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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology
Book SynopsisInvestigating a range of eschatological and apocalyptic ideologies, this volume explores the connection between notions of sacred space and time in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim understandings of Jerusalem.The recognition of Jerusalem as a holy city both unites and divides Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. While these three religious traditions share a reverence for the same ancient city, this veneration leads more often to tension and violence than to commonality and cooperation. Each of these religions draws heavily from religious memory and eschatological prophecies, and sees Jerusalem as a site of past and future upheaval; however, the distinctions in their visions imbue Jerusalem with meanings that reinforce conflicting and contested ideologies. Offering multiple analyses of religious interpretations of the city and its sacred sites, including the Temple Mount, this volume explores these divergent visions of the remembered and anticipated Jerusalem.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Football Paradox
Book SynopsisAaron W. Hughes is the Philip S. Bernstein Chair in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester, USA.
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Bloomsbury Academic The Making of Boko Haram
Book Synopsisomeni is the principal consultant at Terrorism Studies Consultancy and a visiting professor at Boston University. He has taught at the War Studies Department, King's College London, at the University of Leicester, and at the University of St Andrews, UK, where he was Senior Lecturer. He is the author of Policing and Politics in Nigeria (2022), Insurgency and War in Nigeria (2019), Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria (2017) and Picking Sides: Race, Ethnicity and Recruitment in the Colonial Nigerian Army (forthcoming).
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Lulu.com Seeds of the Second U.S. Civil War
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Augsburg Fortress Publishers Chosen Nations
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Augsburg Fortress Publishers Reading Scripture as a Political Act
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the political character of premodern and modern readings of scripture with attention to how these relate to or address political challenges in social and historical contexts. Essays here also offer constructive models of reading scripture that can inform the contemporary task of political scriptural interpretation. From the earliest Christian centuries to the present day, this volume considers the close coordination between scripture, theology, and social and political concerns, providing a robust survey of Christian theopolitical scripture interpretation.
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Augsburg Fortress Publishers Down in the Valley
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Bamboozled Besieged by Lies Man Never a Sinner How World Leaders Use Religion to Control the Populace
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The University of North Carolina Press Public Confessions The Religious Conversions
Book SynopsisThe second half of the twentieth century was marked by a startling number of religious conversions among American celebrities. Rebecca Davis reveals how the contradictory pressures to conform to a specific vision of Americanism and to celebrate the freedom of religion made conversions both attractive and threatening to the American public.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan
Book SynopsisEmily Anderson is Assistant Professor of History at Washington State University, USA.Trade ReviewAnderson uses sources such as personal notebooks and diaries to great effect ... A solidly researched and sympathetically written work of scholarship. * American Historical Review *Anderson portrays a fascinating journey of interwoven lives and dreams on a sweeping scale ... manag[ing] to capture the often overlooked Christian dimension of imperial Japan. * English Historical Review *[W]ell-researched and engaging ... [A] thought-provoking and interesting book that deserves a wide audience among both those interested in the intellectual and religious history of Meiji and Taisho Japan and specialists in colonial and imperial studies. * Monumenta Nipponica *Anderson’s research provides numerous insights into Christian history in Japan before 1945 … [She] has given us a well-researched and original investigation into a part of Japanese history too long neglected. * Japan Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: All Roads Lead to Annaka: The Place of Imperial Christianity in Japan’s Modern History 1. The Problem of Two Masters: The Imperial Rescript on Education and the Quandary of Japanese Christians 2. Fields Ready for Harvest: Russo-Japanese War as Holy War 3. Nation without Borders: Casting a Vision for a Transnational Church 4. Making Koreans Japanese: A Gospel for Japan’s New Colonial Subjects 5. After the March First Movement: The “Korean Problem” Just Beyond Empire’s Edge 6. Becoming a Small Country: The Imperial Countryside Imagined as the Kingdom of God 7. Following in Abraham’s Footsteps: Building an Imperial Christian Utopia in Manchukuo Bibliography Index
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TEACH Services, Inc. The Rights of the People
