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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism...
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. More Americans have died from guns in the US in the last fifty years than in all the wars in American history. With less than 5% of the world's population, the people of the US own nearly half the world's guns. America also has the most annual gun deaths--homicide, suicide,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Days after his prime minister was assassinated in the middle of Rome in November 1848, Pope Pius IX found himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. Only two years earlier Pius's election had triggered a wave of optimism across Italy: he was seen as a youthful, benevolent new pope who would at last bring the Papal States into modern times and help create a new, unified Italian nation. Kertzer documents the story of the violent revolution that signaled...
Author
Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 2010, nearly 30 percent of South Koreans--a country with a Confucian tradition over one thousand years old--identify as Christian, the second largest percentage of Christians in an Asian nation. Korea boasts of having the largest church in the world; it also has the largest Presbyterian, Methodist, and Pentecostal churches in the world. Its vibrant spirituality, devout church life, and missionary zeal are well-known around the world; its number...
Author
Publisher
IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Christians have lived in Palestine since the earliest days of the Jesus movement, yet they are often unheard and ignored in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With both lament and hope, Palestinian pastor Munther Isaac offers a theology of the land and a vision for a shared land that belongs to God, where there are no second-class citizens of any kind"--
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A look at the medieval politics and warfare of the Knights Templar, the most powerful, wealthy, and mysterious military order of the Middle Ages. With the encroaching historical and ruthless downfall of the Templar Order, season two focuses on power, redemption, revenge, betrayal, family, and an epic war between church and state. Hamill joins the cast as Talus, a battle-hardened Knight Templar veteran who is tasked with preparing the next generation...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Sisters is the first major history of the pivotal role played by nuns in the building of American society. Nuns were the first feminists, argues Fialka. They became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional women. Some nursed, some taught, and many created and managed new charitable organizations, including large hospitals and colleges. In the 1800s nuns moved west with the frontier, often starting the first hospitals and schools in immigrant...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control--sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these conflicts, historian R. Marie Griffith argues, lie in sharp disagreements that emerged among American Christians a century ago. From the 1920s onward, a once-solid...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of Elizabeth I's role in the wars of religion credits her with securing England's future as a world power, covering topics ranging from the queen's use of ambivalence as a political tool to her tolerance in religious matters and the challenges of the Reformation.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers ravaged vast swathes of classical culture, plunging the world into an era of intellectual darkness. In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town's main street. In Alexandria, zealots pulled the elderly philosopher-mathematician Hypatia from her chariot and flayed her to death with shards of broken pottery. Not long...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Explores the life of Jesus and the movement he started, challenging familiar assumptions and conventional notions about the origins of Christianity. Drawing upon new and sometimes controversial historical evidence and interviews with the nation's leading New Testament scholars ... the film traces Jesus' life, focusing on the events that occurred after he died and on his first followers"--Container.
60) The Knights Templar of the Middle East: the hidden history of the Islamic origins of freemasonry
Author
Publisher
Weiser
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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