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In the twenty-first century, the image of the houri has come to symbolize a reward for violence and the possibility of gender parity.As a cosmic figure that inspires enduring questions about the promise of paradise and the idealized feminine form, the houri has a singular past and broad potential for future interpretation. The Beauty of the Houri narrates an intellectual history of the houri and offers a contemporary account of how theological ambiguity has led to different interpretations of this powerfully enduring Islamic concept.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Beauty of the Houri is a meticulously researched, elegantly written gem that offers much more than a survey of houris in the Muslim past. Drawing on sources from the Qur'an and Hadith, European poetry, and Islamist recruitment videos to US news items, Rustomji weaves analysis of texts with profound theoretical insights into gender constructions, changing eschatological expectations, text criticism, and contemporary US and Muslim politics. * J. Hammer, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eIn this revealing history... the overall sweep convinces. This comprehensive work will help scholars of Islam understand the evolving history of a powerful image. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eIn the Jesuit Spiritual Exercises, one reflects on the teaching that 'The profane is not divorced from the spiritual.' Rustomji has created a small masterpiece, meticulously researched and beautifully written, which helps us to understand both the spiritual and the profane elements of the Houri. * Amir Hussain, Chair and Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles *\u003cbr\u003eIn The Beauty of the Houri, a meticulously researched and elegantly written book, Rustomji offers us much more than a survey of houris in the Muslim past. Drawing on sources from the Qur'an and hadith, European poetry, and Islamist recruitment videos to US news items, the author weaves together analysis of texts with profound theoretical insights into gender constructions, changing eschatological expectations, text criticism, and contemporary US and Muslim politics. Highly recommended. * Juliane Hammer, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, UNC Chapel Hill *\u003cbr\u003eThis vivid, enthralling study offers readers a unique point of entry into a fascinating global history of feminine ideals of beauty, imagined by men and women, for this world and the next. The author traces the fluidity of this image, not just among Muslims, but also as it once impacted European -- and American -- Christians. A rare treat for those intrigued by gender and religion within and beyond the Islamic world. * Denise A. Spellberg, author of Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Chapter 1. The Letter Chapter 2. The Word Chapter 3. The Romance Chapter 4. A Reward Chapter 5. The Promise Chapter 6. The Question Conclusion","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732535292247,"sku":"9780190249342","price":24.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190249342.jpg?v=1719997319"},{"product_id":"jihad-what-everyone-needs-to-know-9780190647322","title":"Jihad What Everyone Needs to Know","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe word \"jihad\" is ubiquitous in the global media. It generally appears in the context of violence waged against the West by militants in or from Muslim-majority societies. This usage overwhelmingly colors popular discourse about Islam and Muslims and it has resulted in a highly reductive, distorted, and ahistorical understanding of the concept of jihad. Asma Afsaruddin looks at the key questions about jihad and provides concise yet thorough answers. Jihad: WhatEveryone Needs to Know  provides a historically-grounded, scholarly yet accessible treatment of jihad that explores its various dimensions from the formative period of Islam until the contemporary period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAsma Afsaruddin's exciting, cogent and lucid exploration of the many spiritual meanings of 'jihad' for Muslim traditions should force a radical rethinking of this concept among journalists, officials, and thinking people in the North Atlantic world, where it has been misused and demonized in the service of a bigoted Islamophobia. * Juan Cole, author of Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires *\u003cbr\u003eA valuable addition to the ongoing discussions on jihad-thoughtfully crafted to benefit a broader readership that may be less acquainted with Islamic doctrines and ideas... Whether one is new to the subject or seeking a deeper scholarly analysis of the topic, this book is an indispensable resource. * Mohammad Amin Mansouri, Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgment  Introduction Chapter One: Jihad in the Quran and Commentary Literature Chapter Two: Jihad in the Hadith Literature Chapter Three: Jihad in the Legal Literature Chapter Four: Jihad in Morally Edifying, Ethical, and Mystical Literature Chapter Five: Jihad as Conceived by Modern Revolutionaries and Militants Chapter Six: Jihad in the Thought of Modern and Contemporary Mainstream Scholars Chapter Seven: Jihad as Non-Violent Struggle and Peacemaking Chapter Eight: Jihad and Its Perceptions in the West Bibliography Glossary Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732540862807,"sku":"9780190647322","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"vengeance-is-mine-9780195397857","title":"Vengeance Is Mine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at Mountain MeadowsPublished in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows was a bombshell of a book, revealing the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history, when settlers in southwestern Utah slaughtered more than 100 members of a California-bound wagon train in 1857. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown examine the aftermath of this atrocity.Vengeance Is Mine documents southern Utah leaders'' attempts to cover up their crime by silencing witnesses and spreading lies. Investigations by both governmental and church bodies were stymied by stonewalling and political wrangling. While nine men were eventually indicted, five were captured and only one, John D. Lee, was executed. The book examines the maneuvering of the defense and prosecution in Lee''s two trials, the second ending in Lee''s conviction. Turley and Brown explore the fraught relationship between Lee and church \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis haunting, exhaustively-researched account stands as the definitive study of the long afterlife of the Mountain Meadows massacre. * Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Washington University in St. Louis *\u003cbr\u003eVengeance is Mine is a riveting account of how justice was pursued and evaded during an era of national transformation. With moving prose and a brisk narrative, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown's tale reveals much about both nineteenth century Latter-day Saints as well as the American nation against whom they nearly waged war. * Benjamin E. Park, author of Kingdom of Nauvoo *\u003cbr\u003eA harsh, painful story of the tragic aftermath of the Mountain Meadows Massacre reconstructed from a decades-long investigation of the sources, Vengeance Is Mine is an unflinching account of investigation, cover up, and suffering. Turley and Brown have made startling discoveries that put the story in a new light without relieving the perpetrators of guilt. A complex, enthralling historical narrative. * Richard Lyman Bushman, author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling *\u003cbr\u003eThis impeccably researched and eloquent book tells a story about crime and punishment in a western territory in the years immediately before and after the Civil War. It is a story about the entanglement of local and national politics, about religious zeal and bigotry, and about barriers to achieving justice in a bitterly polarized society. It is a story for today. * Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 *\u003cbr\u003eIn Vengeance Is Mine, Brown and Turley clarify and fill in the narrative spaces in the aftermath of the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre. Using legal transcripts and other primary documents, they unravel the tale of how American Indians were blamed and then used to deflect attention from the principal orchestrators of unimaginable violence. This story reflects events in Mormon history while contextualizing religious and systemic racial attitudes of the nineteenth-century American West. This is a book not to miss. * P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo), co-editor of Essays on American Indian and Mormon History *\u003cbr\u003eBased upon years of extensive research, Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath is a masterpiece that examines not only the catalysts and culmination but also the consequences