Political activism / Political engagement

The first woman ever elected to the U.

Since the early 2000s, global, underground networks of insurrectionary anarchists have carried out thousands of acts of political violence.

Thirty years ago, Kathryn Tanner put forward a daring proposal.

Mindfulness is a powerful practice to help kids find calm in the midst of everyday stress--but how to make it accessible and fun?

Ultimately, or so H.

The immense power the Catholic Church once wielded in Ireland has considerably diminished over the last fifty years.

Although scholars increasingly understand Scripture to contain political dimensions and implications, the interpretation of Scripture is often marginalized in most scholarly discussions of political theology.

In 2007, Antje Jackelén adopted the motto "e;God is greater"e; from the First Letter of John 3:18-20 for her consecration as the bishop of the Diocese of Lund.

This powerful and original book locates the anti-police violence that spread across England in 1980-1 within a longer struggle against racism and disadvantage faced by black Britons, which had seen a growth in more militant forms of resistance since the Second World War.

This book explores why the metaphor of the church as a family is insufficient.

Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is repurposed or re-envisioned in relation to experiences of modernity, urbanization, conflict, migration and displacement.

Local participation is the new democratic imperative.

Media reporting on Islam and Muslims commonly relate stories about terrorism, violence, or the lack of integration with western values and society.

This edited collection surveys how non-Western states have responded to the threats of domestic and international terrorism in ways consistent with and reflective of their broad historical, political, cultural and religious traditions.

A study of the Arab Spring and its aftermath alongside the revolutions of the 1970s.

Living a mindful life can be easy--just take it one day at a time.

Although humans have always migrated, the present phenomenon of mass migration is unprecedented in scale and global in reach.

Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded.

Your brain is like a pet in need of training.

The way most people think about religion and politics is only loosely linked to empirical reality, argues Ryan P.

In 2012 and 2013, masses of French citizens took to the streets to demonstrate against a bill on gay marriage.

Banning them, securing us?

This book offers a refreshing new analysis of the role of workers both in Tito's Yugoslavia and in the subsequent Serbian revolution against Milosevic in October 2000.

This book offers a refreshing new analysis of the role of workers both in Tito's Yugoslavia and in the subsequent Serbian revolution against Milosevic in October 2000.

What was Martin Luther King Jr.

The avant garde is dead, or so the story goes for many leftists and capitalists alike.

This powerful and original book locates the anti-police violence that spread across England in 1980-1 within a longer struggle against racism and disadvantage faced by black Britons, which had seen a growth in more militant forms of resistance since the Second World War.

Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism.

Neoliberalism is the reigning, overarching spirit of our age.

How should the church relate to the public sphere?

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK / TOP 10 RECOMMENDED READTwo experts of extremist radicalization take us down the QAnon rabbit hole, exposing how the conspiracy theory ensnared countless Americans, and show us a way back to sanity.

This book situates public theology within the genre of political theology.

Dispatches on nationalism and religionAs an insider to church politics and a scholar of contemporary Orthodoxy, Cyril Hovorun outlines forms of political orthodoxy in Orthodox churches, past and present.

All of us should condemn terrorism--whether the perpetrators are Muslim extremists, white supremacists, Marxist revolutionaries, or our own government.

This book's central claim is that a close reading of Augustine's epistemology can help political theologians develop affirmative accounts of political liberalism.

In British political discourse the idea that in the 1970s trade unions 'ran the country' has become a truism, a folk mythology invoked against the twin perils of socialism and strikes.

Donald Trump, a thrice-married, no-need-of-forgiveness, blustery billionaire who rarely goes to church, won more Evangelical Christian votes than any candidate in history on his way to winning the 2016 US presidential election.

A tightly written, dispassionate and unsentimental account of American Catholic political history, one backed by substantial research.

The inside story of political protest in Saudi Arabia-on the ground, in the suburbs, and in the face of increasing state repression.

The Civil Rights Movement.

A National Endowment for Democracy Notable Book of 2022Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day.

Justice, even divine justice, is concrete.

This book examines the phenomenon of the independent politician, believed to be extinct in most political systems.

Political parties are an established feature of contemporary democratic politics.

Theology and the Globalized Present focuses on the world's future in God and God's creativeness.

"e;Kotsko goes beyond the biography of an icon to a provocative investigation of the devil's many lives and effects in cultural and political ideologies.

This book examines the language of the European Union's response to the threat of terrorism.

Law and Theology offers the definitive account of the relationship between law and theology in the Christian tradition.

In 1996, Walter Capps won a seat in US House of Representatives.

Two of the twentieth century's most fascinating figures, Ernest Hemingway and Ho Chi Minh, grappling with a world in which Western culture and their respective governments were failing them, came to Paris at the same time in the 1920s.