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  • Religious Pluralism and the City

    Inquiries into Postsecular Urbanism

    Edited by Helmuth Berking, Silke Steets, Jochen Schwenk ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
    Religious Pluralism and the City challenges the notion that the city is a secular place, and calls for an analysis of how religion and the city are intertwined. It is the first book to analyze the explanatory value of a number of typologies already in use around this topic – from "holy city" to "secular city", from "fundamentalist" to "postsecular city". By intertwining the city and religion, ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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    The Return of Religion After Mao

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  • Mahatma Gandhi

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    by Charles F. Andrews ...
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  • Religion in China

    Survival and Revival under Communist Rule

    by Fenggang Yang ...
    Religion in China survived the most radical suppression in human history--a total ban of any religion during and after the Cultural Revolution. All churches, temples, and mosques were closed down, converted for secular uses, or turned to museums for the purpose of atheist education. Over the last three decades, however, religion has survived and thrived even as China remains under Communist rule. ... Read more

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  • If You Meet the Buddha on the Road

    Buddhism, Politics, and Violence

    by Michael Jerryson ...
    It is said that the famous ninth century Chinese Buddhist monk Linji Yixuan told his disciples, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." The deliberately confounding statement is meant to shock people out of complacent ways of thinking. But beyond the purposeful jolt from complacency there is another intention. This axiom suggests that, for liberation, one should seek the Buddha nature that ... Read more

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  • The Global Public Square

    Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity

    by Os Guinness ...
    Logos Bookstores' Best Book in Christianity and CultureHow do we live with our deepest differences?In a world torn by religious conflict, the threats to human dignity are terrifyingly real. Some societies face harsh government repression and brutal sectarian violence, while others are divided by bitter conflicts over religion's place in public life. Is there any hope for living together peacefully ... Read more

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  • Living Faith

    Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty

    by Susan Crawford Sullivan ...
    Series series Morality and Society Series
    Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women’s lives can be difficult as they go about searching for housing and decent jobs and struggling to care for their children while surviving on welfare or working at low-wage service jobs and sometimes facing physical or mental health problems. But until now little attention has been paid to an ... Read more

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  • Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions

    Discourse on Race, Religion, and Freedom

    by Celucien L. Joseph ...
    Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state of Haiti in 1804. Particular attention is given to the place of religion in the Haitian Revolution, as well as to the interpretation and representation of this singular event in the work of Frederick ... Read more

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  • European Muslims Transforming the Public Sphere

    Religious Participation in the Arts, Media and Civil Society

    by Asmaa Soliman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    Anti-Muslim voices have become louder in many places in the midst of ongoing atrocities undertaken in the name of Islam. As a result, much of the creative participation of Western Muslims in the public sphere has become overshadowed. This tendency is not only visible in political discussions and the media landscape, but it is also often reflected in academia where research about Muslims in the ... Read more

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    Why Governments Restrict Religion

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    by Lori G. Beaman ...
    While religious conflict receives plenty of attention, the everyday negotiation of religious diversity does not. Questions of how to accommodate religious minorities and of the limits of tolerance resonate in a variety of contexts and have become central preoccupations for many Western democracies. What might we see if we turned our attention to the positive narratives and success stories of the ... Read more

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    The Politics of a Word in America

    by Matthew Bowman ...
    A Publishers Weekly Best Religion Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFor many Americans, being Christian is central to their political outlook. Political Christianity is most often associated with the Religious Right, but the Christian faith has actually been a source of deep disagreement about what American society and government should look like. While some identify Christianity ... Read more

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