Sharma explores Quakerism, its legacy, and its relevance for Gandhian research, covering topics such as the historical circumstances that led to the birth of Quakerism, the history of the movement, the practices of the sect, and efforts of Quakers to make people more tolerant.
Quality Enhancement in Madrasa Education
This study focuses on the different quality dimensions of the Madrasa education system in Kerala, southwestern India, much neglected in academia. It examines the Madrasa education system in terms of different quality dimensions, including curriculum planning and designing.
What did the creators of the ancient Yijing (Book of Changes) think about the mind and the universe? This book explores the connections between modern quantum science and the Yijing, showing how the principles of quantum theory were also contemplated by its creators.
The religious diversity of Hispanics in the United States has been inadequately studied, contributing to a perception of a monolithic Catholic culture. This volume presents original work on topics rarely addressed, laying the groundwork for a new sub-discipline.
Does evolution make faith superfluous? While evolution makes sense of all life, doesn’t this demolish the claim that God created the universe? This book explores a God who embraces that universe with love, not interference, and a faith that calls us to urgently needed restraint.
This volume offers insights from emerging and well-established Catholic scholars on Laudato si’, Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment. It focuses on the philosophical, ecological and anthropological aspects of Laudato si’, placing it within a specific history of ideas.
Regulating Freedom of Religion
International human rights declarations empowered religious communities, making them powerful social and political actors. This book investigates the rulings that shaped these rights, exploring the paradox of religion’s power in a secular, globalizing world.
Freer and Bell’s volume presents a rich and powerful range of essays by leading and emerging T.S. Eliot and literary modernist scholars, considering the doctrinal, religious, humanist, mythic and secular aspects of Eliot’s poetry.
Religion and Politics in the 21st Century
This volume captures diverse perspectives on contemporary religion and politics, from theoretical approaches to case studies. Exploring past interactions, present realities, and future directions, it is a valuable resource for scholars, policy makers, and the public.
Religion and Politics in Ukraine
Russia uses an “Orthodox civilization” to justify policies towards Ukraine. This book analyzes the role of religion in Ukrainian political life, focusing on Eastern Christian communities after the USSR’s collapse and the connection to its democratic character.
This volume revisits the concepts of reality and realism with regard to their relation to religion and the religious real, presenting ten essays that offer methodologically diverse and intellectually challenging analyses.
Religion and Representation
This book examines the complex relationship between Islam and democracy. Beyond demonstrating compatibility, authors employ theological reasoning and empirical data to explore connections between religious beliefs and political behaviour in diverse contemporary settings.
Religion and Revolution
A study of spiritual and political Islām in Ernesto Cardenal, the great Latin American poet, priest, and revolutionary. The work examines his connection to Ṣūfism and details his trip to Iran during the triumph of the Islāmic Revolution.
These essays explore the pivotal role of the book trade—printers, publishers, and booksellers—in distributing religious works. Covering the 16th to 20th centuries in Europe, they demonstrate how the trade was crucial for spreading both religion and literacy.
This book examines the complex interrelationships between religion, politics, and war. Combining Western and Asian analyses, it addresses critical issues like the separation of church and state, tolerance, and the causes of religious strife.
Religion of Democracy
This book examines how religion, politics, gender, and sexuality in Zimbabwe have been gendered and sexualised to trap women in tradition and bar them from playing a participative role. Its findings cut across disciplines to empower people in theory and practice.
Religious Anarchism
This unique book presents fresh scholarship on the intersection of religion and anarchism. It explores diverse traditions from early Christianity to Daoism, Buddhism, and Islam, revealing innovative perspectives on the radical political implications of faith.
This book builds on critiques of development theory by exploring the transformation of religious fundamentalism. Raising themes of development and intersectionality, it considers these processes in the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish-Zionist worlds and in China.
Religious Life
Le provides a detailed study of the theological understanding of charism and of mission in relation to Religious Life within the Catholic Church, drawing particularly on the work of two major theologians, Jean-Marie Roger Tillard OP and Sandra Marie Schneiders IHM.