Publisher:

Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, 2018.

Call Number:

KIC 261.7 A864P 2018

Pages:

xix, 172 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Religion

Summary:
Addressing what many consider the world's most controversial conflict, Naim Ateek offers a succinct primer on liberation theology in the context of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and self-determination. Beginning with the historical roots of this struggle, he shows how the memory of the Holocaust served to trump the claims and aspirations of the native inhabitants of Palestine, and how later Israeli occupation and settlements in the West Bank have contributed to their suffering and oppression. Supported by many Western Christians, Israeli claims to the land rely on a particular exclusivist reading of the Bible. In contrast, a Palestinian theology of liberation responds with a counter-strategy for biblical interpretation, emphasizing the prophetic themes of inclusivity and justice. Ateek concludes by providing principles for achieving security, peace, and justice for all peoples in Israel/Palestine.
Publisher:

Lahore : Srak Publications, 2025.

Call Number:

KIC 297.2 R394I 2025

Pages:

xviii, 461 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Religion

Summary:
An Introduction to Islamic Theology Imam Nur al-Din al-Sabuni's Al-Bidayah fi usul al-din Introduction, Translation, Annotation, and Appendices by Shaykh Faraz Khan of the Zaytuna College faculty In an age of unprecedented challenges, the demanding task before Muslim theologians today is not merely to reproduce the debates of the past but to formulate a genuine contemporary scholastic theology, or kalam, that engages the questions, concerns, and misgivings of modernity. This concise yet thorough manual on Maturidi theology authored by Imam Nur al-Din al-Sabuni (d. 580/1184), a prominent Muslim theologian from Bukhara, provides a foundation upon which modern Muslim discourse can be built.
Publisher:

Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, [2025].

Call Number:

KIC 248 M274C 2025

Pages:

xxxi, 260 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Religion

Summary:
Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference is the first English translation of Pierre Manent's penetrating engagement with the seventeenth century polymath and apologist for the Christian faith, Blaise Pascal. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was the first Christian apologist to address modern human beings on their own terms and present a defense of the Christian religion that still resonates today. A major publishing and intellectual event in France when it first appeared in 2022, Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference is Pierre Manent's investigation of Pascal's exploration of Christianity in the wake of a sharp atheistic turn at the dawn of the modern state and modern science. Comprehensive in scope and profound in treatment, this engagement with all of Pascal's writings, including his famous Pensées, appeals to the reader's head and heart. Manent emphasizes the joy that comes from engaging the truth of faith, and he argues that we are diminished by forgetting the unique and distinctive contributions of Christianity. More than brilliant exegesis, Manent enlists Pascal in a much greater endeavor: to make what he calls "the Christian proposition" concerning God and man intelligible to Europeans who have made it their business to ignore the religion that founded Europe and the larger Western world.
Publisher:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 2025.

Call Number:

KIC 294.5 D143 2025

Pages:

xiv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Religion

Summary:
Examines the challenges and opportunities faced by Dalits in modern India.
Publisher:

Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, 2024.

Call Number:

KIC 261.7095694 R147D 2024

Pages:

xviii, 166 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Religion

Summary:
"Develops a decolonial Palestinian theology that critiques the settler-colonial project of Israel and its Christian theological support"--
Publisher:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2015

Call Number:

KIC 201.7 J934G 2015

Pages:

viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Religion

Summary:
How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In the global era, religion has leapt into the world stage, though in contradictory ways. Some religious activists are antagonistic and engage in protests, violent acts, and political challenges. Others are positive and help to shape an emerging transnational civil society. A new global religion may be in the making, providing a moral and spiritual basis for a worldwide community of concern about environmental issues, human rights, and international peace. This book explores all of these directions, based on a five-year Luce Foundation project that involved religious leaders, scholars, and public figures in workshops held in Cairo, Moscow, Delhi, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, and Santa Barbara. In this book, the voices of these religious observers around the world are heard expressing both the hopes and fears about new forms of religion in the global age
Publisher:

Lahore : Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2024.

Call Number:

KIC 297.4 Z64H 2024

Pages:

ix, 354 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Religion

Summary:
"Waleed Ziad examines the development of Sufi-led Muslim revivalist networks. From the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufis inspired reformist movements and articulated responses to the fracturing of Muslim political power. They fostered a "hidden caliphate" that sustained cohesion from Afghanistan to Siberia and China"--
Publisher:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Call Number:

KIC 297.094109034 G292I 2019

Pages:

vii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 21cm.

Subject:

Religion

Summary:
Based on hitherto untapped source materials, this book charts the history of Muslim missionary activity in London from 1912, when the first Indian Muslim missionaries arrived in London, until 1944. During this period a unique community was forged out of British converts and native Muslims from various parts of the world, which focused itself around a purpose built mosque in Woking and later the first mosque to open in London in 1924. Arguing that an understanding of Muslim mission in this period needs to place such activity in the context of colonial encounter, Islam and Britain provides a background narrative into why Muslim missionary activity in London was part of a variety of strategies to engage with European expansion and overzealous Christian missionary activity in India. Ron Geaves draws on research undertaken in India and Pakistan, where the Ahmadiya missionaries have kept extensive archives of this period which until now have been unavailable to scholars. Unique in providing an account of Islamic missionary work in Britain from the Islamic perspective, Islam and Britain adds to our knowledge and understanding of British Muslim history and makes an important contribution to the literature concerned with Islamic missiology.
Publisher:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Call Number:

KIC 297.81 O918 2019

Pages:

ix, 254 pages ; 24 cm .

Subject:

Religion

Summary:
Addressing the contested nature of Ottoman Sunnism from the 14th to the early 20th century, this book draws on diverse perspectives across the empire.