This third edition collection provides a contemporary survey of current international issues in bioethics and human rights for study across social science disciplines.
This book illustrates the multiple roles of textbooks as victim, transformer, and accomplice to conflict by introducing the Intersecting Roles of Education in Conflict (IREC) framework for use in the research, development, production, distribution, and dissemination of textbooks and learning materials.
This book lays the groundwork for the future of global citizenship, and it discusses where we are now, where to go from here, and how all of this fits into a lifelong learning context.
This book includes a number of distinct religious and secular views on the anthropological, ethical and social challenges of reproductive technologies in the light of human rights and in the context of global bioethics.
This book critically looks at the tensions between the promise to transform education through the use of digital technology and the tendency to utilize digital technology in instrumental and technical ways.
This book examines the discourses on nation-building, civic identity, minorities, and the formation of religious identities in school textbooks worldwide.
This book explores the relationship between religion and citizenship from a culturally diverse group of contributors, in the context of the developing tendency towards fundamentalist and conflicting religious beliefs in European, North African, and Middle Eastern societies.
Grounded in the Weberian tradition, Islam and Democracy in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh presents a critical analysis of the complex relationship between Islam and democracy in South Asia and Bangladesh.
Situated within the wider post-secular turn in politics and international relations, this volume focuses not on religion per se, but rather explicitly on theology.
Drawing from theories of world society and from historical-sociological theories the book studies the past, present, and future of Middle East Christianity.
This book discusses the evolution of three philosophical foundations from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries that converged to form the basis of liberal democracy's approach to the place and role of religion in society and politics.
Contributions collected here discuss the experiences of the citizens of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe, and suggest some answers to the challenges they face.
Au moment même où toutes nos idées reçues sur les rapports entre Occident et Moyen-Orient sont en passe d’être bousculées par le vent de l’histoire, celui que le New York Times qualifiait de « doyen des études moyen-orientales » livre sa vision du rôle de la religion dans cette partie du monde.
Accès inégal à l'éducation, fracture technologique, inégalités de traitement face à la justice, différences économiques, disparités médicales et sanitaires : les auteurs de ce volume de l'Université de tous les savoirs font le point sur les inégalités non seulement entre les individus mais aussi entre les pays et les continents.
A riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the ';worthy and necessary' (The New York Times) Nobody Marc Lamont Hill and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster.
Republished fifty years later to coincide with the release of the Academy Awardnominated film of the same title written and directed by Aaron Sorkin with an all-star cast, this is the classic account of perhaps the most infamous, and definitely the most entertaining, trial in recent American history.
