Nationalism

This book focuses on the themes of border violence; racial criminalization; competing hermeneutics of the sacred; and State-sponsored modes of desacralizing black and brown-bodied people, all in the context of the US-Mexico borderlands.

This book focuses on the themes of border violence; racial criminalization; competing hermeneutics of the sacred; and State-sponsored modes of desacralizing black and brown-bodied people, all in the context of the US-Mexico borderlands.

This book examines how the Russian Orthodox Church developed during the period of Gorbachev's rule in the Soviet Union, a period characterised by perestroika (reform) and glasnost (openness).

This book examines how the Russian Orthodox Church developed during the period of Gorbachev's rule in the Soviet Union, a period characterised by perestroika (reform) and glasnost (openness).

This book examines recent forms of secularisation to demonstrate that we are now witnessing a "e;fourth secularisation"e;: the autonomy of lifestyles.

This book examines recent forms of secularisation to demonstrate that we are now witnessing a "e;fourth secularisation"e;: the autonomy of lifestyles.

This book examines American popular culture to demonstrate that celebrities have superseded religious figures as moral authorities.

This comprehensive volume examines the nature, causes, and consequences of state religion policy in 183 countries between 1990 and 2014.

The Kurdish question remains one of the most important and complicated issues in ethnic politics in contemporary times, with the Kurds being one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a state of their own.

Originally published in 1975, The Volunteer Force is a study of the part-time military force which came into being to meet the mid-nineteenth century fear of French invasion.

Political theorist Laurie M.

This book examines American popular culture to demonstrate that celebrities have superseded religious figures as moral authorities.

This comprehensive volume examines the nature, causes, and consequences of state religion policy in 183 countries between 1990 and 2014.

The Kurdish question remains one of the most important and complicated issues in ethnic politics in contemporary times, with the Kurds being one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a state of their own.

Originally published in 1975, The Volunteer Force is a study of the part-time military force which came into being to meet the mid-nineteenth century fear of French invasion.

Political theorist Laurie M.

Why has nationalism come roaring back?

From the author of The Politics of Our TimeWhats happening in global politics, and is there a thread that ties it all together?

A New York Times bestsellerLonglisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks Named a Book of the Year in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune and Newsweek'Urgent, extraordinary .

This is an in-depth explanation of why we need astrology in the modern world.

Hideout in the Apocalypse is about surveillance and the crushing of Australias larrikin culture.

Read with great interest and was very impressed by the level of research committed to the project.

This powerful collection from an international mix of respected academics, newer voices and political activists explores the place of Israel as a Jewish state in today,s modern world , a world in which identities, citizenship and human rights are defined in increasingly cosmopolitan and inclusive ways.

When the Ottoman Empire fell apart, colonial powers drew straight lines on the map to create a new region the Middle East made up of new countries filled with multiple religious sects and ethnicities.

People need a creed and a cause, and today millions of patriotic Americans are finding their voices.

Is there life after death?

General Smedley Butlers frank book shows how American war efforts were animated by big-business interests.

In his official response to the attacks of September 11, George W.

Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.

Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.

What does it cost to follow Jesus?

Andre Trocme of Le Chambon is famous for his role in saving thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

Andre Trocme of Le Chambon is famous for his role in saving thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

Personal letters and diaries provide an intimate view into the hearts and minds of a brother and sister who became martyrs in the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II.

In his official response to the attacks of September 11, George W.

As a World War II combat soldier, Howard Zinn took part in the aerial bombing of Royan, France.

What is our understanding of Scotland's spiritual identity?

This book analyses the Muslim presence in France.

By the nineteenth century the British had ruled India for over a hundred years, and had consolidated their power over the sub-continent.

Anthems are symbolic means through which nations present themselves to the world.

The Kosovo question posed a great challenge to the international order in the western Balkans for a number of decades prior to the outbreak of war in the 1990s.

From the First Gulf War to the present upheaval in Syria, the Kurdish question has been a crucial issue within the Middle East region and in international politics.

Polarized debates about 'Islam' and 'the West' are now so ubiquitous that it is easy to forget how damaging they can be.

The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis.

Whilst young ladies in the Victorian and Edwardian eras were expected to have many creative accomplishments, they were not expected to travel unaccompanied, and certainly not to the remote corners of Southeast Europe, then part of the crumbling Ottoman Empire.

After the final collapse of the Soviet Union, the so-called 'last empire', in 1991, the countries of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan - and of the Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia - became independent nations.

From 1924 to 1946 the Republic of Turkey was in effect ruled as an authoritarian single-party regime.

The conquest of Egypt by Islamic armies under the command of Amr ibn al-As in the seventh century transformed medieval Egyptian society.