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Latin America --- Religion. --- Latin American history --- religion --- religious history --- history --- the role of religion in South Africa --- indigenous spirituality --- Protestantism --- the African Diaspora --- Mesoamerica --- the Southern Andes

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Secularism --- Europe --- Religion. --- the role of religion in the societies of Western and Northern Europe --- religious participation --- growing immigrant communities --- daily life --- resurgence of religion in the public sphere --- European secularism --- religion and European Society --- changing patterns of belief --- religion across the political spectrum --- development and humanitarian aid --- the role of religion in public life --- assumptions and underpinnings of the secular worldview perspectives --- demographic changes in religious observance --- increased immigration --- the emergence of new religious movements --- changes in more established religions --- European post-secularism --- the secular nature of the modern public sphere --- media --- gender --- immigration and humanitarianism --- religious studies --- politics --- international affairs

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politics --- religion and politics --- the role of religion in politics --- black Evangelicals as a social and political force --- American freedom --- gay marriage --- separation of Church and State --- global politics --- peace and justice --- U.S. policies in the Middle East --- America --- religion --- Christian fundamentalists

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Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans bring together a stellar collection of essays that paints a contemporary portrait of American Protestantism-a denomination that has remained quietly, but firmly, influential in the public sphere. Mainline Protestants may have steered clear of the controversial, attention-grabbing tactics of the Religious Right, but they remain culturally influential and continue to impact American society through political action and the provision of social services. The contributors to this volume address religion's larger role in society and cover such topics as welfare, ecology, family, civil rights, and homosexuality. Pioneering, timely, and meticulously researched, The Quiet Hand of God will be an essential reference to the dynamics of American religion well into the twenty-first century.

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Violence has always played a part in the religious imagination, from symbols and myths to legendary battles, from colossal wars to the theater of terrorism. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence offers intersections between religion and violence throughout history and around the world. Its forty chapters include overviews of major religious traditions, showing how violence is justified within the literary and theological foundations of the tradition, how it is used symbolically and in ritual practice, and how social acts of violence and warfare have been justified by religious ideas. They also examine patterns and themes relating to religious violence, such as sacrifice and martyrdom, which are explored in cross-disciplinary or regional analyses; and offer major analytic approaches, from literary to social scientific studies.

Violence --- Religious aspects. --- Sociology of religion --- Social problems --- Violence - Religious aspects. --- religion and violence --- religious traditions --- violence and nonviolence --- Hindu ethics --- Buddhist traditions and violence --- Sikh traditions and violence --- religion and violence in the Jewish traditions --- religion and violence in Christian traditions --- Muslim engagement with injustice and violence --- African traditional religion and violence --- religion and violence in Pacific Island societies --- violence in Chinese religious traditions --- human sacrifice in religious traditions --- starvation and sefl-mutilation in religious traditions --- Apocalyptic religion and violence --- cosmic war in religious traditions --- genocide and the religious imaginary in Rwanda --- religious terrorism --- Christianity and torture --- war --- religiously motivated violence in the abortion debate --- conflicts over sacred ground --- religion and political violence --- rituals of death and remembrance --- violent death in religious imagination --- sacrificial violence --- ancient religions --- Armageddon in Christian, Sunni and Shia traditions --- phenomenal violence and the philosophy of religion --- the construction of evil and the violence of purification --- mimetic theories of religion and violence --- religion and scarcity --- the role of religion in violence --- religiosity and armed struggle --- understanding religious violence --- martyrdom in Islam --- starvation and self-mutilation in religious traditions --- religion violence