Although international cooperation on migration is often promoted, scholars have been unable to arrive at a consensus about the extent of cooperation in the current system.
This book introduces readers to Catholic social teaching, the Church's long tradition of reflection on the meaning of social justice and how to enact it.
Comparative law of religions has developed in recent years as a new discipline at the intersection of legal and religious science, of theology and anthropology.
In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement.
Welche Ziele und Motivationen verfolgen religiöse und glaubensbasierte zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure in den internationalen Beziehungen und auf transnationaler Ebene?
Die Beiträge des Hefts befassen sich mit der Relevanz von Sinnbildung gegen Verschwörungstheorien in Krisenzeiten, gesellschaftlichen Krisenerzählungen in Schulbüchern, lernförderlichen Erfahrungen von Krisen in der Unterrichtspraxis, der Differenzierung von Krisenvorstellungen bei Lehrkräften sowie mit der Herausforderung, Lernende als Change Agents in Krisenzeiten zu befähigen.
Amidst the increasing global trend of cross-border marriage migration, this book offers timely theoretical and empirical insights into contemporary debates about migration and citizenship.
The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment because it granted the vote to black men but not to women.
The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), called by Pope John XXIII in 1959, produced sixteen documents that outlined the Church's attempts to meet increasing calls for modernization in the wake of social and cultural changes that were taking place in the twentieth century.
Beginning with Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, the term "e;religious right"e; entered the popular lexicon, coming to signify a politically and socially conservative form of Christianity that informs American conservatism to this day.
This collection examines theoretical and practical issues concerning the relationship between freedom of religion or belief and other fundamental rights, in the context of secular States, from the perspective of human dignity.
In 1502, a decade of increasing tension between Muslims and Christians in Spain culminated in a royal decree that Muslims in Castile wanting to remain had to convert to Christianity.
While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe.
Surveying theological literature produced in the Christian East from the first through the 20th century, Eastern Christianity in its Texts explores different theological themes (analytical and mystical), genres (epistles, treatises, and poetry), and milieux (Greek, Armenian, Western and Eastern Syriac, Russian and Romanian).
Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practiceOver the past decade alone, religious communities around the world have demanded state recognition, exemption, accommodation, or protection.
This book traces the connections between diverging postwar European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions to argue that supranational integration originates from Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism.
Causality dominates today's discussions of LGBT rights: anti-gay voices imagine gay proliferation through seduction, influence, and corruption, while queer communities largely embrace biological determinism, saying they are "e;born gay.
Discourse on fundamentalism has gained much attention in recent years, particularly in a post-9/11 context where extremist or terrorist threats are more prominent, perilous, and pervasive.
The so-called Democratic Antifascist Youth Movement "e;Nashi"e; represents a crucial case of a post-Orange government-organized formation whose values have broad support in Russian society.
Der Bedeutung der reformatorischen Theologie für die GegenwartDie Reformation ist mehr als Luther, aber ohne Martin Luther hätte es keine Reformation gegeben.
Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is repurposed or re-envisioned in relation to experiences of modernity, urbanization, conflict, migration and displacement.
