Religious issues and debates

In this stunning novel, Coelho's unusual protagonist sets the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover.

A thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer.

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Rob Bell's bestselling book Love Wins struck a powerful chord with a new generation of Christians who are asking the questions church leaders have been afraid to touch.

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time-war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism-in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.

True crime in the American heartland.

This book provides a fascinating, unparalleled look at the Nation of Islam, including its history, the complexity of its views towards orthodox Muslims, women, and other minorities, and the trajectory of the group after the 1995 Million Man March.

This trio of volumes contains essays that explore vital existential, moral, or metaphysical issues surrounding the relationship between the sciences and the world's religions.

This book places the current wave of religion-based terrorism in a historical perspective, explaining why religion is associated with terrorism, comparing religion-based terrorism to other forms of terrorism, and documenting how religion-based terrorism is a product of powerful political, socioeconomic, and psychological forces.

Intended as a reference tool for college students, this book examines the origins of and controversies associated with birth control in the United States.

There are few episodes in American history as interesting and controversial as the Salem Witch Trials.

The powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw DogsJohn Gray draws on an extraordinary array of memoirs, poems, fiction and philosophy to make us re-imagine our place in the world.

An international community of Reformed churches emerged during the sixteenth century.

Told through heart-wrenching testimonies, photographs, and artwork of refugees fleeing their homelands, Desperately Seeking Asylum describes firsthand accounts of the harrowing and dangerous journey immigrants are willing to endure knowing that they might not even make it onto US soil.

In the wake of a bitter presidential campaign and in the face of numerous divisive policy questions, many Americans wonder if their country has split in two.

How Black Protestants in Chicago created Ethiopianism, a transnational religious movement against Western imperialismCity of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Black Protestants in Chicago created a transnational religious movement that connected the Black struggle for freedom in the United States to the global Black fight against Western imperialism.

Following Labour's defeat at the polls in 2015, and at time when the Party is attempting to redefine its meaning, values and even identity, there is an urgent need for fresh thinking.

The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia, 1735-1738 considers the fascinating early history of a small group of men commissioned by trustees in England to spread Protestantism both to new settlers and indigenous people living in Georgia.

Although Religious Education (RE) is a legal requirement in UK schools, it is an oft-neglected and misunderstood subject.

In Patriotism and Piety, Jonathan Den Hartog argues that the question of how religion would function in American society was decided in the decades after the Constitution and First Amendment established a legal framework.

In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared British bid to use Spanish Florida as a base from which to attack the United States, and with the further hope of acquiring that territory for America.

Featuring a moment in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England before the disciplinary divisions that we inherit today were established, Empiricist Devotions recovers a kind of empiricist thinking in which the techniques and emphases of science, religion, and literature combined and cooperated.

The Reformation of the 16th century was a complex and multifaceted political, social, cultural, and religious process.

Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled.

In Faith and Politics in the Public Sphere, Ugur explores the politics of religious engagement in the public sphere by comparing two modernist conservative movements: the Mormon Church in the United States and the Gulen movement in Turkey.

Angels, Spirits, principalities, powers, gods, Satanthese, along with all other spiritual realities, are the unmentionables of our culture.

Are we alone in the universe?

What if everything we think we know about reality is just a tiny fraction of what actually exists?

Media and the Spirit of Populism explores the role of contemporary media in the formation, dissemination, and circulation of the spirit of populism.

Por siglos, el secularismo agresivo ha intentado conseguir el lugar que Dios y la ciencia una vez ocuparon en la sociedad occidental.

Media and the Spirit of Populism explores the role of contemporary media in the formation, dissemination, and circulation of the spirit of populism.

After October 7, 2023, the fallout of the war in Gaza has gone beyond Israel and Palestine.

After October 7, 2023, the fallout of the war in Gaza has gone beyond Israel and Palestine.

What if trusting yourself was the most powerful act of all?

Las religiones de origen oriental han encontrado en Argentina un terreno fertil para su desarrollo y transformacion.

El diaconado sigue siendo un desafío vivo para la Iglesia, tanto en la reflexión como en la acción.

"Si quieres construir un barco -escribía Saint-Exupéry-, no reúnas a los hombres para cortar leña, dividir las tareas y dar órdenes, sino enséñales el anhelo del mar vasto e infinito".

Education after October 7: Essays about Teaching and Learning in the Jewish Diaspora is the first book dedicated to exploring how the October 7, 2023, terror attacks affected teaching and learning about Israel in the Jewish diaspora.

Deutschland hat lange an der Wehrpflicht festgehalten und gehörte zu den letzten Ländern in Europa, die diese mit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges und dem Ausrufen der Friedensdividende ausgesetzt und sich für eine Freiwilligenarmee entschieden haben.

"Gott spricht: Siehe, ich mache alles neu!

In einer zunehmend säkularen Welt steht das Christentum oft in der Kritik.

El piadoso Israelita esperaba en el Señor como el centinela aguardaba la aurora (Sal 130,6).

La obra aborda de manera multidisciplinar las transformaciones de las creencias religiosas en el contexto de procesos acelerados de desinstitucionalización en la era digital, que involucran a la teología, la pastoral y la espiritualidad.

El lector tiene en sus manos una rara obra de erudicion y audacia.

Historia del hecho religioso, historia de la prensa evangelica, historia intelectual del presbiterianismo, historia de la sociabilidad religiosa, este libro da cuenta de las tacticas y estrategias evangelicas para hacerse un lugar en un pais y un periodo caracterizado por la hegemonia del poder letrado.

Francisco de America examina el respaldo del papado de Francisco a la Teologia de la Liberacion.

Estudio integral y muy original del significado de Barth en la teología latinoamericana.