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Stephen J. King considers the reasons that international and domestic efforts toward democratization have failed to take hold in the Arab world. Focusing on Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Algeria, he suggests that a complex set of variables characterizes authoritarian rule and helps to explain both its dynamism and its persistence. King addresses, but moves beyond, how religion and the strongly patriarchal culture influence state structure, policy configuration,...
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2020 has been a crazy year. Race riots, a pandemic, presidential election, police brutality, and chaos from coast to coast. How should Christians respond to the social changes going around us? Should we join in? Should we choose sides? Is God on our side or on their side? How do we know?In this short booklet, a super-quick read, Allen Taylor addresses this question head on, with wit and deep insight. It's not a political tract, nor is it a come-to-Jesus...
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New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following political liberalization, media deregulation, and the proliferation of new media technologies, many African religious leaders and activists have appropriated such media to strengthen and expand their communities and gain public recognition. Media have also been used to marginalize and restrict the activities of other...
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Faith in the Voting Booth by National Association of Evangelicals leaders Leith Anderson and Galen Carey will help you clarify your own positions in light of your faith before you enter the voting booth. Anderson and Carey show that biblical wisdom is surprisingly relevant to today's complex political issues. Each voting decision should be thoughtfully and prayerfully approached. This book does not tell you how to vote. Instead it will help you resist...
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September 11, 2001 saw the deadliest attack ever launched on American soil, leaving us asking questions such as: Why did God permit such a thing to happen? Was the attack a divine judgment or was it merely an atrocity perpetrated by the forces of evil? How can human beings be capable of such diabolical savagery in the name of religion? And what is the right course of action for our government to take? John MacArthur points us to the Bible for answers...
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A historian's discerning, critical take on current American politics
"Believe me" may be the most commonly used phrase in Donald Trump's lexicon. Whether about building a wall or protecting a Christian heritage, the refrain has been constant. And to the surprise of many, a good 80 percent of white evangelicals have believed Trump-at least enough to help propel him into the White House.
Historian John Fea is not surprised, however-and in these pages...
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The crisis of the world capitalist system and that of the Philippine ruling system have become worse than in any period after World War II. The US-instigated policies of neoliberal globalization, state terrorism and aggressive war have wrought havoc on the lives of the people and continue to escalate oppression and exploitation. The Filipino people cannot tolerate their suffering and they are fighting back against imperialism and all reaction. The...
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He's the fag-smoking, beer-swilling political maverick whose legendary stand-up shows at the European Parliament always play to a full house. With his towering charisma and easy way with the incendiary one-liner, Nigel Farage is never lost in a crowd. Until now. It's time to open your eyes to what's really going on in this country and ask, WHERE'S NIGEL? Look for him among the hordes of our job-starved Romanian immigrants, the legions of publically...
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Explores the influence of Calvinism on democratic theory and practice
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) -pastor, theologian, journalist, and politician - is highly regarded as exemplifying how a Christian worldview can be confidently expressed in both theory and practice. Honoring the spirit of Kuyper's legacy, The Kuyper Center Review annually publishes substantial essays that relate the tradition of Reformed theology to issues of public life.
Kuyper...
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The Cure for National Healing & Restoration
The entire modern-day "political conflict" over Israel is nothing but a "biblical conflict" between those nations that support Israel's right to settle in the whole land promised to Abraham, and between those nations that are opposing the will of God Almighty on this issue. Therefore, whoever will oppose Yahveh on this issue will find himself His enemy. Every nation that opposes the plan of Yahveh to reestablish...
11) Freedom Trumps Socialism: How the Democrat Party Is Using Hitler's Playbook to Make America Socia
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Do you fear expressing your political views?Why Socialism destroyed every country it governed?Why is Socialism appealing?How Socialist is the United States of America?How to prevent Socialism?Who is responsible for the upcoming demise of America?Who created the WOKE Zombies?What is the World Great Reset?What is Socialism, or Communism, and what the future holds for America?Why the Critical Race Theory is racist and demeaning to the black race?Why...
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Analyzes the Israel-Palestinian conflict by looking at its interactions with seven regional and global powers and the way the conflict is framed at the international level.
Despite decades of international diplomatic efforts, a solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict is still as elusive as ever, forcing us to ask the question: have global and regional powers, rather than helping to solve the conflict, actually led to its perpetuation? This book...
13) Bounded Integration: The Religion-State Relationship and Democratic Performance in Turkey and Israel
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Investigates Turkey and Israel's contrasting treatment of religion and demonstrates how this treatment has had a significant impact on these countries' democratic performance.
In this comparative study of the religion-state relationship in Turkey and Israel in the modern era, Bounded Integration reveals the influence this dynamic interaction has had on democratic performance in both countries. In societies where a dominant religion serves as an important...
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Not long ago, Paul Ramsey (1913-1988) was a leading voice in North American Christian ethics. Today, however, his intellectual legacy is in question, and his work is largely ignored by current scholars in the field. Against the tide of that neglect, Adam Edward Hollowell argues in Power and Purpose that Ramsey's work can still yield considerable insight for contemporary Christian political theology.
Hollowell shows the influences of Jean-Jacques...
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Oliver O'Donovan is widely regarded as one of the preeminent Protestant Christian ethicists of our time. His teaching and scholarship have exerted a profound influence on countless moral theologians.
This volume honoring O'Donovan shows how the various contributors -- themselves distinguished scholars -- have developed their own thinking through serious engagement with O'Donovan's work. Significantly, they build upon, expand, and critique the agenda...
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Many people are eager to embrace Nostradamus and the Mayans while dismissing the Holy Bible's prophecies. Yet the Bible (in Revelation chapter 4) promises: "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." Inspired by that promise, this principal author has gleaned decades of insight regarding global geopolitical events and what might take place toward the end of this world as we know it. In 1989 he predicted in a Chinese magazine,...
17) The Plague and I
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"Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can't even remember where you were going."
Thus begins Betty MacDonald's memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the "White Plague." MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium-making...
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Dedication:To America, as I sit down to write this dedication, I am filled with a sense of awe and admiration for the great nation that you are. Your history is rich and varied, your people are diverse and resilient, and your culture is a melting pot of ideas and traditions.From sea to shining sea, you have been blessed with breathtaking landscapes, awe-inspiring cities, and a wealth of natural resources. Your people have carved out a place for themselves...
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"No one makes me laugh harder than Judy Gold. If I had to pick one comedian to write a book about free speech, it would be Judy." – Amy Schumer
From award-winning comedian Judy Gold, a concise, funny, and thoughtful polemic on the current assault on comedy, that explores how it is undermining free speech and a fundamental attack against the integrity of the art.
From Mae West and Lenny Bruce to Richard Pryor and Howard Stern to Kathy Griffith...
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Written with a Christian worldview, this book explores ten different ways to resist and prepare for the end times. The New World Order is actually a force of evil that has been with us since the beginning, yet now culminates with its grand deceptions into a one-world government. God calls us to be separate from the world and to not love the things of the world because the world is at enmity with God and being of the world is a snare unto our souls....
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