Civics and citizenship

The Unfree Exercise of Religion shows that most of the 597 religious minorities in 177 countries experience rising levels of religious discrimination.

Covenantal Rights is a groundbreaking work of political theory: a comprehensive, philosophically sophisticated attempt to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into current political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse more fully into Jewish thought.

Religion and liberty are often thought to be mutual enemies: if religion has a natural ally, it is authoritarianism--not republicanism or democracy.

A new world based on fairness, participation, accountability is closer than you thinkif you learn to think like a commoner The biggest "e;tragedy of the commons"e; is the misconception that commons are failures-relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the Market and State.

Representative democracy has long been problematic and subject to erosion through the introduction of components of direct democracy (referenda, voter initiatives and systems of recall).

According to the medical world, hysteria is a thing of the past, an outdated diagnosis that has disappeared for good.

Er wühlt sich den ganzen Tag durchs Internet und entlarvt Fake News, Verschwörungstheorien und rechtsextreme Machenschaften.

The Rise and Fall of Modern Black Leadership is designed to show how black leaders responded to the omnipresent racism of twentieth century America.

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research.

There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement.

Contemporary feminists are used to juggling many different identities at once, balancing affiliations based on race, nation, class, and sexuality.

Religion and Conspiracy Theories: An Introduction is the first accessible volume to systematically examine the relationship between religion and conspiracy theories in the contemporary world in critical and historical perspective.

Traditional understandings of citizenship are facing a number of challenges.

The Cultural Defense of Nations presents a timely, thought-provoking thesis on some of the most pressing issues of our time-global immigration, majority groups, and national identity.

A complete translation of Trialogus, John Wyclif''s three-way dialogue which familiarized priests and layfolk with complex issues underlying Christian doctrine.

This book on black churches and urban politics uses case studies from various cities to examine the strategies and tactics of activist clergy and congregations.

This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era.

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

Provides an international comparative study of the implementation of disability rights law and policy focused on the emerging principles of self-determination and personalisation.

In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D.

The definitive history of the passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world.

Kalighat is said to be the oldest and most potent Hindu pilgrimage site in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).

Human rights and development cannot be understood separately.

In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking.

This book affords a new perspective on Syria as it stands at the crossroads of political, social and religious fragmentation.

This work documents the importance of the civil rights movement and its lasting impression on American society and culture.

The immigration of Muslims to Europe and the integration of later generations presents many challenges to European societies.

We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt.

Prepared by Patrick J.

The simple yet challenging goal of this book is to deliberate the legitimacy, and advance the feasibility, of an important new concept the notion of "e;"e;global civics.

A groundbreaking assessment of the life and ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, one of the most influential radical Muslim thinkers alive today.

This book explores how community influences civic engagement, focusing on the case of Ghana.

An indispensable resource for understanding religion's place in American schools and in matters concerning the separation of church and state in the United States.

Despite the pivotal role played by parents in the child protection process, little attention has been paid to how social workers perceive them.

This was first published in English as Prison of Conscience.

Space is dynamic, political and a cause of conflict.

A new perspective on policy responsiveness in American government.

Should religion and politics be kept apart?

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.

For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings as portending Black thugs throwing rocks at police and plundering private property to undermine complaints of police violence.

An examination of the historical narratives surrounding humanitarian intervention, presenting an undogmatic, alternative history of human rights protection.

Nations Unbound is a pioneering study of an increasing trend in migration-transnationalism.

The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst.

This textbook comprehensively examines and analyses the interpretation and application of the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act 1998.

Preaching Prevention examines the controversial U.

This dual biography "e;examines the ideas and activism of two of the most committed and significant freedom fighters in twentieth-century America"e; (Erik Gellman, author of Death Blow to Jim Crow).