of one of the most infamous episodes of both Latter-day Saint and Western U.S. history-the Mountain Meadows Massacre...Learning the hard lessons of the past will help us make a better future for ourselves and others. To that end, I am pleased to highly recommend Vengeance is Mine. Who should read it? Everyone! If you are unsure whether you should buy it, do yourself a favor and do it. Read it, weep over it, wrestle with it, and I believe you will be a better person-one more genuine, merciful, tolerant, and thoughtful-by the end. * Sam Mitchell, Association of Mormon Letters *\u003cbr\u003eTurley and Brown have accomplished a remarkable feat in capturing so much primary source material and delivering a highly readable text that has lessons for all of us. If you end up finding yourself weeping or not being able to sleep, then the authors have accomplished what they set out to do, making you feel for this senseless tragedy. Vengeance is Mine is worthy of our concentrated attention. * Kevin Folkman, Association of Mormon Letters *\u003cbr\u003eVengeance Is Mine does what any sequel does best: expands what is presented in the first iteration, deepens the audience's understanding of what is being presented, and concludes threads considered in the first text. Vengeance Is Mine connects readers more to one of the main figures in the massacre-John D. Lee-expanding his narrative and outlining the effect his trial had on not only him and his family but on American politics, the treatment of Latter-day Saints, and the Church that nestled itself in the Salt Lake Valley. Because it is both a good standalone and an excellent sequel, I recommend readers taking either path when reading: taking up the first book; if they are interested in a deep dive into the massacre, or reading this text on its own, since it provides the same main points that the first book does. * Adam McLain, Association for Mormon Letters *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book worth reading. * Amanda Ray, Association for Mormon Letters *\u003cbr\u003eI would say that anyone connected to Latter-day Saint studies should have this book on their bookshelf by the end of the year-it is no exaggeration to say that all historical studies of the Mountain Meadows Massacre converge in Vengeance is Mine. * Greg Seppi, Association for Mormon Letters *\u003cbr\u003eVengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath is a stunning achievement… Brown and Turley's book is a phenomenal, breathtaking step toward communal learning. * Conor Hilton, Association for Mormon Letters *\u003cbr\u003eI would say that anyone connected to Latter-day Saint studies should have this book on their bookshelf by the end of the year-it is no exaggeration to say that all historical studies of the Mountain Meadows Massacre converge in Vengeance is Mine. * Greg Seppi, Association for Mormon Letters *\u003cbr\u003eVengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath is a stunning achievement... Brown and Turley's book is a phenomenal, breathtaking step toward communal learning. * Conor Hilton, Association for Mormon Letters *\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to providing the definitive narrative of the legal wrangling that followed the massacre and their useful demolition of several myths, the great work Turley and Brown do here is their contextualization of the massacre's investigation in the politics of the nation and the Utah territory. * Matthew Bowman, Nova Religio vol 27.2 *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a superb treatment of a massacre that has unfairly blackened the Latter-day Saints for more than a century. Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Angel of Peace Should Extend His Wings 2. Sermons Like Pitch Forks 3. Imposed Upon No More 4. Too Late 5. Forget Everything 6. The Sound of War 7. An Awful Tale of Blood 8. Indians Hostile to All Strangers 9. The Spirit of the Times 10. A Lion in the Path 11. Make the Mormons Pay  12. Fearful Calamities 13. Peacefully Submitting 14. The Moment Is Critical 15. Make All Inquiry 16. Join the Know Nothings 17. A Line of Policy 18. An Inquisition 19. Bring to Light the Perpetrators 20. Nothing But Evasive Replies 21. Make Diligent Inquiry 22. Approach of the Troops 23. Catching Is Before Hanging 24. Precious Legacies from the Departed Ones 25. Unwilling to Rest Under the Stigma 26. The Course Adopted Will Not Prove Successful 27. Vengeance is Mine 28. In the Midst of a Desolating War 29. Too Horrible to Contemplate 30. Cut Off 31. Boiling Conditions 32. Zeal O'erleaped Itself 33. The Time Has Come 34. Do You Plead Guilty 35. Open the Ball 36. Make a Clean Breast of It 37. A Lively Skirmish 38. The Curtain Has Fallen 39. Coerce Me to Make a Statement 40. Mr. Howard Gives Promise 41. The Responsibility Before You 42. Sufficient to Warrant a Verdict 43. The Demands of Justice 44. Allow the Law to Take Its Course 45. Under Sentence of Death 46. Failure to Arrest These Men 47. Haunted  Notes","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732639592791,"sku":"9780195397857","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"climate-catastrophe-and-faith-9780197506219","title":"Climate Catastrophe and Faith","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the world''s leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals.Long before the current era of man-made climate change, the world has suffered repeated, severe climate-driven shocks. These shocks have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. But these shocks were also religious events. Dramatic shifts in climate have often been understood in religious terms by the people who experienced them. They were described in the language of apocalypse, millennium, and Judgment. Often, too, the eras in which these shocks occurred have been marked by far-reaching changes in the nature of religion and spirituality. Those changes have varied widely - from growing religious fervor and commitment; to the stirring of mystical and apocalyptic expectations; to waves of religious scapegoating and persecution; or the spawning of new religious movements and revivals. In many cases, such responses have had lasting im\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith can nevertheless be salutary. Jenkins is right in his premise that the book will seem innovative... * Willis Jenkins, Journal of the American Academy of Religion *\u003cbr\u003eJenkins's important study is sobering and summoning. Given the past responses to such crises,he leaves little room for optimism. Jenkins reasons by way of analogue from those earlier crises to our own. Given the hard work to be done, we may be grateful to Jenkins for his helpful articulation * Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary Decatur, Georgia, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology *\u003cbr\u003eThis work compels us to consider how climate change matters for religious development and, consequently, for international peace and security. It is a worthy read for those working to build a safer and more sustainable world. * Anum Farhan, Chatham House, UK, International Affairs *\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Jenkins provides a fascinating look into the historical relationship between faith and climate change... The book is a poignant reminder of the role that faith leaders can play in the face of the disruptive impacts of today's climate crisis. * Mariana Vieira, International Affairs Summer reading list 2022 *\u003cbr\u003eThis masterpiece of historical scholarship should help policy makers and others transcend temporal myopia. Of special interest to students of climate, history, society, religion, and politics, this book can change the way one thinks about such matters. * L. E. Sponsel, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eJenkins's bold new argument may change the way we think about the history of religion, but more important, it could remind us that we can imagine a new and better way as we prepare for the consequences of this impending climate crisis. * Rt. Rev. Mark Van Koevering, The Living Church *\u003cbr\u003eSo many books on climate change focus on science and policy. This one offers a refreshing, if sobering, break as it charts the effect that past periods of climate stress have had on the evolution of the world's great faiths. * Pilita Clark, Financial Times, Best Climate and Environment Books of 2021 *\u003cbr\u003ea remarkable overview of climate change and its consequences for religious movements in world history... It is an important book for scholars of religion as well as for those interested in the consequences of climate change. * Mary Evelyn Tucker, Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eThis timely and meticulously researched book makes an important contribution to the growing body of literature engaging religion and history with ecology and climate change. * Ruby Guyat, Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003eA hugely ambitious work, such as only a historian of Philip Jenkins's great learning would dare undertake... magisterial study, at once probing and panoramic... The timeliness of this volume hardly needs emphasising. * John Pridmore, Church Times *\u003cbr\u003eIt is fascinating and thought-provoking approach to the climate change which the world now faces. * Revd Dr Paul Beasley-Murray, Church Matters  *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Usage Acknowledgments  Chapter One: From Disaster To Belief  Chapter Two: Forcing Climate  Chapter Three: Ages of Gold  Chapter Four: God's Anger and the Demons Within  Chapter Five: After Darkness, Light  Chapter Six: A Faded Sun and A Wider World  Chapter Seven: Who Can Stand Before His Cold?   