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  • People’s Peace

    Prospects for a Human Future

    by Yasmin Saikia, Lisa Sowle Cahill, David Cortright, Donald L. Fixico, Bruce B. Lawrence, Joel Gereboff, Stuart B. Schwartz, Amanda Izzo, Jackie Smith, Atalia Omer0, Leslie Dwyer1, Chad Haines3 ...
    Series series Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution
    People’s Peace lays a solid foundation for the argument that global peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects. Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on people’s daily lives across the world as they struggle to create peace despite escalating political violence. The volume’s focus on local and ordinary efforts highlights peace as a lived experience that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism

    The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters

    by Amanda Izzo ...
    Religiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn in Protestant and Catholic life in the latter part of the twentieth century, with women's mobilizations centering on defense of the “traditional” family. In Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism, Amanda L. Izzo argues that, contrary to this view, liberal wings of Christian churches have ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    *** Premium Ebook ***Written in 1516, Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social, and political customs.The name of the book has given an adjective to our language—we call an impracticable scheme Utopian. Yet, under the veil of a playful fiction, the talk is intensely earnest, and abounds in practical suggestion. It is the ... Read more

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  • To Change the World

    The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

    by James Davison Hunter ...
    The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice. But why have efforts to change the world by Christians so often failed or gone tragically awry? And how might Christians in the 21st century live in ways that have integrity with their traditions and are more truly transformative? In To Change the World, James Davison Hunter offers persuasive--and ... Read more

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  • How to Be Secular

    A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom

    by Jacques Berlinerblau ...
    Why secularism isn't the same thing as atheism—and why it's crucial for preserving liberty and democracy for all Americans, regardless of their beliefs.Founding father Thomas Jefferson believed that "religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God," but these days many people seem to have forgotten this ideal. Conservatives claim America is a "Christian nation" and urge that laws be ... Read more

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  • God in Action

    How Faith in God Can Address the Challenges of the World

    by Cardinal Francis George ...
    "What if God has his own ways that are not always our ways? What if God acts in public affairs in ways that can, of course, be ignored from day to day but at a price for individuals and whole societies? If God is an actor, how is it possible to trace his action? . . . Can we discover God’s actions in the part of human experience that is public in our day?" —Francis Cardinal GeorgeIn this bracing ... Read more

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  • Winning the Culture War

    by Linda Rae Hermann ...
    Winning the Culture War is an exposé on America’s gradual but steady secular and socialist drift. It serves as a treatise that unashamedly reinforces our country’s Judeo-Christian heritage while sounding the alarm at where we as Americans are heading unless Christians and concerned citizens take a firm stand.In 1989, the Berlin wall, the very wall that symbolized oppression for so many indeed came ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Politics of Secularism in International Relations

    by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Conflicts involving religion have returned to the forefront of international relations. And yet political scientists and policymakers have continued to assume that religion has long been privatized in the West. This secularist assumption ignores the contestation surrounding the category of the "secular" in international politics. The Politics of Secularism in International Relations shows why this ... Read more

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  • Religion and Human Rights

    An Introduction

    Edited by John Witte, Jr., M. Christian Green ...
    The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable. While most of the world's religions have supported violence, repression, and prejudice, each has also played a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Most importantly, religions provide the essential sources and scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint and regret, ... Read more

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  • Religion in the Ranks

    Belief and Religious Experience in the Canadian Forces

    by Joanne Rennick ...
    What role does religion play in the Canadian Forces today? Examining the changing functions of the official religious leaders in the chaplaincy as well as the place and purpose of religion in the lives of regular military personnel, Religion in the Ranks explores this question in the context of late modernity and the Canadian secular state.In-depth interviews with chaplains and with personnel of ... Read more

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  • Still Evangelical?

    Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning

    by Shane Claiborne, Jim Daly, Mark Galli, Lisa Sharon Harper, Tom Lin, Karen Swallow Prior, Soong-Chan Rah, Robert Chao Romero, Sandra Maria Van Opstal, Allen Yeh, Mark S. Young ...
    2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist—ReligionEvangelicalism in America has cracked, split on the shoals of the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, leaving many wondering if they wantto be in or out of the evangelical tribe. The contentiousness brought to the fore surrounds what it means to affirm and demonstrate evangelical Christian faith amidst the messy and polarized ... Read more

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  • Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions

    Discourse on Race, Religion, and Freedom

    by Celucien L. Joseph ...
    Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state of Haiti in 1804. Particular attention is given to the place of religion in the Haitian Revolution, as well as to the interpretation and representation of this singular event in the work of Frederick ... Read more

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