Comparative category: 2220 books
Rethinking Rape Law
International and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Rethinking Rape Law provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary rape laws, across a range of jurisdictions. In a context in which there has been considerable legal reform of sexual offences, Rethinking Rape Law engages with developments spanning national, regional and international...
Religious Studies
A Global View
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Drawing on recent developments in the comparative study of religion, this book explores the trends of the past sixty years from a global perspective. Each of the ten chapters covers the study of religion in a different region of the world, from Europe and the Americas to Asia and the Far East....
Consequential Courts
Judicial Roles in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
In the early twenty-first century, courts have become versatile actors in the governance of many constitutional democracies, and judges play a variety of roles in politics and policy making. Assembling papers penned by academic specialists on high courts around the world, and presented during a year-long...
Ultimate Defense
A Practical Plan to Prevent Man's Self-Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
The utter extinction fo mankind by atomic warfare is a horrifying possibility-if not a probability-whether we face it or not. The Ultimate Defense diagnoses this most crucial problem of our generation and presents a practical plan for solving it.
The ethical, pan-humanistic presentation of...
Human Rights and Judicial Review in Australia and Canada
The Newest Despotism?
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
It is commonly asserted that bills of rights have had a 'righting' effect on the principles of judicial review of administrative action and have been a key driver of the modern expansion in judicial oversight of the executive arm of government. A number of commentators have pointed to Australian administrative...
by Harry Olmeadow
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
How should we view religions that are different from our own? In a world where misunderstandings and disagreements between cultures and faiths are commonplace, this fascinating book, the first in a new series called Studies in Comparative Religion, helps us put other faiths in context and addresses...
Truth and Error
Comparative Charts of Cults and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book is not only an introduction to the entire Zondervan Guide to Cults and Religious Movements series, but also a quick-reference guide to the groups and movements discussed in the series. Truth and Error brings together in one volume the charts from the various guides that show how the groups...
Law, Religion and Love
Seeking Ecumenical Justice for the Other
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Increasingly, the modern neo-liberal world marginalises any notion of religion or spirituality, leaving little or no room for the sacred in the public sphere. While this process advances, the conservative and harmful behaviours associated with some religions and their adherents exacerbate this marginalisation...
Privacy Revisited
A Global Perspective on the Right to Be Left Alone
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Rapid technological change, the advent of Big Data, and the creation of society-wide government surveillance programs have transformed the accessibility of highly personal information; these developments have highlighted the ambiguous treatment of privacy and personal intimacy. National legal systems...
The Cabana Chronicles Conversations About God Islam and Christianity
The Cabana Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The religions of Islam and Christianity are discussed by a group of retirees meeting each week under a cabana on the beach at South Padre Island, Texas. This book is one of a number of books comprising ***The Cabana Chronicles***series of books on comparative religion and Christian apologetics, the systematic and logical defense of the Christian religion.
by John Renard
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Providing detailed descriptions of the beliefs, rituals, history, and organization of the world’s eight major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto, this fully revised and updated edition is an easy-to-use comparative guide...
Doing Better with Less? The Future of the Government Workforce
Politics of Public HRM Reforms in 32 Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
This publication contributes to a discussion about the future of public employment and HR policies in the context of a changing statehood and new financial pressures. It presents comparative quantitative and qualitative data in the field of public employment and human resources management. These data...
Handbook of Religion and the Asian City
Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities. It does not assume that religion is of the past and that the urban is secular, but instead points out that urban politics and governance often manifest religious boundaries...
Minority Religions and Fraud
In Good Faith
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Analysing both fraud and religion as social constructs with different functions and meanings attributed to them, this book raises issues that are central to debates about the limits of religious toleration in diverse societies, and the possible harm (as well as benefits) that religious organisations...