Religious issues and debates

When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power.

Leaving his abusive Irish boarding school after eight long years, Patrick Touher thought his troubles were over.

Based on ethnographic research by an interdisciplinary team of scholars and activists, Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana illuminates the role that religion plays in the civic and political experiences of new migrants in the United States.

The re-emergence of religion as a significant cultural, social and political, force is not gender neutral.

Christianity is simple.

Are Muslims Distinctive?

Christian-Muslim dialogue grows increasingly important, but little is known about individual Muslim dialogical thinkers.

This volume engages with the relative absence and underrepresentation of female voices in the field of science and religion, which tends to be dominated by male academics who are in the later stages of their careers.

Forgiveness and politics are often assumed, both ordinarily and academically, to be unrelated and un-relatable.

What does it mean to become religiously queer or queerly religious in one's everyday life?

This book reconstructs the connection between religion and migration, drawing on post-colonial perspectives to shed light on what religion can contribute to migrant encounters.

This book examines the origins of Australia's constitutional religious freedom provision.

Prayer is an important religious practice that is rarely studied from the perspective of politics - and yet it should be.

Faith orientates us towards transcendence; monotheistic belief supplies a lived environment for faith''s exploration and embodiment.

Maoism and Grassroots Religion explores grassroots religious life under and after Mao in Rui'an County, Wenzhou of southeast China, a region widely known for its religious vitality.

Engaging variously with the legacy of Paul L.

In this collection of meditations, Lococo reflects on the meaning of freedom, creation, and beauty, addressing the meaning of each to science, and, when met with science's recurring silence, offers theology as another way in.

When deciding what to do, is it best to treat one's own interests as more important than the interests of others, others' interests as more important than one's own, or one's own and others' interests as equally important?

Inspired by the current political moment around the globe in which uprisings, protests, revolutions, and movements are on the rise, this book examines the intersections between the Bible and activism.

Method in Theology stands with Insight as Bernard Lonergan's most important work.

The Preacher King investigates Martin Luther King Jr.

From one of America's best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows ';why, in light of our origins, humans are still special' (Edward J.

First published between 1913 and 1994, this 6 volume set examines the history of Islam in a variety of regions across the world.

"e;Paul Ramsey's provocative criticism sets the United Methodist bishops' peace pastoral in the context of a much broader discussion of the church's role in society.

As the world becomes increasingly globalised Islam faces some important choices.

This book assesses the quality of Czech democracy relative to both its postcommunist peers and older EU members.

This second volume is for the seasons of the Christian year (Advent through Pentecost).

Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization breaks new ground by describing the global economy and its effects from the perspective of an integrated theology of "e;the earth as primary revelation"e; and the institutional powers of this world.

What do Joseph, Joab, Jeremiah, and the Beatitudes have to do with a Christian young person in American foreign policy?

Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardA novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern worldReligion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe.

How do indigenous matters inform, irritate and advance postcolonial theologies and postcolonial biblical criticisms?

For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.

The 2006 elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council, the first in which both Fatah and Hamas fielded candidates, resulted in a resounding victory for Hamas.

Consistently Pro-Life is a book about killing.

Shari''a, Inshallah shows how people have used shari''a to struggle for peace, justice, and human rights in Somalia and Somaliland.

Examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job through an Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective.

This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shinto, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades.

With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "e;truth"e; in politics has become a game of interpretations.

Now revised and updated--John Lennox's acclaimed method of reading and interpreting the first chapters of Genesis without discounting either science or Scripture.

This two-volume set investigates the evangelical presence in America as experienced through digital media, examining current evangelical ideologies regarding education, politics, family, and government.

Among the Believers is V.

The relationship between the Adventist church and society at large has always been ambiguous.

American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism.

The period known as the fin de siecle - defined in this groundbreaking book as chiefly the period between1885 and 1901 - was a fluid and unsettling epoch of optimism and pessimism, endings and beginnings, aswell as of new forms of creativity and anxiety.

Originally published in 2000, the Encyclopedia of Religion and American Law, comprehensively describes and analyses important cases and legal controversies between religion and state.

Come to church or go to hell.

Winner of the Bethwell A.

Bishop Jakes weaves inspirational life lessons into this tender and touching tale, a thoughtful reflection on our actions throughout the giving season and all year-round.