Religious issues and debates

Evangelical Protestantism has arguably become the fastest-growing religion in South America, if not the world.

The purpose of this study was to describe how the North Korean refugee understanding of evil can shape missionary practice in the Korean Peninsula.

Over the last few decades, our knowledge of how the human mind and brain works increased dramatically.

Physicienne reconnue et personnalité politique de premier plan en Tunisie, Faouzia Farida Charfi offre avec ce livre un vibrant plaidoyer pour la science et l’autonomie de la pensée.

Religions are a problem for human rights, and human rights are a problem for religions.

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

This book explores why Islam becomes politicized in some countries and not in others, comparing diverse cases including Turkey, Algeria, and Senegal.

Humans are unique in their ability to reflect on themselves.

Few vocations share more in common with preaching than stand-up comedy.

By dividing the creation of matter, energy, life, and mind into three big bangs, Holmes Rolston III brings into focus a history of the universe that respects both scientific discovery and the potential presence of an underlying intelligence.

No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology presents a work of philosophical theology that retrieves the Christian doctrine of creation from the distortions imposed upon it by positivist science and the Darwinian tradition of evolutionary biology.

Japan had developed a secular civilization long before going through its modern period, characterized by the officially-sanctioned unification of nationalism and state-worship that reached its apotheosis during World War II, followed by the economic growth-oriented post-war period.

This study of psychology and Catholicism aims to provide clarity in an area filled with emotion and opinion.

An examination of the meaning of neutrality in religion-state relations in the constitutional jurisprudence of the United States and Germany.

Our global ecological crisis demands that we question the rationality of the culture that has caused it: western modernity's free market capitalism.

This work focuses on divine command, and in particular the theory that what makes something obligatory is that God commands it, and what makes something wrong is that God commands us not to do it.

Empowered by the Brand New Congress initiative in 2018, evangelical pastor and progressive Republican Robb Ryerse embarked on a long-shot, grassroots congressional campaign against Steve Womack, one of the most powerful Republican incumbents in Washington, DC.

The election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of the United States was a watershed moment in American history.

Why It's OK to Be Amoral argues that self-righteous moralism has replaced religion as a source of embattled and gratuitous certainties.

This book focuses on government regulation of religious institutions in South Africa.

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas.

Christianity struggles to show how living on Earth matters for living with God.

Overcoming Toxic Emotions is a compelling theme to enrich the restorative justice literature on the complex tasks of relational repair in a transitional society.

This book investigates the intersection of theology and social theory in the work of JArgen Moltmann.

Under the auspices of top international commentators, The Freedom to do God's Will considers the global impact of fundamentalism on religious traditions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Mormonism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others.

God Speaks Science by David Johnson explores the molecular level of life through the lens of biochemistry and reveals the harmonious connections between science and faith.

Following the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, a group of politicians began to agitate for reform of England's "e;bloody code"e; of criminal statutes.

This book compares our contemporary preoccupation with ownership and consumption with the role of property and possessions in the biblical world, contending that Christian theology provides a valuable entry point to discussing the issue of private property-a neoliberal tool with the capacity to shape the world in which we live by exercising control over the planet's resources.

Lavishly illustrated with over 100 color photographs, Places of Faith takes readers on a fascinating religious road trip.

This book brings Maximus the Confessor's logoi doctrine into dialogue with modern-day evolutionary biology.

Religious freedom is a cherished American value, universal human right, and a Trump administration foreign policy priority.

It is communion Sunday at a mixed-race church.

This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.

This book addresses a lacuna in scholarship concerning Hannah Arendt's Augustinian heritage that has predominantly focused on her early work.

Religion has a significant effect on how Europeans feel about the European Union (EU) and has had an important impact on how people voted in the UK's 'Brexit referendum'.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

In the United States and Europe, an increasing emphasis on equality has pitted rights claims against each other, raising profound philosophical, moral, legal, and political questions about the meaning and reach of religious liberty.

This book focuses on oil politics and the development of nuclear technology in Iran, providing a broader historical context to understand Iran's foreign relations and nuclear policy.

Filipinos make up one of the largest immigrant groups in Canada and the majority continue to retain their Roman Catholic faith long after migrating.

Ambrose of Milan (340-397) was the first Christian bishop to write a systematic account of Christian ethics, in the treatise De Officiis, variously translated as "e;on duties"e; or "e;on responsibilities.

Why do humans who seem to be exemplars of virtue also have the capacity to act in atrocious ways?

The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics brings together two different but related disciplines; the first is contemplative or theoretical, asking what are the beliefs or doctrines that characterize Christianity, whilst the second is practical, asking what are the ethical practices that attend its teachings.

Indonesia is home to the oldest Mennonite community outside of Europe and North America.

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This book examines the interpretation and application of the right to freedom of religion and belief of new minorities formed by recent migration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC).

This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states.

Young people are doing faith differently.