Political control and freedoms

This debut book from Andrew Burt details the pivotal moments in American political history when outliers moved to the center, capturing the national spotlight and turning fringe politics mainstream.

Hmong American immigrants first came to the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War.

Can reading make us better citizens?

Thirty years ago, Kathryn Tanner put forward a daring proposal.

Why are poor Americans so patriotic?

Many Americans believe that foreign military intervention is central to protecting our domestic freedoms.

Ultimately, or so H.

This book examines same-sex unions policy (SSU) developments in eighteen western democracies and seeks to explain why the overwhelming majority of these countries has implemented a national law to recognise gay and lesbian couples since 1989.

The immense power the Catholic Church once wielded in Ireland has considerably diminished over the last fifty years.

Although scholars increasingly understand Scripture to contain political dimensions and implications, the interpretation of Scripture is often marginalized in most scholarly discussions of political theology.

In 2007, Antje Jackelén adopted the motto "e;God is greater"e; from the First Letter of John 3:18-20 for her consecration as the bishop of the Diocese of Lund.

(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance.

This book explores why the metaphor of the church as a family is insufficient.

Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is repurposed or re-envisioned in relation to experiences of modernity, urbanization, conflict, migration and displacement.

Media reporting on Islam and Muslims commonly relate stories about terrorism, violence, or the lack of integration with western values and society.

Although humans have always migrated, the present phenomenon of mass migration is unprecedented in scale and global in reach.

The way most people think about religion and politics is only loosely linked to empirical reality, argues Ryan P.

Twenty to forty percent of the US prison population will spend time in restricted housing units-or solitary confinement.

Advocates within the growing field of children's rights have designed dynamic campaigns to protect and promote children's rights.

The fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol of the bipolar order that emerged after World War II, seemed to inaugurate an age of ever fewer borders.

What was Martin Luther King Jr.

What does it mean to be a "e;rights-holder"e; and how does it come about?

Widely regarded as expert in techniques of surveillance and political control, Israel has been successful in controlling a native population for a long time.

Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the political acts of the Egyptian Coptic minority.

Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism.

In 1970, C.

Neoliberalism is the reigning, overarching spirit of our age.

How should the church relate to the public sphere?

This book situates public theology within the genre of political theology.

Dispatches on nationalism and religionAs an insider to church politics and a scholar of contemporary Orthodoxy, Cyril Hovorun outlines forms of political orthodoxy in Orthodox churches, past and present.

A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice.

In 1970, C.

All of us should condemn terrorism--whether the perpetrators are Muslim extremists, white supremacists, Marxist revolutionaries, or our own government.

This book's central claim is that a close reading of Augustine's epistemology can help political theologians develop affirmative accounts of political liberalism.

The Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition.

Donald Trump, a thrice-married, no-need-of-forgiveness, blustery billionaire who rarely goes to church, won more Evangelical Christian votes than any candidate in history on his way to winning the 2016 US presidential election.

Despite the progress of decades-old disability rights policy, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, threats continue to undermine the wellbeing of this population.

Human rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations.

The border is one of the most urgent issues of our times.

The border is one of the most urgent issues of our times.

On the heels of an extremely lively U.

You want to make the world better.

The Civil Rights Movement.

Justice, even divine justice, is concrete.

Theology and the Globalized Present focuses on the world's future in God and God's creativeness.

"e;Kotsko goes beyond the biography of an icon to a provocative investigation of the devil's many lives and effects in cultural and political ideologies.

Law and Theology offers the definitive account of the relationship between law and theology in the Christian tradition.

In 1996, Walter Capps won a seat in US House of Representatives.

Indigenous people in Colombia constitute a mere three percent of the national population.

Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization breaks new ground by describing the global economy and its effects from the perspective of an integrated theology of "e;the earth as primary revelation"e; and the institutional powers of this world.