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The role of religion in the founding of America has long been a hotly debated question.

Winner of an Award of Merit in the Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography categoryOn January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine published his incendiary pamphlet Common Sense, Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally patriotic sermon.

Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures?

Joyce Dalsheim's ethnographic study takes a ground-breaking approach to one of the most contentious issues in the Middle East: the Israeli settlement project.

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As Senegal prepares to celebrate fifty years of independence from French colonial rule, academic and policy circles are engaged in a vigorous debate about its experience in nation building.

Does heaven exist?

Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals.

Fox News, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Rush Limbaugh Show, National Public Radio--with so many options, where do people turn for news?

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.

Does heaven exist?

Fox News, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Rush Limbaugh Show, National Public Radio--with so many options, where do people turn for news?

Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals.

In recent years, the role of religion in the study and conduct of international affairs has become increasingly important.

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Since the1950s the world has witnessed a period of extraordinary religious revival in which religious political parties and non-governmental organizations have gained power around the globe.

Winner of the 2013 Christianity Today Book Award in Missions / Global AffairsWinner of the Aldersgate Prize Honorable MentionWinner of the 2014 International Studies Association International Ethics Section Book AwardIn the wake of massive injustice, how can justice be achieved and peace restored?

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?

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.

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.

Religious Lessons tells the story of Zellers v.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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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.