Religion : Religion, Politics & State

Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War. Recovering the thoughts and experiences of American troops, ......

When Mirta M. Signorelli fled communist Cuba fifty years ago, she was thrilled to becoming to a nation that was supposedly blessed by God. She knew that in A......

Published anonymously in Italy on the one-year anniversary of Ratzinger’s election to the papacy, Against Ratzinger caused a national stir and immediat......

Political Logic by author and liberal blogger Larry Allen Brown is an explosive new book that explores the range of misuse of logic applied by conservative i......

Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, bot......

This extraordinary retelling of American political history shows that--despite the clear separation of church and state--religion lies at the heart of Americ......

Ayatollah Murtaza Mutahhari was a significant figure in the movement which brought the Islamic Republic of Iran into being. Mutahhari, a student of Ayatollah......

At a time when secular liberalism is in crisis and when the civic contribution of religion is being re-assessed, the rich tradition of Christian political th......

God vs. the Gavel challenges the pervasive assumption that all religious conduct deserves constitutional protection. While religious conduct provides many be......

The Christian Right is frequently accused of threatening democratic values. But in The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right, Jon Shields argues that rel......

The Sword, the Cross, and the Eagle explores how Christian principles and the natural law tradition consider the use of military force and how they support t......

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples. It represents the only ......

Cameron and Kristina, pursuing their own brand of diplomacy as "Musical Ambassadors", were on the streets of Baghdad singing popular Iraqi music with Iraqi c......

The peoples of Xinjiang, west China, seek freedom and an end to the Chinese repression and yoke from Beijing. Young people in this great country need to come......

Since the Vietnam era, there has arisen, in America and the whole of Western society, a way of thinking that argues against all war. Consequently, a book dis......

In this first book of its kind, you will hear the voices that you have never heard before: Listen to Abu-Ahmed, a simple Iraqi teacher and farmer, as he reco......

The Other Zions tells the fascinating and little-known stories of independent Jewish states, kingdoms, and tribes throughout history. Though Israel is the on......

More than just a biographical sketch, Sarah Palin-The Real Deal provides an in-depth look at this remarkable women and the impact she is having on the 2008 P......

"If you have lived in the Middle East since the inception of the state of Israel, or if you are a student of twentieth century Middle East history, you cannot...

This volume is a rich reference source on the history and the politics of Afghanistan. It is useful for all who are interested in learning about Afghanistan'......