Religious issues and debates

Everything evolves, science tells us, including the public language used by scientists to sustain and perpetuate their work.

This book presents a novel approach to the study of contemporary social movements and activism.

Throughout history, the world's great religions have been profoundly shaped by their encounters with successive empires.

For the last five decades, Rodney Stark has been one of sociology's most prolific and important scholars of religion.

Is Jesus the way to recover our humanity?

In Jewish Justice David Novak explores the continuing role of Judaism for crafting ethics, politics, and theology.

This book engages with the philosophical thought of French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.

When talking about the relationship between religion and flourishing, the first task is to frame the question theologically and philosophically, and this entails taking seriously the potential challenges latent in the issue.

In 1969, at the height of the Cold War, a group of British Christian researchers and activists, moved by the persecution of believers in the Soviet Union, established an organization dedicated to the study of religion under communism.

Why are white evangelicals the most skeptical major religious group in America regarding climate change?

Religion Extended contributes to discussions of aspects of religion that go beyond the epistemology of belief, incorporating other states such as understanding, emotion, knowledge of persons, knowledge-how, as well as practice.

This book explores the contemporary Judaization of evangelical Christianity through the ethnography of a Messianic congregation in Northern Ireland.

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The demise of socialism in Southeast Europe coincided with the breakout of wars and genocidal violence against local Muslim populations.

Freedom of Religion protected in America for two hundred years by the Bill of Rights has become more a source of divisiveness than the binding force it used to be in American life.

Understanding Woodrow Wilson's approach to international relations requires acknowledgment of his Protestant faith.

This book engages with the philosophical thought of French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.

Embodied Pedagogies in the Study of Religion provides a forum for creative, renowned teachers (professors and instructors) of religion to discuss ways in which they think about the embodied dimension of teaching and learning specific to their areas of expertise and how they have shaped their curriculum to engage and reflect their thinking.

In a profound revelation of what truly undergirds modern political rhetoric, Morgan Marietta shows that the language of America's leaders often relies on deep, even sacred, ideals.

Sunni and Shia in Iran, Iraq, or Syria.

Practical Applications of Transforming the Attachment Relationship to God discusses four distinct attachment relationships to the God of personal spiritual experience and considers how each of these relationships has implications for working with clients in psychotherapy.

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Why are we so restless?

Happiness and human flourishing were common topics among philosophers in the ancient world, from Aristotle to Seneca and beyond.

How can we make sense of the persistent political instability in Guinea-Bissau, a small country that has hosted extensive international interventions and made world news headlines over several decades?

Herman Bavinck's four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century.

A biblical response to living in a platform society.

Between the Ideal and the Real describes why Iraq state-building and democratic transformation failed by offering a very new, and unusual, perspective, away from the usual blame assigned to the US that has become part of the "e;conventional wisdom"e; about Iraq and the Middle East.

Religion Extended contributes to discussions of aspects of religion that go beyond the epistemology of belief, incorporating other states such as understanding, emotion, knowledge of persons, knowledge-how, as well as practice.