Religion and democracy can make tense bedfellows. Secular elites may view religious movements as conflict-prone and incapable of compromise, while religious actors may fear that anticlericalism will drive religion from public life. Yet such tensions are not inevitable: from Asia to Latin America, religious actors coexist with, and even help to preserve, democracy. In Faithful to Secularism, David T. Buckley argues that political institutions that encourage an active role for public religion are a key part in explaining this variation. He develops the concept of "benevolent secularism" to describe institutions that combine a basic division of religion and state with extensive room for participation of religious actors in public life. He traces the impact of benevolent secularism on religious and secular elites, both at critical junctures in state formation and as politics evolves over time. Buckley shows how religious and secular actors build credibility and shared norms over time, and explains how such coalitions can endure challenges from both religious revivals and periods of anticlericalism. Faithful to Secularism tests this institutional theory in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines, using a blend of archival, interview, and public opinion data. These case studies illustrate how even countries with an active religious majority can become and remain faithful to secularism.

Faithful to Secularism: The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines (Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 32)

History

Buckley, David

World

Columbia University Press

Blessing America First: Religion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration

How did the Trump administration change the place of religion in U.S. foreign policy? How did the guardrails of America's foreign policy bureaucracy respond to a populist president? Drawing on firsthand experience in the State Department's Office of Religion and Global Affairs during the Obama-Trump transition, David T. Buckley traces how the Trump administration's populism affected the foreign policy bureaucracy, with significant implications for U.S. domestic and international politics. Blessing America First argues that under Trump, religion in U.S. foreign policy shifted from an implement of statecraft to a tool of populist political strategy. Populism constructs ideological bounds between "the people" and threatening outsiders, and embraces personalist governance while rejecting bureaucratic constraint. This domestic political logic, Buckley demonstrates, influenced foreign policy decisions and reshaped bureaucratic offices in the State Department and USAID. Populism also promoted international religious ties in a surprising range of settings, from Poland to India, Brazil to Russia. Buckley shows that the possibility of curbing these changes was limited by conditions in American democracy that predated the 2016 election, including norms of nonpartisanship among career officials, malleable legal institutions, and polarization in public opinion. A groundbreaking examination of Trump's State Department, blending insider experience with original quantitative and qualitative data analysis, Blessing America First draws broader lessons for understanding the relationship between religion and democracy under populist rule.

Elton

Andre Deutsch

As Elton John finishes his final tour, this updated, fully revised biography pays tribute to the groundbreaking, socially conscious musician. Meticulously researched and drawing on many new original interviews with friends and associates, Elton John is the first serious, but also page-turningly entertaining, biography of the Queen Mum of Pop. It’s now cool to acknowledge John's enormous influence on the music business, his impact on the struggle for LGBTQ rights, and his efforts to fight AIDS. Fully revised and updated, this is the definitive look at a showbiz legend.

Elton John: The Biography

Humor & Entertainment

The authorized and uncensored biography of The Stranglers. Includes the story of the departure of lead vocalist Hugh Cornwell in the summer of 1990 and detailing the band's recent career with replacement Paul Roberts. First published in November 1997.

No Mercy

Biographies & Memoirs

Hodder&Stoughton

A biography of The Stranglers. First formed in 1974, they have remained an active group, influencing a range of Britpop bands. Exploring the band's career, the book looks at albums, their commercial high point in the '80s, the departure of the lead vocalist in 1990 and the band's recent career.

No Mercy: The authorised and Uncensored Biography of the Stranglers

Where the Waters Meet: Convergence and Complementarity in Therapy and Theology

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Routledge

This guide traces the musical career of David Bowie. It examines every song released by Bowie from his early singles, through the Ziggy Stardust era, the Eno/Berlin trilogy, the solo years, Tin Machine and beyond. Shaped like a CD box, this book is designed to sit alongside a CD collection.

David Bowie

Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books

Thirty years on from his first hit single, 'Space Oddity', David Bowie remains the most influential rock star from the post-Woodstock generation. Strange Fascination chronicles Bowie's career against the colourful backdrop of post-Beatles pop culture. It's a story of amazing creativity, of huge theatricality and of an almost pathological quest to remain relevant and at pop's cutting edge. It is simply the the most complete account of David Bowie and his impact on pop culture ever written. This book is the first genuinely insightful and heavyweight biography of a true musical icon, fully revised and updated for paperback edition.

Strange Fascination: David Bowie : The Definitive Story

Arts & Literature

Virgin Pub

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Faithful to Secularism: The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines (Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 32)

Blessing America First: Religion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration

Blessing America First: Religion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration

Elton

Elton John: The Biography

No Mercy

No Mercy: The authorised and Uncensored Biography of the Stranglers

Where the Waters Meet: Convergence and Complementarity in Therapy and Theology

David Bowie

Strange Fascination: David Bowie : The Definitive Story