Religious issues and debates

This book offers an historical and comparative profile of classical pentecostal movements in Brazil and the United States in view of their migratory beginnings and transnational expansion.

Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion takes a close look at Shakespeare's engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England.

This book, first ethnographic attempt, examines negated spaces, practices, and relationships that have been intentionally or unintentionally dismissed from academic and non-academic studies, articles, reports, and policy papers that investigate and debate the experiences of Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt.

This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the challenges faced by pastoral ministry in South African Pentecostalism as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as some interventions being made to manage these challenges.

In terms of practical-theology's critical reflection on marginalized people's wounds in a wider society, this book investigates the question, "e;How to proclaim the good news in response to first-generation Korean immigrants' contextual suffering in the United Sates?

This book analyzes the transformation of ethnic and religious political parties in Turkey with special focus on their role in the country's democratization and regime changes.

This book analyzes women entrepreneurs in Muslim countries who are using Islamic values to develop and run small businesses.

This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries.

This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world.

Northern Ireland presents a fundamental challenge for the sociology of religion - how do religious beliefs, attitudes and identities relate to practices, violence and conflict?

This book examines the post-9/11 God debate in the West.

This book seeks to understand white conservative Christians' support for Donald Trump, using their own words.

This book analyses French cultural policies in the face of what the French government perceives as a challenge to its Republican secular raison d'etre.

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace.

This edited collection evaluates the relationship between Marxism and religion in two ways: Marxism's treatment of religion and the religious aspects of Marxism.

This book explores the peacebuilding ideas and experiences of Maasai and Gusii women of faith in Kenya.

This book includes a number of distinct religious and secular views on the anthropological, ethical and social challenges of reproductive technologies in the light of human rights and in the context of global bioethics.

This book explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological.

This book addresses the field of populisms from a contemporary perspective.

This innovative volume is focused on the impact of religion on the realization of democratic citizenship.

This volume argues that theistic philosophy should be seen not as an "e;armchair"e; enterprise but rather as a critical endeavor to bring philosophy of religion into close contact with emerging sciences of religion.

This book examines the evolution of the Catholic vote in the United States and the role of Catholic voters in the 2020 national elections more specifically.

The book examines the nexus between political and religious thought within the Prussian old conservative milieu.