Nationalism

While liberal-democratic states like America, Britain and Australia claim to value freedom of expression and the right to dissent, they have always actually criminalized dissent.

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.

What is the story behind the paradoxical survival of small and weak states in a world of great powers and crude power politics?

This collection explores how the British left has interacted with the 'Irish question' throughout the twentieth century, the left's expression of solidarity with Irish republicanism and relationships built with Irish political movements.

Mahmoud Darwish is the poet laureate of the Palestinian national struggle.

New understandings of the middle order and of the post-1688 English Parliament have shifted the focus from Westminster to the constituencies in the study of eighteenth-century politics.

The global rise of political religion is one of the defining and most puzzling characteristics of current world politics.

This book, first published in 1987, looks at the culture of the masses and at the political language and actions of the crowd.

Political parties have only recently become a subject of investigation in normative political theory.

With recent changes in social and political landscapes around the world the focus of preventive counter-terrorism has shifted in many places from government to civil society.

Liberal democracy is in trouble.

Making Religion, Making the State combines cutting-edge perspectives on religion with rich empirical data to offer a challenging new argument about the politics of religion in modern China.

"Renaissance, Niedergang, Transformation, Deinstitutionalisierung, Entprivatisierung, Bricolage - die Erwartungen an das Schicksal der Religion in der modernen Zivilisation sind vielfältig.

At the crossroads of ethics, poetics and politics, this innovative book outlines a series of notes to decolonize political theology.

In recent decades, Islamist political movements in many Arab countries have strategically invested in a political process that was stacked heavily against them.

Georges Florovsky is the mastermind of a 'return to the Church Fathers' in twentieth-century Orthodox theology.

This book investigates the ways in which people in the Lake Chad region that divides Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon deal with the crises of violence, jihadism, drought, and climate change that continue to afflict the area.

An interdisciplinary conversation between law and Christian thought exists, but has so far been centered in the legal academy.

Opening with the provocative query "e;what might an anthropology of the secular look like?

Recent revelations about government surveillance of citizens have led to questions about whether there should be better defined boundaries around privacy.

'This is a cri de coeur from an honest, intelligent and patriotic Englishman desperately worried about the corruption of this country and the likely effects of its lurch into the clutches of a European.

Irreverence and the Sacred brings together some of the most cutting edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today in order to debate key issues in the critical and comparative study of religion.

In light of recent Supreme Court decisions, this book defends traditional religious protections under the First Amendment.

Containing Balkan Nationalism focuses on the implications of the Bulgarian national movement that developed in the context of Ottoman modernization and of European imperialism in the Near East.

The present collection brings together a set of essays which shed light on recent research into non-religion, secularity and atheism-topics which have been emerging as important areas of current research in a number of different disciplines.

The Impassioned Life argues that theologys task today is to rethink the nature of emotions and their relation to human reason.

More than ever, politics seem to be driven by discord.

Velikonja sees the former Ottoman borderland as a distinct cultural and religious entity where three major faithsIslam, Catholicism, and Orthodoxymanaged to coexist in relative peace.

This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao's writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic writing in the 20th century.

A classic book that analyzes and defines media appeals specific to American pro-fascist and anti-Semite agitators of the 1940s, such as the application of psychosocial manipulation for political ends.

We live in a world that has become a resource, a world conditioned by the progressive domination of a monetary scale applied across the board.

This edited volume determines where slavery in the Islamic world fits within the global history of slavery and the various models that have been developed to analyze it.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

The authors of this book analyze the mechanisms and strategies that allow specific religious actors to affect the foreign policy agenda and decisions of the countries in which they are active.

The term 'jihad' has come to be used as a byword for fanaticism and Islam's allegedly implacable hostility towards the West.

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.

Contributing to interdisciplinary discussions on nationalism, the book explores how educational systems and practices contribute to the phenomena of nationalism and nation-building.

Throughout history, the world's great religions have been profoundly shaped by their encounters with successive empires.

This book is a theoretically and historically informed exploration of 'secularism' in Muslim contexts.

The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State Volume I: Theoretical Perspective deals with the relationship between Religion and its long history that has played out throughout time and across the globe.

It has been maintained that the secular nature of modern human rights makes them incompatible with the religious orientation of African and non-Western societies.

Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship - not only theologically, but also politically.

This book moves away from originary myths of region and identity that have dominated academic and mediatized representations of Punjab, a land-locked region divided between India and Pakistan after the Partition of 1947, and instead focuses on the role of the imagination in producing Punjab.

This volume examines the possibility - or need - of a revitalization of pacifism as a world-political practice.

How the medieval church drove state formation in EuropeSacred Foundations argues that the medieval church was a fundamental force in European state formation.

Japan's nationalist right have used the internet to organize offline activism in increasingly visible ways.

First published in 1961, The Political Philosophy of Jawaharlal Nehru is an attempt to coordinate Jawaharlal Nehru's ideas which, in essence, reflect his political philosophy.