Indonesia, widely known as the ’world’s largest Islamic nation’ and ’a tolerant’ and ’democratic’ nation, has been going through major changes in the post-New Order era. This era is known as ’reformasi’ and is marked by the removal of President Suhar...Loe edasi...
Based on fresh analysis of the political and polemical literature produced by members of the Holy League during the French wars of religion, this study scrutinises their political thought and rethinks their positioning in the wider intellectual conte...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316514733)
The successful demands and justifications for at least six critical freedoms - freedoms of speech and press, rights for the criminally accused and for higher education, and freedoms from slavery and discrimination - were principally made by religiou...Loe edasi...
Author Robin L. Owen demonstrates how US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan turned her religious faith and her faith in the Constitution into a powerful civil religious expression. Jordan’s particular use of the Constitution—deeply connected with her ba...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Oct-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Georgetown University Press, ISBN-13: 9781647122720)
This is a critical investigation of the engagements of scriptures in the life and speeches of U.S. Congresswoman Barbara C. Jordan (1936-1996). This study explains how scriptures work and are used by Barbara Jordan as a vehicle for political activis...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226821443)
An insightful rethinking of the meaning of the First Amendments protection of religious freedom. The Founders understood religious liberty to be an inalienable natural right. Vincent Phillip Muñoz explains what this means for church-state constitu...Loe edasi...
This book examines major conceptual challenges confronting freedom of religion or belief in contemporary settings. It will be a valuable resource for students, academics, and policy-makers with an interest in law, religion, and human rights....Loe edasi...
The second volume of the definitive English edition of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenfördes work, offering readers an introduction to the political and constitutional thought of one of Germanys leading contemporary theorists....Loe edasi...
The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mo...Loe edasi...
This book examines the interpretation and application of the right to freedom of religion and belief of new minorities formed by recent migration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC)....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108840781)
Through its close, critical reading of the political treatises and polemical literature produced in France in the sixteenth century, this book offers a valuable new contribution to the intellectual history of the Early Modern era. Sophie Nicholls ana...Loe edasi...
Building on the highly-regarded first edition, this is a comprehensive study of the relationship between law and religion in English law. Against a backdrop of an increasingly religiously and culturally diverse country, it represents a vital legal an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Mar-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198827153)
Building on the highly-regarded first edition, this is a comprehensive study of the relationship between law and religion in English law. Against a backdrop of an increasingly religiously and culturally diverse country, it represents a vital legal an...Loe edasi...
This book examines conceptualizations of religious freedom in various dimensions. The collection brings together leading experts from law, religious studies, social anthropology, and international relations, who present different perspectives whic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jan-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674286023)
Religious freedom is widely recognized today as a basic human right, guaranteed by nearly all national constitutions.Exporting Freedom charts the rise of religious freedom as an ideal firmly enshrined in international law and shows how Amer...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198818632)
The second volume of the definitive English edition of Ernst-Wolfgang Bockenfordes work, offering Anglophone scholars an introduction to the political and constitutional thought of one of Germanys leading contemporary theorists....Loe edasi...
Established in 1800, edinoverie (translated as unity in faith) was intended to draw back those who had broken with the Russian Orthodox Church over ritual reforms in the 17th century. Called Old Believers, they had been persecuted as here...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Nov-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253049704)
Established in 1800, edinoverie (translated as unity in faith) was intended to draw back those who had broken with the Russian Orthodox Church over ritual reforms in the 17th century. Called Old Believers, they had been persecuted as here...Loe edasi...
Recent revelations about government surveillance of citizens have led to questions about whether there should be better defined boundaries around privacy. Should government officials have the right to specifically target certain groups for extende...Loe edasi...
The struggle for Palestinian sovereignty has been a quest for inclusion in—and recognition from—a world order that left them behind.Sovereignty has become a trap for Palestinians and getting out is a matter of political vision and will. The law does...Loe edasi...
This book offers accessible, scholarly insights on the First Amendment and religious liberty to undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy, law, history, and religious studies. Recent Supreme Court cases concerning religious liberty and relate...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jan-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108417471)
This book offers accessible, scholarly insights on the First Amendment and religious liberty to undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy, law, history, and religious studies. Recent Supreme Court cases concerning religious liberty and relate...Loe edasi...
Rival understandings of the meaning and practice of the religious and the secular lead to rival public perspectives about religion and religious freedom in North America. This book explores how debates over the American Office of Religious Freedom...Loe edasi...
