Civics and citizenship

This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America--illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s.

This book presents a systematic study of the transformation of the specific socio-political identity of the Muslims in Assam.

Democracy and citizenship are conceptually and empirically contested.

Sovereignty generally refers to a particular national territory, the inviolability of the nations borders, and the right of that nation to protect its borders and ensure internal stability.

This book analyses dominant discourses of globalisation, and citizenship in schools.

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.

Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood offers a comparative sociocultural and spatial history of white supremacist women who were active in segregationist grassroots activism in Little Rock, New Orleans, and Charleston from the late 1940s to the late 1960s.

This book brings a crucial perspective to the examination of religion and politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by focusing on the roles that Christian communities play in this region.

This book takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism.

This thoroughly annotated document collection gives students and researchers an authoritative source for understanding the evolving political and legal relationship between church and state from colonial times to the present day.

Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts?

During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "e;second emancipation"e; in America.

Gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Fächerverbünde sind an Schulen in fast allen deutschen Bundesländern anzutreffen.

Although media coverage often portrays young people in urban areas as politically apathetic or disruptive, this book provides an antidote to such views through narratives of dedicated youth civic engagement and leadership in Chicago, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro.

Most studies of emancipation's consequences have focused on the South.

The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom offers theoretical, historical, and legal perspectives on religious freedom, while examining its meaning as an experience, value, and right.

Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization.

Social Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social change from below.

The book that changed the American church, with new essays that "e;prove that one can be a dedicated Christian and a social reformer at the same time"e; (The New York Times Book Review).

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was the first woman awarded the MD degree in the United States.

This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the crossroads of space and border theory, and exploring the relationship among the intersecting themes of migration, citizenship, identity formation, and spatiality.

Discover how to responsibly defend religious freedom for all without compromising your personal beliefs.

The Law of War and Peace offers a cutting-edge analysis of the relationship between law, armed conflict, gender and peace.

A must-read for anyone interested in the history of civil rights, the roles and varied motivations of southern Jews in the movement, the interaction of blacks and Jews, the role of hate-groups and the anti-communist hysteria in silencing or harassing the forces of positive change, and the specific place of Miami, Miami Beach, and Florida in the struggle.

This book analyzes civil wars over the past twenty years and examines what motivates some rebel groups to abide by international law.

Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explains what it means to have citizen rights and how national identification requirements undermine them.

This study details how the development and maturation of New Negro politics and thought were shaped not only by New York-based intellectuals and revolutionary transformations in Europe, but also by people, ideas, and organizations rooted in the South.

Im vorliegenden Buch wird das mittelalterliche Münzwesen in Hessen und die Ausbreitung der Brakteaten, der dünnen, einseitigen Silberblechmünzen, beschrieben.

This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer.

This book's central claim is that a close reading of Augustine's epistemology can help political theologians develop affirmative accounts of political liberalism.

In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring about economic justice for African Americans in the Alabama Black Belt.

The introduction of compulsory citizenship education into the national curriculum has generated a plethora of new interests in the politics of childhood and youth.

A unique primer on how to think intelligently about the thorniest public issues confronting us todayLet's be honest, we've all expressed opinions about difficult hot-button issues without always thinking them through.

This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries.

This book explains the original meaning of the two religion clauses of the First Amendment: "e;Congress shall make no law [1] respecting an establishment of religion or [2] prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

To what extent do urban dwellers relate to their lived and imagined environment through aesthetic perceptions, and aspirations?

(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance.

Pioneering African American journalist Ida B.

In 2018, at the end of a speech Rod Dreher gave in Genoa, an artist gave him an engraving by his own hand.

The Design Politics of the Passport presents an innovative study of the passport and its associated social, political and material practices as a means of uncovering the workings of 'design politics'.

The book examines the nexus between political and religious thought within the Prussian old conservative milieu.

Thirty years ago, Kathryn Tanner put forward a daring proposal.

Explores the complex relationships between privacy, governance, and the production and sharing of knowledge.

Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic-and what we can do about itDemocracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.

This book analyses the role of religion during the COVID- 19 pandemic and vaccination rollout in Zimbabwe.

Historically delineates the problems of genocide as a concept in relation to rival categories of mass violence.