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Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions, by Henry B. Lovejoy
In: New West Indian guide: NWIG = Nieuwe west-indische gids, Band 94, Heft 1-2, S. 139-140
ISSN: 2213-4360
Faith Matters: Religion in the 2012 Presidential Election
In: Political theology, Band 13, Heft 5, S. 529-535
ISSN: 1743-1719
Religion and the US Presidency: Politics, the Media, and Religious Identity
In: Political theology, Band 13, Heft 5, S. 568-585
ISSN: 1743-1719
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In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 693
ISSN: 0022-216X
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: an introduction to monotheism
"Judaism, Christianity and Islam: An Introduction to Monotheism shows how a shared monotheistic legacy frames and helps explain the commonalities and disagreements among Judaism, Christianity and Islam and their significant denominations in the world today. Taking a thematic approach and covering both historical and contemporary dimensions, the authors discuss how contemporary geographic and cultural contexts shape the expression of monotheism in the three religions. It covers differences between religious expressions in Israeli Judaism, Latin American Christianity and British Islam. Topics discussed include scripture, creation, covenant and identity, ritual, ethics, peoplehood and community, redemption, salvation, life after death, gender, sexuality and marriage. This introductory text, which contains 30 images, a map, a timeline, chapter afterthoughts and critical questions, is written by three authors with extensive teaching experience, each a specialist in one of the three monotheistic traditions"--Provided by publisher
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In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 590-592
ISSN: 0022-216X
Neighborhood context and adjustment in African American youths from single mother homes: The intervening role of hopelessness
In: Cultural diversity and ethnic minority psychology, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 109-117
ISSN: 1939-0106
How Interior Immigration Enforcement Affects Trust in Law Enforcement
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 357-370
ISSN: 1541-0986
The day-to-day behaviors of undocumented immigrants are significantly affected when local law enforcement officials do the work of federal immigration enforcement. One such behavior, which has been widely discussed in debates over so-called sanctuary policies, is that undocumented immigrants are less likely to report crimes to the police when local law enforcement officials work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on federal immigration enforcement. However, the mechanism that explains this relationship of decreased trust in law enforcement has not yet been systematically tested. Do undocumented immigrants become less trusting of police officers and sheriffs when local law enforcement officials work with ICE on federal immigration enforcement? To answer this, we embedded an experiment that varied the interior immigration enforcement context in a survey (n = 512) drawn from a probability-based sample of undocumented immigrants. When local law enforcement officials work with ICE on federal immigration enforcement, respondents are statistically significantly less likely to say that they trust that police officers and sheriffs will keep them, their families, and their communities safe; will protect the confidentiality of witnesses to crimes even if they are undocumented; will protect the rights of all people equally, including undocumented immigrants; and will protect undocumented immigrants from abuse or discrimination.