This book analyzes the promotion and protection of freedom of religion in the international arena with a particular focus on the role and influence of the US International Religious Freedom Act, 1998. It also investigates the impact of the IRFA on...Loe edasi...
Although human rights belong to all persons on the basis of their humanity, this book demonstrates that in the practice of international human rights law, the freedom to be non-religious or atheist does not receive the same protection as the freed...Loe edasi...
Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers lives against those of civilians on both sides. The first of its kind, Whose Life Is Worth More? reveals that h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503606821)
Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers lives against those of civilians on both sides. The first of its kind, Whose Life Is Worth More? reveals that h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503610231)
The United States is the worlds leading foreign aid donor. Yet there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the politics and societies of recipient nations. Drawing on four decades of data on U.S. economic and military aid, A...Loe edasi...
The United States is the worlds leading foreign aid donor. Yet there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the politics and societies of recipient nations. Drawing on four decades of data on U.S. economic and military aid, A...Loe edasi...
This book examines the origins of Australia’s constitutional religious freedom provision. It explores, on the one hand, the political activities and motives of religious leaders seeking to give the Australian Constitution a religious character and...Loe edasi...
Indonesia, widely known as the ’world’s largest Islamic nation’ and ’a tolerant’ and ’democratic’ nation, has been going through major changes in the post-New Order era. This era is known as ’reformasi’ and is marked by the removal of President Suhar...Loe edasi...
Based on fresh analysis of the political and polemical literature produced by members of the Holy League during the French wars of religion, this study scrutinises their political thought and rethinks their positioning in the wider intellectual conte...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Dec-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781802200232)
In comparing the ways in which China, Taiwan and Hong Kong punish religious claims and practices considered by the state to be false or fraudulent, Jianlin Chen presents a seminal contribution to the interdisciplinary study of religious freedom. The...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316514733)
The successful demands and justifications for at least six critical freedoms - freedoms of speech and press, rights for the criminally accused and for higher education, and freedoms from slavery and discrimination - were principally made by religiou...Loe edasi...
Author Robin L. Owen demonstrates how US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan turned her religious faith and her faith in the Constitution into a powerful civil religious expression. Jordan’s particular use of the Constitution—deeply connected with her ba...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Oct-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Georgetown University Press, ISBN-13: 9781647122720)
This is a critical investigation of the engagements of scriptures in the life and speeches of U.S. Congresswoman Barbara C. Jordan (1936-1996). This study explains how scriptures work and are used by Barbara Jordan as a vehicle for political activis...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226821443)
An insightful rethinking of the meaning of the First Amendments protection of religious freedom. The Founders understood religious liberty to be an inalienable natural right. Vincent Phillip Muñoz explains what this means for church-state constitu...Loe edasi...
This book examines major conceptual challenges confronting freedom of religion or belief in contemporary settings. It will be a valuable resource for students, academics, and policy-makers with an interest in law, religion, and human rights....Loe edasi...
The second volume of the definitive English edition of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenfördes work, offering readers an introduction to the political and constitutional thought of one of Germanys leading contemporary theorists....Loe edasi...
The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mo...Loe edasi...
This book examines the interpretation and application of the right to freedom of religion and belief of new minorities formed by recent migration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC)....Loe edasi...
The Solicitor General and federal appellate judge gives us an essential guide for protecting and exercising the freedom of religion in America in a moment when faith and the faithful are under assault. Now, more than ever, religious beliefs...Loe edasi...
A galvanizing look at constitutional freedoms in the United States through the prism of attacks on the rights of American Muslims. Religious liberty lawyer Asma Uddin has long considered her work defending people of all faiths...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108840781)
Through its close, critical reading of the political treatises and polemical literature produced in France in the sixteenth century, this book offers a valuable new contribution to the intellectual history of the Early Modern era. Sophie Nicholls ana...Loe edasi...
Building on the highly-regarded first edition, this is a comprehensive study of the relationship between law and religion in English law. Against a backdrop of an increasingly religiously and culturally diverse country, it represents a vital legal an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Mar-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198827153)
Building on the highly-regarded first edition, this is a comprehensive study of the relationship between law and religion in English law. Against a backdrop of an increasingly religiously and culturally diverse country, it represents a vital legal an...Loe edasi...
This book examines conceptualizations of religious freedom in various dimensions. The collection brings together leading experts from law, religious studies, social anthropology, and international relations, who present different perspectives whic...Loe edasi...
This is the first thoroughly researched and documented study of the status of academic freedom in Gazaand the West Bank. For years, anti-Zionist activists have accused Israel of undermining academic freedom and campus fr...Loe edasi...
