Religious issues and debates

Can war be justified?

The incursion of evil has always caused people to turn to the divine, to gods or to a god, in order to reorientate their life.

Since the beginning of the anthropology of pilgrimage, scant attention has been paid to pilgrimage and pilgrim places in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe.

American Christians, weary of decades of entrenched partisan feuding, are increasingly distancing themselves from politics.

Mother Teresa was one of the most written about and publicised women in modern times.

The intellectual and political elite of the West is nowadays taking for granted that religion, in particular Christianity, is a cultural vestige, a primitive form of knowledge, a consolation for the poor minded, an obstacle to coexistence.

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How did the Israeli military learn to cope with the ubiquity of media technologies that routinely document their power abuses?

Who are America's creationists?

The notion of a 'politics of religion' refers to the increasing role that religion plays in the politics of the contemporary world.

The South has always been one of the most distinctive regions of the United States, with its own set of traditions and a turbulent history.

Over the course of a career of more than forty years, Jonathan Z.

In this brilliant culmination of his seminal Powers Trilogy, now reissued in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Walter Wink explores the problem of evil today and how it relates to the New Testament concept of principalities and powers.

This study examines how the New Testament scriptures might form and foster intellectual humility within Christian communities.

There is a growing realization that religion plays a major role in development, particularly in the Global South.

This book offers a fully up-to-date and comprehensive guide to religion in Britain since 1945.

This book examines major conceptual challenges confronting freedom of religion or belief in contemporary settings.

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The Cognitive Science of Religion introduces students to key empirical studies conducted over the past 25 years in this new and rapidly expanding field.

This book examines recent forms of secularisation to demonstrate that we are now witnessing a "e;fourth secularisation"e;: the autonomy of lifestyles.

This edited collection brings together scholars from Canadian and international institutions to discuss educationalization, a trend in modern societies that involves transferring social responsibilities onto the school system.

Born into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early-1930s, Nelly Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the Holocaust.

Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions.

This volume studies the representation of religion in South Asian Anglophone literature of the twentieth and twenty-first century.

This thoroughly annotated document collection gives students and researchers an authoritative source for understanding the evolving political and legal relationship between church and state from colonial times to the present day.

This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans'' incomes, savings and net worth.

Republic to restoration cuts across artificial divides between periods and disciplines,often imposed for reasons of convenience rather than reality.

Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain.

John Owen was one of the most significant figures in Reformed Orthodox theology during the Seventeenth Century, exerting considerable religious and political influence in the context of the British Civil War and Interregnum.

A positive assessment of secularism and the possibilities it offers for a genuinely meaningful life without religion Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative—how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs.

It is said that the famous ninth century Chinese Buddhist monk Linji Yixuan told his disciples, "e;If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

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The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century.

Terrorists and peacemakers may grow up in the same community and adhere to the same religious tradition.

This volume examines biblical wisdom literature both in its historical context and as it relates to a host of contemporary themes, including overcoming social divisions, reading from a place of inclusion, healing from trauma, and challenging religious attitudes toward climate change and animals.

"e;Euchner's carefully researched and cogently argued study of morality politics in Europe adds an outstanding piece of research to the ever growing literature on religion and politics.

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More than a hundred years of trouble followed the land grant of half a million acres along the St.

The rise of popular social movements throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America in 2011 challenged two hegemonic discourses of the post-Cold War era: Francis Fukuyama's 'The End of History' and Samuel Huntington's 'The Clash of Civilizations.

Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism.

By redefining terms and language, the far-left controls discourse and alters Western civilization even to the extreme of exchanging that which was formerly nearly universally condemned for what is now nearly universally celebrated--the almost total desecration of the created order (Rom 1:18-32).

Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state of Haiti in 1804.

In an age of anxiety where reason is deified, what is the role of love?

This book examines a unified reinterpretation of Christianity by Hobbes, Locke, and Jefferson, and compares that to de Tocqueville''s analysis of changes.