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Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites
Religion, Politics, and Conflict Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This anthology explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria, indicating where local and national stakeholders maneuver between competition and cooperation, coexistence and conflict. Contributors probe the notion of coexistence and the...
Religion and Democracy in the United States
Danger or Opportunity?
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
The United States remains a deeply religious country and religion plays an inextricably critical role in American politics. Controversy over issues such as abortion is fueled by opposition in the Catholic Church and among conservative Protestants, candidates for the presidency are questioned about...
Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts II
Baltic, Eastern European, and Post-USSR Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Religion and magic have often played important roles in Baltic, Eastern European, and post-Soviet societies like those in Russia, Romania, Serbia, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, and Estonia. Taken together, the studies presented in this collection suggest that the idea that religion and magic are connected to...
by W. T. Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
W.T. Jeffrey’s The Arguably Immoral Agenda of the Reverend R.I. Twinger provides a critical look at the rising trend of Christian fundamentalism in the US. Cast as a satirical parody, the talk show Common Sense with host Paine Thomas uses a question and answer format to bring readers face to...
The Postsecular Imagination
Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked...
A Family of Women
The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state. Through vivid, interwoven life stories, the book offers...
British Secularism and Religion
Islam, Society and State
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
This book provides an in-depth deliberation upon the now unsettled relationship between religion and politics in contemporary Britain, with some emphasis upon the case of Islam, which is now at the centre of the debate. Combining theological reflections and academic and policy perspectives, this topical...
Holy Wars and Holy Alliance
The Return of Religion to the Global Political Stage
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Religions are reemerging in the social, political, and economic spheres previously occupied and dominated by secular institutions and ideologies. In the wake of crises exposing the limits of secular modernity, religions have again become significant players in domestic and international politics....
Ethnic Minorities in Democratizing Muslim Countries
Turkey and Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities’ requests of inclusiveness and autonomy. The author examines the results of two important cases—the securitization of Kurds in Turkey and the “autonomization” (a new concept coined by the study)...
A Short Course on Topological Insulators
Band Structure and Edge States in One and Two Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
This course-based primer provides newcomers to the field with a concise introduction to some of the core topics in the emerging field of topological insulators.
The aim is to provide a basic understanding of edge states, bulk topological invariants, and of the bulk--boundary correspondence...
by Dhriti Sundar Ghosh
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Transparent electrodes (TEs) are a class of materials that make it possible to bring electrical current or potentials in close proximity to optically active regions without significant loss of optical energy. However, it is a challenge to decouple the electrical and optical properties of a material,...
Political Augustinianism
Modern Interpretations of Augustine’s Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Alongside Saint Thomas Aquinas, the thought of Saint Augustine stands as one of the central fountainheads of not only theology but Western social and political theory. In the twentieth century especially, Augustine has been pivotal to the development of modern and contemporary political and social...
Doing Theology in the Age of Trump
A Critical Report on Christian Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
This book is a work of theological resistance. It is not so much about the presidency of Donald Trump as it is about what his popularity and rise to power reveal about the state of Christianity and the moral character of the evangelical Right in the United States today. More specifically, it is about...
by Carl P. E. Springer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Reformer of the church, biblical theologian, and German translator of the Bible Martin Luther had the highest respect for stories attributed to the ancient Greek author Aesop. He assigned them a status second only to the Bible and regarded them as wiser than "the harmful opinions of all the philosophers."...