Civics and citizenship

This book analyzes the transformation of ethnic and religious political parties in Turkey with special focus on their role in the country's democratization and regime changes.

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 explores how community influences civic engagement, focusing on the case of Ghana.

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 offers an innovative perspective on the intersection of politics, education, and social problems.

This book provides scholars, educators, and legislators with a personal, classroom-level tour of daily life at a community college.

This edited volume includes contributions on education within a world of challenges by authors with diverse experiences and perspectives.

This book examines the discourses on nation-building, civic identity, minorities, and the formation of religious identities in school textbooks worldwide.

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market.

This book is the first to systematically examine the connection between religion and transitional justice in post-communism.

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.

 This handbook explores contemporary Mormonism within a global context.

This book examines ten reasons for global jihad today.

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.

This book explores emotional-affective implications of partnership and rivalry in Turkey-Iran relations.

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.

This book offers a philosophical and macro-historical analysis of secularism, supported by an investigation of various contemporary cases.

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.

Based on Catholic and Confucian social ethics, this book develops an ethic of solidarity and reciprocity with the migrants in Asia who are marginalized.

This book explains a perspective on the system of justice that emerges in Islam if rules are followed and how the Islamic system is differentiated from the conventional thinking on justice.

This study entails a theoretical reading of the Iranian modern history and follows an interdisciplinary agenda at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, economics, and politics and intends to offer a novel framework for the analysis of socio-economic development in Iran in the modern era.

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.

The variety of land questions facing Africa and the divergent strategies proposed to resolve them continue to evoke debates.

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Keen to learn but short on time?

24 août 410 : la ville de Rome est mise à sac par Alaric Ier, roi des Wisigoths.

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.

The South has always been one of the most distinctive regions of the United States, with its own set of traditions and a turbulent history.

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.

D'où vient la violence qui déchire aujourd'hui l'Algérie ?

The futures of reproductive justice and LGBTQIA+ liberation are intimately connected.

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.

A powerfully moving book that ';could make graspable why today's prisons are contemporary slave plantations' (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple), giving voice to the poorest among us and laying bare the cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their lives.

Welcome to the Commonsverse, a parallel social economy helping millions of commoners take charge and escape the predatory Market/State order.

TheNew York Timesbestselling author ofMy Grandmother's Handssurveys America's deterioratingdemocracy and offers embodied practices to help us protect ourselves and our country.