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Teach Services, Inc. Who Is Like Unto the Beast
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Open Road Media The Secrets of the Heart
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Authorhouse How to Cope with Lifes Struggles
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Open Road Media If Nuns Ruled the World
Trade ReviewPraise for If Nuns Ruled the World “In an age of villainy, war and inequality, it makes sense that we need superheroes. And after trying Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, we may have found the best superheroes yet: Nuns.” —Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times “Piazza writes vividly about hardworking women who devote their time and energy to making other people’s lives better. The result is a readable, informative look at how nuns, as flawed and human and real as they may be, also have a calling and a faith, and they use that to create change in the world. . . . If Nuns Ruled the World is a little bit of a crowd pleaser and a little bit subversive, and it opened up my eyes to the everyday heroism of some amazing women.” —Flavorwire “Anybody looking to argue there is a place for Catholicism in the modern world should just stand on a street corner handing out Piazza’s book. By sharing the chills-inducing tales of the women toiling in ways most of us could never fathom, she has given oxygen to that flickering flame that is the Church's reputation in the U.S.” —The Daily Beast “Fascinating profiles of 10 women determined to make a difference. Piazza successfully updates the image of black-garbed brides of Christ to strong, proactive and, yes, devout women intent on addressing social ills and tending to souls the Catholic church seems to shun, like gays and lesbians. Piazza delivers a controversial and important book.” —Daily News (New York) “This affecting collection of journalistic pieces by Piazza . . . goes a very long way toward dispelling any notion of nuns as conformist knuckle-whackers. . . . Accessibly written, these ten portraits should speak to many students and church groups.” —Library Journal
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Xulon Press 1776 DELMARVA
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Xulon Press CONFLICT IN THE BEAUTIFUL CITY
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Lexington Books Christianity and Culture in the City
Book SynopsisChristianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach offers an introduction to the broad diversity of contemporary Christianities in a rich, complex, changing, and challenging city context. Cruz focuses upon a variety of changing communities with dynamic and striking cultural experiences, and the volume provides both scholarly and practical insights as to how Christianities in the city relate to and transform city institutions and communities that are undergoing dramatic shifts and invite opportunities for intentional study.This book offers a provocative interdisciplinary examination to shed light upon the ways in which diverse city communities appropriate Christianity to better engage their economic, cultural, political, and religious environment. A post-colonial theoretical framework will help inform how Christianity serves to empower and reinvent fragmented, oppressed, and struggling city populations. The reader is offered various conceptual, theoretical, and pragmatic insiTrade ReviewCity life is complicated. Religious expressions within cities are even more difficult to ascertain. Cruz brings together scholars who explore marginalized religious spaces within cities to discover that what people claim to believe in theory, what they say about their faith, and how they live out that faith can be quite incongruent. Most religious scholars miss this because they fail to consider the complicated ethnic, cultural, and political realities of the everyday. As a corrective, this book provides us with a liberative critical reflection on the praxis of the disenfranchised. -- Miguel A. De La Torre, professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies, Iliff School of TheologySamuel Cruz is a major prophetic voice who understands that urban Christian visions and witnesses constitute much of the best of our future! -- Cornel West, Union Theological SeminaryTable of ContentsIntroduction Samuel Cruz Chapter 1: The Use of Roman Catholic Material Culture, Ritual, and Devotional Practices in Haitian Vodou in the Greater Newark, New Jersey Area: The Urban Context. Peter Savastano Chapter 2: Between the Runway and Empty Tomb: Bodily Transformations and Christian Praxis in New York City’s House Ball Community. Edgar Rivera Chapter 3: Praying Aloud, in Spanish, in the South Bronx Nicolas Dumit Estevez Chapter 4: Troubling the Waters: Intimate Violence and the Church-Breaking the Hold of Shame and Secrecy Michelle L. Nickens Chapter 5: Revelation 12-13: A Guerilla Reading Charlene Sinclair Chapter 6: The Church, the City, and Its Mission in the 21st Century: A View from the Margins Elieser Valentin Chapter 7: Conclusion: A Praxis of Integral Liberation in a (Post) Colonial World A Critical and Compelling Conversation David Traverzo
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Lexington Books God Locke and Liberty
