Christian peoples of the Spirit

a documentary history of pentecostal spirituality from the Early Church to the present

Among all groups in Christendom, the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement is second in size only to the Roman Catholic Church, with growth that shows no signs of abatement. Its adherents declare the Pentecostal Movement, which began at Azusa Street in 1906, to be unprecedented in Christian ...

Empires and indigenes

intercultural alliance, imperial expansion, and warfare in the Early Modern World

The early modern period (c. 1500-1800) of world history is characterized by the establishment and aggressive expansion of European empires, and warfare between imperial powers and indigenous peoples was a central component of the quest for global dominance. From the Portuguese in Africa to the ...

Business as usual

the roots of the global financial meltdown

Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much ...

Aftermath

a new global economic order?

The global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstream economic predictions. At the same time, it showed the vulnerability of the world's richest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones. China, India, Brazil and other countries are growing faster than Europe or ...

The deepening crisis

governance challenges after neoliberalism

Response to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to global governance. Environment, global security and ethnicity and nationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the political and social dimensions of the crisis, contributors examine changes in relationships between the world's richer and ...

An Islam of her own

reconsidering religion and secularism in women's islamic movements

As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either "religious" or "secular" discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to ...

Prosecutors in the boardroom

using criminal Law to regulate corporate conduct

Who should police corporate misconduct and how should it be policed? In recent years, the Department of Justice has resolved investigations of dozens of Fortune 500 companies via deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements, where, instead of facing criminal charges, these companies become regulated by ...

Warfare and culture in world history

It has long been acknowledged that the study of war and warfare demands careful consideration of technology, institutions, social organization, and more. But, for some, the so-called "war and society" approach increasingly included everything but explained nothing, because it all too often seemed to ignore ...

Democracy in modern Iran

islam, culture, and political change

Can Islamic societies embrace democracy? In Democracy in Modern Iran, Ali Mirsepassi maintains that it is in fact possible, demonstrating that Islam is not inherently hostile to the idea of democracy. Rather, he provides new perspective on how such a political and social transformation could ...

The first amendment in cross-cultural perspective

a comparative legal analysis of the freedom of speech

The First Amendment - and its guarantee of free speech for all Americans - has been at the centre of scholarly and public debate since the birth of the Constitution, and the fervor in which intellectuals, politicians, and ordinary citizens approach the topic shows no sign of ...

Revolutions in the Atlantic World

a comparative history

In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, revolutions transformed the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds. During this time, colonial and indigenous people rioted and rebelled against their occupiers in violent pursuit of political liberty and economic opportunity, challenging time-honoured social and political structures on ...

Running for judge

the rising political, financial, and legal stakes of judicial elections

Ed. Matthew J. Streb. Across the US, races for judgeships are becoming more and more politically contested. As a result, several states and cities are now considering judicial election reform. "Running for Judge" examines the increasingly contentious judicial elections over the last twenty-five years by ...

American constitutionalism heard round the world, 1776-1989

a global perspective

American constitutionalism represents this country's greatest gift to human freedom, yet its story remains largely untold. For over two hundred years, its ideals, ideas, and institutions influenced different people in different lands at different times. American constitutionalism and the revolutionary republican documents on which ...

Dreaming in the world´s religions

a comparative history

From Biblical stories of Joseph interpreting Pharoh#s dreams in Egypt to prayers against bad dreams in the Hindu Rg Veda, cultures all over the world have seen their dreams first and foremost as religiously meaningful experiences. In this widely shared view, dreams are a ...

Illegal, alien, or immigrant

the politics of inmigration reform

An important and fresh contribution to our understanding of the tropes and policies governing race, immigrants, and membership in America. Lina Newton develops a valuable set of theoretical claims and strong evidence to show how official and social constructions of particular groups shape immigration reform ...

New jews

the end of the jewish diaspora

For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the place of final destination. In "New Jews", Caryn Aviv and David Shneer provocatively argue that there is a new generation of Jews - the eponymous "New ...

Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry

from the golden age of spain to modern times

Sephardic Jews trace their origins to Spain and Portugal. They enjoyed a renaissance in these lands until their expulsion from Spain in 1492, when they settled in the countries along the Mediterranean, throughout the Ottoman Empire, in the Balkans, and in the lands of North ...

Global justice reform

comparative methodology

Global Justice Reform provides a trenchant critique and creative conceptual reconstruction of two neglected subjects: the nature of comparison in the field of comparative law and the struggles of national judicial systems to meet global rule of law objectives. Hiram Chodosh offers a candid look ...

The student's encyclopedia of judaism

Judges in contemporary democracy

an international conversation