A present-day terrorist attack on the proposed site of a Manhattan mosque kills several young women, prompting the President of the United States to take the issue of religiously motivated terrorism more seriouslya growing trend among radical Christians. Economic uncertainty, involvement in two wars, and a healthcare crisis prompts the President to commission an elite task force to examine and identify the root of escalating religious fanaticism, both at home and abroad. In a time of national turmoil, Crisis of Faith shows what happens when the most powerful man in the world challenges the most powerful book in the world.
1980s, Bob Jones Republicans joined with the state GOP establishment in repelling the advance of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and Robertson's own insurgent political campaign against then-Vice President George H. W. Bush.
Conversion and Subversion: Religion and the Management of Moral Panics in Singapore
The Elite-sponsored Moral Panic: A Singapore Perspective
anticult movement 33 eral A. Mitchell Palmer's rounding up and imprisonment of suspected Communists in 1919. This approach was soon discredited as extremist. The boom times of the 1920s reduced the fear of communism, and, in the 1930s, ...
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The Transformation of John Foster Dulles: From Prophet of Realism to Priest of Nationalism
日本における宗教と政治
These values, such as the rule of law, democracy and human rights, are deeply grounded in a Christian understanding of what it is to be a human being in society.This is a new edition with a substantial new introduction of the book first ...
I Att tämja gudarna jämförs relationen mellan kyrka och stat i Europa respektive i USA samt hur det religiösa ledarskapet fungerar i Kina och Japan.
Built around a set of compelling narratives--George Washington's battle with Quaker pacifists; the fight of Mormons and Catholics for equality with Protestants; Teddy Roosevelt's concept of land versus the Lakota's concept; the creation ...