Book SynopsisI no sooner perceived myself in the world, wrote English philosopher John Locke, than I found myself in a storm. The storm of which Locke spoke was the maelstrom of religious fanaticism and intolerance that was tearing apart the social fabric of European society. His response was A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), arguably the most important defense of religious freedom in the Western tradition. In God, Locke, and Liberty: The Struggle for Religious Freedom in the West, historian Joseph Loconte offers a groundbreaking study of Locke's Letter, challenging the notion that decisive arguments for freedom of conscience appeared only after the onset of the secular Enlightenment. Loconte argues that Locke's vision of a tolerant and pluralistic society was based on a radical reinterpretation of the life and teachings of Jesus. In this, Locke drew great strength from an earlier religious reform movement, namely, the Christian humanist tradition. Like no thinker before him, Locke forged an aTrade ReviewIn God, Locke, and Liberty: The Struggle for Religious Freedom in the West, Joseph Loconte, associate professor of history at The King’s College in New York CIty, has made an invaluable contribution to our understanding of where religious freedom came from and how we can help renew it. God, Locke, and Liberty traces the history of religious freedom’s emergence in the early modern period. Loconte deftly combines intellectual, religious, and political history to weave a story that will keep you reading. ... This is a wonderful book that laypeople and scholars alike will benefit from reading. At a time when the foundations of our freedom strain under the weight of both religious and secular forms of fanaticism, Loconte points us back to the simple yet powerful idea that Locke expressed so eloquently: 'The toleration of those that differ from others in matters of religion is so agreeable to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and to the genuine reason of mankind, that it seems monstrous for men to be so blind as not to perceive the necessity and advantage of it.' Monstrous as it may seem, religious and irreligious people are once again growing blind to the rights of their neighbors. This book will help reopen eyes. * The Gospel Coalition *In recovering Locke's religious views, Loconte refuses to be sidetracked, as are many observes, by Locke's doctrinal peculiarities. . . .Rather, the relatively 'unexamined' Christian elements that helped shape Locke's moral imagination - and the subsequent manner in which this imagination modeled his understanding of religious toleration, his social-political vision, and his accent on preserving the common good - are in need of thorough examination. . . .Loconte's broader conclusion is richly suggestive. * Touchstone: A Journal Of Mere Christianity *Religious freedom is the key to the whole modern world, the foundation stone upon which all other forms of freedom rest. Yet most of us no longer think that religious freedom is the central organizing principle of a humane social order, as our forefathers did. One reason for this myopia is that the real story of religious freedom’s origins and first purposes is almost completely unknown beyond a few academic specialists. Joe Loconte draws upon an extensive array of historical scholarship to weave the story for us, and show why the modern world so desperately needs to remember it. He treats the evidence with conscientious care, uncovering Locke’s connections to an ancient tradition of Christian humanism neglected by most scholars. But he also keeps the story flowing and the reader engaged; this is one of those rare books that scholars and ordinary lovers of history alike will profit from. And it comes not a moment too soon. In a world where the foundations of freedom are buckling under the weight of both religious and secular fanaticisms, this book cannot find too wide a readership. -- Greg Forster, Kern Family FoundationJohn Locke considered toleration ‘to be the chief characteristic mark of the true church.’ This book helps us to see Locke as he saw himself—a religious reformer in the tradition of Erasmus, calling his fellow believers to stop persecuting and start imitating ‘the perfect example of the Prince of Peace.’ There is much more to be said about Locke and toleration, but Loconte shows how the ethos of Christian humanism was used to tame post-Reformation religion, paving the way for the ameliorated Christianity of the Enlightenment. -- John Coffey, University of LeicesterMany have written about Erasmus and religion. This book is as good a statement as we are likely to get for Erasmus as the great inspiration of Locke’s thinking about religious liberty. -- Ian C. Harris, University of LeicesterLoconte reconstructs the meaning of Locke’s ideas on religious toleration with exceptional clarity, erudition, and a dynamic, engaging style. He has the rare ability to make seventeenth-century writings seem urgently relevant, without ever wrenching them out of their specific historical contexts. -- Ian McBride, King's College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction: A ‘Secret Stream’ of Toleration: Christian Humanism and the Crisis of the West Chapter 1: A Thing Called Liberty: The Great Debate over Freedom of Conscience Chapter 2: Bright Enough for All Our Purposes: Locke and the English Reformers Chapter 3: The Heirs of Erasmus: Locke and the Dutch Reformers Chapter 4: The Captain of Our Salvation: Toleration and the Politics of Jesus Conclusion: Let Us Not Devour Each Other: The Lockean Vision of a Just Society Bibliography
