In 'The Pictures of Slavery in Church and State (Complete Edition)' by John Dixon Long, readers are taken on a thought-provoking journey delving into the complex relationship between slavery, religion, and government.
Versammlungen waren im frühmittelalterlichen Lateineuropa wichtige Institutionen: Hier handelten die Entscheidungsträger ihre Hierarchie aus, hier machten sie Politik, hier tauschten sie Informationen aus.
Towards A New Christian Political Realism presents a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of religion in international relations, considering the strengths of Christian realism, classical realism, and neorealism, as well as the literature about the relevance of religion for IR.
This book addresses the challenge of providing for the free exercise of religion without allowing religious exercise by some individuals and groups to impinge upon the conscientious convictions of others.
Max Weber hat um 1900 das Verhältnis von Religion und Wirtschaft auf eine klassische Weise zur Sprache gebracht und religiöse Wurzeln des modernen Kapitalismus identifiziert.
So far religion has been seen as cause for dramatic developments in the history of cities, it has contributed to the monumentalisation of centres and or has given importance to ex-centric places.
Learn from one of our leading conservative voices how we can return to the biblical values our nation was founded upon, especially the vital importance of the family, in order to secure a prosperous future for generations to come.
American Evangelicals Today assesses the contemporary social, religious, and political characteristics of evangelical Protestants today, and it does so in light of (1) whether these characteristics are similar to, or different from, the corresponding characteristics of adherents of other major faith traditions in American religious life, and (2) the extent which these particular characteristics among evangelicals may have changed over the past four decades.
This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321.
The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South AsiaThe first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947.
A compelling history of atheism in American public lifeA much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God.
In its first edition, Religion and the Domestication of Dissent focused on the representations of Islam that circulated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks-representations that scholars, pundits, and politicians alike used either to essentialize and demonize it or, instead, to isolate specific aspects as apolitical and thus tolerable faith.
The Catholic Church still takes an ambivalent stance toward homosexuality, declaring that homosexuals should be respected and not discriminated against while morally condemning their intimate relationships.
Nicht erst im Zuge der CoVid19-Pandemie und ihrer Auswirkungen auf die Lebens- und Arbeitswirklichkeit vieler Menschen wird in der Öffentlichkeit die Idee eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens diskutiert.
When the Ottoman Empire fell apart, colonial powers drew straight lines on the map to create a new region the Middle East made up of new countries filled with multiple religious sects and ethnicities.
In diesen 1997–2012 gehaltenen Vorträgen spannt der Autor einen weiten Bogen über sein zentrales Thema: die Begegnung mit dem Ätherischen bereits wirksam erscheinenden Christus.
This book is a result of a joint conference, which was held from 18th-22nd July 2017 under the theme Religion, Citizenship and Development , Southern African Perspectives.
This book is a result of a joint conference, which was held from 18th-22nd July 2017 under the theme Religion, Citizenship and Development , Southern African Perspectives.
Mientras trabajos precedentes se habían focalizado exclusivamente en la trayectoria del Movimiento de Sacerdotes para el Tercer Mundo (MSTM), en este libro Claudia Touris demuestra que la corriente tercermundista en la Argentina fue una red sociorreligiosa más amplia y diversa que se desplegó como una verdadera constelación de actores sociales integrada no solo por los sacerdotes, sino también por religiosas, laicos que pasaron por los ámbitos de sociabilidad católica renovada por el Concilio Vaticano II y otros, como el grupo de Cristianismo y Revolución, que lo conectaron con la vía insurreccional minoritaria en la corriente tercermundista.
La avanzada evangélica en las arenas partidarias latinoamericanas es uno de los acontecimientos más estudiados en el campo de la sociología de la religión y un evento que suscita hondas polémicas en el espacio amplio de la sociedad civil.
The purpose of putting this book in your hands is to communicate to you the value and strength that must sustain you through this period of transition in which we find ourselves, as well as to reveal something of the solid and healthy foundation on which it is built the future of the Incoming Age.
The book examines the dynamic processes of the various social, political, and cultural negotiations that representatives of Christian groups engage in within authoritarian societies in Greater China, where Christianity is deemed a foreign religious system brought to China by colonial rulers.
This book investigates Turkey's departure from a 'flawed democracy' under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoganism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity.
This book presents the welfare regime of societies of Chinese heritage as a liminal space where religious and state authorities compete with each other for legitimacy.
This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge.
