International efforts to combat climate change have left many people disappointed. Attention has focused on the failure of states to take the action needed to protect the planet. This reflects how the...
How do young people learn and embody moral values in multireligious societies? How do Christian and Muslim schools establish and reproduce social inequalities? In my book I argue that faith-oriented schools...
Pain, Penance, and Protest arose from a resolve to reconcile the legal historical world of medieval England with the medieval history that I know so well through my teaching and research. Perhaps because...
A person’s wellness is not only based upon factors such as lifestyle, heredity, attitude toward health, and personal behavior, but is also connected to the health of a society in which they live. A...
In the ordinary business of markets there is more going on than just the interplay of competitive forces. What we want to talk about is that “more” that is going on. We will illustrate with the...
Hope, at least the word, seems to be everywhere, at least in the United States. On lawns where one once found Christmas “Joy,” “Hope” signs more often reign, and in 2021 some have remained on...
https://www.un.org/en/observances/mountain-day Water guardians. The last time I was in Nepal I had a near-death experience, accidentally crushed by people celebrating Machindranath, the divine water-guardian...
“The most reliable and trustworthy geophysical tool is a geological hammer!” “The most reliable and trustworthy geophysical tool is a geological hammer!” This remarkable statement...
World leaders recently convened in Glasgow for the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Several reports have been published in past weeks discussing...
Deadlock following Iraq’s October 10th, 2021 elections shows that control over the security forces remains the country’s most important political issue. The parliamentary block led by Shia politician...
Studying China can be contentious. I have been in China study seminars that were as confrontational as sessions of U.S. Congress. A primary reason for the contentiousness is that people study China from...
Zionism is probably among the most discussed and least understood of modern national movements. The literature on it is vast and highly contested. If history is the study of change over time, the rapid...