Selective Prosecution Of Religiously Motivated Offenders In America

This study comprises an argument on religious considerations in the US federal government's decision to prosecute, with original primary statistics obtained through personal interviews and correspondence. Topics covered include: the Sanctuary Movement; the tax evasion trial of Rev Moon; and the abortion-clinic bombers.

​The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State Volume II: Global Perpectives addresses issues of Religion and State from a multitude of disciplines. The volume begins with the philosophical discussion of perennial issues that have to do with the origin and nature of rights. One question centers on the right to use one’s religious beliefs to enact laws. This discussion alone sets this handbook apart from other handbooks of its type. While addressing these perennial questions, this volume includes authors who interact with the work of John Rawls, Hobbes, Rousseau, and a host of contemporary philosophers. The subsequent sections address the American Constitutional Experiment, religion, state, and law in the Americas.

Religious Leaders and Faith-Based Politics offers a powerful and timely analysis of the dynamic relationship between religious leaders of all faiths and political activism in the United States. From the colonial era to the present, religious leaders have raised Americans' moral and political awareness of countless issues, including revolution, slavery, temperance, civil rights, and, most recently, the culture wars. This book is the first to explore the renewed and intense commitment of evangelicals, Catholics, Muslims, and Jews to preach, teach, and participate in politics today.

Although philosophers debate the morality of open borders, few social scientists have explored what would happen if immigration were no longer limited. This book looks at three examples of temporarily unrestricted migration in Miami, Marseille, and Dublin and finds that the effects were much less catastrophic than opponents of immigration claim.

This text explores the problems in the interpretation of Jonathan Edwards' The Nature of True Virtue.

In these volumes, lengthy selections are presented by each contributor in the Chicago School. The material is presented so that an individual or class may explore the development of this School, as well as the changing issues facing philosophy and religious thought in the 20th century.

Examines how religion and the law are related and how they interact, supported by case studies and court rulings on such issues as abortion, school prayer, and the right-to-die controversy.

This study contains a closely reasoned argument that Western Christian theologies (those of Barth, Troeltsch, Hocking, Tillich, W. C. Smith and the WCC) include a theology of mission increasingly open to other communities of faith.