Human rights, civil rights

This book explores the agency of Jinn, the so-called "e;demons of Islam"e;.

Offering a unique set of case studies that invites readers to question and reimagine the concept of community engagement, this collected work provides an overview and analysis of numerous, creative participatory research methods designed to improve well-being at both the individual and societal level.

Adopting a practical perspective, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Directives adopted by the European Union concerning the rights of and safeguards for suspected and accused persons in criminal proceedings.

Handeln, Personsein, Menschenwürde und zahlreiche Fragen der Angewandten Ethik – das ist das weite Spektrum dieser Festschrift und auch des Denkens von Ralf Stoecker, dem sie gewidmet ist.

This book introduces political science of religion - a coherent approach to the study of the political role of religion grounded in political science.

This volume looks at how courts and the police handle racial discrimination in Europe.

This book seeks to understand white conservative Christians' support for Donald Trump, using their own words.

The book grapples with one of the most difficult questions confronting the contemporary world: the problem of the other, which includes ethical, political, and metaphysical aspects.

This book discusses the immediate and severe threat posed by global climate change and the various obstacles that stand in the way of action.

This book addresses the field of populisms from a contemporary perspective.

This book explores justice 'on the ground' in Southern African communities, and in particular the roles that women play in these processes.

This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship.

This book contains fresh insights into ecumenism and, notwithstanding claims of an "e;ecumenical winter,"e; affirms the view that we are actually moving into a "e;new ecumenical spring.

This book introduces the Original Nation scholarship to examine the historical genealogy of the nation's struggles against the state.

The book uses Chicago as a case study to examine the cultural politics surrounding neoliberal education policy in general and the concomitant alterations to democratic practice in particular.

This book explores the changes underwent by the Orthodox Churches of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as they came into contact with modernity.

This edited work collates novel contributions on contemporary topics that are related to human rights.

This book traces the connections between diverging postwar European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions to argue that supranational integration originates from Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism.

On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearly killed the first police officer who tried to arrest him.

This book considers how the termination of life might be accepted in the view of a general obligation to protect life.

"e;Conceptually and empirically, this is the most thoughtful analysis of the role of EU's peace missions I have read so far.

This edited volume assesses the progress that sub-Saharan African countries have made towards gender equality and offers strategies that can be used to empower African women to contribute to the fulfilment of the United Nations' (UN) 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs).

This volume presents a detailed synthesis of the historical, present-day and future state of service delivery in South Africa.

This book describes and compares the circumstances and lived experiences of religious minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, and Israel in the 1970s, countries where the identity and mission of the state are strongly and explicitly tied to the religion of the majority.

Short-term study abroad experiences are on the rise across social work programs.

This book analyses French cultural policies in the face of what the French government perceives as a challenge to its Republican secular raison d'etre.

This book provides a roadmap for how police services can address incivility in the workplace and become more inclusive from the inside out.

This book brings together literature, empirical research findings from two projects, and policy analysis to examine how some forces in England have adopted the approach of treating crimes against sex workers as hate crimes.

This book explores a new way of doing diplomacy through the engagement with non-governmental organizations, here referred to as hybrid diplomacy.

This book deepens readers' knowledge and understanding of the nature of domestic violence and sexual abuse involving male same-sex partners, and of dating violence against gay men and related issues in the European Union (EU).

This book examines disability hate crime.

What if we could change the conditions in post-conflict/post-authoritarian countries to make transitional justice work better?

This book looks at the COVID-19 pandemic and its likely aftermath through a four-dimensional prism - aspirations, emotions, thoughts, and sensations to understand human behavior.

Becca Whitla uses liberationist, postcolonial, and decolonial methods to analyze hymns, congregational singing, and song-leading practices.

This book focuses on oil politics and the development of nuclear technology in Iran, providing a broader historical context to understand Iran's foreign relations and nuclear policy.

This book presents new conceptual and methodological approaches to studying religiosity in Europe.

This book studies values and attitudes in the Gulf region.

This book studies the topic of forced climate migrants (commonly referred to as "e;climate refugees"e;) through the lens of international law and identifies the reasons why these migrants should be granted international protection.

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

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the wide-ranging body of law that applies to public protest activity.

This book invites readers to think about future directions in social development.

Human rights violations and traumatic events often comingle in victims' experiences; however, the human rights framework and trauma theory are rarely deployed together to illuminate such experiences.

This book examines the regional order in the Gulf Region and the wider Middle East, focusing on regional rivalries and security alliances.

This book explores the unsettling ties between colonialism, transnationalism, and anarchism.

Despite growing popular and policy interest in 'new' slavery, with contemporary abolitionists calling for action to free an estimated 40 million 'modern slaves', interdisciplinary and theoretical dialogue has been largely missing from scholarship on 'modern slavery'.

This book examines the experiences of disabled people on public transport to reveal the everyday abuses that many experience there, and the resilience that they need in order to conduct an ordinary life.

This book provides a critical overview of the policy frameworks underpinning the contemporary practices of non-conviction information disclosure during pre-employment 'screening'.

This volume highlights three intertwined aspects of the global context of Orthodox Christianity: religion, politics, and human rights.

This book takes a holistic approach by capturing the various perspectives and viewpoints concerning the theory and practice of Human Rights Journalism.