Stanford University: 1318 books
Sharia Compliant
A User's Guide to Hacking Islamic Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
For over a thousand years, Muslim scholars worked to ensure that Islamic law was always fresh and vibrant, that it responded to the needs of an evolving Muslim community and served as a moral and spiritual compass. They did this by "hacking" Islamic law in accordance with changing times...
Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy
Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Racism has never been simple. It wasn't more obvious in the past, and it isn't less potent now. From the birth of the United States to the contemporary police shooting death of an unarmed Black youth, Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy investigates ingrained practices of racism, as well as unquestioned...
In Rome We Trust
The Rise of Catholics in American Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
On the heels of an extremely lively U.S. presidential election campaign, this book examines the unusually serene relationship between the chief global superpower and the world's most ancient and renowned institution. The "Catholicization" of the United States is a recent phenomenon: some...
Choosing Daughters
Family Change in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
China's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within families. Coupled with China's birth-planning policy, this has led to a severe gender imbalance. But a counterpattern is emerging in rural China where a noticeable proportion of young couples...
Insufficient Funds
The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Every year migrants across the globe send more than $500 billion to relatives in their home countries, and this circulation of money has important personal, cultural, and emotional implications for the immigrants and their family members alike. Insufficient Funds tells the story of how low-wage Vietnamese...
by William B. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1979
This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas of social behavior. Based on the criminal trial records and related documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, it attempts to discover how peasants conceived...
Neoliberalism's Demons
On the Political Theology of Late Capital
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
By both its supporters and detractors, neoliberalism is usually considered an economic policy agenda. Neoliberalism's Demons argues that it is much more than that: a complete worldview, neoliberalism presents the competitive marketplace as the model for true human flourishing. And it has enjoyed great...
Divine Currency
The Theological Power of Money in the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
This book shows how early economic ideas structured Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such power in the West. Examining the religious and theological sources of money's power, it shows how early Christian thinkers borrowed ancient notions of money and economic...
Close Reading with Computers
Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens when such telescopic techniques function as a microscope instead. The first monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear on a single novel in a...
And Then We Work for God
Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the split between rural and urban populations. The reality, of course, is more complicated than the assumptions. Exploring religious expression in two villages,...
Genesis 1-11
Tales of the Earliest World
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
This book invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis, from the creation of the world, through the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel, to the introduction of Abraham. Edwin M. Good offers a new translation...
Hotels and Highways
The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The early decades of the Cold War presented seemingly boundless opportunity for the construction of "laboratories" of American society abroad: microcosms where experts could scale down problems of geopolitics to manageable size, and where locals could be systematically directed toward American...
Milton and the Post-Secular Present
Ethics, Politics, Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Our post-secular present, argues Feisal Mohamed, has much to learn from our pre-secular past. Through a consideration of poet and polemicist John Milton, this book explores current post-secularity, an emerging category that it seeks to clarify and critique. It examines ethical and political engagement...
Rights After Wrongs
Local Knowledge and Human Rights in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
The international legal framework of human rights presents itself as universal. But rights do not exist as a mere framework; they are enacted, practiced, and debated in local contexts. Rights After Wrongs ethnographically explores the chasm between the ideals and the practice of human rights. Specifically,...