Human rights, civil rights

Filipinos make up one of the largest immigrant groups in Canada and the majority continue to retain their Roman Catholic faith long after migrating.

The Unfree Exercise of Religion shows that most of the 597 religious minorities in 177 countries experience rising levels of religious discrimination.

This edited volume examines inclusive education and disability in the global South.

This book examines current debates about how international human rights law regulates national authorities and international institutions during emergencies.

This book discusses the multilayered legal structures concerning the regulation of crimes under international law.

This book offers a systematic and comparative analysis of the intersections of religion and gender in times of populism across the EU-Mediterranean.

This book explores the fluid, mutable and contingent ways in which transgender men in Malaysia construct their subjectivities.

A comprehensive biography of a dedicated civil rights activist and distinguished South CarolinianCivil rights activist, writer, theologian, preacher, and educator, Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894-1984) was one of the most distinguished South Carolinians of the twentieth century.

Evil, death, demons, reanimation, and resurrection.

In this original and provocative book, Nahed Artoul Zehr explores the theological underpinnings of al-Qaeda and related Islamic movements such as ISIS.

In this book, Nicolas Laos studies the meaning of the terms "e;world"e; and "e;order,"e; the moral dimensions of each world order model, and wider issues of meaning and interpretation generated by humanity's attempt to live in a meaningful world and to find the logos of the beings and things in the world.

An examination of US public policymaking and securing rights for people with disabilities.

The continuing crisis in Syria has raised a question mark over the common perception of Middle Eastern affairs as an offshoot of global power politics.

This book offers a meticulous empirical examination of Chinese democracy and its myriad discourses.

In Women Reshaping Human Rights ,ordinary yet extraordinary women tell their stories, in their own words.

This book provides the first comprehensive, region-wide, long-term, and accessible study of Native Americans in New England.

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.

Globalization, Urbanization, and Civil Society is an interdisciplinary compilation of chapters concerning civil society in the global geopolitical context.

This edited collection about good practice for mental health chaplains and other related professionals looks at how spirituality is viewed across mental health fields.

The Routledge Handbook of Politics and Religion in Contemporary America is a comprehensive reference source to this significant, controversial and consistent topic in America's politics.

In 2014, after a decade of political turmoil, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) carried out Thailand's 13th coup since the country's transformation from absolute to constitutional monarchy in 1932.

This book explores the politics of conservative Christian churches and social movements in Russia and the United States, focusing on their similar concerns but very different modes of political engagement.

An original theory and set of essays on negotiating transitional justice, drawing on the authors'' first-hand experience of Colombia''s peace talks.

Navigate the world's belief systems with this faith-filled resource!

Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.

Marrying legal doctrine from five pioneering and conversant jurisdictions with contemporary political philosophy, this book provides a general theory of discrimination law.

As the Bride of Christ, the body of Christian believers has been called to serve Him.

In the past two decades, feminist politics on prostitution has become more polarised and ideological.

This book looks at how the ideas of freedom, property, and order are expressed in modern social contract theories (SCTs).

This book seeks to press the wisdom of Proverbs into active duty in the trenches of everyday life and put the principles of character formation in working clothes.

This volume demonstrates that migration- and diversity-related concepts are always contested, and provides a reflexive critical awareness and better comprehension of the complex questions driving migration studies.

Menschenrechte und Feminismus stehen in einem wechselseitigen und zugleich produktiven Spannungsverhältnis.

The book applies an interdisciplinary analytical framework, based on social psychology theories of inclusion and exclusion, to a discussion of legal discourse and the development of legal frameworks in Europe concerning migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and European citizens.

This book analyses over 20 years of rights-based litigation in the areas of climate change and plastic pollution in order to assess the value of rights in confronting and overcoming planetary crises.

2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.

In Earnestly Contending, Dickson Bruce examines the ways in which religious denominations and movements in antebellum America coped with the ideals of freedom and pluralism that exerted such a strong influence on the larger, national culture.

This book examines both border policies and oppositional narratives of "e;the border,"e; 2011-2021, demonstrating that the term designates not merely a line of territorial control but also a set of social relations shaped by persistent, racially differentiated colonial structures and, more recently, by neoliberal modes of accumulation.

Hypocrisy and Human Rights examines what human rights pressure does when it does not work.

In recent years, there has been an increased attention to temporality in political theory, and such attention is sorely needed.

Drawing on Ireland as its primary case study, this book is an in- depth critical examination of how rights protection bodies and mechanisms are experienced by those in prison in Ireland.

Islam, Populism and Regime Change in Turkey explores the role of religion (Sunni, Hanefi Islam) in the transformation of Turkey under the reign of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP).

A Black-Jewish dialogue lifts a veil on these groups unspoken history, shedding light on the challenges and promises facing American democracy from its inception to the presentIn this uniquely structured conversational work, two scholarsone of African American politics and religion, and one of contemporary American Jewish cultureexplore a mystery: Why aren't Blacks and Jews presently united in their efforts to combat white supremacy?

An American Dilemma examines the issue of capital punishment in the United States as it conflicts with the nation's obligations under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.

This book examines the South African Constitutional Court to determine how it has functioned during the nation''s transition.

Never before has the call for good governance been greater.

At the dawn of the 1700s the Natchez viewed the first Francophones in the Lower Mississippi Valley as potential inductees to their chiefdom.

This book examines why the religion-science skirmishes known as the Evolution Wars have persisted into the 21st century.