Zionism and Jewish Culture examines the history of Zionism from a new perspective, arguing that Zionism was not only a political project, but also a major cultural force in modern Jewish life.
Al escribir sobre el poder y la Iglesia hay que pensar no sólo en el que ejerce estaen la sociedad, cada vez más menguante, sino en las fuerzas de poder dentro dela propia Iglesia, teniendo en cuenta que va más allá del poder institucional.
Modern waste disposal systems in mega-cities of the global South are embedded in socio-cultural belief systems, colonial histories and neoliberal logics which operate by reproducing existing social hierarchies.
Human Rights, Impunity and Anti-Press Violence is a qualitative, comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of journalists' responses to impunity for anti-press violence in two Latin American partial democracies, Mexico and Honduras.
In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative middle-class family and studying at the University of Sao Paulo, Gabriela Leite decided to become a sex worker.
This book explores the authors' legal thinking on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic of burgeoning interest in the technology sector and among the general public.
Democracy and Civilization (1947) is concerned with philosophy, theology and politics, with the nature of history and civilization and politics, using the approach of Christian thinking.
Una comprensión del derecho y su eficacia en América Latina exige conceptos distintos a las nociones hegemónicas de ""estado de derecho"" que han dominado los debates sobre el derecho, la política y la sociedad, y que reconozcan la diversidad de situaciones y contextos que caracterizan a la región.
El presente libro aborda la educacion para la paz, no solo como una forma de encarar el reto que implica la reconstruccion del tejido social despues del conflicto armado, sino tambien como la manera de llevar a las aulas herramientas de convivencia, autorreflexion, respeto, inclusion y cultura ciudadana.
Legal Passing offers a nuanced look at how the lives of undocumented Mexicans in the US are constantly shaped by federal, state, and local immigration laws.
This book debunks one of the greatest myths ever told in Caribbean history: that the indigenous peoples who encountered a very lost Christopher Columbus are 'extinct.
Всякий, кто понимает глубину и сложность духовных проблем, с которыми мы сталкиваемся в современном мире, хорошо знает, что любая устойчивая попытка «политического решения» проблемы Иерусалима и Израиля, должна опираться на фундаментальное и подверженное глубокому обновлению понимание предназначения человечества.
Religion in Diverse Societies: Crossing the Boundaries of Prejudice and Distrust contributes to existing cutting-edge research on the constructive way in which religion can support the promotion of respect, dignity, and justice for all people, considered as essential features in shaping sustainable, diverse, and peaceful societies.
This study utilises John Donne's works concerning the Jacobean Settlement as a contextualised case study to examine a seriously pressing issue in contemporary society: the issue of Catholic loyalism post-1603 and the disputes that thistopic sparked over the matter of conformity.
This book makes a new and original contribution to the old debate about differences between socio-economic and civil and political rights, which has engaged human rights discourse over several decades.
This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies through the case study of Interfaith Scotland.
