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On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "e;kneel-in"e; to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more than a year and eventually force the church to open its doors to black worshippers.

The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable.

Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history.

Over the past three decades, scholars, government analysts and terrorism experts have examined the relationship between Islam and politics.

The story of the birth of the Religious Right is a familiar one.

A half century of research shows that most citizens are shockingly uninformed about public affairs, liberal-conservative ideologies, and the issues of the day.

In popular and academic literature, jihad is predominantly assumed to refer exclusively to armed combat, and martyrdom in the Islamic context is understood to be invariably of the military kind.

The Tibetan Buddhist tradition has known over thirteen centuries of continuous development.

Although the field of deliberative civic engagement is growing rapidly around the world, our knowledge and understanding of its practice and impacts remain highly fragmented.

Winner of the Mormon History Association Best Book AwardWhat do Americans really think about Mormons, and why?

Drawing on speeches, essays, sermons, reminiscences, and works of theological speculation from 1800 to 1950, Christopher Z.

Since 2001, there has been a tremendous backlash against the very idea that it is possible to be both American and Muslim-the controversy over the so-called "e;Ground Zero Mosque"e; and the attempts to ban shari'a law are examples.

This book offers reflections on a daunting and controversial ethical question: How should we treat the strangers who enter this country illegally?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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For centuries it has been assumed that democracy must refer to the empowerment of the People's voice.

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.

Conservative evangelicalism has transformed American politics, disseminating a sometimes fearful message not just through conventional channels, but through subcultures and alternate modes of communication.

This volume offers a timely and dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years.

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

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

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

Christian-Muslim dialogue, going on in America for many decades, has become more intentional and serious since the events of September 11, 2001.

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

The explosive growth of the immigrant population since the 1960s has raised concerns about its impact on public life, but only recently have scholars begun to ask how religion affects the immigrant experience in our society.

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

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Orthodox Christianity in Russia has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence.

The Sacred Is the Profane collects nine essays by William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon that advance current scholarly debates on secularism-debates.

In the face of ongoing religious conflicts and unending culture wars, what are we to make of liberalism's promise that it alone can arbitrate between church and state?

The Agnostic Age: Law, Religion, and the Constitution is a book for lawyers, law professors, law students, lawmakers, and any citizen who cares about church-state conflict and about the relationship between religion and liberal democracy.

Religion in China survived the most radical suppression in human history--a total ban of any religion during and after the Cultural Revolution.

Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this volume provides an in-depth introduction to religion in contemporary China.

While scholars, media, and the public may be aware of a few extraordinary government raids on religious communities, such as the U.

On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "e;kneel-in"e; to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more than a year and eventually force the church to open its doors to black worshippers.

The Philokalia (literally "e;love of the beautiful or good"e;) is, after the Bible, the most influential source of spiritual tradition within the Orthodox Church.

Islam has been part of the increasingly complex American religious scene for well over a century, and was brought into more dramatic focus by the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The First Amendment guarantee that "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"e; rejected the millennium-old Western policy of supporting one form of Christianity in each nation and subjugating all other faiths.

Holy war, sanctioned or even commanded by God, is a common and recurring theme in the Hebrew Bible.

Tracing the religious history of Siler City, North Carolina, Chad E.

Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state rest on assumptions about "e;Enlightenment"e; and the republican ethos of citizenship.

The immigration of Muslims to Europe and the integration of later generations presents many challenges to European societies.

By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland.