Civics and citizenship

Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question of African American bondage.

An original analysis of the definition and scope of the right not to be held in slavery, servitude and forced labour.

Konfessionslosen Lernenden erscheinen zentrale Themen der christlichen Tradition irrelevant Gleichzeitig zeigen sich jedoch in ihren eigenen existenziellen Erfahrungen reflexive Momente, die einen religiösen Charakter tragen.

The border is one of the most urgent issues of our times.

This book offers the first empirical and holistic analysis of the design, implementation and effects of the new naturalisation regimes in the United Kingdom and Germany introduced in the 2000s.

Die vorliegende Ausgabe der Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte behandelt unterschiedliche Aspekte des großen Themas "Freiheit der Wissenschaften".

Globalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship.

In diesem Buch werden die rheinischen Münzvereine von 1385 bi2 1583 in die Geschichte ihrer Zeit eingebettet dargestellt, ihre Münzpolitik erklärt und ihre Münzen beschrieben.

A comparative look at evangelical churches across the U.

The United States has been described as a nation with the soul of a church.

This book is an attempt to present the inside story of the Telangana movement that developed due to historical reasons.

Are the world's oldest democracies failing?

Of all of the lies, fragile alliances, and predatory financial dealings that have been revealed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, we have yet to come to terms with the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the current economic order.

A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "e;long Civil Rights movement,"e; Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.

Surrogate Warfare explores the emerging phenomenon of surrogate warfare in twenty-first century conflict.

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

This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries.

Human rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909.

Sheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr.

Representation of the poor has never been the top priority for civil rights organizations, which exist to eradicate racially prejudiced and discriminatory practices and policy.

Exploring pressing questions around Canadian citizenship, Canada in Question delves into contemporary issues that come into play in identifying what it means to be Canadian.

In Missing, Sunaina Marr Maira explores how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) at a particular moment in the history of U.

Confronting the truths of Canada's Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant.

In the "e;tribal moment in American politics,"e; which occurred from the 1950s to the mid- to late-1970s, American Indians waged civil disobedience for tribal self-determination and fought from within the U.

This study examines and compares the important work on global human rights advocacy done by religious NGOs and by secular NGOs.

A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice.

This book focuses on the relations between citizenship and various manifestations of diversity, including, but not exclusively, ethnicity.

In Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam, Lahouari Addi attempts to assess the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction.

Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discriminationbut ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Courts landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v.

Learning how to live in today's new social and cultural environment will require examination, trial and error, and adaptation over time.

Pioneering African American journalist Ida B.

Explores why indigenous movements have recently won elections for the first time in the history of Latin America.

This book documents and analyses how outsourcing of teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) is practised, arising issues therein, and how to address them, through the frame of policy enactment theory.

Die Bedeutung der Religion für Staat und Gesellschaft ist eine Frage, die die Politische Theorie seit ihren Anfängen begleitet hat.

This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa's existential predicament.

Blockades have become a common response to Canada's failure to address and resolve the legitimate claims of First Nations.

Why do more people vote--or get involved in other civic and political activities--in some communities than in others?

Originally published in 1997 Working for Women?

Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (19362013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney.

Liberal neutrality has two underlying intuitions and therefore two distinct elements.

An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political livesThe Politics of Ritual is a major new account of the political power of rituals.

In 1996, Walter Capps won a seat in US House of Representatives.

When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship.