Nationalism

Debates over the proper relationship between church and state in America tend to focus either on the founding period or the twentieth century.

Spanning various regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, the authors of this volume come together to explore the complex relationship between religion and democracy in contemporary Africa.

This book uses the very latest research to examine current interactions between religion, migration and existential wellbeing.

European Union in the Global Context explores the interplay between the state and state sovereignty, nationalism, European integration and globalisation.

This book addresses the discourses, agendas and actions of Muslim faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa.

What is hip-hop, and how does it impact the Black Church?

This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities' requests of inclusiveness and autonomy.

This volume presents a timely analysis of some of the current controversies relating to freedom for religion and freedom from religion that have dominated headlines worldwide.

This book describes the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (c.

Turkey's Circassians were exiled to the Ottoman Empire in the wake of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in 1864, resettling most notably in the Danubian provinces, Thessaly, Syria, Central Anatolia and the southern shores of the Sea of Marmara.

Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination.

This book gives a detailed political analysis of nationbuilding processes and how these are closely linked to statebuilding and to issues of war crime, gender and sexuality, and marginalization of minority groups.

In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalize and shock.

A timely defense of religious diversity and its centrality to American identityAmerica is the most religiously diverse nation on the planet.

Since 2010 Greece has been experiencing the longest period of austerity and economic downturn in its recent history.

Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring.

This book provides state of the art research by leading experts on the movement parties of the radical right.

The volumes trace the factors responsible for generating National Awakening among Indians.

Given the increasing presence of non-Western nations in global affairs, Hiro Katsumata and Hiroki Kusano explore their responses to the backlash taking place in the West against the global spread of liberalism - against the global spread of free trade, multilateral institutions, and liberal-democratic politics.

Examines different forms of resistance among Muslim women in the Middle East and in the diaspora.

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights.

Today, pluralism is increasingly the norm and can be seen as a permanent characteristic of modernity.

Ethno-national conflict is one of the central issues of modern politics.

Written as the First World War was finally drawing to a close, A.

Explains the construction of the Jewish nation in Galicia, the process by which traditional Jews modernized and the variety of identities they adopted.

The first decade of the twentieth century was the Ottoman Empire's 'imperial twilight'.

This book, first published in 1999, compares the strategies of France and Japan in trying to win economic and political influence in the newly emerging Vietnam, which opened to the international community only after the Vietnamese Communist Party had started economic reforms in 1986.

Das Konzept der menschlichen Sicherheit hat in nur kurzer Zeit eine hohe internationale Resonanz erfahren und Eingang in die Politik gefunden.

Goodbye, Good Men uncovers how radical liberalism has infiltrated the Catholic Church, overthrowing traditional beliefs, standards, and disciplines.

Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so.

Through sections containing overview essays and reference entries related to particular religions, this resource explores the rise of religious violence, hate crime, and persecution around the world.

This is the fourth volume in the series God and Globalization, sponsored by the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, N.

This book explores how polarised interpretations of America's past influence the present and vice versa.

This book does away once and for all with the assumption that only religions of the book think systematically about god(s).

At the core of African American religion's response to social inequalities has been a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and spiritual restoration.

Winner of the 2013 Christianity Today Book Award in Missions / Global AffairsWinner of the Aldersgate Prize Honorable MentionWinner of the 2014 International Studies Association International Ethics Section Book AwardIn the wake of massive injustice, how can justice be achieved and peace restored?

Resurgence of Global Populism provides a psychoanalytic perspective to the global implications of the populist movement in the U.

The Genesis story of Cain's murder of Abel is often told as a simplistic contrast between the innocence of Abel and the evil of Cain.

Chinese nationalism is powered by a narrative of China's century of shame and humiliation in the hands of imperialist powers and calls for the Chinese government to redeem the past humiliations and take back all "e;lost territories.

How can a just peace be built in sites of genocide, massive civil war, dictatorship, terrorism, and poverty?

Industrial relations as a field of study within the social sciences, embraces forms of regulation other than collective bargaining, and particularly, the law and unilateral rule making by management or work groups.

This book examines the decade in office of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its efforts to transform the Turkish republic toward a more Islamist-oriented system.

Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers.

Este libro recoge una serie de contribuciones en torno a los conceptos de sociedad civil y democracia participativa, ciudadanía y religión, que quieren ser una aportación teórica a la reflexión de las personas, grupos y colectivos que han apostado por profundizar y radicalizar la democracia desde la utopía de la justicia universal y fraternidad planetaría.

Over the period December 2011-July 2013, a tidal wave of mass protests swept through the Russian capital and engulfed scores of cities and regions.

»Nichts konfrontiert uns so sehr mit dem Leben wie der Tod.

This volume showcases important new research on World War II memory, both in the Soviet Union and in Russia today.

Uninformed and reactionary responses in the years following the events of 9/11 and the ongoing 'War on Terror' have greatly affected ideas of citizenship and national belonging.