How Barbara Jordan used sacred and secular scriptures in her social activismUS Congresswoman Barbara Jordan is well-known as an interpreter and defender of the Constitution, particularly through her landmark speech during Richard Nixons 1974 impeachment hearings.
The book examines the dynamic processes of the various social, political, and cultural negotiations that representatives of Christian groups engage in within authoritarian societies in Greater China, where Christianity is deemed a foreign religious system brought to China by colonial rulers.
Salafism, comprised of fundamentalist Islamic movements whose adherents consider themselves the only saved sect of Islam, has been little studied, remains shrouded in misconceptions, and has provoked new interest as Salafists have recently staked a claim to power in some Arab states while spearheading battles against infidel Arab regimes during recent rebellions in the Arab world.
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 focuses on the written heritage of Muslims in the Philippines, the historical constitution of chancelleries within the Islamic sultanates, and the production of official letters to conduct local and international diplomacy.
Faith in the Voting Booth by National Association of Evangelicals leaders Leith Anderson and Galen Carey will help you clarify your own positions in light of your faith before you enter the voting booth.
A unique interreligious dialogue provides needed context for deeper understanding of interfaith relations, from ancient to modern timesFreedom is far from straightforward as a topic of comparative theology.
In Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam, Lahouari Addi attempts to assess the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction.
The 1,400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shiis is currently reflected in the destructive struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iranwith no apparent end in sight.
Das ultimative Leitfadenbuch zur Politik, Medien und GesellschaftTauchen Sie ein in das Ergebnis eines jahrzehntelangen, tiefgreifenden Studiums der Tagespresse, und entdecken Sie die verborgenen Verbindungen und Wechselwirkungen zwischen Mensch, Medien und Politik.
Las adicciones, los tatuajes, la reacción de un bebé, la conducta del adolescente rebelde, los puntos de vista de los miembros de una pareja, la actitud de un jefe o compañero de trabajo y demás personas que nos rodean; tanto en la vida real como en la virtual, al igual que nuestros actos y decisiones, en oportunidades conducen a conflictos que parecen no tener explicación.
This book captures the essence of the period when Russians and Americans collaborated in creating new structures of government and new businesses in completely uncharted conditions.
This book investigates the politicisation and framing of immigration in the media and political arena in Central Europe, examining two countries - Czechia and Slovakia - in the period surrounding the "e;European migrant crisis"e;.
This book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the frontier myth.
This book investigates the politicisation and framing of immigration in the media and political arena in Central Europe, examining two countries - Czechia and Slovakia - in the period surrounding the "e;European migrant crisis"e;.
The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria.
From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes' destructive politics, economic, cultural and social modernization efforts and the oil nationalization movement, to the Iranian Revolution, its high hopes, broken promises, repression and intolerance causing national discontent and another socio-political upheaval today, the history of modern Iran has been eventful, unstable and turbulent.
From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes' destructive politics, economic, cultural and social modernization efforts and the oil nationalization movement, to the Iranian Revolution, its high hopes, broken promises, repression and intolerance causing national discontent and another socio-political upheaval today, the history of modern Iran has been eventful, unstable and turbulent.
This book captures the essence of the period when Russians and Americans collaborated in creating new structures of government and new businesses in completely uncharted conditions.
This book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the frontier myth.
The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria.
Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Indigeneity in African Religions explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual symbolism and praxis of the indigenous Oza people in South West Nigeria.
Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Indigeneity in African Religions explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual symbolism and praxis of the indigenous Oza people in South West Nigeria.
The Parthenon marbles case is the most famous international cultural heritage dispute concerning repatriation of looted antiquities, the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum's 'Elgin Collection'.
Con un exhaustivo examen del Derecho comparado, se analizan en este trabajo las mas importantes cuestiones que se plantean en la resolucion de conflictos a traves de la mediacion: su admisibilidad constitucional y material, su no siempre sencilla articulacion con el sistema judicial, sus principales notas distintivas (voluntariedad, confidencialidad e igualdad), el papel de las partes y del abogado, la validez de las clausulas de mediacion, asi como la responsabilidad por su incumplimiento y el caracter ejecutivo de los acuerdos finales.
This book reviews the periodic changes in the legal policies of the late-developing ASEAN countries, often known as the CLMV countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam), in their continuous path toward globalization after the collapse of the socialist bloc.
Lejos de los pronosticos apocaliticos del siglo pasado que planteaban la progresiva desaparicion de lo religioso en el marco de la creciente racionalizacion y secularizacion de la sociedad moderna, lo religioso ha emergido a traves de multiples manifestaciones demostrando su persistencia, a la vez que exteriorizando tanto perspectivas novedosas como reafirmando planteos tradicionalistas y fuertemente fundamentalistas.
The Parthenon marbles case is the most famous international cultural heritage dispute concerning repatriation of looted antiquities, the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum's 'Elgin Collection'.
This book analyses, comments and further develops on the most important instrument of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH): the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention.
This book analyses, comments and further develops on the most important instrument of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH): the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention.
This collection highlights multidisciplinary approaches toward better understanding the discourses of extremism, exploring the ways in which insights from linguistics and other disciplines might inform each other in enacting meaningful reforms in policy, social media, and education.
