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How does empire mould human subjectivity, for instance, and how does it affect the understanding of humans within the whole of creation? This title analyzes the global empire in its political and economic dimensions, in its symbolic constructions of power, and in its general assumptions often taken for granted.

Focusing on one of the oldest and most important Tantric traditions, based in Assam, northeast India, this book shows that Tantra is less about optimal sexual pleasure than about harnessing the divine power of the goddess that flows alike through the cosmos, the human body and political society.

Examines the theological foundations of a collaborative approach to Christian ministry. Outlining the challenges for ministry, this book offers an historical perspective on ministry over the last century and develops a theory of collaborative ministry based on a dialogue between theology and science.

The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wisdom of Western societies, and it underlies many of our institutions and policies, from limits on the public role of religion to efforts to promote liberal democracy in the Middle East. William T. Cavanaugh challenges this conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the ..

Addresses the major generators of conflict and toleration at shared holy places in Palestine and Israel. Examining the religious, political and legal issues, this book shows how the holy sites have been a focus of both conflict and cooperation between different communities.

Covering three areas of religion that tend to influence election outcomes, this title illuminates the meaning of religious belonging, behaving, and believing in political context. It reviews the importance of 'moral values' in the major parties' coalitions and discusses the role religious appeals have in presidential campaigns.

First Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith. From the editors of KillingTheBuddha.com, an engaging collection of ambivalent confessions, skeptical testimonies, and personal revelations of religion lost and found and lost again.

Seeks to broach the big questions at stake in the efforts to fathom the historical importance of science and religion - two of the most important ways of knowing our world - to better our understanding of how both have shaped the course of history and the direction of modern thinking.

Every person needs to know the core Bible stories - those stories with great cultural, historical, or literary significance - that lie at the foundation of Western civilisation. This title argues that without knowing these core stories, we cannot fully participate in the popular, political, and especially spiritual worlds that surround us.

Presents an account of Charles Darwin's religious beliefs. This book draws on Darwin's autobiography, manuscripts, notebooks and letters - as well as his world-famous publications - in exploring Darwin's view of design, purpose, morality, the universe and the human mind.

Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of intelligent design, this title analyzes the creationism movement, one of the most formidable political movements of the twentieth century. It tells the story of the 1925 Scopes 'monkey' trial and reinterprets its meaning.

I have read the Bible and the Qur'an and have spent a lifetime seeking God. So to all those who search for, or are curious about God, then let my life save you forty years of searching, for it will lead you to 'the' truth. There is only one 'truth', although it can be a tortuous path to decipher 'truth' from 'error'.