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The Faith Factor and Social Welfare

Evidence, Practice, Policy

by Byron R. Johnson, Alfreda Alvarez Wubbenhorst and William Wubbenhorst

Price: $69.99

ISBN: 9781481323505

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-12-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

730 Pages

The Faith Factor and Social Welfare: Evidence, Practice, Policy comprises case studies and impact evaluations on the important work done by faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the United States to...

Madness, Theocracy, and Anarchism

Political and Cultural Reflections on the Church

by Barry Harvey

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481322379

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-07-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-07-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

312 Pages

According to some of the most influential thinkers of the modern era, it is madness to subordinate all one’s aims to one end. Such thinkers believe that the church in particular should limit itself...

Transpacific Political Theology

Perspectives, Paradigms, Proposals

Edited by Pui-lan Kwok

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481320269

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-09-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2024-08-29

Imprint: Baylor University Press

323 Pages

Since U.S. political and military strategies pivoted to Asia, tensions between the United States and Asian and Pacific countries have escalated. Geopolitical changes in the Asia Pacific have challenged...

Kingdoms of This World

How Empires Have Made and Remade Religions

by Philip Jenkins

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9781481319935

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-07-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-07-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

350 Pages

Throughout history, the world's great religions have been profoundly shaped by their encounters with successive empires. Secular empires have provided the means by which religions achieve their global...

Objective Religion

Freedom, Politics, Secularization

Edited by Byron R. Johnson

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481319614

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-01-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-01-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

532 Pages

Though many scholars and commentators have predicted the death of religion, the world is more religious today than ever before. And yet, despite the persistence of religion, it remains a woefully understudied...

The Gospel and Religious Freedom

Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and Political Engagement

Edited by David W. Bebbington

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481319300

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-07-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-06-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

240 Pages

Religious freedom as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains a perennial concern across the globe. Over the centuries many evangelicals have not enjoyed this right in practice,...

The End of Civility

Christ and Prophetic Division

by Ryan Andrew Newson

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481319010

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-07-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-06-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

248 Pages

"I have come not to bring peace, but a sword." These words of Christ echo in our current times. In recent years, a growing number of commentators have decried a lack of civility in public discourse. Considered...

What the World Should Be

Woodrow Wilson and the Crafting of a Faith-Based Foreign Policy

by Malcolm D. Magee

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481319270

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-11-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

199 Pages

In What the World Should Be, Malcolm Magee demonstrates that Woodrow Wilson was immersed in a Presbyterian tradition that shaped his presidency. He argues that Wilson's religious convictions shaped...

The Politics of Sacred Rhetoric

Absolutist Appeals and Political Persuasion

by Morgan Marietta

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781602583870

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-11-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

275 Pages

In a profound revelation of what truly undergirds modern political rhetoric, Morgan Marietta shows that the language of America's leaders often relies on deep, even sacred, ideals. The Politics of...

Becoming American?

The Forging of Arab and Muslim Identity in Pluralist America

by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9781481319287

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-09-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-09-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

130 Pages

Countless generations of Arabs and Muslims have called the United States "home." Yet while diversity and pluralism continue to define contemporary America, many Muslims are viewed by their neighbors...

Objective Religion

Problems, Prosociality, Progress

Edited by Byron R. Johnson

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781481317719

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-07-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-06-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

398 Pages

Objective Religion

Competition, Tension, Perseverance

Edited by Byron R. Johnson

Foreword by Rodney Stark

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481314268

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-06-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-06-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

392 Pages

LDS in the USA

Mormonism and the Making of American Culture

by Lee Trepanier and Lynita K. Newswander

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481314961

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

176 Pages

From the politics of Glenn Beck to reality television's Big Love and the hit Broadway show The Book of Mormon, Mormons have become a recognizable staple of mainstream popular culture. And while most...

Hippies of the Religious Right

From the Counterculture of Jerry Garcia to the Subculture of Jerry Falwell

by Preston Shires

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481314640

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

287 Pages

This volume demonstrates that the Christian Right has a surprising past. Historical analysis reveals that the countercultural movements and evangelicalism share a common heritage. Shires warns that...

After Modernity?

Secularity, Globalization, and the Reenchantment of the World

Edited by James K. A. Smith

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481314749

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

340 Pages

After Modernity? addresses a cluster of questions and issues found at the nexus of globalization and religion. This unique volume examines various religious--especially Christian--evaluations of and...

God and Country

America in Red and Blue

by Sheila Kennedy

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481314688

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

264 Pages

Americans increasingly think in terms of red and blue. God and Country examines the religious roots of these cultural divisions in American political life. But instead of pitting a people of faith...

New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America

Edited by Derek Davis and Barry Hankins

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481314602

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

246 Pages

New nontraditional religious movements are the most likely groups to offend mainstream culture and the least likely to have representatives in government to ensure that their liberty is protected. These...

Toward Benevolent Neutrality

Church, State, and the Supreme Court

by Robert T. Miller and Ronald B. Flowers

Price: $119.99

ISBN: 9781481314572

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

921 Pages

In this two volume set, Toward Benevolent Neutrality presents the text of virtually every significant Supreme Court decision concerning religious freedom and separation of church and state. Also included...

The Listening Heart

Vocation and the Crisis of Modern Culture

by A. J. Conyers

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481314787

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

232 Pages

A culture built upon the ideology of individual choice is a culture of alienation, loneliness, and violence. In this provocative book, A. J. Conyers shows that Western culture was once informed by a...

Statecraft and Salvation

Wilsonian Liberal Internationalism as Secularized Eschatology

by Milan Babík

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781602587441

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-11-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2020-11-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

277 Pages

Understanding Woodrow Wilson's approach to international relations requires acknowledgment of his Protestant faith. In Statecraft and Salvation, Milan Babík delivers a fresh analysis of Wilson's progressive...

Cut in Stone

Confederate Monuments and Theological Disruption

by Ryan Andrew Newson

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781481312165

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-07-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-06-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

240 Pages

Confederate monuments figure prominently as epicenters of social conflict. These stone and metal constructs resonate with the tensions of modern America, giving concrete definition to the ideologies...

Faith in American Public Life

by Melissa Rogers

Foreword by E. J. Dionne, Jr.

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781481309707

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2019-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2019-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

350 Pages

In Faith in American Public Life, Melissa Rogers--former Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships--explores...

Should the Children Pray?

A Historical, Judicial, and Political Examination of Public School Prayer

by Lynda B. Fenwick

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781481311052

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2018-12-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2018-12-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

249 Pages

The author traces the history of public school prayer in America and the legal debates since the 1962 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed the practice. The book thus makes available the historical and...

Patriotism Black and White

The Color of American Exceptionalism

by Nichole R. Phillips

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481309578

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2018-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2018-11-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

388 Pages

American civil religion unifies the nation's culture, regulates national emotions, and fosters a storied national identity. American civil religion celebrates the nation's founding documents, holidays,...

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