Religious issues and debates

This edited volume explores the Israeli-Turkish relations in the 2000s from a multi-dimensional perspective providing a comparative analysis on the subjects of politics, ideology, civil society, identity, energy, and economic relations.

This book discusses youth unemployment in post-revolutionary Tunisia, paying particular attention to the so-called skill mismatch.

This book examines religious activism-Christianity, Buddhism, and Taoism-in China, a powerful atheist state that provides one of the hardest challenges to existing methods of transnational activism.

This book analyses the most sung contemporary congregational songs (CCS) as a global music genre.

The painful reality faced by refugees and migrants is one of the greatest moral challenges of our time, in turn, becoming a focus of significant scholarship.

This book examines ten reasons for global jihad today.

This collection addresses the perennial philosophical and theological issues of human finitude and the potentiality for evil.

This book provides an overview of the sudden ascendancy of Islamism in post-Mubarak Egypt and a detailed history of the power grab by the Muslim Brotherhood.

This book explores the Chinese Catholic Church as a whole as well as focusing on particular aspects of its activities, including diplomacy, politics, leadership, pilgrimage, youths, and non-Chinese Catholics in China.

This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott's desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss's recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment.

This volume is a collection of essays on medieval Spain, written by leading scholars on three continents, that celebrates the career of Thomas F.

This book investigates the relation between Durkheim's sociology, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of social sciences.

This book examines the changing dynamics of stabilisation efforts in the Middle East and North Africa.

Pope Francis confuses many observers because his papacy does not fit neatly into any pre-established classificatory schemes.

A century after his presidency, Woodrow Wilson remains one of the most compelling and complicated figures ever to occupy the Oval Office.

Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, "e;I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up.

In April 1909, two waves of massacres shook the province of Adana, located in the southern Anatolia region of modern-day Turkey, killing more than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000 Muslims.

This book analyses the state of development of Muslims at the regional level.

The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst.

This book argues that Political Islam in the Iranian context evolved into three main schools of thought during the 1960s and 1970s: Jurisprudential Islam led by Ayatollah Khomeini, Leftist Islam led by Shariati, and Liberal Islam led by Bazargan.

It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor.

Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking world.

How successful are HIV prevention programs?

Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, articulated a vision of a community that embraced sacrifice over the needs of the individual; the result was one of the most successful utopian experiments of nineteenth-century America.

This volume, dedicated to the memory of Gerard Mannion (1970-2019), former Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies at Georgetown University, explores the topic of changing the church from a range of different theological perspectives.

Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague.

The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination.

In The Faith of a Seeker, the author draws upon his lifelong search for truth and understanding, trying to face squarely the difficult issues of faith and science and those raised by biblical criticism.

An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of human life: dharma,artha, and kama.

“An engaging, sophisticated yet accessible, account of the Orthodox Church—its self-understanding, theology, sacramental life, and history.

From the bestselling authors of The Rise of Babylon and The ISIS Crisis, the essential guide for Christians about what Bible prophecy foretells concerning current events in the Middle Eastespecially the rise of ISIS and the resurgence of Russiawhile providing a way to find peace and hope in the face of end times concerns.

Images of modern refugees often invoke images of the infant Christ and the historical circumstances of the holy family's flight to Egypt in the face of persecution.

More than ever, politics seem to be driven by discord.

A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.

Swim Against the Tide of a Sinking CultureIn No Reason to Hide, bestselling author Erwin W.

AI is becoming ubiquitous.

Is it true that all we need is love?

Do you want to love your neighbor as yourself but don't know where to start?

This book provides a sociological understanding of transformations within Eastern Orthodoxy and the settlement of Orthodox diasporas in Western Europe.

This book discusses the current reality and the future of ethnic Rohingyas in Myanmar.

This book analyzes the transformation of ethnic and religious political parties in Turkey with special focus on their role in the country's democratization and regime changes.

A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the United States.

Are robots going to take my job?

The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing triumphs.

What might we learn if the study of ethics focused less on hard cases and more on the practices of everyday life?

A breakthrough in the theology of parenthood, integrating Catholic social thought and social scientific studies of child well-being in order to offer a more diverse and inclusive interpretationThe Catholic Church has a long and diverse history of tolerating various child-rearing arrangements.

This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge.