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  • Expanding democratic space in Nigeria

    by Jibrin Ibrahim ...
    Establishing, broadening and maintaining democracy in Africa is an issue with world wide implications. On the continent itself, democracy is a vital issue, precisely because the majority of Africans have been reduced to virtual outlaws, with little or no rights in their own countries. This process has been driven by their own governments. Atrocities, suppression and violence has occurred all over ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Creed & Grievance

    Muslim-Christian Relations & Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria

    by Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha, Kate Meagher, Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, Philip Ostien, Rachael Diprose, David Ehrhardt, Adam Higazi, Aminu Gamawa, Jibrin Ibrahim0, Jimam Lar1, Karel Chromy2 ...
    In northern Nigeria, high levels of ethnic diversity have coincided with acute polarization between Muslims and Christians, increasingly fuelling violent conflict. The climate of insecurity threatens northern Nigeria's development, accentuates the inequalities between it and the rest of the country, and undermines the attempt to stabilize democracy in the country. Externally, fears have also been ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Mobilizing for Democracy

    Citizen Action and the Politics of Public Participation

    by Lisa Thompson, Naila Kabeer, Arilson Favareto, Doctor Celestine Nyamu-Musembi, Duncan Okello, Idaci Ferreira, Jibrin Ibrahim, Alex Shankland, Alexandre Ferraz, Fabiola Fanti, Meire Ribeiro, Ranjita Mohanty, Samuel Egwu, Simeen Mahmud, Steven Robins, Sandra Marina Roque, Frederico Menino ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this important new book illustrates how forms of political mobilization, such as protests, social participation, activism, litigation and lobbying, ... Read more

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  • Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928

    Patriots, Priests and the Roots of the Irish Revolution

    by Tom Garvin ...
    The present-day Republic of Ireland was created by a revolutionary elite which developed between 1858 and 1914. Here, one of Ireland's most eminent historians, Professor Tom Garvin, considers the social origins of the revolutionary politicians who became the rulers of Ireland after the 1916 Rising and examines their political preconceptions, ideologies and prejudices. In many cases they were not ... Read more

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  • The Apostates

    When Muslims Leave Islam

    by Simon Cottee ...
    The Apostates is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context. Drawing on life-history interviews with ex-Muslims from the UK and Canada, Simon Cottee explores how and with what consequences Muslims leave Islam and become irreligious. Apostasy in Islam is a deeply controversial issue and features prominently in current debates over the expansion of Islam in the West ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Religion in the Ranks

    Belief and Religious Experience in the Canadian Forces

    by Joanne Rennick ...
    What role does religion play in the Canadian Forces today? Examining the changing functions of the official religious leaders in the chaplaincy as well as the place and purpose of religion in the lives of regular military personnel, Religion in the Ranks explores this question in the context of late modernity and the Canadian secular state.In-depth interviews with chaplains and with personnel of ... Read more

    $48.29 USD

  • Making Toleration

    The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution

    by Scott Sowerby ...
    Series Book 181 - Harvard Historical Studies
    In the reign of James II, minority groups from across the religious spectrum, led by the Quaker William Penn, rallied together under the Catholic King James in an effort to bring religious toleration to England. Known as repealers, these reformers aimed to convince Parliament to repeal laws that penalized worshippers who failed to conform to the doctrines of the Church of England. Although the ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Inventing American Religion

    Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    Today, a billion-dollar-a-year polling industry floods the media with information. Pollsters tell us not only which political candidates will win, but how we are practicing our faith. How many Americans went to church last week? Have they been born again? Is Jesus as popular as Harry Potter? Polls tell us that 40 percent of Americans attend religious services each week. They show that African ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War

    by Gustavo Morello, SJ ...
    On August 3rd, 1976, in Córdoba, Argentina's second largest city, Fr. James Week and five seminarians from the Missionaries of La Salette were kidnapped. A mob burst into the house they shared, claiming to be police looking for "subversive fighters." The seminarians were jailed and tortured for two months before eventually being exiled to the United States. The perpetrators were part of the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Politics of Evangelical Identity

    Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada

    by Lydia Bean ...
    A comparative look at evangelical churches across the U.S.-Canada border that reveals deep political differencesIt is now a common refrain among liberals that Christian Right pastors and television pundits have hijacked evangelical Christianity for partisan gain. The Politics of Evangelical Identity challenges this notion, arguing that the hijacking metaphor paints a fundamentally distorted ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The New Sectarianism

    The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi'a-Sunni Divide

    by Geneive Abdo ...
    The Shi'a-Sunni conflict is one of the most significant outcomes arising from the Arab rebellions. Yet, there is little understanding of who is driving this tension and the underlying causes. By delving deeply into the historical factors leading up to the present-day conflict, The New Sectarianism sheds new light on how Shi'a and Sunni perceive one another after the Arab uprisings, how these ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Art of the Public Grovel

    Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America

    by Susan Wise Bauer ...
    Whether you are a politician caught carrying on with an intern or a minister photographed with a prostitute, discovery does not necessarily spell the end of your public career. Admit your sins carefully, using the essential elements of an evangelical confession identified by Susan Wise Bauer in The Art of the Public Grovel, and you, like Bill Clinton, just might survive.In this fascinating and ... Read more

    $22.39 USD