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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.

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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.

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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.

Listening closely to the religious pitch in Rousseau's voice, Cladis convincingly shows that Rousseau, when attempting to portray the most characteristic aspects of the public and private, reached for a religious vocabulary.

Virtually every trouble spot on the planet has some sort of religious component.

The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs is a passionate yet analytical critique of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural fundamentalists.

What does it mean to be a Christian citizen of the United States today?

Islam's relationship to liberal-democratic politics has emerged as one of the most pressing and contentious issues in international affairs.

"e;Original and wide-ranging, Murphy's discerning and important study is another reminder that America is 'the nation with the soul of a church.

Globalization has spawned more active transnational religious communities, creating a powerful force in world affairs.

This study provides a general overview and a succinct analysis of the primary ways in which the Old Testament has been received, interpreted and conveyed within Eastern Orthodox tradition, filling a vacuum in scholarly literature on the history of biblical interpretation.

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.

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

Investor-state arbitration is a relatively new dispute settlement mechanism that allows foreign investors the opportunity to seek redress for damages arising out of breaches of investment-related treaty obligations by the governments of host countries.

Most observers explain evangelical Christians' bedrock support for Israel as stemming from the apocalyptic belief that the Jews must return to the Holy Land as a precondition for the second coming of Christ.

The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.

Perhaps no other nation is or has ever been as religiously diverse as the United States.

Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures?

Broken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the United States Constitution and the way that legislators have interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation's founding.

A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition.

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The 1960 presidential election, won ultimately by John F.

In Wayward Christian Soldiers, leading evangelical theologian Charles Marsh offers a powerful indictment of the political activism of evangelical Christian leaders and churches in the United States.

Evangelicals, once at the periphery of American life, now wield power in the White House and on Wall Street, at Harvard and in Hollywood.

The Falungong movement originated in 1992 as a system of breathing exercises designed to promote health and well-being.

Iran is a key player in some of the most crucial issues of our time.

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.

"e;Waging a counterinsurgency war and justified by claims of 'an agreement between Guatemala and God,' Guatemala's Evangelical Protestant military dictator General Rios Montt incited a Mayan holocaust: over just 17 months, some 86,000 mostly Mayan civilians were murdered.