Political control and freedoms

The fundamental cause of many of the global challenges we are currently facing is our disconnection from ourselves, our fellow humans, other beings, and our planet.

This book examines the multifaceted nature of gender-based violence (GBV) and the many forms it can take.

This edited volume provides an international overview of research on nationalism in education.

This book highlights perspectives from religious traditions worldwide, in conversation with other communities who promote, critique, or question the idea of human rights.

Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice' - repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs as a component of reform efforts and safeguarding against future harms in legal markets.

This book highlights perspectives from religious traditions worldwide, in conversation with other communities who promote, critique, or question the idea of human rights.

In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial struggle.

Die politischen Entscheidungen sind in den letzten 25 Jahren nicht unbedingt gut für die Menschen in unserem Land ausgegangen.

This book examines the lived experienes of death penalty defense lawyers and how they created a legal culture of resistance to the death penalty.

In der vorliegenden Ausgabe präsentieren die Autor*innen eine Reihe von Schlüsselbegriffen/Buzzwords, auf die in der außerschulischen und schulischen politischen Bildung, in der Demokratiebildung, der Beratungs- und Präventionsarbeit derzeit immer wieder selbstverständlich Bezug genommen wird.

Das Handbuch legt den aktuellen Stand kritischer politischer Bildung dar.

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central aid agency of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, from 1917 to 1945.

Italy, seat of the Pope and Vatican City, has a long and difficult relationship with religious freedom.

TikTok hat die digitale Welt im Sturm erobert und die Art und Weise, wie wir Inhalte konsumieren und produzieren, revolutioniert.

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm.

A magisterial comparative study, Proud to Punish recenters our understanding of modern punishment through a sweeping analysis of the global phenomenon of "e;rough justice"e;: the use of force to settle accounts and enforce legal and moral norms outside the formal framework of the law.

Human rights and economics are not often spoken about in the same breath.

In Jonah Blank's important, myth-shattering book, the West gets its first look at the Daudi Bohras, a unique Muslim denomination who have found the core of their religious beliefs largely compatible with modern ideology.

Is There Hope for Afghans?

Wenn die Zeiten sich ändern, sollten wir alle besser gegen die Unsicherheiten, die vor uns liegen, gewappnet sein.

The fundamental cause of many of the global challenges we are currently facing is our disconnection from ourselves, our fellow humans, other beings, and our planet.

Artificial intelligence (AI) - both in its current, comparatively limited form and even more so in its potential future forms (such as general and superintelligence) - has raised both concerns and hopes.

A Christian Approach to Political Decision Making: Introducing Whisper Ethics presents a new way of thinking about religion and politics.

This edited book captures Asian American grassroot organizing in Georgia through counterstorytelling.

End of Days is both a meditation on Jewish morality in the age of Israeli Jewish power, and a cri du coeur by an Orthodox Israeli Jew, a former combat officer in the IDF, for Israelis to look into the Jewish religious ethical tradition for an alternative to the secular and religious Zionism that sanctifies power, statehood, and sovereignty.

Written in vivid prose and with a keen eye for detail, Women's Equality in America is a valuable resource for understanding the issues and trends that dominate public discourse in discussions of women's rights and gender equality in America.

Las narrativas dominantes a menudo describen a las naciones latinoamericanas como fundamentalmente mestizas, lo que ha dificultado reconocer el racismo en la región.

A celebrated young British artist uses her gift to convey the dignity and resilience of women survivors of violence in forgotten corners of the world.

Die diesjährige WOCHENSCHAU-Sonderausgabe befasst sich mit unterschiedlichen Aspekten von Demokratiebildung.

This book examines the multifaceted nature of gender-based violence (GBV) and the many forms it can take.

50 years of Pride in the words of those who changed the world.

This book presents a defence of the value of equality within law which is neither purely formal nor an entirely speculative theory of justice.

En este libro, Hans Joas desarrolla los fundamentos de una nueva teoría sociológica de la religión, analizando las teorías existentes desde el siglo XVIII hasta nuestros días.

Angesichts der Klimakrise ist die Notwendigkeit einer umfassenden sozial-ökologischen Transformation unserer Gesellschaft heute unumstritten.

Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia examines the conditions facilitating democracy, women's rights, and inclusive citizenship in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country and the third largest democracy in the world.

Der Autor zeigt kreative Methoden auf, um Politikstunden abwechslungsreich, und schüleraktivierend zu gestalten, ohne notwendige fachliche Lernziele aus den Augen zu verlieren.

Palestine: A Historical Analysis of the Struggle"e; is a book that provides an in-depth examination of the Palestinian people's struggle for self-determination and independence.

For the last five decades, Rodney Stark has been one of sociology's most prolific and important scholars of religion.

An earth-shaking reimagining of household debt that opens up a new path to financial security for all Americans.

Big Intel recounts the dramatic story of the rise and Cold War heroics of the CIA and the American intelligence apparatus followed by its unfortunate slide into Marxist-influenced Deep State dysfunction as BIG INTEL became BAD INTEL.