Civics and citizenship

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.

What is driving political extremism in Pakistan?

In Religion and the Struggle for European Union, Brent F.

The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing triumphs.

Honest, objective, and informed political debates are all too rare in todays polarized and partisan climate.

In this original and provocative book, Nahed Artoul Zehr explores the theological underpinnings of al-Qaeda and related Islamic movements such as ISIS.

In a time when citizens are deeply dissatisfied with the basic institutions and elected officials that govern them, the participatory budgeting movement empowers citizens to get results for pressing community needs.

Millions of Americans today embrace ideas and behaviors that would have horrified all previous generations.

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.

Der Themenschwerpunkt umfasst sowohl Erfahrungsberichte aus der praktischen Menschenrechtsarbeit von professionellen "Menschenrechtsarbeiter*innen" und -anwälten als auch wissenschaftliche Beiträge von Autor*innen, die sich mit Menschenrechten in ihren Berufen beschäftigen.

El objetivo del libro es interrogarnos y problematizar los lugares, las estrategias y las resistencias que van configurando otras subjetividades políticas, entendiendo que la "institución" de la ciudadanía queda estrecha y anacrónica para encarar estas tareas.

Whatever be the definition of 'indigenous' vis-a-vis 'indigeneity', and however concensual it might be, both these terms have been inferred, applied and questioned in multifarious ways.

Whatever be the definition of 'indigenous' vis-a-vis 'indigeneity', and however concensual it might be, both these terms have been inferred, applied and questioned in multifarious ways.

Mitten in Europa herrscht Krieg.

"Zeitenwende" – dieses Wort steht über dem ersten Jahr der Ampelkoalition.

Should grandparents have rights in relation to their grandchildren?

Should grandparents have rights in relation to their grandchildren?

The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice.

The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice.

Die Corona-Pandemie ist eine Herausforderung für Christinnen und Christen weltweit.

Die Nachrichten- und Informationsflut wird täglich größer, auch bei den Printmedien, wozu ebenso Postwurfsendungen wie auch Kataloge gehören.

Surveying print and digital graphic life narratives about people who become 'othered' within Western contexts, this book investigates how comics and graphic novels witness human rights transgressions in contemporary Anglophone culture and how they can promote social justice.

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades.

Alle Menschen benötigen Fürsorge.

This A-to-Z encyclopedia surveys the history, meaning, and enduring impact of the Declaration of Independence by explaining its contents and concepts, profiling the Founding Fathers, and detailing depictions of the Declaration in art, music, and literature.

The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era.

Examines voting trends and political representation in the United States today-with a special focus on debates over voting rights, voter fraud, and voter suppression-and election rules and regulations, including those related to gerrymandering, campaign fundraising, and other controversial subjects.

Humanity lives inside 4 unyielding constraints, the speed of light, conservation of mass-energy, inefficiency in conversion of heat to work, and the law of demand.

New insights into what makes people happy and how policymakers can foster greater satisfaction for allDuring the past forty years, thousands of studies have been carried out on the subject of happiness.

Provides an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and political observers who want a comprehensive picture of the past and present of the U.

This invaluable resource investigates U.

This book will serve as a scientifically accurate yet easy-to-read introduction to birth control for teens and young adults.

Through sections containing overview essays and reference entries related to particular religions, this resource explores the rise of religious violence, hate crime, and persecution around the world.

The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduction.

After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party Ennahdha allowed previously silenced religious and conservative ideas about women s right to abortion to be expressed.

A powerful indictment of Pope Benedict and the Vatican, and a searing assessment of the future of the Catholic Church.

This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting the potentialities as well as the obstacles confronting it, and looks at the multiple power relations involved through axes of class, gender, race, and nationality.

As the European Union faces the ongoing challenges of legitimacy, identity, and social cohesion, an understanding of the social purpose and direction of EU citizenship becomes increasingly vital.

Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics.

With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms.

While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe.

In the United States, egg donation for reproduction and egg donation for research involve the same procedures, the same risks, and the same population of donorsdisadvantaged women at the intersections of race and class.

Although scholars have long studied how Muslims authenticated and transmitted Muhammad's sayings and practices (hadith), the story of how they interpreted and reinterpreted the meanings of hadith over the past millennium has yet to be told.

Despite decades of progress, African Americans living in largely white affluent suburbs still often find themselves caught between the two worlds of race and class.

Hizmet Means Service examines Hizmet, a Turkey-based but global movement dedicated to human service.

Although there are legal norms to secure the uniform treatment of asylum claims in the United States, anecdotal and empirical evidence suggest that strategic and economic interests also influence asylum outcomes.

Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a "e;prophet of power to the people,"e; someone who "e;has possibly antagonized more people .

This study of religion and violence "e;forces us to reexamine some of our most cherished self-images of modern liberal democratic societies"e; (Charles Taylor).

After a clerical sanction prohibited them from fishing for a week, a group of Catholic fishers from a village on India's southwestern coast took their church to court.