Religious issues and debates

Holy war, sanctioned or even commanded by God, is a common and recurring theme in the Hebrew Bible.

Ethics Matters introduces students and general readers to the business of making moral decisions, engaging them in meaningful dialogue and inspiring them to find out more.

The sensational true story of Kenyan missionary John Kaiser: A murdered priest.

In the light of NATO's humanitarian war in Kosovo is it possible to understand or explain wars as an outcome of perceptions of rights?

Much of social and political thought over the last three centuries has been concerned with transgression and change, with progress and a focus on creating something 'better' than we have now.

How did the constitutional framers envision the role of religion in American public life?

Analyses Muslim-Muslim divisions within northern Nigeria, which are as important for understanding the violence in the region as those between Muslim and Christian (for which, see the companion volume, Creed and Grievance),with consequences for long-term peacemaking.

Jüdische Identität fußt auf der Religion.

Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue.

Mission and the Cultural Other is a decolonial critique of a too often failed missionary enterprise.

This book explores the religious identity of the indigenous Gujjars living in Rajaji National Park (RNP), Uttarakhand, India.

Freemasonry was a major cultural and social phenomenon and a key element of the Enlightenment.

In Northern Ireland, a once seemingly intractable conflict is in a state of transformation.

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

To celebrate Singapore's fiftieth anniversary for its independence from Malaysia in 2015, 35 students, academics and activists came together to discuss and write about pioneering Singaporean human rights activists and their under-reported stories in Singapore.

While French laicite is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy.

Community development is most effective and efficient when it is situated and led at the local level and considers the social behaviours, needs and worldviews of local communities.

Originally published in 1994, The Earth, Humanity and God discusses the relationship between science and religion.

Exploring both the intrapersonal (moral) and interpersonal (ethical) nature of death and dying in the context of their development (philosophical), Dying in a Transhumanist and Posthuman Society shows how death and dying have been and will continue to be governed in any given society.

After a generation of being a leading progressive voice both in the pulpit and in the print media of Springfield, Missouri, Roger Ray has collected one hundred of his essays on topics of social justice, religion, sex, economics, warfare, and race as a collection for use in college classrooms, in adult discussion groups, and as an enjoyable collection of thought provoking articles that once appeared on the opinion page of the Springfield NewsLeader.

This volume presents the findings of a number of empirical and theoretical studies on education about religions and worldviews (ERW) conducted in the Western societies of Britain, Ireland, Canada, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

When talking about the relationship between religion and flourishing, the first task is to frame the question theologically and philosophically, and this entails taking seriously the potential challenges latent in the issue.

In today's globalized world, halal (meaning 'permissible' or 'lawful') is about more than food.

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanislavski as the creative state.

Throughout the last several decades professional biblical scholars have adapted concepts and theories from the social sciences – particularly social and cultural anthropology – in order to cast new light on ancient biblical writings, early Jewish and Christian texts that circulated with the Scriptures, and the various contexts in which these literatures were produced and first received.

The American cultural landscape has shifted considerably since the 1990s.

The Catholic Church faces the challenge of maintaining its relevance in an increasingly secularized society.

Are atheists immoral?

'Aims to define nothing less than a basis for religiously sensitive civilisation.

Women struggle too.

A Conscious Endeavor is a synopsis of the social teachings and the concept of justice in the Old and New Testament.

This book traces the politics of the Shia in the oil-rich Eastern Province of Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia since the nineteenth century.

In secular Europe the veracity of modern science is almost always taken for granted.

Pitch the Christian dating rulebook out the window.

An evangelical minister recounts his journey from the religious right and American politics back to the loving messages of Jesus as seen in the gospels.

To contemporary sensibilities, the idea of divine judgment can seem at best off-putting, at worst a reason to jettison the biblical text altogether.

Prophets and Patriots takes readers inside two of the most active populist movements of the Obama era and highlights cultural convergences and contradictions at the heart of American political life.

The past quarter-century has seen an explosion of interest in the history of science and religion.

When scientists describe their results or insights as 'beautiful', are they using the term differently from when they use it of a landscape, music or another person?

Drawing from sources including the ethology of art and the cognitive science of religion this book proposes an improved understanding of both art and religion as behaviors developed in the process of human evolution.

What kind of experience might help to confirm and make sense of the puzzling belief in divine creation, so central to the main monotheistic religions?

The just war ethic emerges from an affirmative response to the basic question of whether people may sometimes permissibly intend to kill other people.

Research indicates that, on average, Americans change their religious affiliation at least once during their lives.