Nationalism

As the world focuses on the conflict in Iraq, the most important political players in that country today are not the Sunni insurgents.

As established centrist parties across the Western world continue to decline, commentators continue to fail to account for the far-right's growth, for its strategies and its overall objectives.

Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland.

In 2011 the U.

Exploring the relationship between religion and the state Focusing on the intersection of religion, law, and politics in contemporary liberal democracies, Blackford considers the concept of the secular state, revising and updating enlightenment views for the present day.

Sheppard explores Mexico's profound political, social, and economic changes through the lens of the persistent political power of Mexican revolutionary nationalism.

';An indispensible study' (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience that presents a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation.

What Would You Surrender for God?

Salafism has received scrutiny as the one of the main ideological sources for extremist violence perpetrated by jihadi groups.

In the burgeoning literature on law and religion, scholarly attention has tended to focus on broad questions concerning the scope of religious freedom, the nature of toleration and the meaning of secularism.

An estimated one million Armenians were killed in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

Many diasporic Jews have strong ties to Israel, but what does a diasporic nationalism mean, and is it necessarily tied to territory?

The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

This collection is concerned with two fundamental concepts of social science- power and emotion.

As the situation in Israel/Palestine seems to become ever more intractable and protracted, the need for new ways of looking at recent developments and their historical roots is more pressing than ever.

Akbarzadeh and Saeed explore one of the most challenging issues facing the Muslim world: the Islamisation of political power.

While French laicite is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy.

Got salvation?

Originally published in 1978, but now re-issued with a new Preface by James Mitchell, this volume traces the rise of the SNP, with special emphasis on explaining the increase of the National Party vote in Scotland from the early 1960s to the late 1970s.

This textbook brings together a collection of the most important primary sources in the study of Palestinian nationalism, from the late 19th century through to the present day.

In a world in which change is constant, the principle of self-determination is important.

Beirut is the cultural, commercial and economic hub of Lebanon.

Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya.

Surveying the period from the rise of Islam in the early seventh century to the present day, Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads is the first book to investigate in depth the historical interaction among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ideas about when the use of force is justified.

In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy recent political and religious conflicts, attention to religious violence has increased exponentially.

Global Perspectives on Nationalism takes an interdisciplinary approach informed by recent theorisations of nationalism to examine perennial questions on the topic.

In response to the massive bloodshed that defined the twentieth century, American religious radicals developed a modern form of nonviolent protest, one that combined Christian principles with new uses of mass media.

Lived Theology contains the work of an emerging generation of theologians and scholars who pursue research, teaching, and writing as a form of public responsibility motivated by the conviction that theological ideas aspire in their inner logic toward social expression.

When the Cold War ended in 1989, American hopes for a new world order were quickly disappointed.

This book reconstructs Hindu-Muslim relations from a European standpoint.

Many Americans are turning away from religion.

This book explores the surprisingly disruptive role of religion for progressive and conservative ideologies in the tumultuous decade of the 1960s.

This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands.

The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wisdom of Western societies, and it underlies many of our institutions and policies, from limits on the public role of religion to efforts to promote liberal democracy in the Middle East.

In this book, Marek Sullivan challenges a widespread consensus linking secularization to rationalization, and argues for a more sensual genealogy of secularity connected to affect, race and power.

This fully revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the many theories of religion and politics and provides students with an accessible, in-depth guide to the subject's most significant debates, issues, and methodologies.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.

In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice.

Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples?

American civil religion unifies the nation's culture, regulates national emotions, and fosters a storied national identity.

Islam in International Relations: Politics and Paradigms analyses the interaction between Islam and IR.

What shapes the cultural, political and ideological values of young people living in Southeastern Europe?

With the theory of secularization increasingly contested as a plausible development at a global scale, this book focuses on the changing significance of the religious element within a context of complex diversity.

Lived Theology contains the work of an emerging generation of theologians and scholars who pursue research, teaching, and writing as a form of public responsibility motivated by the conviction that theological ideas aspire in their inner logic toward social expression.

The rise of political Islam has provoked considerable debate about the compatibility of democracy, tolerance, and pluralism with the Islamist position.