Political structures: democracy

Alessandro Ferrara explains what he terms ''the democratic horizon'' and reviews the challenges under which democracies must operate.

 This book brings the Cappadocian Fathers to life and explores their contributions to subsequent Christian thought.

This book offers an innovative study of UNESCO's religious heritage and nomination mechanisms.

Over the last two decades, military and authoritarian regimes in Latin America have receded as indigenous social movements and popular protests have demanded and won peaceful transitions to democratically-elected governments.

This book reflects on major themes present at the interface between religion and human security in Africa.

In this compelling collection of oral histories, more than seventy-five peacemakers describe how they say no to war-making in the strongest way possible--by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences in jail or prison.

First published in 1921, Gilbert Murray's treatise considers a largely euro-centric foreign policy during the inter-war period.

In Necro Citizenship Russ Castronovo argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to-and even dependent on-death.

It has long been assumed that no Armenian presence remained in eastern Turkey after the 1915 massacres.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Parliament, a multi-volume, continuing series, is an attempt to provide authentic, factual and analytical information about Parliament of India in its different facets.

The actions or inactions of elected and appointed leaders determine whether the people they serve flourish or suffer.

International Conflict Analysis in South Asia: A Study of Sectarian Violence in Pakistan analyzes the ideological relationship of the Muslim identity to its perceived practice of Islam among the Shia and Deobandi sects.

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but few would consider it a social good.

The first comprehensive introduction to the Orthodox Church in the United States from 1794 to the present, this text offers a succinct overview of the Church's distinctive history and its particular perspectives on the Christian faith.

Zu Korruptionskritik ist gegenwärtig national und international viel zu hören, nur wenige Beiträge allerdings entstammen der Theologie.

In ancient Greece, epiphanies were embedded in cultural production, and employed by the socio-political elite in both perpetuating pre-existing power-structures and constructing new ones.

This books explains the normative and empirical issues behind the concept known as ''democracy promotion''.

This volume brings together 11 experts from a range of religious backgrounds, to consider how each tradition has interpreted matters of violence and peace in relation to its sacred text.

Die Entstehung des Sikhismus durch Guru Nanak im Indien des 15.

The book compares five newly emerged democracies in Europe, South East Asia, Latin America and Africa.

How political protests and activism influence voters and candidatesThe "e;silent majority"e;-a phrase coined by Richard Nixon in 1969 in response to Vietnam War protests and later used by Donald Trump as a campaign slogan-refers to the supposed wedge that exists between protestors in the street and the voters at home.

Currently, parliament as a political institution does not enjoy the best reputation.

This influential study, originally published in 1921, develops aspects of Laski's theory of the state, ideas he introduced in his first important publication, Authority in the Modern State (1919).

On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law.

Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered 'promiscuous', a burden to their families or the state, those who had been sexually abused or raised in the care of the Church and State, and unmarried mothers.

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market.

Turkey has witnessed remarkable sociocultural change under the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), particularly regarding its religious communities.

An innovative history exploring independent India''s experiment fusing Soviet-inspired economic management with Western-style liberal democracy.

America is at a crossroads.

The path towards democracy in Kenya has been long and often tortuous.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: these words have long represented the promise of America, a shimmering vision of a fruitful country open to all who come, learn, work, save, invest, and play by the rules.

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Media Role in African Changing Electoral Process analyzes the effect of mass media on African elections.

The decade and a half since Gorbachev came to power has been a tumultuous time for Russia.

This book reveals how the critique of the domination of capitalism inaugurated by the Frankfurt School becomes pluriversal, motivating the historical Critical Theory of Coloniality (CTC) dialogue between the Global South and the Global North.

Abolition can be a spiritual practice, a spiritual journey, and a spiritual commitment.

The Polarized Congress: The Post-Traditional Procedure of Its Current Struggles argues that the rise of the polarized Congress means a totally different Congressional procedure, especially after 2007, compared to the accustomed "e;traditional"e; one.

Conflicts involving religion have returned to the forefront of international relations.

The enduring debate on institutional pillars of contemporary political economies has gathered a noticeable momentum in terms of the change, path-dependence, and varieties of capitalism.

Fugitive Politics explores the intersection between politics and ecology, between the requirements for radical change and the unprecedented challenges posed by the global crisis, a dialectic has rarely been addressed in academia.

Demonstrates why elections fail to promote democracy when countries lack democratic experience and are held during civil conflict.

The transition from royal to popular sovereignty during the age of democratic revolutions--from 1776 to 1848--entailed not only the reorganization of institutions of governance and norms of political legitimacy, but also a dramatic transformation in the iconography and symbolism of political power.

Investigating a range of eschatological ideologies, this volume explores the connection between notions of sacred space and time in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim understandings of Jerusalem.

The role of Islam in public spaces is one of the most prevalent political questions in Europe.

Were Americas Founders Christians or deists?

Use your mantram when youre ill or anxious, tired or restless, and it will guide you and comfort you like a true friend.

Internationally acclaimed theologian Graham Ward is well known for his thoughtful engagement with postmodernism.

Pragmatism, as Richard Rorty has said, "e;names the chief glory of our country's intellectual tradition.

Epoch-making political events are often remembered for their spatial markers: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the storming of the Bastille, the occupation of Tiananmen Square:.