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  • Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands

    by Orlando Espín, Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, Daisy L. Machado, Pedro Rios, Monica A. Maher, Craig Wong, John Fanestil, Ángel F. Méndez Montoya, M. Daniel Carroll R. (Rodas) ...
    Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands brings together leading academic specialists on immigration and the borderlands, as well as nationally recognized grassroots activists, who reflect on their varied experiences of living, working, and teaching on the US-Mexico border and in the borderlands. These authors demonstrate the groundbreaking claim that the borderlands are not only a location ... Read more

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  • A Romance of Canvas Town And Other Stories

    Goldfields Tales: Romance, Adventure, and Resilience in 19th-Century Australia

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    Rolf Boldrewood's "A Romance of Canvas Town and Other Stories" embodies the vivid essence of Australian life in the late 19th century. Through a series of dynamic narratives, Boldrewood intricately interweaves themes of resilience, adventure, and romance against the backdrop of the canvas towns that sprang up during the gold rush era. His literary style, marked by rich, descriptive prose and an ... Read more

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  • Ancient Religions, Modern Politics

    The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective

    by Michael A. Cook ...
    Why Islam is more political and fundamentalist than other religionsWhy does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than other religions? Is there something about the Islamic heritage that makes Muslims more likely than adherents of other faiths to invoke it in their political life? If so, what is it? Ancient Religions, Modern Politics seeks to answer these questions by examining the ... Read more

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  • Vote for Change

    My Decision at This Point in History

    by Soo-Inn Tan ...
    Series series The Bible & the Ballot
    In most mature democracies, the government changes hands from time to time. A change of government doesn’t usher in the apocalypse. In fact, knowing how power tends to corrupt, perhaps political parties should take turns at being the opposition for seasons of humbling and heart searching. ... Read more

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  • Wards of the State

    A Society without Baby Boomers

    by Paula Laureen Henderson ...
    what does it take to be a survivor in the world today? Or in the future? Are world issues becoming so large and common that no one hears them anymore? How can Our Country, as a nation, evolve from ‘victim’ mentality to ‘survivor’?   Paula Laureen Henderson, author/novelist and political activist, captivates readers with her unique ability to use her personal cancer experience as an analogy for ... Read more

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  • The Church in Brazil

    The Politics of Religion

    by Thomas C. Bruneau ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    In 1980, Brazil was the largest Roman Catholic country in the world, with 90 percent of its more than 120 million people numbered among the faithful. The Church hierarchy became aware, however, that the religion practiced by the majority of its members was not that promoted by the institution, a point dramatized by the rapid growth of other religious movements in Brazil—particularly Protestant ... Read more

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  • The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War

    by Gustavo Morello, SJ ...
    On August 3rd, 1976, in Córdoba, Argentina's second largest city, Fr. James Week and five seminarians from the Missionaries of La Salette were kidnapped. A mob burst into the house they shared, claiming to be police looking for "subversive fighters." The seminarians were jailed and tortured for two months before eventually being exiled to the United States. The perpetrators were part of the ... Read more

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  • Liberation Theology

    The Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond

    by Phillip Berryman ...
    Liberation theology has become an essential component of almost every major debate over Latin America today. It has changed the face of political life in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Haiti; contributed to the rise of “people power” in the Philippines; even played a role in the growing discontent of debt-plagued Brazil.Now, using the plainspoken approach that made his Inside Central America the ... Read more

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  • Christian Political Ethics

    Edited by John A. Coleman ...
    Series series Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics
    Christian Political Ethics brings together leading Christian scholars of diverse theological and ethical perspectives--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist--to address fundamental questions of state and civil society, international law and relations, the role of the nation, and issues of violence and its containment. Representing a unique fusion of faith-centered ethics and social science ... Read more

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  • The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism

    The Practical Consciousness of the African People of Haiti

    by Paul C. Mocombe ...
    Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic, i.e., syncretism, materialism, communal living or social collectivism, democracy, individuality, cosmopolitanism, spirit of social justice, xenophilia, balance, harmony, and gentleness, gave rise, under the leadership ... Read more

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  • From Religious Empires to Secular States

    State Secularization in Turkey, Iran, and Russia

    by Birol Başkan ...
    Series series Conceptualising Comparative Politics
    In the 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature has already shattered the illusion that secularization of the state has been a unilinear, homogeneous and universal process, and has convincingly shown that secularization of the ... Read more

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