Language: English
Published by Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011
ISBN 10: 140940658X ISBN 13: 9781409406587
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, United Kingdom
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. (ix, 230 pages. inscribed by author. Christianity and the world, the religious and the secular -- Secularization and the future of Catholicism and Protestantism -- Master narratives and the future of Christianity -- Pentecostalism: transnational voluntarism in the global religious economy -- Has secularization gone into reverse? -- Religious responses to modes of secularism -- Science and secularization -- An Eastern European pattern of secularization? -- East Germany: the world's most secular society -- The religious and the political -- Christianity, violence and democracy -- Protestantism and democracy -- Multiple ironies and necessary paradoxes: a review of religion, fanaticism and violence. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Picador, New York, 2008
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
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Advance uncorrected proof, softcover. Octavo (18cm); pictorial paper wrappers; 239pp. Big Ideas/Small Books. Signed by author on title page. Trace shelf-soil to right edge of textblock, with small spots of soil and marginal creases to final two pages of text; Very Good+. First published in the U.K. by Profile Books Ltd (2007), this collection of essays focuses on subjective, objective, and systemic violence, and includes "SOS Violence", "Tolerance as an Ideological Category", and "Divine Violence". [85787]. Signed.