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Faith, War, and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God, and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic spiritualism

The essays grouped together in this volume look from differing angles at the crisis of condence faced by the contemporary state. What we see is the decline of the authority once associated with the Western nation-state as a source of public order and as a defender of cultural identity.

This volume in Religion and Public Life, a series on religion and public affairs, provides a wide-ranging forum for differing views on religious and ethical considerations

There is growing academic interest in addressing the relationship of religion and science

Faith, War, and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God, and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic spiritualism

Part of the "Transaction" series, this work heeds Petrarch's advice that literature not only orients us to life's developmental stages, it can provide us with a more complete understanding of the human character while artfully advancing morals.

Explores the physical ways in which we are intimately linked to the land and the intellectual and aesthetic connections human consciousness has with the landscape. This work also assesses the issue of global warming in the context of a public and ecumenical theology and sets the tone for this normative assessment of our relationship with nature.

An analysis of the history of the consumption cultural ethos, beginning with the undermining of the Native American Culture and ending with Wilsonian Liberal Internationalism and the demise of the moral authority of organized labour.

In 1749 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, surprised leading Enlightenment thinkers who had enthusiastically upheld the positive benefits of humanity's technological advance

This new volume examines the relationship between religion and politics from a historical perspective

This work explores the manner in which cultural and psychic violation undermine collective identity, and destroy traditions. It raises question on how recompense and reconciliation is possible after abominable wrongs have been systematically perpetrated against a community.