Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Buffalo nationalism	K. Ilaiah	Articles previouly published in various newspapers and journals.	OL1044306W
A secular agenda	Arun Shourie	With reference to India.	OL1072528W
Black mass	John Gray	Philosopher John Gray examines the history of utopianism, links it to apocalyptic religious beliefs, and argues that utopianism currently dominates mainstream politics, discussing its impact in Iraq …	OL12344W
The faith of Barack Obama	Stephen Mansfield	Mansfield presents an insightful portrait of Obama that shows how his faith motivates him as a Senator and as a Presidential candidate.	OL15204277W
From Bible belt to sunbelt	Darren Dochuk	This book is a sweeping, five-decade history of the evangelical movement in southern California that explains an epochal realignment of American politics. From Bible Belt to Sun Belt tells the dramat…	OL15444316W
Religion and the political imagination	Ira Katznelson	"The theory of secularisation became a virtually unchallenged truth of twentieth-century social science. First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global…	OL15616515W
A Reforming People	David D. Hall	This book is a revelatory account of the aspirations and accomplishments of the people who founded the New England colonies, comparing the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during …	OL15738517W
With God on their side	Esther Kaplan	An evaluation of the influence of the Christian right on the current administration, discussing the direction of Christian fundamentalism as it is shaping today's political arena, in the areas of sex…	OL16028833W
Whose God rules?	Nathan C. Walker,Edwin J. Greenlee	"The United States is not a secular democracy where laws guarantee freedom from religion, nor is it a theocracy, where a single religion prescribes all laws. This book demonstrates that the United St…	OL16450898W
Faith of the Faithless	Simon Critchley	The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliche of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Som…	OL16529277W
The righteous mind	Jonathan Haidt	A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics. The book explains the American culture wars and refutes the "New Atheists."	OL16568840W
Redeemer	Randall Herbert Balmer	Evangelical Christianity and conservative politics are today seen as inseparable. But when Jimmy Carter, a Democrat and a born-again Christian, won the presidency in 1976, he owed his victory in part…	OL16815995W
Religion and the Cold War	Dianne Kirby	"This collection provides the first systematic examination of the role of religion in the Cold War. As the 'War on Terror', with its profound religious implications, is increasingly perceived as the …	OL16938375W
The nationalization of Hindu traditions	Vasudha Dalmia	Cultural biography of Bhāratendu Hariścandra, 1850-1885, major Hindi writer of the nineteenth century.	OL1759185W
Age of Anger	Pankaj Mishra	From Goodreads (edited by me though): One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis Modernity, secularism, development, and progress ha…	OL17635835W
God is not great	Christopher Hitchens	Poses a case against organized religion that documents the myriad ways in which religion reflects human agendas and distorts sexuality and the perception of the origins of the universe, in a science-…	OL17731243W
The Political Pope	George Neumayr	The untold story of the left's efforts to politicize the Vatican and the battle to stop it-before the Catholic Church as we know it is destroyed. Pope Francis is the most liberal pope in the histo…	OL17839944W
On God's side	Jim Wallis	Jim Wallis thinks our life together can be better. In this timely and provocative book, he shows us how to reclaim Jesus's ancient and compelling vision of the common good -- a vision that impacts an…	OL18174791W
Making the Bible Belt	Joseph L. Locke	Making the Bible Belt upends notions of a longstanding, stable marriage between political religion and the American South. H.L. Mencken coined the term "the Bible Belt" in the 1920s to capture the pe…	OL19652368W
Worshipping the state	Benjamin Wiker	"Americans hail the president as their savior. The government grabs ever more power, forcing religion out of public life. And now unelected bureaucrats are telling Christians they have to violate the…	OL19996526W