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This volume investigates the causes of the political, economic, and moral problems of today's Africa and provides a framework for the reconstruction of modern African states.

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Religion plays a key role in everyday affairs in Indonesia - including governance at the local, regional and national level. This book investigates local governance landscape of the world's largest Muslim majority state, Indonesia, and its local governance landscape by providing a detailed account of local communities and religious authority on the eastern Indonesian island of Lombok.

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Editors: Jan. 1902-Jan. 1905, J.S. Bassett; Apr. 1905-Jan. 1919, W.H. Glasson (with Edwin Mims, Apr. 1905-July 1909; W.P. Few, Oct. 1909-Jan. 1919); Apr. 1919- W.K. Boyd, W.H. Wannamaker.

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Descriptive and evaluative annotations of more than 1,000 books and articles in religious education and related fields are featured in this guide. Since religious education draws necessary guidance from other disciplines, pertinent literature is canvassed from theology, philosophy, and history of education;

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This book examines the condition of religious organizations or teachings within a different culture where one or more indigenous religions are already present.

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Explains why the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) had to undergo a major metamorphosis in order to win approval. This book uses this episode as a window onto the dynamics of modern constitutional politics, specifically the constitutional politics of free exercise.

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Using a key religious freedom Act, this book analyzes legislative process, Supreme Court jurisprudence, and discusses the role of religion in public life. It explains why the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) had to undergo a major metamorphosis in order to win approval.

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Examines the impact of churches and church membership on third parties and independent candidates in the United States.

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This book shows how contemporary religious groups arrange very different sorts of rituals in order to achieve collective encounters with the spirit. Mixed-methods analysis of rituals across a diverse range of religious traditions shows how Randall Collins interaction ritual theory opens new pathways for the sociology of religion.

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This book shows how contemporary religious groups arrange very different sorts of rituals in order to achieve collective encounters with the spirit. Mixed-methods analysis of rituals across a diverse range of religious traditions shows how Randall Collins interaction ritual theory opens new pathways for the sociology of religion.

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Noted religious liberty expert Vincent Philip Munoz provides carefully edited excerpts from 75 of the most important Supreme Court religious liberty cases.

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This book tackles the assumptions behind common understandings of religious nationalism, exploring the complex connections between religion, nationalism, conflict, and conflict transformation.

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Examines the tension between popular and official religion in Europe. This book evokes ethnographic contexts that enable us to see people shaping their religious domain. It provides a theoretical orientation throughout, one that considers how religious discourses are formed by social disciplines and relationships of power and subordination.

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This volume looks at headline-grabbing scandals involving American religious figures from the 19th century to the present, showing how the media and society in general reacted to these controversies.

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Considers the place of private schools in the larger story of American education.

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Using ethnographic research methods, this book examines the religious vitality of two Christian intentional communities. The book argues that explanations of religious vitality are irreducible to one another, concluding that explanations of religious vitality exist in a nexus, rather than previously conceived cause and effect relationships.

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US diplomatic policy towards European Jews, Zionists and Israelis is important to the stability and international posture of numerous countries. This study traces this policy from its roots in isolated responses to post-World War I anti-Semitism to its coherent post-World War II statement.