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This book argues that Political Islam in the Iranian context evolved into three main schools of thought during the 1960s and 1970s: Jurisprudential Islam led by Ayatollah Khomeini, Leftist Islam led by Shariati, and Liberal Islam led by Bazargan. Despite the fact that...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Changes in the American religious landscape enabled the rise of mass incarceration. Religious ideas and practices also offer a key for ending mass incarceration. These are the bold claims advanced by Break Every Yoke, the joint work of two activist-scholars of American...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-11-13
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In Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: A Fresh Interpretation, Mohammad Kamali considers problems associated with and proposals for reform of the hudud punishments prescribed by Islamic criminal law, and other topics related to crime and punishment in Shariah. He...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-05-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The topic of immigration is at the center of contemporary politics and, from a scholarly perspective, existing studies have documented that attitudes towards immigration have brought about changes in both partisanship and voting behavior. However, many scholars have...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-10-31
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
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Bonhoeffer thought and wrote a great deal about political life, but he did so neither as a political theorist nor a political activist but rather as a Christian pastor and theologian. Most of what he said about political resistance was said as a theologian, as one...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-08-17
Format(s) : PDF
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Bonhoeffer thought and wrote a great deal about political life, but he did so neither as a political theorist nor a political activist but rather as a Christian pastor and theologian. Most of what he said about political resistance was said as a theologian, as one...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-08-16
Format(s) : ePub
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Based on 10 years of dedicated research, Dangerous Illusions is a battle cry for the human race to throw off religion in favour of logic and reason. In this committed and passionate book, author Vitaly Malkin - a philanthropist, business man and investor - argues for...
Editeur : Arcadia Books
Parution : 2018-06-14
Format(s) : ePub
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One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. Indeed, his predictions are so much the stock-in-trade of the wildest merchants of imminent Doom that one could be forgiven for...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-11-10
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This edited volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution. With traditional military intervention repeatedly leading to the transformation of entire regions into zones of instability and violence (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria),...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-13
Collection :
Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-15
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Daniel Thieme beschreibt die religiöse Rede deutscher Spitzenpolitiker anhand ihrer Selbstzeugnisse. Der Autor zeigt eine große Vielfalt von Glaubensüberzeugungen und religiös begründeter politischer Standpunkte auf. Nach religionspsychologischen Anhaltspunkten werden...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2017-08-19
Collection :
Politik und Religion
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Scholars have long described modernism as "heretical" or "iconoclastic" in its assaults on secular traditions of form, genre, and decorum. Yet critics have paid surprisingly little attention to the related category of blasphemy--the rhetoric of religious offense--and to...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-03-03
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Home to the largest Muslim minorities in Western Europe and Asia, France and India are both grappling with crises of secularism. In Politicizing Islam, Fareen Parvez offers an in-depth look at how Muslims have responded to these crises, focusing on Islamic revival...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-01-11
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Teresa Forcades, Spanish Benedictine nun, theologian, physician and political activist, is one of Europe’s leading radical thinkers. Marrying her Catholic faith with a passion for social justice, she came to prominence for her eloquent condemnation of the abuses of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-11-28
Format(s) : ePub
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For much of its modern history, a combination of deep nervousness and profound lack of interest seemed to inhibit or even prevent regular political conversations in the Arab World. Public spaces were devoid of political discussions: public squares in major cities showed...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-10-20
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Adonis? influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot in the English-speaking world. Yet alongside this spearheading of a modernist literary revolution, the secular Syrian-born poet is also renowned for his persistent and staunch attacks on...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-10-18
Format(s) : ePub
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Faithonomics uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on case studies from around the globe, this book shows that religion should be analysed as a market similar to markets for other...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-10-15
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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. provides a broad, inclusive, and rich range of chapters, in the study of religion and politics. Arranged in their historical context, chapters address themes of history, law, social and religious...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2016-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981, is the only universal human rights instrument specifically focusing on religious intolerance...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2015-03-19
Format(s) : ePub
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The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981, is the only universal human rights instrument specifically focusing on religious intolerance...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2015-03-19
Format(s) : PDF
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