Stanford University: 1318 books
Constructing China's Jerusalem
Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, commercialized economy. In vivid detail, anthropologist Nanlai Cao explores the massive resurgence...
Weird John Brown
Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view,...
Risky Shores
Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Why did the so-called "Cannibal Isles" of the Western Pacific fascinate Europeans for so long? Spanning three centuries—from Captain James Cook's death on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 to the end of World War II in 1945—this book considers the category of "the savage" in the context...
Captives and Corsairs
France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Captives and Corsairs uncovers a forgotten story in the history of relations between the West and Islam: three centuries of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousands of French subjects and citizens in North Africa. Through an analysis of archival...
by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively and to create a more just and fair society. If God Were a Human Rights Activist aims to strengthen...
Faith in Schools
Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with social action, but their work overseas is often ambivalently received. Even among East African Christians who share missionaries' religious beliefs, understandings vary over the promises and pitfalls of American...
The Studios after the Studios
Neoclassical Hollywood (1970-2010)
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Modern Hollywood is dominated by a handful of studios: Columbia, Disney, Fox, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros. Threatened by independents in the 1970s, they returned to power in the 1980s, ruled unquestioned in the 1990s, and in the new millennium are again beseiged. But in the heyday of this...
A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France
The Political Thought of Mably
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the era of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
This book has two related aims. The first is to fill an important gap in historical scholarship....
Silencing the Sea
Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Khaled Furani takes his reader down ancient roads and across military...
Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism
When God Left the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism asks what happened when the world was shaken by challenges to the sacred order as people had known it, an order that regulated both their actions and beliefs. When Reformers gave up the doctrine of transubstantiation (even as they held onto revised forms...
Male Confessions
Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Male Confessions examines how men open their intimate lives and thoughts to the public through confessional writing. This book examines writings—by St. Augustine, a Jewish ghetto policeman, an imprisoned Nazi perpetrator, and a gay American theologian—that reflect sincere attempts at introspective...
Inequality in the Promised Land
Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Nestled in neighborhoods of varying degrees of affluence, suburban public schools are typically better resourced than their inner-city peers and known for their extracurricular offerings and college preparatory programs. Despite the glowing opportunities that many families associate with suburban...
Race and Classification
The Case of Mexican America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
This innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries, from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of a multiracial colonial population,...
The Latino Threat
Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, particularly Mexicans, are an invading force bent on reconquering land once their own and destroying the American way of life. In this book, Leo R. Chavez contests this assumption's basic tenets, offering facts to counter the...