Chapter Eight: Darkening Heavens and a New World  Chapter Nine: A Warming World  Conclusion","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732641591639,"sku":"9780197506219","price":23.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197506219.jpg?v=1719997768"},{"product_id":"nonverts-the-making-of-exchristian-america-9780197587447","title":"Nonverts The Making of ExChristian America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe chapters on individual nonverts are the most engaging in the book. Bullivant has an eye for good human interest stories and a talent for interviewing people. * Mark L. Movsesian, Law and Liberty *\u003cbr\u003eWe have been hearing for a long time about the remarkable rise of the nones. Only more recently have scholars delved deeper into the life worlds of America's growing non-religious population. Bullivant provides an accessible guided tour of the growing number of ex-religious Americans that is easy reading and unburdened by heavy theory or complicated statistics. This is the book for those looking for a smooth on-ramp to understanding the big picture facts and issues involved in this major cultural change. * Christian Smith, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame *\u003cbr\u003eWe cannot understand the explosive rise of religious \"nones\" without understanding the rise of \"nonverts.\" With rigor and wit, Stephen Bullivant shows us nonverts matter because our past relationships profoundly shape our present and future lives,often in divergentways. Religious nonverts commonly share quite different identities and experiences from \"Cradle Nones.\" Just as nonverts who grew up evangelical or Catholic are unique compared to former Muslims or Mainline Protestants. Weaving togethercompelling personal stories and sweeping quantitativeanalysis, Bullivant shows us both the brilliant diversity and undeniable commonality of the formerly-religious. * Samuel L. Perry, co-author of The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy *\u003cbr\u003eNonverts brings America's stunning rise of secularization to life. Stephen Bullivant highlights the humanity of the growing secular population in America—with equal parts brio, rigor, and humor. Many of the stories told within these pages will no doubt resonate with nonreligious readers. Religious readers will benefit from learning why so many others are deciding that religion is not for them. People who are unsure about their religious beliefs will find that their experience is more common than they might think. No matter their background, everyone who reads this book will gain a deeper understanding of how America's 'new secularists' are reshaping the cultural landscape. * David Campbell, author of Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics *\u003cbr\u003eIn Nonverts, Stephen Bullivant threads the difficult needle of being academically rigorous, while also being accessible to a general audience. The backbone of the book is a careful melding of the statistical evidence with very personal and engaging stories of how and why people have left religion behind. 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Nonvert Nation","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732654960983,"sku":"9780197587447","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197587447.jpg?v=1719997818"},{"product_id":"blood-entanglements-9780197587317","title":"Blood Entanglements","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn many low-income neighborhoods in El Salvador, two groups have significant influence over the public sphere: gangs and evangelical churches. Members of both groups often belong to the same families, use similar organizational strategies, and engage each other in local marketplaces. Pastors and gang leaders compete for power within communities while informally sharing community governance. Entanglements even occur within formal organizations: Gang members can be found in churches and faith-based organizations, while an evangelical presence exists within prisons and other gang-controlled spaces. Blood Entanglements shows the importance of religion in gang-controlled neighborhoods in El Salvador through extensive empirical data and the personal stories of people who live there. Stephen Offutt uses the notion of entanglement to explain how and why evangelicals have such frequent and often intimate interactions with gangs, which are groups that many evangelicals believe are evil. Entanglement, he shows, also sheds light on how evangelicals engage with Latin American society and social problems more generally. The book concludes with policy recommendations for reducing gang prevalence and violence in areas with a prominent evangelical presence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn El Salvador, the country with highest murder rate on the planet, criminal gangs and evangelicals, mostly pentecostals, are the two most influential groups in towns and cities across the violence-plagued nation. This book, on the complex relations between the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs on one hand and evangelical communities on the other, is the most nuanced and insightful study to date on the topic. It belongs on the top shelf of readers interested in global Christianity, gang violence, and Latin American studies. * R. Andrew Chesnut, author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint *\u003cbr\u003eLike street gangs, religious traditions have always adapted to changing surroundings. Stephen Offutt's fascinating account of the overlapping social worlds of gangs and churches in El Salvador sheds light on the dynamic relationships between evangelicals and violence on Central America's urban margins. A must read for anyone interested in the place of lived religion in the Global South. * Robert Brenneman, author of Homies and Hermanos: God and the Gangs in Central America *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction   Ch 1 Evangelicals \u0026amp; Gangs: Inverted Images   Ch 2 Shared Cosmologies   Ch 3 Ties that Bind: Family Networks   Ch 4 Competing for Local Authority   Ch 5 Unusual Alliances in Community Governance   Ch 6 Economic Engagements   Ch 7 Infiltrated Organizations   Conclusion      Appendix I: Methodology  Works Cited","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732655059287,"sku":"9780197587317","price":24.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197587317.jpg?v=1719997818"},{"product_id":"all-the-kingdoms-of-the-world-9780197611371","title":"All the Kingdoms of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fresh assessment of Catholic integralism and other new and radical religious alternatives to liberal democracy.According to a common narrative, the twentieth century spelled the end of faith-infused political movements. Their ideologies, like Catholic integralism, would soon be forgotten. Humans were finally learning to keep religion out of politics. Or were we? In the twenty-first century, nations as diverse as Russia, India, Poland, and Turkey have seen a revival of religious politics, and many religious movements in other countries have proved similarly resilient. A new generation of political theologians passionately reformulate ancient religious doctrines to revolutionize modern political life. They insist that states recognize the true religion, and they reject modern liberal ideals of universal religious freedom and church-state separation. In this book, philosopher Kevin Vallier explores these new doctrines, not as lurid oddities but as though they might be true. The anti-lib\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis splendid book has something for everyone. For religious conservatives who question the separation of church and state, Vallier offers compelling arguments against their integration, drawing from Catholic theology, Church history, and considerations of social stability. For liberals, Vallier offers a bracing view of a powerful current stream of anti-liberal thought that should shatter any complacency about taking liberal political assumptions for granted. For people of all religious and political orientations, Vallier offers a rigorous method for assessing political proposals that does not presuppose liberal principles, but can serve as a basis for all to engage each other in serious discussion. In our politically polarized age, that is a major achievement.