The United States, France, and Turkey

Ahmet T. Kuru

Why do secular states pursue different policies toward religion? This book provides an analysis of the impact of ideological struggles on the public policy making process, as well as a state-religion regimes index of 197 countries. Specifically, it analyzes why American state policies are largely tolerant of religion, whereas French and Turkish policies generally prohibit its public visibility.

Comparing the US and UK

Kate Nash

Using an innovative methodology, this book maps the emergent 'intermestic' human rights field within the US and UK in order to investigate detailed case studies of the cultural politics of human rights. Kate Nash researches how the authority to define human rights is being created within states as a result of international human rights commitments.

Culture, Security and Populism in the New Europe

Mabel Berezin

The rise of rightwing populism has brought into question prevailing assumptions in social science about multicultural Europe. In this compelling study of populist politics, Mabel Berezin argues that the emergence of the movement in the 1990s was a historical surprise rather than an expected event.

The Road to Radicalism

Tahir Abbas

British Islam explores the context behind this phenomenon, focusing on post-war immigration and integration, the complex relations that exist between Britain and Islam and the true extent of social and economic inequalities that affect Muslims.

Quentin Van Doosselaere

Making use of 20,000 notarial records, this book traces commercial partnerships in Genoa from 1150 to 1435. Combining a detailed historical reading with network modeling to analyze the change in the long-distance trade relationships, Quentin Van Doosselaere argues that the economic transformation to the Renaissance was driven by changes in trading patterns and partners’ social selections.

Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing
Bridging the Divide

Nicos P. Mouzelis

There is a growing conflict between modern and postmodern social theorists. The latter reject modern approaches as economistic, essentialist and often leading to authoritarian policies.

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Developmental Thinking, Categorization and Graphic Visualization

André Turmel

Towards Rights-Based Practice

Jim Ife

Human rights ideals are at the pinnacle of contemporary social work practice and international political discourse. Yet in recent years, with the heightened threat of terrorism, we have begun to witness an erosion of many traditional civil liberties. Set against this backdrop, the revised edition of Human Rights and Social Work moves beyond the limitations of conventional legal frameworks.

Edited by Geoffrey Brahm Levey, Tariq Modood, Foreword by Charles Taylor

The Islamist attacks of 9/11, the Danish cartoon affair and rioting by Muslim youths in France are just some of the events that have caused the 'Muslim question' to become a key issue of public debate in many western democracies. Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship argues that the Muslim case raises important questions about how we understand western secularism and respond to new religious claims in multicultural democracies.

Sarah Daynes, Orville Lee

What do people mean when they talk about race? Are they acknowledging a biological fact, a social reality, or a cultural identity? Is race real, or is it merely an illusion? This book brings analytical clarity to one of the most vexed topics in the social sciences today, arguing that race is no more than a social construction, unsupported in biological terms and upheld for the simple reason that we continue to believe in its reality.