Civics and citizenship

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A captivating look at the history of the pure females of Islamic paradise known as the houri The fascination with the houri, the pure female of Islamic paradise, began long before September 11, 2001.

We live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low.

From the origins of critical theory in the bowels of the academy to its use in justifying rioting and arson in the name of a dubious equity agenda, an eminent philosopher unmasks the intellectual origins of this mental virus, and details steps rational thinkers can take to combat its insidious spread.

Gemeinschaftsstärkende Bildungsprozesse werden angesichts der krisenhaften gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen zu einer Frage des Überlebens unserer demokratischen Lebensform.

In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree will always determine opportunities for civic engagement and career advancement.

Classical liberal democratic theory has provided crucial ideas for a still dominant and hegemonic discourse that rests on ideological conceptions of freedom, equality, peacefulness, inclusive democratic participation, and tolerance.

One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state in the fight for voting rights.

Wenn vormals Fremde in eine gastgebende Gemeinschaft aufgenommen werden, "passiert" Gastfreundschaft.

An overview of the life, work and continuing importance of the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century.

The second edition of this Companion brings the story of liberation theology up to date and indicate its continuing importance.

An original defense of the unique value of voting in a democracyVoting is only one of the many ways that citizens can participate in public decision making, so why does it occupy such a central place in the democratic imagination?

Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are amongst the world's most vulnerable populations, and their numbers are increasing.

To improve their well-being, the poor in developing countries have used both collective action through formal and informal groups and property rights to natural resources.

Christianity Today 2020 Book Award (Award of Merit, Theology/Ethics)Outreach 2020 Recommended Resource of the Year (Theology and Biblical Studies)The question of what makes life worth living is more vital now than ever.

Rana Siu Inboden analyses China''s role in the international human rights regime from the early 1980s until 2017.

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all.

This comparative study deals with the important social phenomenon of sectarianism in four medium-sized cotton towns of northwest England -- Bolton, Preston, Stockport, and Blackburn -- between 1832 and 1870.

The only comprehensive analysis of international refugee rights, anchored in the hard facts of refugee life around the world.

Afrodemocracy is an ideological approach to resolving African crises.

This comprehensive investigation into the involvement of ordinary Christians in Church activities and in anti-clerical dissent, explores a phenomenon stretching from Britain and Germany to the Americas and beyond.

Over the last three decades, a number of reforms have taken place in European social policy with an impact on the opportunities for persons with disabilities to be full and active members of society.

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In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years.

This book updates prior research that utilized the perceptions of criminal investigators of the Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS), and compares these perceptions with immigration enforcement priorities that were implemented post 911, through the Obama Administration up to the Trump presidency.

From the landmines campaign to the Seattle protests against the WTO to the World Commission on Dams, transnational networks of civil society groups are seizing an ever-greater voice in how governments run countries and how corporations do business.

“It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied.

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of-and indeed reactions to-the central event of that history: emancipation.

This book demonstrates similarities in health inequities afflicting Black and disabled people in America to support collaborative, intersectional health justice advocacy.

The essays in Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education reflect diverse perspectives on one of the most pressing issues in higher education--the controversies over freedom of speech and its relation to intellectual diversity.

In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P.

This book critically confronts perceptions that social media has become a 'wasteland' for young people.

Was bedeutet Digitalisierung für die politische Bildung und den Politikunterricht?

The 2016 election caused many pundits and citizens alike to decry the Electoral College.

A comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks, resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and beyond.

While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as the republican period started.

By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's most complex and distinctive migrant communities.

The first comprehensive study of rape – its images and its politics – at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.

From the trues of nature, man reasons his truths, the sum of which is TRUITY.

With the increasing demands for changes in how we vote, the authors analyze the complications of race tied to these proposed policies through historical and contemporary challenges.

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s firsthand account of the civil rights benefit concert attacked by a violent mob in upstate New York.

The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment giving many women in the United States the right to vote.

Few places are more notorious for civil rightsera violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 "e;Mississippi Burning"e; murders.

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.