Religion, Politics & State
mobi |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Aikman, David [Aikman, David]

Simon Zhao The leader of one of those groups, the Northwest Spiritual Movement, survived an astonishing forty-five years of imprisonment in Xinjiang to keep alive the original Back to Jerusalem ...
( Category: Christianity May 4,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-13 | Author:Ahmed Rashid

∼ 12 ∼ ROMANCING THE TALIBAN 1: THE BATTLE FOR PIPELINES 1994-96 Carlos Bulgheroni was the Taliban's first introduction to the outside world of high finance, oil politics and the ...
( Category: Radicalism April 20,2016 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-02-21 | Author:Bruce Bawer

THE HUGE WOODEN DOOR of the pension opened, and a young man with a Mediterranean appearance—Turkish, I guessed—eyed us steadily. “Deutsch? English?” he asked. “English,” I replied, and after introducing ...
( Category: European April 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Simon Cottee [Cottee, Simon]

The Great Mistake In his memoir Joseph Anton, Salman Rushdie recalls that one of the lowest moments during ‘the fatwa years’—on 14 February 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini, the then Supreme Leader ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Miroslav Volf

The Christian Right and Political Pluralism Williams’s religious struggle for political pluralism took place in the seventeenth century. But where are the religious exclusivists who embrace pluralism as a political ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-05 | Author:Reza Aslan [Aslan, Reza]

October 6, 1981. As Egypt’s president, Anwar al-Sadat, Gamal Abd al-Nasser’s handpicked successor, stood on a platform watching a military parade march before him in commemoration of Egypt’s war with ...
( Category: Islam April 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Thomas E. Woods Jr. [Woods, Thomas E. Jr.]

The development of the teaching on usury has been so dramatic over the centuries that it inevitably prompts the question: has the Magisterium taught error anywhere along the line? The ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Reza Aslan [Aslan, Reza]

The debate between the Rationalist and the Traditionalist Ulama continued for a few hundred years, with each school alternating in influence, until the end of the thirteenth century, when, partly ...
( Category: Islam March 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:William McCants [McCants, William]

Conclusion Apocalypse Then and Now The French scholar of Muslim apocalypticism, Jean-Pierre Filiu, has argued that most modern Sunni Muslims viewed apocalyptic thinking with suspicion before the United States invaded ...
( Category: History & Theory March 3,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Rick Joyner

The Kingdom Is Coming! The world systems and governments are already sinking. In Scripture, mountains are often symbolic of governments and the sea speaks of the mass of humanity (see ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State January 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Boston, Robert [Boston, Robert]

The interaction of religion and politics raises two issues, one relatively straightforward and one more nuanced. The straightforward issue concerns what United States law says about nonprofit organizations and how ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 6,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-06-24 | Author:Hosken, Andrew

10 Scourge of Syria 2011–2014 In January 2013, the Sunni MP Dr Alaa Makki was in Washington DC and paid a visit to his friends in the US state department. ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2000-06-20 | Author:R. C. Sproul

Figure 8.1 Hume’s Illustration from Pocket Billiards We remember that the law of causality simply declares that every effect must have an antecedent cause. This law is analytically true and ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State December 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 1975-12-28 | Author:John R. W. Stott [Stott, John R. W.]

We turn now to John, and especially the prologue to the Fourth Gospel. Here he describes Jesus as the Logos of God, and the light of men (John 1:1-3). He ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State November 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:Efraim Karsh [Karsh, Efraim]

7. THE LIMITS TO POWER No regional dispute has attracted a longer and more sustained international intervention than the Arab-Israeli conflict, and few conflicts have been more impervious to outside ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State October 12,2015 )