The Rise Of Islam
This final volume in the successful series "The Idea of Iran" addresses the astonishing impact made by Islam during and after the Arab conquest of Iran in the middle of the seventh century. As the Sas...
Beyond Eurocentrism And Anarchy: Memories Of International Order And Institutions
This book reevaluates "international knowledge" in light of recent scholarship in the fields of hermeneutics, ethnography, and historiography regarding the non-West, the past, and the present of inter...
Turkish Democracy Today: Elections, Protest And Stability In An Islamic Society
The authors of this volume combine cutting-edge theory with in-depth empirical research to address the key issues in contemporary Turkish politics: the rise of democratic Islamist parties, and the imp...
Martin Luther King And The Rhetoric Of Freedom: The Exodus Narrative In America's Struggle For Civil Rights
Shows how Martin Luther King, Jr used the biblical story of Exodus to motivate African Americans in their struggle for freedom from racial oppression. This title explains how King constructed a symbol...
Religion In The National Agenda: What We Mean By Religious, Spiritual, Secular
In this highly provocative book, C. John Sommerville examines common linguistic uses of the terms "religion," "religious," "spiritual," and "secular" in order to discern the proper use of these words ...
The Faithful Citizen: Popular Christian Media And Gendered Civic Identities
For decades, American popular media have instructed audiences about their roles and significance in the public sphere. In The Faithful Citizen, rhetorical critic Kristy Maddux argues that popular Chri...
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
Now in trade paper comes ex-President Jimmy Carter's passionate defense of church and state. In this #1 "New York Times" bestseller, he warns that fundamentalists are deliberately blurring the lines b...
The Criminalization Of Christianity
There is a war going on for the future of our country. Most people know that. What they may not know is that if Christians lose, the result won't merely be enduring public policy we disagree with-it w...
First Freedom First: A Citizen's Guide To Protecting Religious Liberty And The Separation Of Church And State
The United States is the most religiously diverse nation in the world, due in large part to the clauses of the First Amendment that guarantee freedom for and from religion. But as we debate displaying...
Prison Religion: Faith-Based Reform And The Constitution
More than the citizens of most countries, Americans are either religious or in jail--or both. But what does it mean when imprisonment and evangelization actually go hand in hand, or at least appear to...
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