Human rights, civil rights

This innovative and timely reassessment of political theology opens new lines of critical investigation into the intersections of religion and politics in contemporary Asia.

Acts of terror are everywhere!

As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on 'social and solidarity economy' as a distinctive approach to sustainable and rights-based development.

This book examines the history of standardized testing in Ontario leading to the current context and its impact on racialized identities, particularly on Grade 3 students, parents, and educators.

What does it mean to become religiously queer or queerly religious in one's everyday life?

This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shinto, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades.

This new analysis of governing ideas in U.

This important anthology provides students and teachers with voices of social and global justice that have been marginalized or forgotten by history.

The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, recognizes everyone's right to "e;share in scientific advancement and its benefits"e; and to "e;enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications.

This book examines the methods used to depict, defend and justify the use of state violence.

On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Japan had developed a secular civilization long before going through its modern period, characterized by the officially-sanctioned unification of nationalism and state-worship that reached its apotheosis during World War II, followed by the economic growth-oriented post-war period.

This volume presents a timely analysis of some of the current controversies relating to freedom for religion and freedom from religion that have dominated headlines worldwide.

The assault on traditional marriage that began in the late 1990s seemingly ended with the 2015 Obergefell v.

Understanding Woodrow Wilson's approach to international relations requires acknowledgment of his Protestant faith.

'I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what black and brown people often have to experience on a daily basis.

By reading "e;The Rosicrucian Quest for Universal Truth,"e; you will be able to learn about the fascinating combination of history and mysticism that surrounds the Rosicrucians.

Christian Giudice's Occult Imperium explores Italian national forms of Occultism, chiefly analyzing Arturo Reghini (1878-1946), his copious writings, and Roman Traditionalism.

As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts.

This book gathers the very best academic research to date on prison regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book addresses intersex rights violations and analyses intersex people's legal demands as expressed by intersex activists themselves and delivered through statements and reports issued by intersex rights organisations, the United Nations and the Council of Europe.

First published in 1989, Faith and Economic Practice: Protestant Businessmen in Chicago, 1900-1920 ponders the role that religion played in North American society in the 20th Century.

Das Buch arbeitet das Länderberichtsverfahren im interamerikanischen Menschenrechtsschutzsystem auf und liefert die erste umfassende und systematisierte Analyse des Länderberichtverfahrens der Interamerikanischen Kommission für Menschenrechte.

The essays in this volume offer a groundbreaking comparative analysis of religious education, and state policies towards religious education in seven different countries and in the European Union as a whole.

Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry.

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle is the international community's major response to the problem of genocide and mass atrocities - a problem seen in Bosnia, Rwanda and more recently in Syria.

Recent revelations about government surveillance of citizens have led to questions about whether there should be better defined boundaries around privacy.

Presents an account of the rise of Erdogan''s AKP, showing how the politicisation of religion has roots in the period of early nation-building in Turkey.

A concise and authoritative introduction to Islamic political ideasIn sixteen concise chapters on key topics, this book provides a rich, authoritative, and up-to-date introduction to Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, presenting essential background and context for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond.

For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies.

This book focuses on government regulation of religious institutions in South Africa.

This book examines the management of migratory flows in the Mediterranean within an international security perspective.

Explores how crucial cultural politics is to the realization of human rights ideals.

Can a church that is compromised through dependence on temporal, political power speak with a powerful prophetic voice in the world?

In addressing the asylum controversy in Europe today, much of the literature assumes that asylum policies result from the struggle between national interest arguing to tighten asylum and humanitarianism arguing to loosen it.

Social workers are global actors.

This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more).

The book is for all readers interested in African institutions and contemporary global challenges of peace, security, human rights, and international law.

Recent events such as 'Iran's Green Revolution' and the 'Arab Uprisings' have exploded notions that human rights are irrelevant to Middle Eastern and North African politics.

In referendums on fundamental constitutional issues, do the people come together to make decisions instead of representatives?

This fascinating book uncovers the hidden stories behind Pakistans fixation with blasphemytales of revenge, political scheming and sovereign betrayal.

Leading experts examine the threats posed by populism to human rights and the international systems and explore how to confront them.

In the last two decades the issues of the indigenous peoples have come to the fore.

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

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the emergence, nature, and function of Serbian paramilitary units during the violent breakup of Yugoslavia.

This book engages with human rights and human rights education (HRE) in ways that offer opportunities for criticality and renewal.