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  • Handbook on Religious Toleration in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Karen Barkey, Jonathan Laurence ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This Handbook challenges the view--widely held today--that religious toleration is a specifically modern, liberal, and Western concept. To the contrary, it shows that principles of religious coexistence have been articulated since recorded history. As many cultures have recognized across times and places, toleration in some form is a key virtue for enabling peaceful coexistence and human ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • Coping with Defeat

    Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State

    by Jonathan Laurence ...
    The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state. Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research in Turkey, North Africa, and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Secularism in Comparative Perspective

    Religions Across Political Contexts

    Edited by Jonathan Laurence ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book confronts the key questions surrounding comparative secularism in historical perspective. The contributions critically consider the normative ideas and alternative political arrangements that govern religion’s relation to politics and to the public and private spheres.Containing contributions by world-renowned scholars such as Michael Walzer, Asma Afsaruddin and Sudipta Kaviraj, this ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims

    The State's Role in Minority Integration

    by Jonathan Laurence ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Turkey, Jonathan Laurence challenges the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    Globalization and the Terrorist Threat

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Scruton shows how the different religious and philosophical roots of Western and Islamic societies have resulted in those societies' profoundly divergent beliefs about the nature of political order. For one thing, the idea of the social contract, crucial to the self-conception of Western nations, is entirely absent in Islamic societies. Similarly, Scruton explains why the notions of territorial ... Read more

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  • The Lost History of Christianity

    The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died

    by John Philip Jenkins ...
    The New York Times bestselling history of early Christianity in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—from "one of America's best scholars of religion" ( The Economist).In this groundbreaking book, renowned scholar Philip Jenkins explores a vast and forgotten network of the world's largest and most influential Christian churches that existed to the east of the Roman Empire. These churches and their ... Read more

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  • What I Believe

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    Tariq Ramadan is very much a public figure, named one of Time magazine's most important innovators of the twenty-first century. He is among the leading Islamic thinkers in the West, with a large following around the world. But he has also been a lightning rod for controversy. Indeed, in 2004, Ramadan was prevented from entering the U.S. by the Bush administration and despite two appeals, supported ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • The Future of Faith

    by Harvey Gallagher Cox ...
    Legendary Harvard religion scholar Harvey Cox offers up a new interpretation of the history and future of religion. Cox identifies three fundamental shifts over the last 2,000 years of church history:The Age of Faith was when the early church was more concerned with following Jesus' teachings than enforcing what to believe about Jesus.The Age of Belief marks a significant shift-between the fourth ... Read more

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  • God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

    by Monica Duffy Toft,Daniel Philpott,Timothy Samuel Shah ...
    A fresh and illuminating perspective on the surge in religion"s political influence across the globe. Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has resurged in political influence across the globe, helped by the very forces that were supposed to bury it: democracy, globalization, and technology. And despite ... Read more

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  • Fields of Blood

    Religion and the History of Violence

    by Karen Armstrong ...
    A sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence—from the New York Times bestselling author of The History of God • “Elegant and powerful.... Both erudite and accurate, dazzling in its breadth of knowledge and historical detail.” —The Washington PostIn these times of rising geopolitical chaos, the need for mutual understanding between cultures has never been more urgent. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Politics of the Veil

    by Joan Wallach Scott ...
    Series series The Public Square
    In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Secularism

    Edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, Jonathan VanAntwerpen ...
    This collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists and scholars representing the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The volume will introduce readers to some of the most compelling new conceptual and theoretical understandings of secularism and the secular, while also examining socio-political ... Read more

    $32.39 USD