Social Policy & Religion

In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and clon...

This book presents a crisis of religion and belief literacy to which education at every level is challenged to respond. It provides a clear pathway...

In the late 1970s when Mao's Cultural Revolution ushered in China's reform era, religion played a small role in the changes the country was undergo...

This accessible text offers a comprehensive overview of debates in the field. Topics include the relationship of social policy to social science, i...

Exploitation locates what it is we recognize as bad when we judge a situation to be exploitative. Ideal for courses in social and political philoso...

Reducere. Debating Immigration presents twenty-one original and updated essays, written by some of the world's leading experts and pre-eminent scholars that ...

Covering a range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, this title shows that human cultur...

Law and policy treat corruption as something far less than it truly is. Using India's long history as a case study, Sudhir Chella Rajan argues that...

DescriptionThe Ethnic Dimension in American History is a thorough survey of the role that ethnicity has played in shaping the history of the United...

Reducere. How can a Jewish approach to social justice offer positive change for America?"Ancient texts offer significant wisdom about human nature, economic ...

Reducere. Diversity, Oppression, and Change, Third Edition provides a culturally grounded approach to practice, policy, and research in social work and allie...

DescriptionEnvironmental Ethics: An Anthology brings together both classic and cutting-edge essays which have formed contemporary environmental eth...

A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, int...

Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at th...

DescriptionThis collection investigates the intersections between faith-based charity and secular statecraft. The contributors trace the connection...

Reducere. This superb, rational, and highly readable volume answers a deeplyfelt need. Parents and educators alike have long struggled tounderstand what mean...

It is often claimed that local churches provide a significant proportion of social care today. This important new study considers the reality of th...

Reducere. Knowing your enemies matters. Legendary military strategist Sun Tzu famously said "if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperi...

Tread the City's Streets Again is the first book to explore the theology and vocation of Frances Perkins, the settlement house worker who went on t...

Reducere. We need a God who guides, right now, in real time, through the decisions and challenges of our lives.About author(s): GREGG CHENOWETH, PhD, is pres...

DescriptionWarren Copeland draws from his experience of more than two decades in city politics and addresses head on the issue of Christian ethics ...

In A Philosophers' Manifesto leading philosophers from around the world present the case for a new policy or law they think will make an improvemen...

Reducere. Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy highlights the use of religious identity to fuel the rise of illiberal, nationalist, and po...

DescriptionOver the past few years Hekate has gained increasing popularity around the world. While there are books written about the historical Hek...

Reducere. Jehovah's Witnesses number into the millions globally and are well known for their public evangelism about God's kingdom. But beneath the facade of...

Reducere. What is man? What is wrong with the human race? Unless we answer these questions correctly, we cannot hope to solve the problems in our world--prob...

Reducere. Do you want to make a true difference in the world? Dr. Ron Sider does. He has, since before he first published Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger...

Reducere. Zero: worlds beyond carbon is a book that explores the social, philosophical, and political context of Aotearoa, New Zealand's environmental policy...

DescriptionOne of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an act...

Reducere. Most arguments for or against abortion focus on one question: is the fetus a person? In this provocative and important book, David Boonin defends t...

DescriptionOn its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year whic...

Reducere. What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that...

Reducere. The lands the United States claims sovereignty over by right of the Doctrine of Discovery are home to more than five hundred Indian nations, each w...

Now in its Sixth Edition, this remains the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, crit...

All Americans, liberal or conservative, religious or not, can agree that religious freedom, anchored in conscience rights, is foundational to the U...

Analysts and pundits from across the American political spectrum describe Islamic fundamentalism as one of the greatest threats to modern, Western-...

Reducere. As Protestant denominations are fracturing over whether to ordain gays and lesbians, this work looks at The United Methodist Church's conversations...

Reducere. Women across the globe are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by the USA. But there has been little public space for dialogue ab...

Reducere. New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, spells out the profound political and cu...

Reducere. Immigration makes America what it is and is formative for what it will become. America was settled by three different models of immigration, all of...

Reducere. A far-reaching account of what is meant by the human spirit, and its relevance to the worldwide efforts being made to meet the challenges that defi...

Reducere. Today's Christian pro-life movement has misplaced its priorities. The issue of abortion is more complex than the movement often appreciates. For a ...

Reducere. Today's Christian pro-life movement has misplaced its priorities. The issue of abortion is more complex than the movement often appreciates. For a ...

Reducere. The second volume of Zachary Leader's definitive authorised biography of one of the greatest American writers When this second volume of The Life o...

This book examines Turkey's ethno-religious activism and power-related political strategies in the Balkans between 2002 and 2020, the period under ...

We spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking fo...

Reducere. What do babies and young children really need? For the first time, two famed advocates for children cut through all the theories, platitudes, and c...

Reducere. Critics have attacked the foolishness of some of today's elite thought from many angles, but few have examined the real-world consequences of those...

Reducere. Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right?...