\" Elizabeth Anderson, Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003eKevin Vallier thoughtfully makes the case against post-liberal political doctrines, focusing on Catholic integralism. But he also pursues reconciliation with conservatives through his striking proposal for non-liberal charter cities within the framework of a liberal state. This book is a daring and original effort to adapt liberal political theory to a post-liberal era.\" Yoram Hazony, author of Conservatism: A Rediscovery\u003cbr\u003eIntegralism holds that state coercion is to be used to forward a religion's vision of the supernatural good. It is deeply statist and deeply illiberal; and, yet, it arguably follows from the teachings of Roman Catholicism. In All the Kingdoms of the World, Kevin Vallier does the great service of taking this position seriously-of presenting it with care, so that its attractions are plain. He also does the great service of showing why it nevertheless profoundly fails in its own terms as an account of a just, stable political order and how its failure provides lessons for the prospects of other emerging anti-liberal statisms. The book is intellectually invigorating, theoretically rigorous, and politically timely. I am grateful that it was written, and that it was Vallier who wrote it!\" Mark C. Murphy, McDevitt Professor of Religious Philosophy, Georgetown University\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent and important book, starting with its defense of classical liberalism over Catholic integralism and indeed illiberalism more generally...likely to be one of this year's books that turns out to really matter. * Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution *\u003cbr\u003eAll the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism is a seminal and ground-breaking work of meticulous scholarship. Impressively exceptional in organization and presentation, All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism will have a special relevance and value for readers with an interest in the history of religion and politics, as well as being especially recommended for Church\/State curriculum studies lists. Highly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library collections. * John Taylor, MBR Bookwatch *\u003cbr\u003eA fantastic book - an intellectual feast. * Kaushik Basu, Carl Marks Professor of International Studies, Cornell University, and former Chief Economist of the World Bank *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is a response to the unexpected return of integralism as a political option, but it is also a reflection on what kind of society enables goodness...Vallier's book succeeds in revealing the dangerous flaws of integralism, but he offers few reasons to believe that liberalism has the resources to address the major social challenges we face today. * Terence Sweeney, The Commonweal *","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732658303319,"sku":"9780197611371","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197611371.jpg?v=1719997833"},{"product_id":"the-gospel-of-church-9780197614303","title":"The Gospel of Church","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1908, Unitarian pastor Bertrand Thompson observed the momentous growth of the labor movement with alarm. Socialism, he wrote, has become a distinct substitute for the church. He was not wrong.In the generation after the Civil War, few of the migrants who moved North and West to take jobs in factories and mines had any association with traditional Protestant denominations. In the place of church, workers built a labor movement around a shared commitment to a Christian commonwealth. They demanded an expanded local, state and federal infrastructure which supported collective bargaining for better pay, shorter work-days, and an array of municipal services. Protestant clergy worried that if the labor movement kept growing in momentum and cultural influence, socialist policies would displace the need for churches and their many ministries to the poor. Even worse, they feared that the labor movement would render the largest Protestant denominations a relic of the nineteenth century.In The \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith astonishing archival findings and narrative lucidity, The Gospel of Church supplies a beautiful primer on the religious debates that originate the modern labor movement. Janine Drake exposes how Christian leaders turned against union organizing to preserve their universalizing hold on the moral order. This is a book appears just as socialism experiences a revitalized presence in public conversation and Christian nationalism is on the rise. Required reading for activists, agitators, educators, and historians who want to understand when and why so many American Christians got scared of strikes. * Kathryn Lofton, author of Consuming Religion *\u003cbr\u003eJanine Giordano Drake's revelatory book will lead readers to a new understanding of the church as a site of political contest in the early 20th century. A feat of research and scholarship, her account of religion, class, and politics will help scholars gain a deeper understanding of Christianity as a social force- one that has reshaped the political landscape with implications reaching to the present day. * Kimberly Kather Phillips-Fein, author of Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal *\u003cbr\u003eJanine Giordano Drake skillfully and effectively tells the story of how protestant ministers, organized into the Federal Council of Churches and motivated by wider Social Gospel commitments, suppressed working class movements in support of socialism and industrial unions. Her well-documented argument shows how Protestant ministers and the FCC, between 1908 and 1920, used notions of Christian justice to strengthen their own power and public presence while weakening unions and voices on the working-class religious left. 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Gilmour, The Living Church *\u003cbr\u003eThis book skillfully counters the global rise of religious nationalism by deftly analyzing the founding mission of Christianity. It shows that by politicizing itself, Christianity has lost its prophetic voice, urgently needed to advance human rights and peace everywhere. This book will be a light for Christians and a template for religious social activism around the world.\" -Mark Juergensmeyer, author of God at War\u003cbr\u003eThis remarkable book shows how state privilege both harms Christianity and undermines global peace and democracy. In contrast, independent Christian communities that live by the radical ethic of Jesus promote human rights, dignity for the poor, women's empowerment, and peace \u0026amp; reconciliation. Beautifully written and cogently argued. * Allen Hertzke, author of Freeing God's Children *\u003cbr\u003eTracing the theology and charting the history of churches across the globe, Nilay Saiya lays bare the startling realization that whenever the church attains a privileged status with the state, true Christian practice withers and dies. This book couldn't be more timely. It is a significant contribution to the study of the church in society. It cannot be ignored by anyone who cares about the politics of Jesus Christ in our time.\" -David Fitch, BR Lindner Chair of Theology, Northern Seminary, Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Introduction  Chapter 1. Clashing Kingdoms  Chapter 2. Patriots, Pietists, and Prophets  Chapter 3. Wayward Christian Soldiers: Christianity and Violence  Chapter 4. Christianizing Foreign Policy: The Case of American Evangelicals and the Middle East  Chapter 5. Holy Humanitarians? Christianity and Human Rights  Chapter 6. Sowing in Shalom: Peace and Reconciliation  Chapter 7. Looking Inward: The Paradox of Privilege and the Church  Chapter 8. The Path Forward  Appendix  References  Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732664299863,"sku":"9780197638842","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197638842.jpg?v=1719997859"},{"product_id":"making-christianity-manly-again-9780197655795","title":"Making Christianity Manly Again","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA look inside one of America''s most politically consequential churchesMark Driscoll, the founding pastor of Seattle''s Mars Hill Church, indelibly impacted American evangelicalism. Driscoll''s brash, authoritarian, and profanity-laden leadership grew Mars Hill Church into one of the fastest growing, most innovative, and most influential churches in the country--not an easy task in one of America''s most secular cities. Driscoll''s gender theology put men at the forefront of American Christianity, rebranding Jesus from a gay hippie in a dress to a sword-carrying, robe-dipped-in-blood warrior. This type of rhetoric paved the way for evangelicals'' embrace of hypermasculine Christianity, priming the pump for their unprecedented support of Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 Presidential elections.Making Christianity Manly Again places Driscoll''s gender theology in its social and historical contexts and analyzes the contemporary social patterns that explain how a hypermasculine theology he\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking Christianity Manly Again is a powerful addition to the literature on American evangelicalism, gender, and Christian nationalism in the Trump era. McKinney's meticulous analysis of Mark Driscoll's sermons and writings generates an illuminating picture of his misogynistic theology and view of the U.S. as a \"pussified nation.