Religious issues and debates

This book explores early modern ideas of chastity and their cultural, political, medical, moral and theological applications.

How safe is Turkey's liberal democracy?

Love in a Time of Climate Change challenges readers to develop a loving response to climate change, which disproportionately harms the poor, threatens future generations, and damages God's creation.

The Idea of Semitic Monotheism examines some major aspects of the scholarly study of religion in the long nineteenth century--from the Enlightenment to the First World War.

How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes?

Eric Bain-Selbo argues that the study of religion-from philosophers to psychologists, and historians of religion to sociologists-has separated out the ends or goals of religion and thus created the conditions by which institutional religion is increasingly irrelevant in contemporary Western culture.

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Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism.

The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable.

In this volume of The New Church's Teaching Series, Stephen Holmgren introduces us to the world of Anglican ethics and moral theology.

Each year, millions of tourists are drawn to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to experience first-hand the quintessential pastoral--both as an escape from urban life and as a rare opportunity to become immersed in history.

Until his death in 1877, Brigham Young guided the religious, economic, and political life of the Mormon community, whose settlements spread throughout the West and provoked a profound political, legal, and even military confrontation with the American nation.

Named by the International Bulletin of Missionary Studies as an Outstanding Book of 2014 for Mission StudiesOver the last four decades, evangelical scholars have shown growing interest in Christian debates over other religions, seeking answers to essential questions: How are we to think about and relate to other religions, be open to the Spirit, and at the same time remain evangelical and orthodox?

From Wall Street to Main Street, the moral toxicity in our country is alarming.

This important work offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Orthodox Church available, providing a detailed account of its historical development, as well as exploring Orthodox theology and culture Written by one of the leading Orthodox historians and theologians in the English-speaking world Offers an in-depth engagement with the issues surrounding Orthodoxy's relationship to the modern world, including political, cultural and ethical debates Considers the belief tradition, spirituality, liturgical diversity, and Biblical heritage of the Eastern Churches; their endurance of oppressions and totalitarianisms; and their contemporary need to rediscover their voice and confidence in a new world-order Recipient of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 award

Media reporting on Islam and Muslims commonly relate stories about terrorism, violence, or the lack of integration with western values and society.

Catholic polemical works, and their portrayal of Protestants in print in particular, are the central focus of this work.

The relationship between psychology and Christian theology has been one of the most important topics in the science and religion fields.

This book reviews Cabral's intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics.

This book analyzes the place and influence of religion in European politics.

In the wake of the protests that spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and early 2011, Islamist movements of varying political persuasions have risen to prominence.

The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations invites readers to deepen their understanding of the historical, social, cultural, and political themes that impact modern-day perceptions of interfaith dialogue.

Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre,Hate Speech and Academic Freedomtakes up issues that have consequently gained new urgency in the academy worldwide.

How can religion contribute to democracy in a secular age?

Although the Genocide Convention was already adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1945, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists emerged calling for military interventions to halt mass atrocities.

In exploring the connections between religion, violence and cities, the book probes the extent to which religion moderates or exacerbates violence in an increasingly urbanised world.

Perhaps no other nation is or has ever been as religiously diverse as the United States.

Christianity in the United States has long been organized around congregations and denominations.

An unexpected fusion of two major western religious traditions, Judaism and Christianity, has been developing in many parts of the world.

Political culture refers to the basic values, ideas, beliefs and political orientations by which countries, societies, and whole regions are guided.

This book examines how major interpretations of quantum theory are progressing toward a more unified understanding and experience of nature.

The immigration of Muslims to Europe and the integration of later generations presents many challenges to European societies.

The past fifteen years have seen Indonesia move away from authoritarianism to a thriving yet imperfect democracy.

In this book, Febe Armanios explores Coptic religious life in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing closely on manuscripts housed in Coptic archives.

Most Jewish communities continue to cite intermarriage as the most serious threat to Jewish continuity.

The sway of Islam in political life is an unavoidable topic of debate in Turkey today.

The jury is out on the virtue of humility.

This book explores neoliberalism as an account of contemporary society and considers what this means for our understanding of religion.

Provides an understanding of Thomas Aquinas'' account of the passions, the elemental forces that affect human happiness.

Although commonly regarded as a prejudice against Roman Catholics and their religion, anti-popery is both more complex and far more historically significant than this common conception would suggest.

This book examines the current use of digital media in religious engagement and how new media can influence and alter faith and spirituality.

The politicization of Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism originated with the dual global dissemination of the nation-state alongside the western concept of religion.

New understandings of the middle order and of the post-1688 English Parliament have shifted the focus from Westminster to the constituencies in the study of eighteenth-century politics.