Human rights, civil rights

This volume seeks to propose a reinvention of freedom under contemporary conditions of globalization, cross-border mobility, and neo-liberal dominance.

This book critically examines contemporary educational practices with a children's rights lens.

First published between 1913 and 1994, this 6 volume set examines the history of Islam in a variety of regions across the world.

"e;Paul Ramsey's provocative criticism sets the United Methodist bishops' peace pastoral in the context of a much broader discussion of the church's role in society.

As the world becomes increasingly globalised Islam faces some important choices.

Since its inception in 1998 the Human Rights Act (HRA) has come in for a wide variety of criticism on legal, constitutional, political and cultural grounds.

This book assesses the quality of Czech democracy relative to both its postcommunist peers and older EU members.

To what extent do a state's obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights apply beyond its territorial borders?

Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization breaks new ground by describing the global economy and its effects from the perspective of an integrated theology of "e;the earth as primary revelation"e; and the institutional powers of this world.

Grounded in multidisciplinary research, this book presents a methodical understanding of those displaced within their national borders, the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardA novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern worldReligion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe.

How do indigenous matters inform, irritate and advance postcolonial theologies and postcolonial biblical criticisms?

Is a strong cosmopolitan stance irretrievably arrogant?

For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.

WikiLeaks came to prominence in 2010 with the release of 251,287 top-secret State Department cables, which revealed to the world what the US government really thinks about national leaders, friendly dictators, and supposed allies.

The 2006 elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council, the first in which both Fatah and Hamas fielded candidates, resulted in a resounding victory for Hamas.

Shari''a, Inshallah shows how people have used shari''a to struggle for peace, justice, and human rights in Somalia and Somaliland.

Julie Mertus' highly acclaimed text continues to be the only completely up-to-date comprehensive yet succinct guide to the United Nations human rights system.

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.

Against an ever-expanding and diversifying 'rights talk', this book re-opens the question of obligation from not only legal but also ethical, sociological and political perspectives.

This book draws on the experiences of the indigenous movement in Myanmar to explore how the local construction of indigenous identities connects communities to global mechanisms for addressing human rights and environmental issues.

This book deals with what the author considers a sorely neglected question, namely the role of the judiciary in states' foreign policy processes.

Human Rights in Asia considers how human rights are viewed and implemented in Asia.

This book responds to the failures of human rights-the way its institutions and norms reproduce geopolitical imbalances and social exclusions-through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can make visible human rights claims that are foreclosed in official discourses.

This book is based upon a lecture series inaugurating the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights that took place in Winnipeg, Canada between September 2013 and May 2014.

The period known as the fin de siecle - defined in this groundbreaking book as chiefly the period between1885 and 1901 - was a fluid and unsettling epoch of optimism and pessimism, endings and beginnings, aswell as of new forms of creativity and anxiety.

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The threats to human rights posed by non-state actors are of increasing concern.

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of immigration from the asylum crisis to Islamophobia, multiculturalism, and post-colonialism.

Messages to Meetings by Brian Drayton is the twenty-second publication from Inner Light Books.

In its second edition, this extended and revised volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution.

When Barack Obama praised the writings of philosopher theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the run up to the 2008 US Presidential Elections, he joined a long line of top politicians who closely engaged with Niebuhr's ideas, including Tony Benn, Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King Jr.

Since at least the attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most pressing political questions of the age has been whether Islam is hostile to religious freedom.

In Muslim Becoming, Naveeda Khan challenges the claim that Pakistan's relation to Islam is fragmented and problematic.

This book offers a different approach to the structural prevention of mass atrocities.

Margaret Barker contributes a characteristically Christian voice to contemporary theological debates on the environment.

The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (17981839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century.

What Kansas really tells us about red state AmericaNo state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas.

A commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies.

This book explores how the notion of human identity informs the ethical goal of justice in human rights.

This book critically examines the issues pertaining to the Rome Statute's complementarity principle.

What explains the United States' persistent use of torture over the past hundred-plus years?

With recent changes in social and political landscapes around the world the focus of preventive counter-terrorism has shifted in many places from government to civil society.

This second volume on the constitutional dimension of contract law explores this increasingly relevant subject in jurisdictions that are usually overlooked by mainstream scholarship in the English-speaking world.

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Offers a comprehensive analysis of the contested emergence of new human rights for the first time.

This book explores the role of faith and politics in shaping the international relations of South Asia.

Few expected politician Abraham Lincoln and Congregational minister Owen Lovejoy to be friends when they met in 1854.

This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland.

Exploring the issue of Islamophobic attacks against Sikhs since 9/11, this book explains the historical, religious and legal foundations and frameworks for understanding race hate crime against the Sikh community in the UK.