The Colorful Meaning of Roses
God created thousands of flowers, and yet roses have remained a favorite throughout human history and have assumed…
Religion
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Terror From an Islamic Prospect
The word Islam is derived from silm and selamet, which mean submission, salvation, providing trustworthiness, and peace. Innumerable…
The Japanese Path to National Development
The twentieth century was marked by failed utopias: Maoist China, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, and…
State – Nonprofit Partnership For Social Capital
Evaluating the research on social capital Social capital has a long intellectual history in the social sciences. In…
A Plumber’s Wisdom: The Weakening of America
These days, you never can tell what source wisdom will come. God is constantly humbling us by manifesting…
Democratic Peace: Perpetual Peace is Possible
The twentieth century was the bloodiest century in human history. From 1900-96, approximately 110 million people died during…
A Comparative Approach to Islam and Democracy
Fethullah Gulen has spent much of his life as a religious teacher in Turkey. He is author of…
Identity and Political Activity in Modern Europe
The post-communist phenomenon of economic globalization tends to enlarge the economic gap between haves and have-nots. This economic…
The Perils of Nationalism
Third matter Nationalism or ethnic differences have been unleashed in this [twentieth] century, particularly by European officials following…
Why Darwinism Remains Popular
It is hard to find another theory that has been so discredited by scientists, and yet is still…
Global Development
In Academics Religion and Science: The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, Inc., will convene on…
Sir Thomas More’s Utopia
Socialist ideals have appeared in literature from Plato to Marx. In its midst is Sir Thomas More’s Utopia,…
The Battle for God
ABSTRACT: Armstrong explores the fundamentalist movements of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the 1500s to the early 1990s.…
The Importance of Systems
Systems are integral to human life. We see so many in nature: cycles of birlh and death. seasonal…
Religion and Human Conflict
People disillusioned by false practices of faith, as well as the nonreligious, argue that religion brings only fear,…