religious and conservative ideas about women s right to abortion to be expressed.

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A powerful indictment of Pope Benedict and the Vatican, and a searing assessment of the future of the Catholic Church.

The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasingly relevant in ordinary life, beyond the institutional public spaces where it traditionally developed.

With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms.

While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe.

Im März 1883 hielt der Religionswissenschaftler Ernest Renan in Paris einen Vortrag über "den Islam und die Wissenschaft".

Presenting religion as journalism's silent partner, From Yahweh to Yahoo!

The SCM Core Text, "e;Christianity & Science"e; provides an advanced introduction to the lively debate between the relative truth claims made by science and the absolute truth claims made by religions, and Christianity in particular.

Although scholars have long studied how Muslims authenticated and transmitted Muhammad's sayings and practices (hadith), the story of how they interpreted and reinterpreted the meanings of hadith over the past millennium has yet to be told.

Paul Tillich (1886-1965) is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century.

Hizmet Means Service examines Hizmet, a Turkey-based but global movement dedicated to human service.

In this book you will be challenged to look at Pentecost through different eyes than perhaps you have before.

If any single word in the Christian vocabulary captures our relationship to--and responsibility for--the environment, that word is stewardship.

Born in 1918 into a family of Oregon pioneers, merchants, and businessmen, skinny and shy Craig Hudson always felt he was destined for other things.

Few words inspire more fear in Americans these days than jihad.

Debating or making speeches, American politicians invariably cite tenets of Christian faitheven as they unfailingly defend the liberal principles of tolerance and religious neutrality that underpin a pluralistic democracy.

For nearly a century, the worldwide anthroposophical movement has been a catalyst for environmental activism, helping to bring to life many modern ecological practices such as organic farming, community-supported agriculture, and green banking.

This study of religion and violence "e;forces us to reexamine some of our most cherished self-images of modern liberal democratic societies"e; (Charles Taylor).

Morgan Deane, a military historian and former Marine sustains the authenticity of the Book of Mormon as an ancient document and shows how text contains a strong and distinctive voice on military matters that should be taken seriously by modern readers and even policy makers and generals.

Star Death is a science-based fiction book depicting "e;sun death"e; as revealed by the Prophets and as depicted by the Apostle Peter in the Holy Bible.

Should society care about Christian morality?

Transmitting the Spirit in Missions: The History and Growth of the Church of Pentecost discourses on how Pentecostalism in general has been involved in the current growth, mission, and changing face of global Christianity.

While there are no easy answers to loss and death, Mature Grief offers a compass to anyone navigating the unknown and uncharted waters of grief.

This book offers a critical analysis of the use of language in mission studies.

Radical Orthodoxy, whose founding father is John Milbank, claims that God has been pushed to the margins in modernity and that a false and misleading neo-theology has taken hold that needs to be revisited and contested.

The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom offers theoretical, historical, and legal perspectives on religious freedom, while examining its meaning as an experience, value, and right.

What does it mean, as a person of faith, to maintain and even strengthen one's physical body?

This book investigates the impact of Pentecostalism on the participation of women in business in Harare, Zimbabwe.

The increasing interest in postcolonial theologies has initiated a vital conversation within and outside the academy in recent decades, turning many "e;standard theologies"e; on their head.

We all say that we care about children.

In just over one hundred years, the Pentecostal-charismatic movement has transformed world Christianity.

Twenty-first-century Christians in the West crave comfort, affluence, freedom from pain, and even power.

The modern restorative justice movement, perhaps one of the most important social movements of our time, was born in a Christian home to Christian parents, specifically to Christian peace workers striving to put their faith into action in the public arena.

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.

Even casual acquaintances of the Bible know that the Truth shall set you free, but in the pursuit of that Truth in higher education--particularly in Christian or Jewish seminaries--there are often many casualties suffered along the way.

With an interdisciplinary approach, Edwards utilizes literature, aesthetics, world religions, and continental philosophy as avenues into the theology of natural beauty.

An international cast of theologians come together in this volume to offer essays in tribute to the late Stanley J.

God Is Here to Stay offers new insights into one of humankind's most profound questions: Does God exist?

Is religion a source of political stability and social continuity, or an agent of radical change?