Although scholars tend to downplay the role of religion in political life, the vast majority of
people in the world profess a strong allegiance to some spiritual faith. Secularization theory …

At the time, there was no single work that addressed this increasingly vexatious issue of
domestic and international security in an authoritative, yet accessible, way. My intention had …

The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several
decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical …

The emergence of private authority has become increasingly a feature of the post-Cold War
world. In The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance, leading scholars …

In Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, David Newman shows students
how to see the" unfamiliar in the familiar"—to step back and see organization and …

America and other rich nations have a clear choice today. They can continue to ignore the
population problem and their own massive contributions to it. Then they will be trapped in a …

Global Terrorism, 4th edition continues to provide students with the most comprehensive
introduction to terrorism as a global phenomenon. It introduces students to history, politics …

What is causing the American public to move more openly into alt-right terrain? What
explains the uptick in anti-immigrant hysteria, isolationism, and an increasing willingness to …

The 1990s saw the emergence of a new, religiously motivated terrorism that neither relies on
the support of sovereign states nor is constrained by limits on violence. Its harbingers …

The Six Day War in 1967 profoundly influenced how an increasing number of religious
Zionists saw Israeli victory as the manifestation of God's desire to redeem God's people …