In this important book, one of the world’s experts on human rights issues explores the state of religious freedom around the globe. Father Robert Drinan finds that the U.N., the U.S., and the international community have fallen short, but he offers hopeful guidelines for promoting religious freedom and encouraging greater tolerance.



 

In this book, a national expert on welfare and law claims that current welfare reform proposals merely recycle old remedies that have not worked. He argues that national reform efforts should focus less on welfare and blaming the victim and more on solving the problems of work, poverty, and dependency.

This provocative volume investigates the ways that changes in ideologies of the family, class, race, gender, and sexuality over the past two centuries have influenced Americans' visions of self and psyche. Challenging the premises of psychohistory, the authors explore "the psychological" as a changing cultural category and "emotions" as historically shifting self-definitions.