Religious issues and debates

The question of divine agency in the world remains one important unresolved underlying obstacle in the dialogue between theology and science.

Can Christianity and evolution coexist?

In the late 1970s when Mao's Cultural Revolution ushered in China's reform era, religion played a small role in the changes the country was undergoing.

Practicing Pilgrimage: On Being and Becoming God's Pilgrim People explores both the theological, cultural, and spiritual roots of Christian pilgrimage, and is a "e;how-to"e; book on doing pilgrimage in our suburban backyards, city streets, rural roads, churches, retreat centers, and our everyday life.

Examines how international context and domestic politics interact in producing state policies toward religious minorities in Turkey and France.

The 'War on Terror' ushered in a new era of anti-Muslim bias and racism.

Can science rule out God?

Ethisch-moralisches Lernen wird sowohl als diskursives als auch kritisches Lernen in sechzehn Thesen entfaltet und die Kontur eines Lernens anvisiert, das für religiöse Bildungsprozesse grundlegend ist.

Spectacles designed to capture our attention surround us.

George Bell remains one of only a handful of twentieth-century English bishops to possess a continuing international reputation for his involvement in political affairs.

The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasingly relevant in ordinary life, beyond the institutional public spaces where it traditionally developed.

Religionsphilosophie als wissenschaftliche Disziplin ist ein Ergebnis philosophischer Theologiekritik in der europäischen Aufklärungsepoche (um 1800).

In the distant future an enemy of Mankind is destroying space colonies, causing human expansion among the stars to come to a halt.

Randbemerkungen (1509/10).

This book analyses the formulation, interpretation and implementation of sharia in Pakistan and its relationship with the Pakistani state whilst addressing the complexity of sharia as a codified set of laws.

The first comprehensive study of rape – its images and its politics – at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.

August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote one play for every decade of the twentieth century that explored black life in America for the descendants of slaves.

Wholly Citizens addresses the relation between the church and the world in light of the Reformation teaching of the two realms—especially as presented by Luther.

In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy recent political and religious conflicts, attention to religious violence has increased exponentially.

Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart.

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This Element discusses the relationship between Christianity and evolutionary theory.

Carsten Leinhäuser ist katholischer Priester und setzt sich mal zornig, mal humorvoll dafür ein, dass die Kirche wieder wird, was sie einst war: ein Hoffnungsschimmer, ein Rettungsboot, agil, mutig, verständlich und greifbar.

John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion.

In both Europe and North America it can be argued that the associational and institutional dimensions of the right to freedom of religion or belief are increasingly coming under pressure.

John Calvin''s two kingdoms political thought offers a fresh paradigm for constructive Christian engagement in pluralistic liberal societies.

In Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators, historian Katherine Aron-Beller analyzes the common Christian charge that Jews habitually and compulsively violated Christian images, identifying this allegation as one that functioned alongside other anti-Jewish allegations such as ritual murder, blood libel, and host desecration to ultimately inform dangerous and long-lasting prejudices in medieval and early modern Europe.

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A black social gospel movement arose after the Civil War to mitigate the broken promises of reparations and the reestablishment of white supremacy.

Hosting the Stranger features ten powerful meditations on the theme of interreligious hospitality by eminent scholars and practitioners from the five different wisdom traditions: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic.

By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland.

Clergy have historically been represented as figures of authority, wielding great influence over our society.

Hilal Elver offers an in-depth study of the escalating controversy over the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves.

What is fundamentalism and what does it really amount to?

This book describes how the theological virtue of hope contributes to happiness in this life and not just the next.

While many introductory public administration textbooks contain a dedicated chapter on ethics, The Public Administration Profession is the first to utilize ethics as a lens for understanding the discipline.

While Protestant Christians made up only a small percentage of China's overall population during the Republican period, they were heavily represented among the urban elite.

Der Blick auf den kirchlich Anderen – wovon ist er geprägt?

Our relationship to future generations raises fundamental issues for ethical thought, to which a Christian theological response is both possible and significant.

Battles over creation or evolution have been perpetuated for years by vocal Christians and scientists alike.

Available now for the first time in English, the most important work of one of the great moderate political leaders of the Muslim world Rached Ghannouchi has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker.

This collection of original essays by scientists, theologians, religious studies scholars, and ethicists offers an authoritative, illuminating, and thought-provoking overview of the CRISPR controversy.

The Silencing of Slaves in Early Jewish and Christian Texts analyzes a large corpus of early Christian texts and Pseudepigraphic materials to understand how the authors of these texts used, abused and silenced enslaved characters to articulate their own social, political, and theological visions.

The first examination of predictive technology from the perspective of Catholic theologyProbabilistic predictions of future risk govern much of society.