Civics and citizenship

Since Christianity is an ethical as well as a mystical religion and since individuals live in communities, the church is bound to be involved in politics and other social action that determines the quality of human life.

Many human rights advocates agree that conventional advocacy tools- reporting abuses to international tribunals or shaming the perpetrators of human rights violations-have proven ineffective.

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Indigenous Nationals/Canadian Citizens begins with a detailed policy history from first contact to the Sesquicentennial with major emphasis on the evolution of Canadian policy initiatives relating to Indigenous peoples.

The book offers the first systematic account of Iran's foreign policy following the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) of July 14, 2015.

Over the last decade, the close relationship between culture and economy - or "e;the experience economy"e; - has risen on the agenda.

What was Martin Luther King Jr.

Drawing on in-depth interviews with a wide variety of people, this book answers two questions: How and why do we personally engage with elected officials online and offline?

Pentecostals and Nonviolence explores how a distinctly Pentecostal-charismatic peace witness might be reinvigorated and sustained in the twenty-first century.

This unifying proposal for understanding distributive justice discourse across cultures sheds light on how best to understand political philosophy.

Justice, even divine justice, is concrete.

Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements demonstrates that, while religion is often a social force that maintains, if not legitimates, the sociopolitical order, it is also a decisive factor in economic, social, and political conflict.

Biblical texts have been one of the most potent sources in the Western political imagination.

Policy-makers tend to view the residential segregation of minority ethnic groups in a negative light as it is seen as an obstacle to their integration.

This book comprehensively analyzes the global illusion of citizen protection so common today.

Essential Interviewing Skills for the Helping Professions reaches beyond most other essential skills for clinical interviewing books with its emphasis on social justice, attention to the role of microaggressions in clinical practice, and the upmost importance of practitioner wellness as integral to longevity in the helping professions.

The Catholic Reformation (1999) provides a dynamic and original history of this crucial movement in early modern Europe.

In recent years, North American and European nations have sought to legally remake religion in other countries through an unprecedented array of international initiatives.

Most Jewish communities continue to cite intermarriage as the most serious threat to Jewish continuity.

The first serious, extended effort to use a human rights-based approach to address the scientific issues affecting society and the often-neglected human right to science.

Es ist eine der paradoxesten Faktizitäten unserer Zeit, dass, trotz des enormen medizinischen Fortschritts, trotz der jährlich steigenden erheblichen Investitionen in Forschung, Vorsorge und Therapie, der allgemeine Gesundheitszustand der Menschen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zunehmend schlechter wird.

This title undertakes an impartial, authoritative, and in-depth examination of the moral arguments and ideas behind the laws and policies that govern personal, corporate, and government behavior in the United States.

Rich in detail and broad in scope, this majestic book is the first to reveal the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century.

The first decade of the twenty-first century finds the American people divided along a great, half-century-old fault line.

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

Drawing on the author's years spent working in and around Westminster, this essay collection provides a personal perspective on the themes of faith, politics, and belonging.

This book investigates the power of civil society in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in the context of the post-Arab Spring era, as well as more long-standing challenges and constraints in the region.

The important political motivations behind why women finally won the right to voteIn the 1880s, women were barred from voting in all national-level elections, but by 1920 they were going to the polls in nearly thirty countries.

This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation.

This book fills the normative gap arising from the absence of a multilateral mechanism for sovereign debt restructuring.

Voting Rights: A Reference Handbook is a valuable resource for high school and college students curious about the history of voting rights in the United States.

Few would deny that the American Evangelical church is in a time of crisis; division, confusion, and distraction reign.

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

The national security and civil liberties tensions of the World War II mass incarceration link 9/11 and the 2015 Paris-San Bernardino attacks to the Trump era in America - an era darkened by accelerating discrimination against and intimidation of those asserting rights of freedom of religion, association and speech, and an era marked by increasingly volatile protests.

The principles of freedom of expression have been developed over centuries.

The unheralded contribution of women to Egypt's Islamist movement-and how they talk about women's rights in Islamic termsIn the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country's public sphere.

Inspired by the current political moment around the globe in which uprisings, protests, revolutions, and movements are on the rise, this book examines the intersections between the Bible and activism.

White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation.

The past decades public interest in history is booming.

The book examines how the coalition among the national African American civil rights organizations disintegrated between 1967 and 1973 as a result of the factionalism that splintered the groups from within as well as the federal government's sabotage of the Civil Rights Movement.

After the passage of sweeping civil rights and voting rights legislation in 1964 and 1965, the civil rights movement stood poised to build on considerable momentum.

An account of the spiritual direction of our country from the time the Puritans landed in the new world up to today.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

The Routledge Handbook of Homelessness brings together many of the world's leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the subject.

Das Handbuch Demokratie bietet eine umfassende Einordnung des demokratischen Systems der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, die Ideengeschichte der Demokratie und den Einfluss der Europäischen Union auf die Demokratien Europas.

For all too obvious reasons, war, empire, and military conflict have become extremely hot topics in the academy.

For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will.

Christianity TodayBeautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year in 2016.