Category: Politics State

By Jonathan P. Herzog

ISBN-10: 0195393465

ISBN-13: 9780195393460

In his farewell tackle, Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the country of the perils of the military-industrial complicated. yet as Jonathan Herzog exhibits during this insightful background, Eisenhower had spent his presidency contributing to a different, lesser identified, chilly warfare collaboration: the spiritual-industrial complex.

This attention-grabbing quantity exhibits that American leaders within the early chilly struggle years thought of the clash to be profoundly non secular; they observed Communism not just as godless but additionally as a sinister kind of faith. battling religion with religion, they intentionally used non secular ideals and associations as a part of the plan to defeat the Soviet enemy. Herzog bargains an illuminating account of the ensuing spiritual-industrial complicated, chronicling the rhetoric, the courses, and the guidelines that turned its hallmarks. He indicates that famous activities just like the addition of the phrases ''under God'' to the Pledge of Allegiance have been a small a part of a miles better and comparatively unexplored application that promoted faith national. Herzog exhibits how those efforts performed out in parts of yankee lifestyles either predictable and unexpected--from pulpits and presidential appeals to nationwide religion drives, army education barracks, public college school rooms, and Hollywood epics. thousands of american citizens have been bombarded with the message that the spiritual couldn't be Communists, only a brief step from the all-too-common end that the irreligious couldn't be actual americans.

Though the spiritual-industrial advanced declined within the Nineteen Sixties, its statutes, monuments, and sentiments survive as bulwarks opposed to secularism and as reminders that the state rests upon the foundation of spiritual religion. They proceed to function important allies for these protecting where of faith in American lifestyles

By Roger Trigg

ISBN-10: 0199576858

ISBN-13: 9780199576852

Is non secular freedom being curtailed in pursuit of equality, and the outlawing of discrimination? Is sufficient attempt made to deal with these influenced by way of a non secular sense of right and wrong? All rights subject yet now and then the proper to place spiritual ideals into perform more and more takes moment position within the legislations of other nations to the pursuit of alternative social priorities. the ideal to freedom of trust and to appear trust is written into all human rights charters. within the usa spiritual freedom is usually noticeable as 'the first freedom'. but more and more in lots of jurisdictions in Europe and North the United States, spiritual freedom can all too simply be 'trumped' via different rights.

Roger Trigg seems to be on the assumptions that lie in the back of the subordination of non secular liberty to different social matters, specially the pursuit of equality. He provides examples from diverse Western international locations of a gentle erosion of freedom of faith. the safety of freedom of worship is frequently noticeable as enough, and spiritual practices are separated from the ideals which motivate them. thus far from faith quite often, and Christianity specifically, offering a starting place for our ideals in human dignity and human rights, faith is all too usually obvious as risk and a resource of clash, to be managed in any respect bills. The problem is whether or not any freedom can preserved for lengthy, if the elemental human correct to freedom of non secular trust and perform is brushed off as of little account, without try to offer any moderate lodging. Given the vital position of faith in human existence, pointless boundaries on its expression are assaults on human freedom itself.

By Fatima Sbaity Kassem

ISBN-10: 1137333219

ISBN-13: 9781137333216

ISBN-10: 1349462101

ISBN-13: 9781349462100

Exploring the interlinkages of political events, religiosity, and women's management and nominations to public workplace, this booklet argues that as get together religiosity raises, women's possibilities of assuming management positions fall. Combining qualitative and quantitative equipment, it advances a brand new thought of occasion version in religiosity.

By N. J. Demerath III

ISBN-10: 0813529247

ISBN-13: 9780813529240

By Ian G. Barbour

ISBN-10: 0060603836

ISBN-13: 9780060603830

A finished exam of the foremost concerns among technology and faith in latest international.

By Eliza Griswold

ISBN-10: 0374273189

ISBN-13: 9780374273187

A riveting research of the jagged fault line among the Christian and Muslim worldsThe 10th parallel—the line of range 700 miles north of the equator—is a geographical and ideological entrance line the place Christianity and Islam collide. greater than 1/2 the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims reside alongside the 10th parallel; so do sixty percentage of the world’s 2 billion Christians. right here, within the humming megacities and swarming jungles of Africa and Asia, is the place the 2 religions meet; their come across is shaping the way forward for every one religion, and of entire societies in addition. An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the previous seven years touring among the equator and the 10th parallel: in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The tales she tells within the 10th Parallel exhibit us that non secular conflicts also are conflicts approximately land, water, oil, and different typical assets, and that neighborhood and tribal matters are usually formed through spiritual principles. exceptionally, she makes transparent that, for the folks she writes approximately, one’s experience of God is formed via one’s position on the earth; alongside the 10th parallel, religion is geographic and demographic. An pressing exam of the connection among religion and worldly strength, The 10th Parallel is a vital paintings concerning the conflicts over faith, nationhood and common assets that would remake the realm within the future years.

