This book presents a comprehensive examination of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and provides an analysis of the level of its reflection in regional human rights systems.
This book presents a comprehensive examination of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and provides an analysis of the level of its reflection in regional human rights systems.
The Arab revolutions of 2011 were a transformative moment in the modern history of the Middle East, as people rose up against long-standing autocrats throughout the region to call for bread, freedom and dignity.
Although Irans Islamic Revolution had an electrifying effect on Shiite movements in Lebanon, Iraq, the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, there exists a tendency to explain away much of Shiite politics in the Middle East as inextricably linked to Iranian foreign policy.
Hindu Nationalism in South India engages with a range of factors that shapes the trajectory of Hindu nationalism in Kerala, the southern state of India.
This book is about the 100 years of World Wars and Regional Collaboration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, investigating and considering how to foster Good Governance and New World Order.
The revered Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus explores the Christian culture warsthe debates over church and statefrom a biblical perspective, exploring the earliest tensions evident in the New Testament, and offering a way forward for Christians today.
Voices of Freedom: The Middle East and North Africa showcases essays from activists, journalists, novelists, and scholars whose areas of expertise include free speech, peace and reconciliation, alterity-otherness, and Middle Eastern and North African religions and literatures.
A uniquely comprehensive analysis of human rights combining historical, philosophical, and legal perspectives with research from psychology and the cognitive sciences.
A comparison of the faith and politics of former Confederate chaplains with intriguing insights about the evolution of their postwar beliefs and the Lost Cause Pulpits of the Lost Cause: The Faith and Politics of Former Confederate Chaplains during Reconstruction is the first in-depth study of former chaplains that juxtaposes their religion and politics, thereby revealing important insights about the Lost Cause movement.
In the steamy summer of 1787, as America's founding fathers fashioned their Constitution, they told the most powerful institution in their new nation what it must not do: "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
This book examines the failure of Islamic politics in becoming a hegemonic force in Indonesia and the far-reaching consequences for current practices of democracy and of Islam itself.
Justice After Stonewall is an interdisciplinary analysis of challenges and progress experienced by the LGBT community since the Stonewall riots in 1969.
Justice After Stonewall is an interdisciplinary analysis of challenges and progress experienced by the LGBT community since the Stonewall riots in 1969.
A uniquely comprehensive analysis of human rights combining historical, philosophical, and legal perspectives with research from psychology and the cognitive sciences.
A provocative look at the central role of slavery in Augustine's religious, ethical, and political thoughtAugustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context.
La repercusión de las conductas de los actores privados sobre el disfrute de los derechos humanos no solo constituye un asunto de interés creciente en la sociedad internacional del siglo xxi, sino que es un factor importante para interpretar el alcance de las obligaciones jurídicas internacionales de los Estados en materia de derechos humanos, así como para trazar los límites del Derecho internacional penal.
Examining the prevalent issue of domestic violence, this book breaks down the reasons behind the ineffectiveness of existing human rights instruments and the gaps in current legal systems failing those in need.
Examining the prevalent issue of domestic violence, this book breaks down the reasons behind the ineffectiveness of existing human rights instruments and the gaps in current legal systems failing those in need.
'Jesús y John Wayne' es una amplia historia revisionista de los últimos setenta y cinco años del evangelismo blanco que revela cómo los evangélicos han trabajado para sustituir al Jesús de los Evangelios por un ídolo de la masculinidad ruda y el nacionalismo cristiano, o en palabras de un capellán moderno, por "un malote espiritual".
«Este libro reúne textos de Joseph Ratzinger/Benedicto XVI en torno a un hilo conductor: su gran apuesta —a los creyentes y a los no creyentes— de vivir y organizar nuestra convivencia 'como si Dios existiera'.
The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis observes different aspects of life - childhood, romantic love, sex, death, and human suffering - through a Lacanian lens, with a glance toward a Buddhist point of view.
First published in 1962, Capital Punishment and British Politics illuminates the process of political decision-making in Britain by analysing the complex activities that led to the passage of a major piece of social legislation, the Homicide Act of 1957.
The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis observes different aspects of life - childhood, romantic love, sex, death, and human suffering - through a Lacanian lens, with a glance toward a Buddhist point of view.
First published in 1962, Capital Punishment and British Politics illuminates the process of political decision-making in Britain by analysing the complex activities that led to the passage of a major piece of social legislation, the Homicide Act of 1957.
