Religious issues and debates

The Beach Boys are one of rock's most enduring and enigmatic groups, and while the band has been the subject of numerous biographies and other in-depth studies, there has been no focused evaluation of the religious and spiritual themes in their work.

After isolated terrorist incidents in 2015, the Chinese leadership has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs.

Ethics in Crisis offers a constructive proposal for the shape of contemporary Christian ethics drawing on a new and persuasive interpretation of the ethics of Karl Barth.

Structured directly around the specification of the OCR, this is the definitive textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level courses.

The Pearl of Greatest Price narrates the history of Mormonism's fourth volume of scripture, canonized in 1880.

The Dutch Reformed Church, it was said in apartheid South Africa, was the National Party at prayer, and indeed, given that the Bible was so fundamental to much of the legislation that governed the apartheid state, that apparently satirical description had the ring of truth.

With the growing farm-to-table movement and popularity of local farmers' markets, we are becoming more conscious of where our food originates.

How Barbara Jordan used sacred and secular scriptures in her social activismUS Congresswoman Barbara Jordan is well-known as an interpreter and defender of the Constitution, particularly through her landmark speech during Richard Nixons 1974 impeachment hearings.

Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive.

Congratulations to Luke Bretherton on winning the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing for Christianity and Contemporary Politics!

How does empire mould human subjectivity, for instance, and how does it affect the understanding of humans within the whole of creation?

Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West.

Though the current political climate might lead one to suspect that religion and medicine make for uncomfortable bedfellows, the two institutions have a long history of alliance.

This book studies the relationship between British government and faith groups in its international development agenda within and beyond the context of Brexit.

'The limits of radicalism are those which end not in chaos but in the breaking of fresh ground.

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This groundbreaking study focuses on a village called Te in a "e;Tibetanized"e; region of northern Nepal.

This Sacred Life redescribes the meaning of this world and the value and purpose of human life within it.

Freemasonry was a major cultural and social phenomenon and a key element of the Enlightenment.

Joyce Dalsheim's ethnographic study takes a ground-breaking approach to one of the most contentious issues in the Middle East: the Israeli settlement project.

Are humans composed of a material body and an immaterial soul?

Home to the largest Muslim minorities in Western Europe and Asia, France and India are both grappling with crises of secularism.

Is it possible to disagree politically and love unconditionally?

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.

In early modern Germany, religious conversion was a profoundly social and political phenomenon rather than purely an act of private conscience.

This book traces the evolution of religious attitudes in an important transitional period in Russian history.

A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soilSettled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish historybut many precedents among religious communities in the United States.

Why "e;the Muslim question"e; is really about the West and its own anxieties-not IslamIn the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence of the United States and Europe.

Rolle und Einfluss der Frauen im politischen Katholizismus wurden bislang wenig beleuchtet.

Winner of a 2013 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice AwardDrawing on conversations with hundreds of professors, co-curricular educators, administrators, and students from institutions spanning the entire spectrum of American colleges and universities, the Jacobsens illustrate how religion is constructively intertwined with the work of higher education in the twenty-first century.

Despite over 200 million adherents, Eastern Orthodox Christianity attracts little scholarly attention.

"e;God is eternal"e; is a standard belief of all theistic religions.

"e;What is the relevance of traditional religion in the world described by contemporary science?

Based on a constructive reading of Scripture, the apostolic and patristic traditions and deeply rooted in the sacramental experience and spiritual ethos of the Orthodox Church, John Zizioulas offers a timely anthropological and cosmological perspective of human beings as “priests of creation” in addressing the current ecological crisis.

Procreative Ethics addresses questions at the beginning of life from a point of view that is alternatively philosophical and Christian.

This book relates some of the major trends within religion and politics to offer a historical framework with which to assess their interactions and a point of departure for studies to come.

This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world.

This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for negotiating the protection of religious minorities within Islam.

This volume explores how nine different religious and secular traditions deal with pluralism, dissent, and the challenges these issues pose.

Religious or spiritual beliefs underpin many controversies and conflicts in the contemporary world.

There has long been a debate about implications of globalization for the survival of the world of sovereign nation-states, and the role of nationalism as both an agent of and a response to globalization.

This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.

Christian ethics is a most perplexing subject.

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Between the world of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Christianity there appears to be the widest difference.

How Machiavelli's Christianity shaped his political thoughtTo many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check.

Dear to the hearts of many Christians is the land of the Bible, which today is convulsed by strife.