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  • Public Funding of Religions in Europe

    Edited by Francis Messner ...
    Series series Cultural Diversity and Law in Association with RELIGARE
    This collection brings together legal scholars, canonists and political scientists to focus on the issue of public funding in support of religious activities and institutions in Europe. The study begins by revolving around the various mechanisms put in place by the domestic legal systems, as well as those resulting from the European law of human rights and the law of the European Union. It then ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • The Future Church

    How Ten Trends are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church

    by John L. Allen Jr. ...
    One of the world’s foremost religion journalists offers an unexpected and provocative look at where the Catholic Church is headed*—and what the changes will mean for all of us.*What will the Catholic Church be like in 100 years? Will there be a woman pope? Will dioceses throughout the United States and the rest of the world go bankrupt from years of scandal? In THE FUTURE CHURCH, John L. Allen ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Great Wave : Price Revolutions And The Rhythm Of History

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Decline and Rise of Democracy

    A Global History from Antiquity to Today

    by David Stasavage ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    **"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation."**—Steven Levitsky, New York Times–bestselling author of How Democracies DieA new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this history teaches us about the futureHistorical accounts of democracy’s rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Free Market

    The History of an Idea

    by Jacob Soll ...
    From a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first centuryAfter two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out by looking to earlier iterations of free market ... Read more

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  • The Great Wave

    Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Rulers, Religion, and Riches

    Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not

    by Jared Rubin ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
    For centuries following the spread of Islam, the Middle East was far ahead of Europe. Yet, the modern economy was born in Europe. Why was it not born in the Middle East? In this book Jared Rubin examines the role that Islam played in this reversal of fortunes. It argues that the religion itself is not to blame; the importance of religious legitimacy in Middle Eastern politics was the primary ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Leaving Christianity

    Changing Allegiances in Canada since 1945

    by Brian Clarke, Stuart MacDonald ...
    Series Book 2 - Advancing Studies in Religion
    Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even higher than in the United States, but the following decade witnessed emptying pews. What happened? In Leaving Christianity Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald quantitatively map the nature and extent of Canadians’ disengagement with organized religion and ... Read more

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  • The Catholic Church

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by John L. Allen Jr. ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Roman Catholicism stands at a crossroads, a classic ''best of times, worst of times'' moment. On the one hand, the Catholic Church remains by far the largest branch of the worldwide Christian family, and is growing at a remarkable clip. Yet the Church has also been rocked by a series of scandals related to the sexual abuse of minors by clergy, and, even more devastating, the cover-up by the Church ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda

    by Timothy Longman ...
    Series Book 112 - African Studies
    Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian engagement in Rwanda and then turns to a rich body of original national- and local-level research to argue that Rwanda's churches have consistently ... Read more

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  • The Challenge of Pluralism

    Church and State in Six Democracies

    by J. Christopher Soper, Kevin R. den Dulk, Stephen V. Monsma ...
    In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in six Western nations: the United States, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia. As successful and stable political democracies, these countries share a commitment to protecting the religious rights of their citizens. The ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Rise of Fiscal States

    A Global History, 1500–1914

    Edited by Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, Patrick K. O'Brien ...
    From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country case studies from leading economic historians reveals that distinctive features of the fiscal state appeared across the region at different moments in time as a result of ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD