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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Buffalo nationalism	K. Ilaiah	Articles previouly published in various newspapers and journals.	OL1044306W
Religion and American foreign policy, 1945-1960	William Inboden	"The Cold War was in many ways a religious war. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and other American leaders believed that human rights and freedoms were endowed by God, that God had called the United…	OL11952646W
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
Religion and politics in the United States	Kenneth D. Wald	Religion and Politics in the United States, Sixth Edition, offers a comprehensive account of the role of religious ideas, institutions and communities in American life. This book examines the ways re…	OL15680019W
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
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
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
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
Antifundamentalism in Modern America	David Harrington Watt	David Harrington Watt's Antifundamentalism in Modern America gives us a pathbreaking account of the role that the fear of fundamentalism has played -- and continues to play -- in American culture. Fu…	OL17782157W
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
Les religions dans l'espace public au Bénin: Vodoun, christianisme, islam (French Edition)	Laurent Omonto Ayo Gérémy Ogouby	Le paysage religieux du Bénin est formé de trois grandes religions: la religion vodoun, le christianisme et l'islam. Depuis l'avènement de la démocratie en 1990, on note le retour en force des religi…	OL19063578W
Hitler's monsters	Eric Kurlander	"The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power. The Nazi fascination…	OL19670623W
The simple faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Christine Wicker	x, 218 pages : 24 cm	OL19722740W
The secular state under siege	Christian Joppke	"Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through th…	OL19997285W
Refuge in the Lord	Lawrence J. McAndrews	"In this overarching portrait of three decades of U.S. immigration reform, the author focuses on the roles, on the one hand, of presidents from Reagan to Obama, and on the other, of Catholic immigrat…	OL20013420W
A restatement of religion	Jyotirmaya Sharma	Offers a portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary Ramakrishna. This work focuses on Vivekananda's reinterpretation and formulation of diverse Indian spiritual a…	OL20956450W
The Oxford handbook of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding	Little, David,R. Scott Appleby,Atalia Omer	This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. Looking far beyond the traditional parameters of the field, the contrib…	OL20973866W
Politics in theology	Gabriel R. Ricci	This volume examines the relationship between religion and politics from a historical perspective. Contributors address specific moments in which political governance intersects with religious ideals…	OL22553981W