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It was once common consensus that there was no significant Jewish community in ancient and medieval Armenia. The discovery and excavation (1997-2002) of a Jewish cemetery of the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries in southern Armenia substantially changed this picture. In...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-06-07
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Sabine Exner-Krikorian untersucht in dieser Studie den Diskurs über die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe in Deutschland von 1998 bis 2017. Sie geht der Frage nach, wie zeitgenössische religiöse, politische und gesellschaftliche Akteur*innen um die Deutungshoheit von Ehe...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-06-02
Collection :
Theorie und Praxis der Diskursforschung
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Christianity is often assumed to be pro-capitalist and socially conservative – in short, necessarily aligned with the political Right. But can this be straightforwardly true of a religion founded by a figure who drew his early followers from among the poor and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-04-13
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This book lies at the intersection of two important and expanding fields of study: Political Islam and International Relations (IR). It contributes to both fields by analyzing the discourses of six moderate-reformist (mainstream) scholar sheikhs from the Sunni and Shii...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-03-07
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This book explores state–religion relations under a populist authoritarian ruling party in Turkey. In doing so, it investigates how the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) instrumentalizes state-controlled religion to further, defend, legitimatize and propagate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Populisms
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This book discusses the current reality and the future of ethnic Rohingyas in Myanmar. It presents Myanmar’s history, ?policy, politics and, most ?importantly, while focusing on Rohingya ethnic conflict, presents a resolution by looking at ?the global and regional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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This book explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological. Even after postsecular critiques of Christianity, religion, and secularity, many influential ways of dividing time and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-13
Collection :
Radical Theologies and Philosophies
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The Justice and Development Party (AKP), the ruling political Islamists of Turkey since 2002, has been using the doctrine of necessity to legitimize human rights violations. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, founder of the AKP and leader of the political...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-09-30
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This first study of faith-based development NGOs’ (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.S. FBOs in international development educate and mobilize their constituencies. Most pursue cautious reformist agendas, but FBOs have sometimes played important roles in social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-15
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
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A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran. Through a compelling chronological and thematic...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-27
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A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran. Through a compelling chronological and thematic...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-27
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The book studies the way the luxurious fashion develops re-presentational politics by reinvesting symbolic fields such as art and culture, religion and the sacred as well as politics, in other words fields that represent a certain common pattern of life and a common...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2020-10-21
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This edited volume engages a long-standing religious power, the Holy See, to discuss the impact of the structural and postsecular transformations of international relations through the emergence of a global and digital public sphere. Despite the legal construction...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-30
Collection :
Culture and Religion in International Relations
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This book studies the relationship between British government and faith groups in its international development agenda within and beyond the context of Brexit. It includes aspects of International Relations, International Development, and Religion and Politics to trace...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-12
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
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Maoism and Grassroots Religion explores grassroots religious life under and after Mao in Rui'an County, Wenzhou of southeast China, a region widely known for its religious vitality. Drawing from unexplored local state archives, records of religious institutions,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-04
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Salafism is a fundamentalist Sunni vision of Islam that is growing in popularity in many countries. In this book, Mohamed-Ali Adraoui focuses on quietist Salafism, which he calls a study in contradictions. Strongly opposed to political action, terrorism, and the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-21
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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
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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
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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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