Political activism / Political engagement

This book is a theoretically and historically informed exploration of 'secularism' in Muslim contexts.

This book chronologically analyzes thirteen key US Presidents, from Washington to Trump, to highlight how religion has informed or influence their politics and policies.

This book explores the complexity of the Syrian question and its effects on the foreign policies of Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

This book sheds new light on the emergence and fluctuation of Iran's connections with non-state entities in the Middle East.

This book discusses Kenya's transition from authoritarianism to more democratic forms of politics and its impact on Kenya's multi-ethnic society.

This book is the first to systematically examine the connection between religion and transitional justice in post-communism.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.

This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions.

This book explores how Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council, can influence inter-religious dialogue and understanding in the modern world.

This book offers a systematic analysis of how the interaction between language of security and language of rights produces policies which not only affect everyday functioning of democracy, but also redefine the understanding of sovereignty.

This volume examines contemporary political relations between Turkey and the Middle East.

This book describes three impactful cases of political violence that broke out in Mexico in 1994, pointing to an important juncture in Mexican political development.

Volume 8 of the EYIEL focuses on the external economic relations of the European Union as one of the most dynamic political fields in the process of European integration.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the new wave of revolutions in the MENA region.

This book focuses on American political discourse connected to war, dissent, and empathy.

This book explores how ordinary Arab-speaking social media users have reacted to propaganda from the Islamic State, rather than how IS propaganda has targeted ordinary users, thus providing a change in perspective in the literature.

This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

Five major groups fought one another in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Second World War: The German and Italian occupiers, the Serbian Chetniks, the Ustasha of the Independent State of Croatia, the Bosnian Muslims, and the Tito-led Partisans.

This book presents a creative synthesis of two ostensibly disparate fields of law - arbitration and human rights.

This book explores the impact and efficiency of Western intervention in African civil wars.

This book compares the performances of four key non-state actors in the Arab-Israeli conflict ecosystem: the PLO, Hamas, Hizbullah, and Amal.

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This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries.

This book challenges the rhetoric linking 'war on terror' with 'war on human trafficking' by juxtaposing lived experiences of survivors of trafficking, refugees, and labor migrants with macro-level security concerns.

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market.

Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship - not only theologically, but also politically.

This book examines mass shootings and attempted shootings that occurred across 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, known as post-communist states.

Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion takes a close look at Shakespeare's engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England.

From 2015, Europe was hit by a new wave of terrorist attacks, coordinated or supported by an international Islamist organization (ISIS) but sometimes also perpetrated by citizens of the targeted country: the attacks on Paris, Brussels, London, Manchester, Nice and Barcelona probably attracted most attention but the most dramatic were perpetrated in Paris, in January and November 2015.

This book explores the connections between migration and terrorism and extrapolates, with the help of current research and case studies, what the future may hold for both issues.

Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship --not only theologically, but also politically.

This volume presents the most recent joint study of the research group Religion and Human Rights.

This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities.

This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries.

This book explores how the recent development of Muslim countries as a group has fallen far short of non-Muslim countries, which, some have concluded, may be a result of Islamic teachings.

This book provides a detailed application of identity theory to contemporary questions of extremism, radicalization and security.

This book explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological.

This book assesses Afghanistan's transit trade with Pakistan in the context of WTO transit regime for landlocked countries and its impacts on Members' regional transit agreements.

This book analyzes women entrepreneurs in Muslim countries who are using Islamic values to develop and run small businesses.

This book offers a very interesting deep-dive into EU and South Korean approaches to cybersecurity issues.

This book provides original and controversial contributions into specific areas of Johannine studies, along with defenses of various traditional theological interpretations of John that are commonly overlooked in New Testament scholarship.

This book analyses Nicaragua's role in the development of international law, through its participation in cases that have come before the International Court of Justice.

This edited collection evaluates the relationship between Marxism and religion in two ways: Marxism's treatment of religion and the religious aspects of Marxism.

This book analyses the reasons for women's participation in the various Lebanese and Palestinian militias involved in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990).

This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today's Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation - especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances.

This book investigates agency in the historical resistance movement in Kashmir by initiating a fresh conversation about Muslim Kashmiri women.

This book seeks to answer the "e;why"e; and "e;how"e; questions about the insurgency of the PKK, a militant left-wing group of Turkey's Kurds, in Turkey.

This book provides an in-depth study of Private International Law reasoning in the field of international sale of goods contracts.