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1517 Media Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization, Second Edition
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1517 Media The Nation That Fears God Prospers: A Critique of Zambian Pentecostal Theopolitical Imaginations
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1517 Media Black Hands, White House: Slave Labor and the
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1517 Media Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White
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1517 Media Moral Triumph: The Public Face of Christianity in
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Herald Press (VA) Making It Plain
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A & D Publishing The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of
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Wilder Publications St. Francis of Assisi
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FriesenPress Understanding the Politics of Jesus
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FriesenPress Understanding the Politics of Jesus
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Politics: the very Heart of Islam
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Wipf & Stock Publishers Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the History
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Wipf & Stock Publishers No Bars to Manhood: A powerful, personal statement on radical confrontation with contemporary society
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New City Press Rehumanize: A Vision to Secure Human Rights for All
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Teach Services, Inc. National Sunday Law
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Society of Biblical Literature The Bible in the Public Square: Its Enduring Influence in American Life
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Thomas Nelson Publishers The Portable Patriot: Documents, Speeches, and Sermons That Compose the American Soul
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to think, believe, and act like an American? Get the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and other important United States historical documents all in one book!The soul of America is far more than a concept—it is a people. Even the most sacred principles mean very little unless lived out passionately by an informed citizenry. In The Portable Patriot you’ll find a carefully assembled sampling of American history’s most formative words, written by the people who made that extraordinary history—George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, and many more of America's Founding Fathers. Speeches and sermons, essays and extracts, poems and proclamations illumine such values as independence, virtue, humility, bravery, thrift, prayer, enterprise, liberty, and reliance on God. While peering back to the cradle of America’s national identity, The Portable Patriot also points a way forward, compelling us to heed poet John Dickinson’s plea to “rouse your bold hearts at fair Liberty’s call.” “Nothing ignites a patriot’s heart—or the hope that the truths of our founding era will prevail again—like the documents assembled in The Portable Patriot. How grateful we should be, and how quick to make these historic words our own.” ?Stephen Mansfield, author, The Forgotten Founding Father and The Faith of the American Soldier“Our current struggles over taxation, federal debt, and limited government are part of a larger American story. Kudos to Miller and Parrish for highlighting these essential passages.” ?Hon. Andrew P. Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst, Fox News Channel
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Ocabs Press Land and Covenant
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Transformaciones México
Book SynopsisEs un libro divertido que te hace reír hasta el cansancio, nosotros nos reímos mucho y es un libro que te hace llorar porque sabemos que el autor y su familia han pagado el costo de su llamado. Pero entre risas y alegría nos surge una pregunta: ¿habrá justicia y misericordia en Mexico?... Este libro es una voz profética y un manual con brújula que provee guía a los que son llamados a gobernar. Forma el carácter de aquellas y aquellos que desean servir a la nación proveyendo como fundamento principal el temor al Creador y exponiendo como modelo un matrimonio no solamente exitoso y feliz: Rosi y Alex (a quienes conocemos en lo íntimo de su seno familiar), sino un honorable ejemplo de quienes se puede aprender para hacer el servicio de manera diferente.He aquí un memorándum para la Iglesia de Cristo de nuestros días. Nos recuerda que nuestra fe y nuestra adoración a Dios tienen una dimensión práctica en cuanto a la responsabilidad con el mundo, nos confronta con una histórica omisión en cuanto a nuestra participación social y en el servicio público en nuestra nación, y nos desafía a salir de nuestro “auto-encierro” para cumplir con nuestra profesión profética y transformar al mundo, tal como nos fue demandado por el Señor.
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Indoeuropeanpublishing.com Politics by Aristotle (Written 350 B.C.E)
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Indoeuropeanpublishing.com The Politics of Aristotle
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