\" Her in-depth interviews show how Mars Hill church members experienced and lived out that theology (successfully or not) in their daily lives. An impressively researched and highly informative book. * R. Marie Griffith, author of Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics *\u003cbr\u003eAs US politics increasingly reveals intertwined relations of religion and masculinity, there is a great need for careful social analysis. In Making Christianity Manly Again, Jennifer McKinney—one of the most seasoned observers of this scene—provides a careful and detailed account of the high-profile rise and fall of an icon of the times. Its pages reveal deep insights into broad questions that should concern us all. * Stewart M. Hoover, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Media Studies and the Department of Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder *\u003cbr\u003eJennifer McKinney's Making Christianity Manly Again is a devastating account of a cultural car wreck. The man driving the car, Mark Driscoll, is both the maestro and engineer of its demise, with enough talent to attract money and followers, but with an ego that consumes everything in its tracks. McKinney shows the self-destructive and catastrophic nature of how a religion of the poor and peacemaker became an engine for money and manhood. This must-read book startles with details and testimony to the tragedy of an American evangelical church and its whoring after power, treasure, and empire. * Jim Wellman, author of High on God: How Megachurches Won the Heart of America *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a solid study of a very influential church, resting on an interesting theoretical foundation. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Pussified Nation  Chapter One: Evangelicals and Gender: The Road to Mars Hill Chapter Two: Real Men (Don't Wear Sweater-Vests) Chapter Three: Real Women: Wives, Mothers, and Lovers Chapter Four: Real Family: Dating and Marriage Chapter Five: Real Consequences Conclusion: Question Mark  Notes  Appendix A  Bibliography","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732669215063,"sku":"9780197655795","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"good-news-for-common-goods-multicultural-evangelicalism-and-ethical-democracy-in-america-9780197659700","title":"Good News for Common Goods Multicultural","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarkofski has written an ambitious and wide-ranging book mapping new terrain in the study of American evangelicalism and marking future directions for that broad religious movement so critical to American and global society. The book's compelling argument will matter for the future of evangelical Christianity, for the future of democracy, and for how we understand 'public religion' generally. We need this book for meeting the current historical moment. * Richard L. Wood, Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, author of A Shared Future: Faith-based Organizing for Racial Equity (with Brad Fulton) *\u003cbr\u003eMarkofski's ethnography on multicultural evangelicalism is much needed, deeply nuanced, and highly accessible. A must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of race, politics, and evangelicals in America. * John Inazu, Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion, Washington University in St. Louis *\u003cbr\u003eThis maybe the most important book in years on US evangelical Christianity, both for scholars concerned about anti-democratic trends and for students personally committed to evangelical religion. Morebroadly,this book will shape future conversations regarding public religion in the United States and globally, particularly the role religion can play in the defense and deepening of democracy. * Social Forces *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   Introduction: Collaboration for Common Goods: Evangelicals and Others Seeking Justice and Power Together   Chapter 1:  Good News? Common Goods? Multicultural Evangelicalism? Ethical Democracy?  Chapter 2:   Engaging Race and Inequality  Chapter 3:   Engaging Poverty and Inequality  Chapter 4:   Engaging Politics, Culture, and Religious Difference  Chapter 5:  Reflexive Evangelicalism: Learning from Experience and Scripture  Chapter 6:  Ethical Democracy and Four Modes of Social Reflexivity   Conclusion:  Multicultural Evangelicalism and Democracy in America   Appendix:  Multisite Ethnography and the Exceptional Case Method   References","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732670132567,"sku":"9780197659700","price":23.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197659700.jpg?v=1719997880"},{"product_id":"politicizing-islam-in-central-asia-9780197685075","title":"Politicizing Islam in Central Asia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sweeping history of Islamism in Central Asia from the Russian Revolution to the present through Soviet-era archival documents, oral histories, and a trove of interviews and focus groups.Few observers anticipated a surge of Islamism in Central Asia, after seventy years of forced communist atheism. Muslims do not inevitably support Islamism, a modern political ideology of Islam. Yet, Islamism became the dominant form of political opposition in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In Politicizing Islam in Central Asia, Kathleen Collins explores the causes, dynamics, and variation in Islamist movements-first within the USSR, and then in the post-Soviet states of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and historical research on Islamist mobilization, she explains the strategies and relative success of each Central Asian Islamist movement. Collins argues that in each case, state repression of Islam, by Soviet and post-Soviet regimes, together with the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable in scope and depth, drawing on everything from interviews in the Ferghana Valley to jihadi propaganda in multiple languages, Collins' book is a contender for the definitive work on the rise of militant Islamism in Central Asia. * Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University, and author of The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad and Jihad in Saudi Arabia *\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking study of Islamism's evolution in Central Asia, Kathleen Collins' remarkable feat of scholarship should be required reading for all serious analysts and observers of this important region. Collins' book offers irrefutable evidence that religious freedom is the best counterterrorism policy. * Mike Croissant, US government counterterrorism officer (ret.) *\u003cbr\u003ePoliticizing Islam covers a lot of ground and is based on a massive amount of sustained original research. Collins traces three waves of Islamist mobilization, each one a response to state repression. Her use of interviews and focus groups allows her to bring society back in into the analysis. She makes a clearly thought-out argument on the basis of impressive research. * Adeeb Khalid, Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History, Carleton College, and author of Making Uzbekistan and Islam After Communism *\u003cbr\u003eCollins achieves something extraordinary in this masterful and careful analysis of Islamism in Central Asia. Based on years of in-depth interviews, archival materials, and other sources, Collins traces the emergence of Islamist movements, from the moderate and democratic to the radical and militant in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Along the way, she reveals the lived experiences of many Kyrgyz, Tajik, and Uzbek religious believers. Without demonizing Islam or sensationalizing Islamism, Collins enriches our understanding of both Soviet and post-Soviet religious repression and its unintended consequences: making Islam more resilient and fostering a religious basis for political opposition. Anyone endeavoring to understand the fabric of modern-day Central Asia should closely read Collins' scholarship. * Steve Swerdlow, Associate Professor of the Practice of Human Rights, University of Southern California, and former Senior Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures List of Images List of Tables  List of Maps Acknowledgements Technical Note List of Acronyms  PART I Introduction 1:  Secular Authoritarianism, Ideology, and Islamist Mobilization  