By J. Gleicher

ISBN-10: 0230618227

ISBN-13: 9780230618220

Jules Gleicher explores chosen passages from the Hebrew Scriptures that spotlight in particular, yet now not solely, at the sacred text’s teachings and implications approximately politics, legislations, justice, and rulership. Chapters deal, successively, with the booklet of Genesis, episodes within the profession of Moses, features of the Mosaic legislations, the Prophetic background, and 5 prophetic practitioners. continuing neither from the doctrinal premises of the pro clergy nor from the methodological assumptions of Biblical feedback, the essays provide respectful and considerate makes an attempt to query an historic and venerable resource on very important problems with perennial curiosity.

By Omar Saif Ghobash

ISBN-10: 1250119847

ISBN-13: 9781250119841

**A New York Times Editor's Pick**

**One of Time's so much expected Books of 2017, a Bustle top Nonfiction decide for January 2017, a Chicago evaluate of Books most sensible ebook to learn in January 2017, an Amazon better of January 2017 in heritage, a Stylist journal top booklet of 2017, integrated in New Statesman's What to learn in 2017**

From the Ambassador of the UAE to Russia comes Letters to a tender Muslim, a daring and intimate exploration of what it ability to be a Muslim within the twenty-first century.

In a sequence of non-public letters to his son, Omar Saif Ghobash bargains a brief and hugely readable manifesto that tackles our present international main issue with the educational of an skilled diplomat and the private accountability of a father. Today’s younger Muslims may be tomorrow’s leaders, and but too many are at risk of extremist propaganda that turns out omnipresent in our technological age. The burning query, Ghobash argues, is how reasonable Muslims can unite to discover a voice that's actual to Islam whereas actively and productively accomplishing the trendy global. What does it suggest to be a superb Muslim?

What is the idea that of an exceptional existence? And is it applicable to face up and overtly condemn those that take the Islamic religion and twist it to fit their very own faulty political agendas? In taking a troublesome examine those possible easy questions, Ghobash encourages his son to stand concerns others insist usually are not correct, now not appropriate, or will also be Islamophobic. those letters function a clear-eyed thought for the subsequent iteration of Muslims to appreciate the best way to be trustworthy to their faith and nonetheless navigate in the course of the complexities of today’s global. in addition they show an intimate glimpse right into a international many are unexpected with and supply to supply an realizing of the standard struggles Muslims face round the globe.

By Mark J. Rozell, Gleaves Whitney

ISBN-10: 0230604153

ISBN-13: 9780230604155

ISBN-10: 1403977712

ISBN-13: 9781403977717

This quantity opens a brand new road towards knowing the politics and regulations of many U.S. presidents. For years, top students have mostly overlooked the spiritual think about their reports of presidents. but, because the essays during this e-book exhibit, faith has had a big effect on many severe presidencies in U.S. background. opposite to the normal knowledge, those essays display the deeply non secular part to such presidents as Truman, Eisenhower, and Reagan, between others.

By Robert A. Ventresca

ISBN-10: 0674049616

ISBN-13: 9780674049611

Debates over the legacy of Pope Pius XII and his canonization are so heated they're often called the “Pius wars.” Soldier of Christ strikes past competing caricatures and considers Pius XII as Eugenio Pacelli, a fallacious and talented guy. whereas providing perception into the pope’s reaction to Nazism, Robert A. Ventresca argues that it was once the chilly struggle and Pius XII’s demeanour of enticing with the trendy international that outlined his pontificate.

Laying the foundation for the pope’s debatable, contradictory activities from 1939 to 1958, Ventresca starts with the tale of Pacelli’s Roman upbringing, his highbrow formation in Rome’s seminaries, and his interwar event as papal diplomat and Vatican secretary of country. Accused of ethical equivocation in the course of the Holocaust, Pius XII later fought the unfold of Communism in Western Europe, spoke opposed to the persecution of Catholics in japanese Europe and Asia, and tackled quite a number social and political concerns. by way of appointing the 1st indigenous cardinals from China and India and increasing missions in Africa whereas expressing harmony with independence hobbies, he internationalized the church’s club and moved Catholicism past the colonial mentality of past eras.

Drawing from a variety of foreign assets, together with unexplored documentation from the Vatican, Ventresca finds a paradoxical determine: a prophetic reformer of constrained imaginative and prescient whose management either motivated the emergence of an international Catholicism and sowed doubt and dissension between a few of the church’s such a lot devoted servants.