Nationalism

For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z.

What can atheists tell us about religious life?

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

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.

In the spring of 1968, a group of Catholic antiwar activists barged into a draft board in suburban Baltimore, stole hundreds of Selective Service records, and burned the documents in a fire fueled by homemade napalm.

Human trafficking has captured worldwide attention as a crucial moral and political issue, but perhaps nowhere more than in the United States.

Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz brilliantly recapture the forgotten story of Matthias the Prophet, imbuing their richly researched account with the dramatic force of a novel.

Contestation and Adaptation unravels the complexities of national-identity contestation among various ethnic minority groups in China.

What is the status of religious freedom in the world today?

One of leading figures of his day, Roger Sherman was a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence and an influential delegate at the Constitutional Convention.

In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism.

Surveying the period from the rise of Islam in the early seventh century to the present day, Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads is the first book to investigate in depth the historical interaction among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ideas about when the use of force is justified.

Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz brilliantly recapture the forgotten story of Matthias the Prophet, imbuing their richly researched account with the dramatic force of a novel.

Marc Gopin offers a groundbreaking exploration of Arab/Israeli peace partnerships: unlikely friendships created among people who have long been divided by bitter resentments, deep suspicions, and violent sorrows.

The authors argue that resorting to rules and categories cannot adequately address the pervasive problems of ambiguity, difference, and boundaries - that is to say, the challenge of pluralism in our world.

For the last several decades, at the far fringes of American evangelical Christianity has stood an intellectual movement known as Christian Reconstruction.

Steven K.

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

Honorable Mention, Book Award in History of the Association for Asian American Studies.

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

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.

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

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

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

Two decades ago, the idea that a "e;radical right"e; could capture and drive Israeli politics seemed highly improbable.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Between 1848 and 1865 white southerners felt the grounds of nationhood shift beneath their feet.

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.

Two decades ago, the idea that a "e;radical right"e; could capture and drive Israeli politics seemed highly improbable.

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

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.

Living Oil is a work of environmental cultural studies that engages with a wide spectrum of cultural forms, from museum exhibits and oil industry tours to poetry, documentary film, fiction, still photography, novels and memoirs.

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.