Human rights, civil rights

This book provides a timely and accessible introduction to the foundational ideas associated with the human development school of thought.

By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national following of some 25,000 believers.

In 2007, Little Mosque on the Prairie premiered on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation network.

What is a right?

New atheism is best known as a literary and media phenomenon which has resulted in the widespread discussion of the anti-religious arguments of authors such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, yet it also has strongly political dimensions.

Christianity arose from the lands of biblical Palestine and, regardless of its twentieth century associations with the Arab-Israeli conflict, to Christians around the world it remains first and foremost the birthplace of Christianity.

This book provides a study of the war by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to create a separate state in Sri Lanka.

An historical study of the culture and leadership of Jewish radical ultra-Orthodoxy in Hungary, Jerusalem and New York.

A powerful remembrance of the lessons and legacy of Jan Karski, who risked his life to share the truth with the worldand a cautionary tale for our times.

The 1,400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shiis is currently reflected in the destructive struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iranwith no apparent end in sight.

Throughout the Middle East, and in the west as well, there has been much discussion concerning the notion of Islamic rule and the application of shari'ah by the state.

This collection of essays explores the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism.

Cybersecurity and Human Rights in the Age of Cyberveillance isa collection of articles by distinguished authors from the US and Europe and presents a contemporary perspectives on the limits online of human rights.

The South Seas in the Modern World (1942) surveys the economic, social, educational and strategic problems facing the islands of the Pacific dependencies on the eve of the Second World War.

This is the first attempt to provide an in-depth moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights.

Fresh analysis of the political thought of the French Holy League, active during the religious wars, within its intellectual context.

Black Cosmopolitans examines the lives and thought of three extraordinary black men-Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant-who traveled extensively throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

"e;This book began in an argument between friends surprised to find themselves on opposite sides of the debate about whether the United States and the United Kingdom should invade Iraq in 2003.

Why religion must be separated from politics if democracy is to thrive around the worldFor eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide.

Empowerment of women through Entrepreneurship is a collection of 31 papers, which presents a new and fundamental way of bringing empowerment through different entrepreneurial activities.

This is the first book to comprehensively examine the shifts that have informed republican tradition and transformation from the beginning of the "e;Troubles"e; in Northern Ireland until the final stages of the peace process.

Christianity flourishes in areas facing profound dislocations amidst regime change and warfare.

Islam and International Relations: Fractured Worlds reframes and radically disrupts perceived understanding of the nature and location of Islamic impulses in international relations.

The reach of free movement within the EU Internal Market and what constitutes a restriction are the topics of this book.

In crisis situations, such as terror attacks or societal tensions caused by migration, people tend to look for explicit moral and spiritual leadership and are often inclined to vote for so-called 'strong leaders'.

First introduced in the United States, whistleblower laws have become increasingly popular around the world.

In Displacement City, outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse Cathy Crowe present the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during the pandemic.

Understanding the history and significance of today's political climate can be confusing and daunting.

Shall Not be Infringed: The New Assaults on Your Second Amendment is a history of the relatively short gun control debate in America and a revealing description of how those hostile to the Second Amendment use polls, studies, and numbers to confuse the public.

Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era.

Mit dem gerechten Frieden geht - gerade wie er in der Friedensdenkschrift der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland niedergelegt ist - für viele seiner Vertreterinnen und Vertreter eine Absage an die Lehre vom gerechten Krieg einher.

A human rights analysis of international efforts to confiscate wealth in grand corruption cases that focuses on protections for property.

Over the past three decades, through rises and falls in power, regime repression and exclusion, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has endured, proving more resilient than any other Islamist movement in the world.

Freemasonry was a major cultural and social phenomenon and a key element of the Enlightenment.

This book conceptualizes the ''prohibition of advocacy of religious hatred'' from the perspectives of international and comparative law.

The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century.

Naomi Carmon has brought together a group of distinguished scholars from post-industrial countries to discuss changes in immigration flows, their impact on the receiving countries, and alternative policy responses.

In the 1960s, the strict opposition between the religious and the secular began to break down, blurring the distinction between political philosophy and political theology.

A detailed, scholarly reassessment of developments in Cambodia since December 25, 1978, when Vietnamese combat soldiers expelled the ruthless Pol Pot regime.

Are Muslims Distinctive?

A look into how the temporary residents of the White House expressed the deepest of all human feelings-personal religious faith-in their own words.

Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination.

Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986) was among the most influential strategists of the most important social movement in modern US history, the Civil Rights Movement, yet most Americans have never heard of her.

This volume examines the impact of and interplay between human rights and insurance.

Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.

Why did Egyptian cults, especially those dedicated to the goddess Isis and god Sarapis, spread so successfully across the ancient Mediterranean after the death of Alexander the Great?