Religious issues and debates

Through a close analysis of religious believers'' discourse, this book shows how beliefs and practices change over time in interaction.

Rebirth and the Stream of Life explores the diversity as well as the ethical and religious significance of rebirth beliefs, focusing especially on Hindu and Buddhist traditions but also discussing indigenous religions and ancient Greek thought.

Examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job through an Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective.

After Adolph Ochs purchased The New York Times in 1896, Zionism and the eventual reality of the State of Israel were framed within his guiding principle, embraced by his Sulzberger family successor, that Judaism is a religion and not a national identity.

This book explores what the European Union (EU) does to religion and what religion does to the EU.

America is at a crisis point, and its future depends on you.

As ecological degradation continues to threaten permanent and dramatic changes for life on our planet, the question of how we can protect our imperiled Earth has become more pressing than ever before.

Mark C.

Since the 1990s, most African economies and public spheres have been liberalised, and new civil society actors have emerged.

This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of Eastern Christian churches in Europe, the Middle East, America, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Religion as Securitization in Central and Eastern Europe examines the significance of securitization theory as a reference point in understanding current religious, socio-cultural, and political processes in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics.

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

This book interrogates the patterns and discursive structures that have generated the seeming urgency of Muslims' integration.

Most of us believe everything happens for a reason.

The book introduces a theoretical framework to understand the role of religious leaders in conflict transformation and peacebuilding.

The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars.

This book critically examines the intersection of religion, public health and human security in Nigeria.

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.

In recent years, an internal debate has arisen in Saudi Arabia on the legitimacy of Saudi religion and the foundations of Islam.

Moral Leadership tells you all you need to know to lead.

This fully revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the many theories of religion and politics and provides students with an accessible, in-depth guide to the subject's most significant debates, issues, and methodologies.

Despite widespread persecution, Orthodox churches not only survived the Cold War period but levels of religiosity in Orthodox countries remained significant.

Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures?

John Howard Yoder was one of the major theologians of the late twentieth century.

Today, a billion-dollar-a-year polling industry floods the media with information.

For many in the West, Islam has become a byword for terrorism.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation.

This book unpacks the history of British-Israelism in the UK.

This book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with religion.

The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion.

Unlike traditional references that recount political and military history, this encyclopedia includes entries on a wide range of aspects related to daily life during the medieval crusades.

In 2011 the U.

Most Wesleyan-Holiness churches started in the US, developing out of the Methodist roots of the nineteenth-century Holiness Movement.

Culture and Politics provides a comprehensive introduction to the enduring phenomenon of culture and its impact on contemporary society and politics.

In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history.

Engaging variously with the legacy of Paul L.

Missio Dei by its very nature requires the church to come to terms with the exercise of power, both internally and externally, as it confronts the world.

This book reconstructs the connection between religion and migration, drawing on post-colonial perspectives to shed light on what religion can contribute to migrant encounters.

The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars.

In On Religious Diversity Robert McKim distinguishes and examines a number of possible responses to the knowledge of diverse religious traditions that is available to all of us today.

Sharia has been a source of misunderstanding and misconception in both the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.

Answering the hard and painful questions in a sexually confused world.

In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil.