Political campaigning and advertising

Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures.

In Politics, Taxes, and the Pulpit, Nina J.

After the reelection of George W.

When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shocked.

Buddhist violence is not a well-known concept.

Christianity in the United States has long been organized around congregations and denominations.

In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history.

Religious violence has become one of the most pressing issues of our time.

Islamophobia has been on the rise since September 11, as seen in countless cases of discrimination, racism, hate speeches, physical attacks, and anti-Muslim campaigns.

Are Muslims Distinctive?

Friendship is one of our most important social institutions.

In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history.

Religious violence has become one of the most pressing issues of our time.

Islamophobia has been on the rise since September 11, as seen in countless cases of discrimination, racism, hate speeches, physical attacks, and anti-Muslim campaigns.

Friendship is one of our most important social institutions.

Sayyid Qutb is widely considered the guiding intellectual of radical Islam, with a direct line connecting him to Osama bin Laden.

This book conceives of "e;religion-making"e; broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, knowledges, and institutions.

Taking Our Country Back presents the previously untold history of the uptake of new media in Democratic electoral campaigning over the last decade.

Religious Lessons tells the story of Zellers v.

Contemporary observers of politics in America often reduce democracy to demography.

This is a one-of-kind volume bringing together leading scholars in the economics of religion for the first time.

In this book, Febe Armanios explores Coptic religious life in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing closely on manuscripts housed in Coptic archives.

Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures.

The True Wealth of Nations arises from the conviction that implementing a morally adequate vision of the economy will generate sustainable prosperity for all.

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

Contemporary observers of politics in America often reduce democracy to demography.

Barack Obama's stunning victory in the 2008 presidential election will go down as one of the more pivotal in American history.

A primer on the current "e;Niebuhr revival"e; of the political left and right, this book traces the significance of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought for secular as well as deeply Christian minds.

The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice.

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

New challenges that emerged in the postwar era have given rise to ongoing debate about the place of religion in public life, in the United States and in other established democracies, and this debate has dramatically reshaped the way scholars, policymakers, and religious leaders think about political theology.

Are Muslims Distinctive?

Packaging the Presidency, Third Edition, is now completely updated to offer the only comprehensive study of the history and effects of political advertising in the United States.

Should prayer be allowed in public schools?

Europe's Angry Muslims traces the routes, expectations and destinies of immigrant parents and the plight of their children, transporting both the general reader and specialist from immigrants' ancestral villages to their new enclaves in Europe.

Barack Obama's stunning victory in the 2008 presidential election will go down as one of the more pivotal in American history.

John L.

For many Americans, Iran is our most dangerous enemy--part of George W.

The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice.

Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "e;the country's best social scientists"e; by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as "e;tremendously valuable.

The 1960 presidential election, won ultimately by John F.

John L.

After the reelection of George W.

During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W.

In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the International Declaration of Human Rights, a document designed to hold both individuals and nations accountable for their treatment of fellow human beings, regardless of religious or cultural affiliations.

Debates over the proper relationship between church and state in America tend to focus either on the founding period or the twentieth century.

For many Americans, Iran is our most dangerous enemy--part of George W.

How can a just peace be built in sites of genocide, massive civil war, dictatorship, terrorism, and poverty?

The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wisdom of Western societies, and it underlies many of our institutions and policies, from limits on the public role of religion to efforts to promote liberal democracy in the Middle East.

Scholars universally acknowledge the role that Christian belief played in the social movement engendered by Martin Luther King Jr.