Nationalism

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.

Lida V.

Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples?

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.

The legitimacy of the Zionist project--establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine--has been questioned since its inception.

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.

During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided.

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.

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

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

Jesus instructed his followers to "e;love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you"e; (Luke 6:27-28).

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.

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.

Nationalism informs our ideas about language, culture, identity, nation, and State--ideas that are being challenged by globalization and an emerging new economy.

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.

Drawing insight from W.

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.

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?

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.

Steven K.

June O.