Civics and citizenship

Prophets and Patriots takes readers inside two of the most active populist movements of the Obama era and highlights cultural convergences and contradictions at the heart of American political life.

In the United States, egg donation for reproduction and egg donation for research involve the same procedures, the same risks, and the same population of donorsdisadvantaged women at the intersections of race and class.

Although scholars have long studied how Muslims authenticated and transmitted Muhammad's sayings and practices (hadith), the story of how they interpreted and reinterpreted the meanings of hadith over the past millennium has yet to be told.

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

Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered its religion only after India became an independent secular state.

Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil.

Hizmet Means Service examines Hizmet, a Turkey-based but global movement dedicated to human service.

How is religion changing in the twenty-first century?

Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural lifeHow did American Christianity become synonymous with conservative white evangelicalism?

A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday livesThe Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau.

In this timely and compelling account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a comprehensive, close-up view of how Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups are working to counter xenophobia.

This third edition of the widely acclaimed classic has been thoroughly expanded and updated to reflect current demographic, economic, and political realities.

As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v.

Surrounded on all sides by Islam, the beloved Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew continues to impact the world for Christ from his seat in Constantinople, a city central to Christian history.

This study offers an explanation for why advances in women''s rights rarely occur in democratizing states.

Enables students to assess critically the development of Locke''s theory of toleration and its importance for liberalism.

What causes some countries to naturalize large numbers of foreigners, while others keep them at arm''s length?

Explores the global duties attached to human rights, including the necessity to promote political integration between states.

First Amendment rights are hailed as the hallmark of the US constitutional system, protecting religious liberty, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of association.

This study offers an explanation for why advances in women''s rights rarely occur in democratizing states.

Explores the global duties attached to human rights, including the necessity to promote political integration between states.

This book examines the legal and policy issues behind the ambiguity involved with civil rights protections for Jewish students.

What causes some countries to naturalize large numbers of foreigners, while others keep them at arm''s length?

An overview of how advances in information technology can be used to enhance the resolution of legal disputes.

This book investigates democratic inclusion in Japan, the only advanced industrial democracy with a fourth-generation immigrant problem.

An exploration of the theme of equality in Stowe, Douglass, Hawthorne, Alcott and others.

The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state.

This book examines the legal and policy issues behind the ambiguity involved with civil rights protections for Jewish students.

Kai Hafez''s book overturns arguments denouncing political Islam as a terrorist or fascist movement at odds with Western democratic ideology.

Djupe and Gilbert investigate how membership in organized religious bodies shapes the political life of members.

Explores the relationship between religion and liberal democracy and the roles religion can play in modern democratic orders.

An overview of how advances in information technology can be used to enhance the resolution of legal disputes.

Traces the institutional evolution of the Supreme Court and the US Courts of Appeals by assessing how each court has treated immigration cases over time.

The book analyzes a contemporary policy question at the nexus of democracy, criminal justice, and constitutional citizenship.

An exploration of the political concept of citizenship as a way of understanding the place of corporations in contemporary society.

This book investigates democratic inclusion in Japan, the only advanced industrial democracy with a fourth-generation immigrant problem.

This book examines political and religious power as practised by the elite of the Roman Empire.

The first ever history of Saudi jihadism, published in 2010, offering a powerful explanation for the rise of Islamist militancy in Saudi Arabia.

This book emphasizes the difference between religion and science as means for understanding causal relationships.

The book analyzes a contemporary policy question at the nexus of democracy, criminal justice, and constitutional citizenship.

Comparing policy in America, France, and Turkey, this book analyzes the impact of ideological struggles on public policies toward religion.

An assessment of the attempts to bring religious allegiances and perspectives to bear in responses to the mass atrocities of our time.

Radically rethinks the relationship between liberty and democracy, and identifies the concept of rights as a threat to democratic debate.

This book examines the causes of women''s unprecedented success in African politics after the 1990s.

An exploration of the political concept of citizenship as a way of understanding the place of corporations in contemporary society.

Murawiec examines contemporary jihad using history, anthropology, and theology to understand its political and ideological origins.

This book argues that political leaders are likely to permit religious freedoms if they enhance power or economic well-being.

Using topical examples Anthony Bash explores how and when it is right to forgive.

Charles T.