Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
by Maia Kotrosits, H. Taussig
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Examining contemporary films, sculptures, and graphic novels influenced by the Gospel of Mark, Hal Taussig and Maia Kotrosits break new ground in ways of understanding traditional religious texts. The authors avoid traditional dogmatic assumptions, and use the Gospel of Mark as a resource for coping and healing.
Militant Christianity
An Anthropological History
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
A powerful chronicle of the astounding persistence of Indo-European glorification of battle, morphed into today's militant Christian Right. The book is written as a lively chronicle making clear the astounding power of the ancient cultural tradition embedding our language, and the real battle we face to contain this 'Christian' jihad.
Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century
Rhetoric of Identification
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book explores the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children of Ham, and how the denomination relied on both the rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism.
Beyond Catholicism
Heresy, Mysticism, and Apocalypse in Italian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities.
Ideal Islamic Economy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This book provides an introduction to the vision of an economic system based completely on the Holy Qur’an—a system defined as a collection of institutions, representing rules of behavior, prescribed by Allah for humans, and the traditions of the Messenger. The authors argue that the main reason...
The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI
The Christocentric Shift
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Many refer to Pope Benedict XVI as "the Mozart of Theology." Who are the thinkers who have informed his theology? What events, and which religious devotions, have shaped his personality? This study attempts to shed light on the unifying melody of the policies and positions of a pontificate charged with spiritual and theological depth.
A Social History of Student Volunteering
Britain and Beyond, 1880-1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Using a wide range of student testimony and oral history, Georgina Brewis sets in international, comparative context a one-hundred year history of student voluntarism and social action at UK colleges and universities, including such causes as relief for victims of fascism in the 1930s and international development in the 1960s.
Diplomas and Diplomacy
The History of the Marshall Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
The first published work to chart the history of the Marshall Scholarship, this book details the origins of the Scholarship in the British Foreign Office and subsequently traces the award's evolution through the careers and narratives of a range of Scholars. It further explores the complex and dynamic...
International Volunteer Tourism
Critical Reflections on Good Works in Central America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Designed to promote reflection and 'better practices' among the prospective volunteers and organizers of travel-for-service experiences, International Volunteer Tourism provides narratives on short-term international volunteering in Central America written by North American organizers, student participants and Central American partners.
Albert Schweitzer’s Legacy for Education
Reverence for Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
This is the first book devoted to the study of the thought of Albert Schweitzer as it relates to educational theory and practice. Rud argues that Schweitzer's life and work offer inspiration and timely insights for both educational thought and practice in our new century.
Reading the Book of Isaiah
Destruction and Lament in the Holy Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Randall Heskett uses both historical criticism and a form-critical approach to analyze and assess Lamentation and Restoration of Destroyed Cities as oral traditions of ancient Israelite prophetic genres.
Islamophobia in America
The Anatomy of Intolerance
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Islamophobia in America offers new perspectives on prejudice against Muslims, which has become increasingly widespread in the USA in the past decade. The contributors document the history of anti-Islamic sentiment in American culture, the scope of organized anti-Muslim propaganda, and the institutionalization of this kind of intolerance.
Women & Catholicism
Gender, Communion, and Authority
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The book investigates three situations in the Catholic Church that point to Catholicism's weak spot: the role of women in the Church. Zagano sheds light on the Catholic Church's hierarchically-imposed laws that keep women at a distance from the holy, whether as liturgical ministers, as wives of priests, or as priests themselves.
Rediscovering Sainthood in Italy
Hagiography and the Late Antique Past in Medieval Ravenna
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Beginning with Saint Barbatianus, a fifth-century wonderworking monk and confessor to the Empress Galla Placidia, this book focuses on the changes in the religious landscape of Ravenna, a former capital of the Late Roman Empire, through the Middle Ages. During this period, written stories about saints...