PART II: The USSR Politicizes Islam 2:  The Russian Revolution and Muslim Mobilization  3:  The Atheist State: Repressing and Politicizing Islam  4:  Muslim Belief and Everyday Resistance  PART III: Tajikistan: From Moderate Islamists to Muslim Democrats 5:  The Islamic Revival Party Challenges Communism 6:  A Democratic Islamic Party Confronts An Extremist Secular State  7:  The Attraction and Limits of Islamist Ideas in Tajikistan  PART IV: Uzbekistan: From Salafists to Salafi-Jihadists  8:  Seeking Justice and Purity: Islamists against Communism and Karimov  9:  Making Extremists: The Uzbek Jihad Moves to Afghanistan 10: The Attraction and Limits of Islamist Ideas in Uzbekistan  PART V: Kyrgyzstan: Civil Islam and Emergent Islamists 11: Religious Liberalization and Civil Islam in Kyrgyzstan  12:  Emergent Islamism in Kyrgyzstan 13:  The Attraction and Limits of Islamist Ideas in Kyrgyzstan  PART VI: From Central Asia to Syria: Transnational Salafi-Jihadists 14:  Central Asians Join the Syrian Jihad 15:  From Central Asia to Afghanistan, Syria, and Beyond  Appendix Glossary Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732674752855,"sku":"9780197685075","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197685075.jpg?v=1719997902"},{"product_id":"terrible-revolution-9780197695159","title":"Terrible Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, heightened over the course of the nineteenth century by the assassination of Mormon leaders, the Saints'' exile from Missouri and Illinois, the military occupation of the Utah territory, and the national crusade against those who practiced plural marriage. Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints looked forward to apocalyptic events that would unseat corrupt governments across the globe, particularly the tyrannical government of the United States. The infamous White Horse Prophecy referred to this coming American apocalypse as a terrible revolution in the land of America, such as has never been seen before; for the land will be literally left without a supreme government. Mormons envisioned divine deliverance by way of plagues, natural disasters, foreign invasions, American Indian raids, slave uprisings, or civil war unleashed on American cities and American people. For the Saints, these viole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCertainly, the book reveals a rich lode of apocalypticism that persists and changes within religious traditions that lay claim to be the restoration of all things prior to the earth's final dispensation. In so doing, it invites promising further work by scholars of religious futurism. * Tona Hangen, BYU Studies Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eIt is when he begins to explore understudied material... that this book really starts to break new ground and offer not simply new history, but new perspectives on the trajectory of the new religious movement that Joseph Smith founded. * Matthew Bowman, Claremont Graduate University, Journal of Mormon History *\u003cbr\u003eBlythe's most admirable achievement with this volume is his ability to provide a fascinating, easily accessible, but still truly academic, thoroughly researched, and meticulously presented cultural and social history of the Latter-day Saints in the United States, structured around the theme of the apocalypse ... I wholeheartedly recommend Terrible Revolution. * Iren E. Annus, Nova Religio *\u003cbr\u003e...this volume is a unique contribution to the literature on American religious history. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * D. S. Azzolina, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eThe title may include \"Terrible,\" but this book is anything but. It is a unique contribution to understanding the history, theology, and folklore surrounding the much-anticipated end times through the eyes of the church and its lay members. * Kevin Folkman, Association For Mormon Letters *\u003cbr\u003eTerrible Revolution was one of the most exciting and well-researched books I've read in a while. It is a book that you want to complete in one sitting, but don't. Instead, you show restraint and space out the reading because you want to savor the history and enjoy it a moment longer. * Christopher Angulo, Association of Mormon Letters blog *\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Blythe has written an essential guide for understanding the religious culture of Mormonism. Terrible Revolution takes readers from early expectations of an imminent Second Coming, to the White Horse Prophecy, to contemporary preppers. An essential text. * John G. Turner, author of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet *\u003cbr\u003eIn this illuminating study, Christopher Blythe spins a masterful narrative that combines an impressive breadth of sources, official and popular, to tell a story still unfolding in the 21st century.\" -Terryl Givens, author of Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought\u003cbr\u003eBlythe's Terrible Revolution offers a smart, original, and compelling analysis of the  evolving role of apocalyptic thinking in the LDS Church. Blythe has marshalled thousands of sources, some long hidden away in obscure places, and diligently connected them to larger social and political trends.\" -Matthew Avery Sutton, author of American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism\u003cbr\u003eBlythe does a terrific job walking the reader through the shifts and nuances of the multiple apocalyptic themes that pepper the LDS imagination, both officially and unofficially.\" -Amy Hoyt, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought Ik Y\u003cbr\u003eThe Latter-day Saints of the nineteenth century belonged to an apocalyptic tradition, argues historian and folklorist Christopher Blythe in his highly informative book Terrible Revolution....Blythe charts the rise and fall of Mormon apocalyptic discourse over the two-hundred- year history of the Restoration. He defines \"apocalyptic\" as \"the belief that society was headed toward cataclysmic events that would uproot the current social order in favor of a divine order that would be established in its place\". * Patrick Q. Mason, Journal of Book of Mormon Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Introduction  Chapter One: The Apocalyptic Tradition in Early Mormonism  Chapter Two: \"Long Shall His Blood...Stain Illinois\": Martyrology and Malediction  Chapter Three: The Geography of Mormon Apocalyptic  Chapter Four: The Judgments Begin: Apocalypticism in Utah Territory  Chapter Five: The Americanization of Mormon Apocalyptic  Chapter Six - Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Apocalyptic Trajectories  Afterword: Apocalypticism in the \"Mormon Moment\"  Notes  Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732675572055,"sku":"9780197695159","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197695159.jpg?v=1719997906"},{"product_id":"secularism-9780198747222","title":"Secularism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian Europe, pre-Christian Europe, and in the Arabic world. But from the eighteenth century onwards, some European states began to set up their political order on a different basis. Not religion, but the rule of law through non-religious values embedded in constitutions became the foundation of some states - a movement we now call secularism. In others, a de facto secularism emerged as political values and civil and criminal law altered their professed foundation from a shared religion to a non-religious basis. Today secularism is an increasingly hot topic in public, political, and religious debate across the globe. It is embodied in the conflict between secular republics - from the US to India - and the challenges they face from resurgent religious identity politics; in the challenges faced by religious states like those of the Arab world from insurgent secularists; and in states like China where calls for freedom of belief are challenging a state imposed non-religious worldview. In this Very Short Introduction Andrew Copson tells the story of secularism, taking in momentous episodes in world history, such as the great transition of Europe from religious orthodoxy to pluralism, the global struggle for human rights and democracy, and the origins of modernity. He also considers the role of secularism when engaging with some of the most contentious political and legal issues of our time: ''blasphemy'', ''apostasy'', religious persecution, religious discrimination, religious schools, and freedom of belief and freedom of thought in a divided world.Previously published in hardback as Secularism: Politics, Religion, and FreedomABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCopson has managed to put together an accessible, but surprisingly nuanced and comprehensive, introduction to secularism that would be appropriate for undergraduate classrooms or lay readers interested in the topic. * Mary Leah Friedline, Religious Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003eToday's world is in dire need of the noble tradition of secularism, and I know nobody better qualified than Andrew Copson to expound it. * Richard Dawkins *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an exceptionally careful, fair-minded and positive introduction to the many meanings of a word often carelessly used. It will be an enormous help to all who want to understand better the current controversies about religious belief and modern society. * Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury *\u003cbr\u003eA must read. It is a worthwhile introduction that will inform and may correct some assumptions and prejudices. * The Rev Maurice Stafford, Methodist Recorder *\u003cbr\u003eConcise and fair-minded ... Secularism helps the reader navigate [the] ... shifting terrain admirably. * Nick Spencer, Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Copson's short book covers a lot of ground. It is one of the best books I've read in this excellent series. Copson [...] provides a balanced and generous interpretation that presents arguments on different sides ... His approach is subtle and intelligent, and is informed by a deep understanding of the positions of those with whom he disagrees. I learnt a great deal from reading this. * Nigel Warburton, Five Books *\u003cbr\u003eRecommended. