Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England.
The Western tradition of the constitutional state, with its ancient roots, defines political extremes as the epitome of that what must be absolutely rejected.
This book presents an innovative model linking insights from democratization, development and conflict studies to explain personalist behavior and their violent transitions.
This book argues that relationships between religion and development in faith-based development work are constructed through repeated processes of negotiation.
Indian Cabinet and Politics is in a sense a pioneer work inasmuch as it is the first analytical and empirical study of the actual working of the Indian Cabinet.
Offering the first long-duration analysis of the relationship between the state and religion in South Asia, this book looks at the nature and origins of Indian secularism.
Is the United States, in its fight against terror and pursuit of Osama Bin Laden, recklessly creating conditions in Central Asia to produce the next Bin Laden?
An analysis of how members of Congress utilize their state delegations across legislative chambers to remain responsive to constituents and assist in re-election efforts.
This book explores the range of meanings attributed to the terms 'judicial activism' and 'populism' in contemporary times and examines the potential interplay between these two phenomena.
Curing the causes and consequences of TrumpismIt's no secret that the United States faces extraordinary political and societal challenges, even as it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Die bundesdeutsche Außen-, Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik ist angesichts historischer Erfahrungen durch eine Kultur der militärischen Zurückhaltung geprägt.
In Making Martyrs East and West, Cathy Caridi examines how the practice of canonization developed in the West and in Russia, focusing on procedural elements that became established requirements for someone to be recognized as a saint and a martyr.
This book offers a comprehensive view of the legal, political, and ethical challenges related to the global regulation of ayahuasca, bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars.
A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?
Seit einigen Jahren findet die Bezeichnung Klassismus für die ungerechtfertigte Benachteiligung aufgrund der sozioökonomischen Herkunft oder Position verbreitet Anwendung im öffentlichen Diskurs.
This book provides an overview of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) to assist readers in developing a more complete understanding of P/CVE and the issues of radicalisation, disengagement and rehabilitation.
Using an elite consensus/conflict analytical frame, this book examines why some majority Muslim countries perform so much better at democracy and/or development than others, questioning received wisdoms that Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment go together.
This book provides an account and explanation of a fundamental dilemma facing secular states: the 'legitimacy gap' left by the withdrawal of religion as a source of legitimacy.
Jeremy Carrette argues that the psychology of religion is no longer sustainable without a social critique, and that as William James predicted, the project of the modernist psychology of religion has failed.
Public reason Confucianism is a particular style of Confucian democratic perfectionism in which comprehensive Confucianism is connected with perfectionism.
The Politics to Come brings together an international collection of thinkers to consider the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain.
The Democratic Courthouse examines how changing understandings of the relationship between government and the governed came to be reflected in the buildings designed to house the modern legal system from the 1970s to the present day in England and Wales.
