Religious issues and debates

Trans/formations is a new addition to "e;SCM's Controversies in Contextual Theology"e; series.

The work examines how the attitudes and preferences of various Christian groups in the United States can influence U.

Do you ever think you're forgetting how to talk about God?

During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W.

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WAS WÄRE, WENN ES EINE LÖSUNG FÜR ALLE PROBLEME GÄBE, DIE SICH UNS STELLEN?

This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion.

Können Religionen überhaupt etwas mit der Politik zu tun haben?

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance.

Beginning with Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, the term "e;religious right"e; entered the popular lexicon, coming to signify a politically and socially conservative form of Christianity that informs American conservatism to this day.

In its second edition, this extended and revised volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution.

Science and Religion: Edwin Salpeter, Owen Gingerich and John Polkinghorne is a collection of interviews being published as a book.

Study of church and state in the United States is incredibly complex.

Explores the role played by Athos in the spread of Orthodoxy and Orthodox monasticism throughout Eastern Europe and beyond.

Fear has taken on an outsized role in our current cultural and political context.

Bonhoeffer's theology continues to prove richly fruitful in the 21st century.

The book, based on memories of a native son and the research of a scholar, is an amalgam of descriptions and discussions, peppered with conversations, personal observations and an acute observer's reflections, focused on the fabric of life in the city of Lodz and its vicinity.

Science and the Eastern Orthodox Church explores core theological and philosophical notions and contentious topics such as evolution from the vantage point of science, Orthodox theology, and the writings of popular recent Orthodox critics as well as supporters.

Take the next step to confronting racism in relationships and in everyday life.

Psychology of religion, violence, and conflict resolution highlights the causes of intrareligious and interreligious violence, and proposes dual models for understanding the latter, for facilitating moral regeneration, universal peaceful coexistence, and holistic individual and collective flourishing.

Is Jesus the way to recover our humanity?

This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today's uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes.

Examines how race, money, and institution-building shape fights over the Bible and Christianity in US public life.

Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both positive and negative.

This is the first reader to gather primary sources from influential theorists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in one place, presenting the wide-ranging and nuanced theoretical debates occurring in the field of religious studies.

This work focuses on divine command, and in particular the theory that what makes something obligatory is that God commands it, and what makes something wrong is that God commands us not to do it.

Bestselling author Rosemary Ellen Guiley's easy-to-use, practical guide for opening to angelic guidance and wisdom, focusing on how to communicate with angels and how you know when you've got an answer.

Religiös beeinflusste, häufig gewaltsame Auseinandersetzungen prägen das Bild unserer Tage - Tendenz steigend!

Pursuing Justice in Africa focuses on the many actors pursuing many visions of justice across the African continenttheir aspirations, divergent practices, and articulations of international and vernacular idioms of justice.

The early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany.

This ground-breaking handbook provides multi-disciplinary insight into Chinese morality, cognition and emotion by collecting in one place a comprehensive collection of essays focused on Chinese morality by world-leading experts from more than a dozen different academic fields of study.

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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby sets out a radical vision for 21st century Britain in this updated paperback edition.

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

THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO EASTERN CHRISTIANITY Consistently highly readable and engrossing.

In a culture obsessed with law, judgment, and violence, this book challenges Christians to remember that Jesus urged his followers to judge no one, bring harm upon no one, and follow no law save the law of altruistic love.

Since the 2000 presidential election, debate over the role of religion in public life has followed a narrow course as pundits and politicians alike have focused on the influence wielded by conservative Christians.

This book demonstrates how discussions of Political Theology have been a constant feature throughout philosophical modernity and that they continue to impact contemporary political debates.

Religion, War, and Ethics is a collection of primary sources from the world''s major religions on the ethics of war.

This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris's landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history.

To talk about religion is to talk about politics, identity, terrorism, migration, gender, and a host of other aspects of society.

This book presents a crisis of religion and belief literacy to which education at every level is challenged to respond.

This book offers a critical and constructive analysis of the contribution of Jurgen Moltmann to the field of ecotheology.

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community.

Is the government ever justified in restricting offensive speech?

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.

In this volume, Elizabeth Phillips brings together scholarly essays on eschatology, ethics, and politics, as well as a selection of sermons preached in the chapels of the University of Cambridge arising from that scholarly work.