Religious issues and debates

How the actions and advocacy of diverse religious communities in the United States have supported democracy's development during the past centuryDoes religion benefit democracy?

This book sheds new light on the religious and consequently social changes taking place in late antique Rome.

Orthodox Christianity is one of the world's major religions, and the Russian Orthodox Church is by far its largest denomination.

This book examines our own moral responsibilities for the distant harms of our market transactions, and the global consequences and costs.

The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time.

In Interstitial Soundings, Cynthia R.

One of leading figures of his day, Roger Sherman was a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence and an influential delegate at the Constitutional Convention.

How did pious medieval Muslims experience health and disease?

Sam Cherribi is a Moroccan Muslim who became a naturalized Dutch citizen and member of the Dutch Parliament.

This volume offers an original perspective on divine providence by examining philosophical, psychological, and theological perspectives on human providence as exhibited in virtuous human behaviours.

This volume is a response to Pope Francis' environmental encyclical Laudato Si'.

In his highly praised book Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith cast a revealing light on the role religion has played in presidential politics throughout our nation's history, offering comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives, politics, and policies of eleven presidents.

Religious freedom is now widely accepted as fundamental to any liberal democracy.

Theodore Roosevelt is well-known as a rancher, hunter, naturalist, soldier, historian, explorer, and statesman.

The Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early Christian Discourse adds new knowledge to the ongoing discussion of slavery in early Christian discourse.

 This handbook explores contemporary Mormonism within a global context.

Why do religion and science often appear in conflict in America's public sphere?

In May 2019, Narendra Modi won the world's largest election.

Examines the relationship between antisemitism and the practices of citizenship in a colonial context, focusing on experiences of Algerian Jews.

This book examines ten reasons for global jihad today.

Religion and religious nationalism have long played a central role in many ethnic and national conflicts, and the importance of religion to national identity means that territorial disputes can often focus on the contestation of holy places and sacred territory.

The Coherence of Theism investigates what it means, and whether it is coherent, to say that there is a God.

Does religion cause much of the world's violence?

John Howard Yoder is most famous for arguing in The Politics of Jesus that a sound reading of the New Testament demonstrates the abiding relevance of Jesus to social ethics.

This book focuses on Islamic constitutionalism, and in particular on the relation between religion and the protection of individual liberties potentially clashing with shari?

This book focuses on the question of how to understand conflict and its place in Catholic and Christian social ethics.

Granted that God may exist, how may God be defined in our time?

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.

If the physical constants, initial conditions, or laws of nature in our universe had been even slightly different, then the evolution of life would have been impossible.

In contemporary Western culture, the word "e;fetus"e; introduces either a political subject or a literal, medicalized entity.

Shortlisted for the American Academy of Religion's Book Award 2020 Imitating Christ in Magwi: An Anthropological Theology achieves two things.

Douglas Farrow seldom shies from controversy.

In this book, Julia Berger examines internal meaning-making structures and processes driving NGO behavior, identifying constructs from within a religious tradition that forge new ways of pursuing social change.

At present, human beings worldwide are using an estimated 115.

Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue follows the interaction between Jews and Christians through the ages in all its richness, complexity, and diversity.

This book examines American popular culture to demonstrate that celebrities have superseded religious figures as moral authorities.

God Is Here to Stay offers new insights into one of humankind's most profound questions: Does God exist?

Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse seeks to address the current gap in American public discourse between secular liberals and religiously committed citizens by focusing on the academic and public writing of millennial evangelical Christian students.

Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality brings together a diverse group of scholars, activists and public intellectuals to consider one of the most pressing issues of our time: increasing inequalities of income and wealth that grate against justice and erode the bonds that hold society together.

Freedom of religious belief is guaranteed under the constitution of the People's Republic of China, but the degree to which this freedom is able to be exercised remains a highly controversial issue.

In the days of Moses, blasphemy was the mortal offence of failing to respect the divine.

An astute study of Alfred Russel Wallace's path to natural theology.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of religious policy in Russia since the end of the communist regime, exposing many of the ambiguities and uncertainties about the position of religion in Russian life.