Product Description: Offers an inviting way to understand the facts and implications of the major demographic shifts happening within Christianity   By 2025, 75 percent of Catholics in the world will be non-European; the new global church will have its center of gravity in Latin America, Asia, and Africa...read more

The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century.The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. Thanks to the emergence of modern media, a steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was given to an unprecedented audience, using language that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and Armageddon. But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels and apparitions, visions and the supernatural was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all three of the major religions—Christianity, Judaism and Islam—paving the way for modern views of religion and violence. The disappointed hopes and moral compromises that followed the war also shaped the political climate of the rest of the century, giving rise to such phenomena as Nazism, totalitarianism, and communism.Connecting numerous remarkable incidents and characters—from Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the Christmas Truce to the Armenian Genocide—Jenkins creates a powerful and persuasive narrative that brings together global politics, history, and spiritual crisis as never before and shows how religion informed and motivated circumstances on all sides of the war.

Covers political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of American history

Product Description: Extreme right-wing groups have always been a part of the American religious and political landscape. The era between the world wars, especially the 1930s, was a particularly volatile period, and by 1940, racist, nativist, and fascist groups had become so visible as to arouse public fears of insurrection and sabotage...read more

An objective analysis of the future of Christianity and Islam in Europe examines the continent's religious trends in light of its secular culture, the decline of conventional Christian churches, and the influx of immigrants from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe.

Product Description: One of the fastest growing religions in the world, Islam is second only to Christianity in numbers of adherents. Muslims constitute a majority in 57 different countries and a significant minority in many others and are therefore playing a major role in world affairs...read more

Product Description: Since the events of September 11, 2001, today's society is more aware than ever of Islam, often with erroneous facts. This series seeks to educate and elighten youth to one of the world's most predominant religions in an easy-to-read format.

Product Description: Nacion que suele suscitar las mas encontradas reacciones, la imagen de los Estados Unidos de America se compone, sin embargo, en gran medida, de prejuicios y estereotipos. Esta BREVE HISTORIA DE ESTADOS UNIDOS recorre el desarrollo historico de este pais desde los inicios de la colonizacion hasta nuestros dias, destacando no solo los grandes acontecimientos politicos y militares, sino tambien aspectos como la diversidad regional, la pluralidad cultural e ideologica, la importancia de las minorias o la relevancia que tuvieron, en determinados momentos, personajes y corrientes que hoy consideramos marginales...read more

Product Description: The Lost History of Christianity will change how we understand Christian and world history. Leading religion scholar Philip Jenkins reveals a vast Christian world to the east of the Roman Empire and how the earliest, most influential churches of the East-those that had the closest link to Jesus and the early church-died...read more

Product Description: The Lost History of Christianity will change how we understand Christian and world history. Leading religion scholar Philip Jenkins reveals a vast Christian world to the east of the Roman Empire and how the earliest, most influential churches of the East-those that had the closest link to Jesus and the early church-died...read more

The best-sellling author of The New Christendom continues his study of the growth of Christianity in the southern regions of the world, examining the influence of the Bible on the peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, including the impact on growing liberation movements and the rise of women's rights.

Draws on tabloid journalism, fiction, movies, and television, in an exploration of the confluence of panics, scares, and genuine threats that created a climate of fear that led to America's conservative turn after the 1960s.