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eCopson is even-handed in his analysis ... This is as nuanced a defence of secularism as you'll find * Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald *\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Copson ... looks for genuine debate in Secularism ... It is natural to review books on atheism and secularism together. The intersection of the two groups is large. But one of the chief benefits of reading Copson is that he enables us to think more deeply about how they diverge. * Maximilian de Gaynesford, The Tablet *\u003cbr\u003eIt is to Andrew Copson's credit that his short book refuses to circumvent ... big issues but rather brings them blinking out into the light and enables readers to understand better and think more clearly about them. It is undoubtedly the author's hope-and by and large this reviewer's too-that by the end of the book readers will look more positively on secularism. But that would mark not the end of a debate, but the start of a new one. Secularism yes. But what kind? * Nick Spencer, Theos *\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent and sympathetic introduction to secularism * Paradigm Explorer *\u003cbr\u003e[Copson's] new book strikes the rare balance of being both entertaining and informative ... [His] gift, it seems, is the ability to condense decades of the evolution and analysis of the concept of secularism into 140 short pages. * The Pink Humanist *\u003cbr\u003eSecularism is of growing importance all over the world, yet it is also an approach with deep roots reaching far back into our history. Andrew Copson elegantly explores this history as well as secularism's importance today, showing how it evolved and how it is the key to de-escalating so many of the modern world's points of conflict. * Dan Snow *\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Copson is one of the most thoughtful people in the world on secularism. 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Brilliant * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e[A] searing account of the Church's treatment of women during its period of dominance over Irish society ... It is never less than compelling * Irish Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRepublic of Shame\u003c\/i\u003e is a careful, sensitive and extremely well written book - but it is harrowing.  It  would break your heart in two\u003cbr\u003eRiveting, immensely insightful and horrifically recognisable\u003cbr\u003eA must read for everyone\u003cbr\u003eCompelling ... devastatingly human, [\u003ci\u003eRepublic of Shame\u003c\/i\u003e] will make you shake with sadness and anger * RTÉ Guide *\u003cbr\u003eA beautifully written and impeccably researched book ... 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Hogan sheds light on the darkest corners of our recent history in Ireland, but also holds up a mirror to today * Dublin Inquirer *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733429268823,"sku":"9780241984123","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241984123.jpg?v=1720000043"},{"product_id":"four-years-in-the-cauldron-9780241993651","title":"Four Years in the Cauldron","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe riveting story of a nation at a crucial crossroads\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the start of his stint as RTÉ''s Washington Correspondent Brian O''Donovan''s lively and authoritative reporting of a tumultuous period in American life has been must-watch TV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFour Years in the Cauldron\u003c\/i\u003e is his account of four busy years working in the US. 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They then use Israel as a case study for their conclusions. Although Israel is defined as a Jewish state, its Jewish identity need not be interpreted religiously, requiring that it subjects itself to the dictates of Jewish law (Halakha). The authors test this view by critically examining important topics relevant to state and religion in Israel: marriage and divorce, the drafting of yeshivastudents into the army, the character of the Sabbath and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There are plenty of books and articles, both in Israel and abroad, which deal with freedom of conscience and religion. State and Religion in Israel by Sapir and Statman is the best of them all. No other book can compete with its intellectual honesty, sharp reasoning and comprehensive knowledge of the topic in all its complexity. I will not be exaggerating if I say that the public and legal discourse in Israel will improve as a result of the ideas in this book, which is mandatory reading for any thinking person.' Aharon Barak, Israel Prize Laureate and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel\u003cbr\u003e'The authors criticize current practices - which they find unjust and\/or inadequate for the religious majority and minority and for wholly secular parties - and they offer remedies.' D. A. Brown, Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Theory: 1. Liberalism and neutrality(1): arguments against support; 2. Liberalism and neutrality(2): arguments against preference; 3. The assumed dangers of religion; 4. Religious reasons for separation; 5. Freedom of religion; 6. Protection of religious feelings; 7. Freedom from religion; 8. Religious coercion: the place of religious arguments in the public sphere; Part II. From Theory to Practice: 9. Marriage and divorce; 10. Religious education; 11. Serving religious needs; 12. Drafting Yeshiva students into the army; 13. The Sabbath in a Jewish state; 14. The Supreme Court on the protection of and from religion; 15. Minority religions in Israel.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738242527575,"sku":"9781107150829","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"resilient-communities-9781108471114","title":"Resilient Communities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Resilient Communities, Jana Krause focuses on civilian agency and mobilization ''from below'' and explains violence and non-violence in communal wars. Drawing on extensive field research on ethno-religious conflicts in Ambon\/Maluku Province in eastern Indonesia and Jos\/Plateau State in central Nigeria, this book shows how civilians responded to local conflict dynamics very differently, evading, supporting, or collectively resisting armed groups. Combining evidence collected from more than 200 interviews with residents, community leaders, and former fighters, local scholarly work (in Indonesian), and local newspaper-based event data analysis, this book explains civilian mobilization, militia formation, and conflict escalation. The book''s comparison of vulnerable mixed communities and (un)successful prevention efforts demonstrates how under courageous leadership resilient communities can emerge that adapt to changing conflict zones and collectively prevent killings. 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Her work importantly advances our understanding of how peaceful communities and their institutional capacity emerge, and how people preserve non-violence in the context of a changing conflict zone.' Kristen Monroe, University of California, Irvine\u003cbr\u003e'This is an excellent book: precisely the kind of detailed, field-based analysis needed for a deeper understanding of the nature and dynamics of communal conflict. The book sheds an important light on the ways in which populations and communities caught up in war adapt and respond to the exceptional circumstances in which they find themselves. Krause has made an important contribution to the field.' Mats Berdal, King's College London\u003cbr\u003e'In this fascinating study, Jana Krause turns conflict studies on its head: rather than only asking why violence breaks out, she asks why violence did not occur in some communities. Based on exceptional fieldwork, this eloquent book points to the power of local leadership and collective agency. In a field of study that can sometimes write individual actors out of the story, Krause's analysis brings people, community, and agency back in. Hers is a remarkable study that has lessons for scholars, students, and policymakers alike.' Scott Straus, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Political Science and International Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison\u003cbr\u003e'Krause's study offers insights into how civilian agency, institutional capacity, and resilience are enablers to peace. Understanding endogenous structures and capacities, and supporting, rather than replacing them with externally imported models, can become the most effective route to sustainable peace.' Sukanya Podder, International Peacekeeping\u003cbr\u003e'Krause has collected a great deal of rich data and given us much to think about … well worth reading and contemplating.' Landon E. 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(Non)-violence and civilian agency in Jos, Nigeria; Conclusion.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738302558551,"sku":"9781108471114","price":78.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781108471114.jpg?v=1723811906"},{"product_id":"does-scripture-speak-for-itself-9781108493314","title":"Does Scripture Speak for Itself","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book''s powerful exploration of the fraught ways in which money, race and power shape the story of Christianity in American public life. The authors'' subject is the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC: arguably the latest example of a long line of white evangelical institutions aiming to amplify and promote a religious, political, and moral agenda of their own. In their careful and compelling investigation, Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon disclose the ways in which the Museum''s exhibits reinforce a particularized and partial interpretation of the Bible''s meaning. Bringing to light the Museum''s implicit messaging about scriptural provenance and audience, the authors reveal how the MOTB produces a version of the Bible that in essence authorizes a certain sort of white evangelical privilege; promotes a view of history aligne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'From common sense realism in the nineteenth century to the Museum of the Bible, American Protestants, and white evangelicals in particular, have approached the Bible with a kind of willful naïveté, confident that they understand its meaning. In their 'close reading' of the Museum of the Bible, Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon demonstrate that any approach to the Bible is complicated by allegiances, prejudices, economics, privilege, and cultural location. This is a very worthy and thought-provoking book.' Randall Balmer, Dartmouth College\u003cbr\u003e'Does Scripture Speak for Itself? uses one book and one museum to unpack with incisive reflection the manifold ways that white evangelicalism has leveraged a particular rendering of biblical Christianity for political gain. Combining business history with exegesis, cultural analysis with media studies, ethnography with sharp scrutiny of power, Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon's outstanding book is a must read for anyone trying to grasp the institutional juggernaut that is the modern religious right.' Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame, author of Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America\u003cbr\u003e'This book shows how contemporary white Americans manufacture the Bible they need to achieve the political future they want. In this incisive work, two brilliant scholars offer a coruscating view of how scripture operates as an ideological weapon. Required reading for students of religion, race, and politics in the U.S.' Kathryn Lofton, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e'A compelling read and fascinating tour. As our author-guides walk us through the exhibits and back rooms of the Museum of the Bible, we come to see it as a kind of bible-making machine, built to produce and promote a form of biblicism that in turn reproduces and further promotes white Christian privilege. Along the way, we gain a deeper and richer understanding of the rise of American evangelicalism and the religious right.' Timothy Beal, Case Western Reserve University, author of When Time Is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e'This fascinating book represents the pivot in orientation toward critical transdisciplinarity among academic scholars of the Bible that I have long called for. I especially appreciate the authors' readings of 'the Bible' and other cultural and political 'scriptures,' which will make readers aware of the complex inheritance of and participation - with unintentional or willful ignorance - in the construction and ongoing advancement of white supremacy. With its honest questioning, analysis, and close reading, the book models the possibility of a refocused and reoriented field.' Vincent Wimbush, Institute for Signifying Scriptures\u003cbr\u003e'Hicks-Keeton and Concannon provide an incomparable tour of the Museum of the Bible, placing it within the broader context of white evangelicalism and illuminating the theological and ideological agendas animating its work. Engaging and incisive, this brilliant book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the battle for the Bible in the American public square.' Mark Chancey, Southern Methodist University\u003cbr\u003e'A keen, insightful reading of the white evangelical Bible that the Museum of the Bible hallows, magnifies, and markets with such zeal in the nation's capital. A learned excursion through the museum's acutely politicized exhibitions that is a tour de force both for biblical studies and American religious history.' Leigh Eric Schmidt, Washington University in St. Louis\u003cbr\u003e'Does Scripture Speak for Itself leaves no doubt that the Museum of the Bible speaks loudly for white evangelicals. Hicks-Keeton and Concannon offer an eye-opening tour of the worlds within and around this new institution, shining a critical light on the values that inform its exhibits and the funders that underwrite its mission. Anyone interested in the still-bustling intersection of Christianity and American public life will find this an absorbing read.' Heath Carter, Princeton Theological Seminary\u003cbr\u003e'Heirs to a long history of entrepreneurial obfuscation, the Museum of the Bible and its founding family, the Greens, promote a white evangelical Bible fashioned from capitalist extraction, consumerist excess, and the thrill of discovery. In an exhilarating analysis of this Bible's latest advocates, Hicks-Keeton and Concannon interrogate the ways that branding transforms money into personal salvation, with consequences not only for the nation and its imagined whiteness but also for biblical scholarship. This is an indispensable book.' Jennifer Knust, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e'Hicks-Keeton and Concannon provide a meticulously researched account … The sharp analyses of the exhibits are as convincing as they are disconcerting' Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Provenance; 2. Good book; 3. Reliable Bible; 4. Jesus, Israel, and a Christian America; 5. 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Beyond the Boundaries: The Church Is Mission\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Baker Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738469216599,"sku":"9780801039294","price":16.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801039294.jpg?v=1720048648"},{"product_id":"stereotyping-religion-ii-9781350263598","title":"Stereotyping Religion II","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraig Martin\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Religious Studies, St. Thomas Aquinas College, USA. He is co-editor of\u003ci\u003e Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2018), and author of \u003ci\u003eCapitalizing Religion\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2014) and \u003ci\u003eDiscourse and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2022). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrad Stoddard \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Religious Studies, McDaniel College, USA.  He is co-editor of\u003ci\u003e Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2018) and \u003ci\u003eRace, Ethnicity, and New Religious Movements \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStereotyping Religion II\u003c\/i\u003e shows, in clear straightforward examples, how the way we think about things limits what we can see. 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