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  • Pagans and Christians in the City

    Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac

    by Steven D. Smith ...
    Series series Emory University Studies in Law and Religion
    Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges.Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West ... Read more

    $48.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Revolutionary War in South Carolina

    Profiles in Leadership

    by Steven D. Smith, Kevin Dougherty ...
    “A real page turner: a must read for devotees of America’s struggle for Liberty, and for scholars and students of the Military Art of Leadership. Joining history and modern management thought in one volume—illuminating great men in the crucible of crisis and combat: from the strategic to the tactical, from the political to the logistical. Here is a compelling, expert-telling of the Revolutionary ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Godless Constitution and the Providential Republic

    by Steven D. Smith ...
    Series series Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR)
    Were America's founding ideals religious or secular?In this timely and well-researched book, law scholar Steven D. Smith makes the case that the United States of America was founded on a providentialist view—the belief that God actively directs the destinies not only of individuals but of nations. Smith shows how this providentialist perspective was pervasively, officially, and unapologetically ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bailey's Dam

    Exploring the Legacy of a Forgotten Civil War Event

    by Steven D. Smith, George J. Castille ...
    In the compelling anthology 'Bailey's Dam,' coeditors Steven D. Smith and George J. Castille assemble a rich tapestry of literary works that probe deeply into the historical and cultural ramifications of Bailey's Dam. The collection delves into themes of engineering ingenuity, wartime desperation, and the interplay between nature and human intervention. Through an array of literary styles, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leading Like the Swamp Fox

    The Leadership Lessons of Francis Marion

    by Kevin Dougherty, Steven D. Smith ...
    A study of how Francis Marion delivered the leadership and strategy to defeat the British in the South Carolina Lowcountry campaigns."Dougherty and Smith have produced an excellent study of Marion as a commander for history enthusiasts, their work deserves to garner equal attention from those in the business community, business schools, public sector management, and the military."— Journal of the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pagans and Christians in the City

    Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac

    by Steven D. Smith ...
    Series series Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR)
    Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges.Picking up poet T. S. Eliot's World War II–era thesis that the future of the West ... Read more

    $48.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting Over Equality

    A Critical Diagnosis of Religious Freedom in America

    by Steven D Smith ...
    Series Book 5 - Critical America
    Questions of religious freedom continue to excite passionate public debate. Proposals involving school prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools and courtrooms perennially spur controversy. But there is also a sense that the prevailing discourse is exhausted, that no one seems to know how to think about religious freedom in a way that moves beyond our stale, counterproductive ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Disintegrating Conscience and the Decline of Modernity

    by Steven D. Smith ...
    Series series Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
    This book considers how the modern concept of “conscience” turns the historic commitment on its head, in a way that underlies the decadence of modern society.Steven D. Smith’s books are always anticipated with great interest by scholars, jurists, and citizens who see his work on foundational questions surrounding law and religion as shaping the debate in profound ways. Now, in The Disintegrating ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Principled Constitution?

    Four Skeptical Views

    by Steven D. Smith, Larry Alexander, James Allan, Maimon Schwarzschild ...
    Is the United States Constitution the embodiment of certain principles? The four authors of this book for a variety of reasons, and with somewhat different emphases, believe the answer is no. Those who authored the Constitution no doubt all believed in liberty, equality, and, with caveats, republican self-government values, or if you will, principles. But they had different conceptions of those ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law

    by Steven D. Smith ...
    Series series Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
    Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law discusses legal, political, and cultural difficulties that arise from the crisis of authority in the modern world.Is there any connection linking some of the maladies of modern life—“cancel culture,” the climate of mendacity in public and academic life, fierce conflicts over the Constitution, disputes over presidential authority? Fictions, Lies, and the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Against the Law

    by Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, Steven D. Smith ...
    Series series Constitutional conflicts
    A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith challenge the conventional representations of the legal system that are articulated and defended by American legal scholars. Unorthodox ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture

    Gender, Desire, and Denial in the Age of Justinian

    by Steven D. Smith ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the sensual in a world transformed by Christianity. Around 567 CE, the poet and historian Agathias of Myrina published his Cycle, an anthology of epigrams by contemporary poets who wrote about what mattered to elite men in sixth-century Constantinople: harlots and dancing ... Read more

    $38.59 USD