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Are we living in the last days on Earth? This A & E Special follows a popular movement that is taking off like wildfire - claiming that we are on the brink of the end of time - in best-selling books with crossover mainstream appeal, as well as sermons, radio shows, and websites with millions of followers. Many evangelical Christians look forward to a truly transformative end-time event called the Rapture. They believe that as the last days approach,...
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"Was George W. Bush doing something un-American in 1999 when, asked by a reporter what philosopher had influenced him most, he named Jesus? Was Bill Clinton doing something irreligious when, just about a year earlier, he stood before the National Prayer Breakfast and a television audience and sought forgiveness? What about the activist preachers who fight to remake the nation in the image they think God prefers and who, every time an election rolls...
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As leader of Christians United for Israel, Pastor John Hagee wants to bring millions of Christians together to support Israel, but some say his message is dangerous. This program features an interview with Pastor Hagee, after which Bill Moyers gets theological and political context on Christian Zionism from Timothy Weber and Michael Lerner. Dr. Weber, an evangelical Christian and a historian, is the author of On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals...
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The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion traces the roots of the relationship between politics and religion from antiquity to today, revealing how it has shaped public discourse, social attitudes, collective action and national and international policy, particularly during the past two centuries.
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A far cry from media depictions of extremist militants, America's small community of Muslims longs to be heard and understood. This documentary attempts to bridge the cultural chasm between mainstream U.S. society and Muslim Americans whose hopes and dreams are no different than those of previous immigrant generations. Focusing on Pakistani-born citizens and their families, the film highlights similarities between Islam and the other Abrahamic faiths,...
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"The quest to bring political life under God's authority has been revived, confounding expectations of a secular future. In this book, Mark Lilla reveals the sources of this age-old quest - and its role in shaping Western thought." "As Lilla shows, the urge to reconnect politics to religion remained strong and took novel forms in modern European thought. By the Second World War a forceful political messianism had arisen, justifying the most deadly...
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This superbly illustrated and organized reference source is the first comprehensive visual guide to the world's religious traditions. With text by leading experts, and lavishly illustrated with photographs, thematic maps, site reconstructions, and tables and charts, many in full color, the Atlas charts the origin, growth, and spread of all major faiths. A survey of contemporary religious life, its historical background, and a glossary, index, and...
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One of Britain's foremost philosopher-theologians, Keith Ward here addresses concerns with intelligent insight. Without religion, he argues, the human race would be considerably worse off and have little hope for the future. Thought-provoking and compellingly argued, Is Religion Dangerous? is a trenchant response to today's critics of religion.
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The uniqueness of the United States of America sets it apart from any other country; people from all over the world come to our shores in pursuit of a way of life that is found nowhere else. Unfortunately, the once shinning light on a hill that America once was is growing dim. If the American people do not awaken from their slumber, take an active role in preserving what our founders and forefathers created and willed to us, that shining light will...
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Looking at the intersection of religion, politics, and law from ancient times (Code of Hammurabi and Abrahamic religions) to the modern day, this program examines religion in the modern day. It discusses Evangelical Christianity, religion in the courtroom, school prayer, and religion in the American election.
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This comparative analysis probes why conservative renderings of religious tradition in the United States, India, and Egypt remain so influential in the politics of these three ostensibly secular societies. The United States, Egypt, and India were quintessential models of secular modernity in the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1980s and 1990s, conservative Islamists challenged the Egyptian government, India witnessed a surge in Hindu nationalism, and the...
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A 10-year "holy war" among Southern Baptists, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., is the subject of this program. The program examines how an effort to protect the Bible from the analysis of modern scholarship has escalated into a political crusade among fundamentalists to capture control of the denomination. "The stakes of this 'holy war' are not only theological," observes host Bill Moyers. "They are also political. The fundamentalist...
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The issue of whether the state should be secular or religious has become, since the end of the Cold War, one of the greatest sources of conflict in international politics. Many scholarly works have appeared dealing with so-called fundamentalist movements in different parts of the world and different religions, but most concentrate on the Middle East and overlook other regions such as Africa south of the Sahara. This book, by contrast, concentrates...
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"This work is the first of a two-volume set that will explore the promise and challenge of public religion. These works are intended not as the last word on the subject; rather, the author hopes to initiate a national conversation - providing a guided tour of public religion in America, exploring the role religion has played, is playing, and could play in our life together as a nation."--Jacket.
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