Religious Pluralism and the City challenges the notion that the city is a secular place, and calls for an analysis of how religion and the city are intertwined.
New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan takes a creative and comparative view of the new challenges and dynamics confronting these maturing democracies.
Writing in response to our current constitutional crisis, New York Times bestselling author and Christian activist Jim Wallis urges America to return to the tenets of Jesus once again as the means to save us from the polarizing bitterness and anger of our tribal nation.
This handbook offers diverse perspectives on queer Africa, incorporating scholarly contributions on themes that reflect and inflect the trajectories of queer contributions to African studies within and outside academia.
The book explores the pressing problem of rural violence in contemporary Nigeria by assessing the changing patterns of conflict and response across the country.
Diese bewährte Gesamtdarstellung zur wirtschaftlichen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Entwicklung seit der Demokratisierung Spaniens liegt in einer vollkommen überarbeiteten und aktualisierten Auflage vor.
A comprehensive treatment of regional transformation, offering insights from different theoretical perspectives and generating a range of policy-relevant ideas.
The Cincinnati Penal Congress of 1870 ushered in the era of "e;progressive"e; penology: the use of statistical and social scientific methodologies, commitment to psychiatric and therapeutic interventions, and a new innovation--the reformatory--as the locus for the application of these initiatives.
The aim of this volume is to deepen the academic discussion on the topic of anti-Judaism in the Orthodox liturgy and to offer to a broader circle of readers a foundation for further debate.
Dieses Buch bietet eine Analyse der Politik des Konsums und zeigt, wie der "gebildete Verbraucher" eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Förderung verantwortungsvoller Marktpraktiken und des Konsums spielt.
First published in 1981, Libya: The Experience of Oil provides a comprehensive overview of Libya' s socio-economic development since the reform of 1961.
Michael Oswald untersucht anhand vorliegender Studie die Tea Party als eine strategische Bewegung, mit der ein konservatives Netzwerk einen massiven Einfluss auf die Politik in den USA erzeugen konnte.
Mit dem Zerfall der alten Zivilgesellschaft löste sich auch der christliche Grundkonsens auf, der in der älteren Theorie der Politik vielfach noch herrschte.
This book compares different international responses to the internal conflicts in Syria and Yemen through an examination of the coverage each conflict has received in the media.
This book explores how bauxite mining has affected local and national political dynamics in Guinea over the past 55 years, providing an overview of mining interactions with social, economic and political spheres.
This book, first published in 1949, analyses the thread of Christian anti-authority thought that runs through protests and revolts from the first days of Christianity to modern times.
Religion, Language and Power shows that the language of 'religion' is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call 'religious' groups or identities is imbued with the play of power.
Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel analyzes Hegel's philosophy of religion and develops its significance for ongoing debates about the relation between religion and politics as well as the history of the conceptualization of religion.
This book examines the growing diversity of religions and worldviews across South & Central Asia, and the factors affecting prospects for 'covenantal pluralism' in these regions.
Nathalie Hirschmann geht der Frage nach, auf welche Weise sich die Sicherheitswirtschaft im System der Sicherheit zu etablieren sucht und wie erfolgreich ihr dies gelingt.
This fully updated new edition empirically assesses the relationship between religion and democracy, looking at global, regional, and individual countries' perspectives.
Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt auf leicht verständliche Weise alle wichtigen Grundlagen zum Verständnis der Sozialpolitik und der sozialpolitischen Diskussionen in Deutschland.