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Bonhoeffer thought and wrote a great deal about political life, but he did so neither as a political theorist nor a political activist but rather as a Christian pastor and theologian. Most of what he said about political resistance was said as a theologian, as one...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-08-16
Format(s) : ePub
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Based on 10 years of dedicated research, Dangerous Illusions is a battle cry for the human race to throw off religion in favour of logic and reason. In this committed and passionate book, author Vitaly Malkin - a philanthropist, business man and investor - argues for...
Editeur : Arcadia Books
Parution : 2018-06-14
Format(s) : ePub
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One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. Indeed, his predictions are so much the stock-in-trade of the wildest merchants of imminent Doom that one could be forgiven for...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-11-10
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This edited volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution. With traditional military intervention repeatedly leading to the transformation of entire regions into zones of instability and violence (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria),...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-13
Collection :
Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Daniel Thieme beschreibt die religiöse Rede deutscher Spitzenpolitiker anhand ihrer Selbstzeugnisse. Der Autor zeigt eine große Vielfalt von Glaubensüberzeugungen und religiös begründeter politischer Standpunkte auf. Nach religionspsychologischen Anhaltspunkten werden...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2017-08-19
Collection :
Politik und Religion
Format(s) : PDF
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Scholars have long described modernism as "heretical" or "iconoclastic" in its assaults on secular traditions of form, genre, and decorum. Yet critics have paid surprisingly little attention to the related category of blasphemy--the rhetoric of religious offense--and to...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-03-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Home to the largest Muslim minorities in Western Europe and Asia, France and India are both grappling with crises of secularism. In Politicizing Islam, Fareen Parvez offers an in-depth look at how Muslims have responded to these crises, focusing on Islamic revival...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-01-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Teresa Forcades, Spanish Benedictine nun, theologian, physician and political activist, is one of Europe’s leading radical thinkers. Marrying her Catholic faith with a passion for social justice, she came to prominence for her eloquent condemnation of the abuses of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-11-28
Format(s) : ePub
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For much of its modern history, a combination of deep nervousness and profound lack of interest seemed to inhibit or even prevent regular political conversations in the Arab World. Public spaces were devoid of political discussions: public squares in major cities showed...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-10-20
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Adonis? influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot in the English-speaking world. Yet alongside this spearheading of a modernist literary revolution, the secular Syrian-born poet is also renowned for his persistent and staunch attacks on...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-10-18
Format(s) : ePub
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Faithonomics uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on case studies from around the globe, this book shows that religion should be analysed as a market similar to markets for other...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-10-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. provides a broad, inclusive, and rich range of chapters, in the study of religion and politics. Arranged in their historical context, chapters address themes of history, law, social and religious...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2016-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981, is the only universal human rights instrument specifically focusing on religious intolerance...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2015-03-19
Format(s) : ePub
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The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981, is the only universal human rights instrument specifically focusing on religious intolerance...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2015-03-19
Format(s) : PDF
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In his highly praised book Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith cast a revealing light on the role religion has played in presidential politics throughout our nation's history, offering comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-02-27
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Formed from This Soil offers a complete history of religion in America that centers on the diversity of sacred traditions and practices that have existed in the country from its earliest days. Organized chronologically starting with the earliest Europeans searching for...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2014-10-10
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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How are justifications for religious violence developed and do they differ from secular justifications for violence? Can liberal societies tolerate potentially violent religious groups? Can those who accept religious justifications for violence be dissuaded from acting...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2014-03-06
Collection :
Blackwell Public Philosophy Series
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Combining key titles from both Oxford's Very Short Introductions and Oxford World's Classics series, this collection includes an assortment of books that will enlighten your understanding of Islam. Containing A Very Short Introduction to The Koran, Islamic History, and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-02-13
Format(s) : ePub
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In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2014-02-11
Format(s) : ePub
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