Human Rights at Risk

Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity

ED I TED BY SALVADOR SANT I NO F. REG I LME JR. AND I RENE HAD I PRAY I TNO

Human Rights at Risk brings together social scientists, legal scholars, and humanities scholars to analyze the policy challenges of human rights protection in the twenty- rst century. The volume is organized based on three overarching themes that highlight the challenges and risks in international human rights: international institutions and global governance of human rights; thematic blind spots in human rights protection; and the human rights challenges of the United States as a global and domestic actor amidst the contemporary global shifts to authoritarianism and illiberal populism. One of the very few books that offer new perspectives that envision the future of transnational human rights norms and human dignity from a multidisciplinary perspective, Human Rights at Risk comprehensively examines the causes and consequences of the challenges faced by international human rights.

SALVADOR SANTINO F. REGILME JR. is a tenured university lecturer in international relations at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is the author of Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia (2021) and the co-editor of American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers (2018).

IRENE HADIPRAYITNO teaches at the Leiden Institute of Area Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She has a PhD in political economy of human rights from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

Borders of Belief

Borders of Belief

Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey

GREGORY J. GOALW IN

Religion and nationalism are two of the most powerful forces in the world. And as powerful as they are separately, humans throughout history have fused religious beliefs and nationalist politics to develop religious nationalism, which uses religious identity to de ne membership in the national community. But why and how have modern nationalists built religious identity as the foundational signi er of national identity in what sociologists have predicted would be a more secular world? This book takes two cases—nationalism in both Ireland and Turkey in the 20th century—as a foundation to advance a new theory of religious nationalism. By comparing cases, Goalwin emphasizes how modern political actors deploy religious identity as a boundary that differentiates national groups. This theory argues that religious nationalism is not a knee-jerk reaction to secular modernization, but a powerful movement developed as a tool that forges new and independent national identities.

242 pp 6 x 9

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July 2022

Religion • Politics • Sociology

GREGORY J. GOALWIN is an assistant professor of sociology at Aurora University in Illinois. His research has been published in journals including Social Science History, Patterns of Prejudice,Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Nationalities Papers, and the Journal of Historical Sociology

Authentically Jewish Identity, Culture, and the Struggle for Recognition

STUART Z. CHARMÉ

This book analyzes the different conceptions of authenticity that are behind con icts over who and what should be recognized as authentically Jewish. Although the concept of authenticity has been around for several centuries, it became a central focus for Jews since existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre raised the question in the 1940s. Building on the work of Sartre, later Jewish thinkers, philosophers, anthropologists, and cultural theorists, the book offers a model of Jewish authenticity that seeks to balance history and tradition, creative freedom and innovation, and the importance of recognition among different groups within an increasingly multicultural Jewish community.

Author Stuart Z. Charmé explores how debates over authenticity and struggles for recognition are a key to understanding a wide range of controversies between Orthodox and liberal Jews, Zionist and diaspora Jews, white Jews and Jews of color, as well as the status of intermarried and messianic Jews, and the impact of Jewish genetics. In addition, it discusses how and when various cultural practices and traditions such as klezmer music, Israeli folk dance, Jewish yoga and meditation, and others are recognized as authentically Jewish, or not.

STUART Z. CHARMÉ is a professor of religion at Rutgers University–Camden in New Jersey. He is the author of two books on Sartrean existentialism, Meaning and Myth in the Study of Lives and Vulgarity and Authenticity: A Sartrean Approach as well as numerous articles on questions of Jewish identity and authenticity.

Unruly Souls

The Digital Activism of Muslim and Christian Feminists

KRISTIN M. PETERSON

Amid growing digital activism to address gender-based violence, institutional racism, and homophobia in U.S. society, Unruly Souls explores the intersectional feminist activism among young people within Islam and Evangelical Christianity. These religious mis ts—marginalized from traditional religious spaces due to their sexuality, gender, or race— employ the creative tactics of digital media in their work to seek justice and to display their fundamental equality in the eyes of God. Through an analysis of various digital projects from hip-hop music videos and Instagram accounts to Twitter hashtags and podcasts, Kristin Peterson argues that the hybrid, exible, playful, and sensory nature of digital media facilitate intersectional feminist activism within and beyond religious communities. Drawing on work from queer theory, decolonial theory, and Black feminist theory, this study explores how those who have been marginalized are able to effectively deploy their disregarded status along with digital media tactics to cultivate empathetic communities for those recovering from religious trauma.

KRISTIN M. PETERSON is an assistant professor in the department of communication at Boston College in Massachusetts.