Human rights, civil rights

This book addresses the legal feasibility of ethnic data collection and positive action for equality and anti-discrimination purposes, and considers how they could be used to promote the Roma minority's inclusion in Europe.

A fascinating account which discusses the indigenous peoples at the Cape at the time of the Dutch colonisers' arrival through to the years of apartheid.

This book addresses from a socio-scientific standpoint the interaction of religions and forms of contemporary capitalism.

This book encompasses human rights and community development, arguing that each is necessary for both understanding and practising the other.

Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market.

This book examines key debates on religion and democratization from three main perspectives: Religious traditions have core elements which are more or less conducive to democratization and democracy; Religious traditions may be multi-vocal - but at any moment there may be dominant voices more or less receptive to and encouraging of democratization; Religious actors rarely if ever determine democratization outcomes.

From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments.

From "e;the big four"e; (abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, and stem-cell research) to war, poverty, and the environment, this timely book considers religion's impact on moral debates in America's past and present.

Winner of the National Book Award for NonfictionAn electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggleIn 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights.

The Syrian war has been an example of the abuse and insufficient delivery of humanitarian assistance.

This book explores what the European Union (EU) does to religion and what religion does to the EU.

America is at a crisis point, and its future depends on you.

Is the US really exceptional in terms of its willingness to take universal human rights seriously?

Effective human rights advocacy and research require the use of statistics, carefully collected and objectively analyzed and presented, using the best techniques available.

Since the 1990s, most African economies and public spheres have been liberalised, and new civil society actors have emerged.

This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of Eastern Christian churches in Europe, the Middle East, America, Africa, Asia and Australia.

This book examines transnational civil society-based democracy-promoting resistance activities in Asia in a global era, focusing on the cases of Myanmar and Palestine.

Religion as Securitization in Central and Eastern Europe examines the significance of securitization theory as a reference point in understanding current religious, socio-cultural, and political processes in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

The freeholding pioneer is a powerful image in settlement history - Tenants in Time tells a different story.

God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics.

This book reviews Cabral's intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics.

Fifteen countries have emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union.

An original analysis of which global actors are responsible for human rights in today''s world and why.

Focusing attention on the political ideas that were influential as well as those that were central to the civil rights movement, this pathbreaking book examines not only written texts but also oral history interviews to establish a rich tradition of freedom that emerged from the movement.

For over one hundred years, Thomas Jefferson and his Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom have stood at the center of our understanding of religious liberty and the First Amendment.

On May 26, 2004, the New York Times issued an apology for its coverage of Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction.

Millions of people have been victimized by the actions and omissions of states and governments.

The inspirational saga of one man's fight for civil rights for African Americans in LouisianaWitness to the Truth tells the extraordinary life story of a grassroots human rights leader and his courageous campaign to win the right to vote for the African Americans of Lake Providence, Louisiana.

This book interrogates the patterns and discursive structures that have generated the seeming urgency of Muslims' integration.

This book identifies, analyses and discusses the nexus of legal issues that have emerged in recent years around sexuality and gender.

The book introduces a theoretical framework to understand the role of religious leaders in conflict transformation and peacebuilding.

This book analyses and compares how the USA's liberal allies responded to the use of torture against their citizens after 9/11.

On a November night in 1984, Susan Rosenberg sat in the passenger seat of a U-Haul as it swerved along the New Jersey Turnpike.

This book critically examines the intersection of religion, public health and human security in Nigeria.

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas.

In recent years, an internal debate has arisen in Saudi Arabia on the legitimacy of Saudi religion and the foundations of Islam.

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

This fully revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the many theories of religion and politics and provides students with an accessible, in-depth guide to the subject's most significant debates, issues, and methodologies.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the Responsibility to Protect norm in world politics, which aims to end mass atrocities against civilians.

Despite widespread persecution, Orthodox churches not only survived the Cold War period but levels of religiosity in Orthodox countries remained significant.

Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures?

Today, a billion-dollar-a-year polling industry floods the media with information.

Some of the most hotly contested international women's rights issues today arise from the movement of peoples from one country to another and the practices they purportedly bring with them.

Advances theorization of childhood in contexts of racialized settler-colonial political violence while acknowledging children''s power to interrupt it.

For many in the West, Islam has become a byword for terrorism.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation.