Religious issues and debates

Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France.

The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium.

Robin Gill's Textbook of Christian Ethics has been a popular course book with students and lecturers for over 20 years.

Blue Sky God interprets some new scientific theories with blue sky thinking to bring radical insights into God, Jesus and humanity, drawing also on some deep wells from the past in the writings of the early Christians.

Psychologist and ethicist Robert Rocco Cottone takes readers on a religious journey infusing postmodern philosophy positive psychology and ethics into a comprehensive vision of religion in the future.

The End of Roe assesses abortion and the American legal and political system in the aftermath of the United States Supreme Court's June 2022 decision in Dobbs v.

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'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York TimesWhy can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe?

The tenth parallel - the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator - is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide.

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

The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration.

The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduction.

In the course of its unique exploration, Spirituality for the Independent Thinker combines themes from three related fields: quantum physics, theology, and philosophy.

The fissures that have split the United Kingdom in the last decades have run through Northern Ireland.

Asian Christian Ethics provides an introduction for students to a range of key topics related to Christian ethics in Asia.

Asian Christian Ethics provides an introduction for students to a range of key topics related to Christian ethics in Asia.

Quel est le rôle du chrétien et de l’Église dans la société africaine francophone ?

Quel est le rôle du chrétien et de l’Église dans la société africaine francophone ?

L’Afrique a besoin que dirigeants et chrétiens de tous horizons redécouvrent leur identité et leur raison d’être dans toutes les sphères de la société.

L’Afrique a besoin que dirigeants et chrétiens de tous horizons redécouvrent leur identité et leur raison d’être dans toutes les sphères de la société.

The erosion of moral values on a global scale has left nations vulnerable to greed, power, and violence as the shaping forces of culture.

The erosion of moral values on a global scale has left nations vulnerable to greed, power, and violence as the shaping forces of culture.

Are Christians meant to experience suffering?

Are Christians meant to experience suffering?

When tyrants come to power and Christians remain silent, the church betrays its prophetic role in the public sphere.

When tyrants come to power and Christians remain silent, the church betrays its prophetic role in the public sphere.

In an age of increased globalization, Islam has found itself in crisis.

In an age of increased globalization, Islam has found itself in crisis.

A l'heure de la mondialisation acceleree, l'islam se trouve en crise.

A l'heure de la mondialisation acceleree, l'islam se trouve en crise.

For six decades, North American Mennonites have walked alongside African Independent Churches (AICs) as they have navigated their faith journey between the ancient traditions of the ancestors and the newer claims of Christ upon their lives.

For six decades, North American Mennonites have walked alongside African Independent Churches (AICs) as they have navigated their faith journey between the ancient traditions of the ancestors and the newer claims of Christ upon their lives.

The Church and Politics offers an introduction to African political theology that is thorough, practical, and deeply powerful.

The Church and Politics offers an introduction to African political theology that is thorough, practical, and deeply powerful.

The status of the global church is often that of a sociopolitical minority, at odds politically, religiously, and socially with the nations that encompass it.

The status of the global church is often that of a sociopolitical minority, at odds politically, religiously, and socially with the nations that encompass it.

Secular humanism has taken the world by storm - including the realm of African politics.

Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countries.

Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countries.

An award-winning astronomer and physicists spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiositythe foundations of scienceto study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change.

Wahhabism is often described as one of the most conservative branches of Islam and its fundamentalist approach seen as fuelling jihadist extremism.

Wahhabism is often described as one of the most conservative branches of Islam and its fundamentalist approach seen as fuelling jihadist extremism.

The television broadcasting culture of Pakistan was changed dramatically in 2002.

The television broadcasting culture of Pakistan was changed dramatically in 2002.

Borders - whether settled or contested, violent or calm, closed or open - may have a direct, and often acute, human impact.

Borders - whether settled or contested, violent or calm, closed or open - may have a direct, and often acute, human impact.

'Two Romes have fallen.

'Two Romes have fallen.

Since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Pakistan has faced the threat of terrorism in different forms and shapes.