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Spirituality, Inc.

Religion in the American Workplace

by Lake Lambert III
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009

For many Americans spirituality and business seem to be polar opposites: one is concerned with lofty questions of ultimate significance, the other with mundane matters of the daily grind. Yet over the last two decades the two have become increasingly linked, and as the barriers between them are broken...
by Stanley B. Greenfield, Daniel G. Calder
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996

Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry is, without question, the major literary achievement of the early Middle Ages (c. 700-1100). In no other vernacular language does such a vast store of verbal treasures exist for so extended a period of time. For twenty years the definitive guide to that literature has...

Virtue

Nomos XXXIV

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1992

In the United States, there exists increasing uneasiness about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American society, mounting concerns about the effects of institutions-ranging from families to schools to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001

What are the proper aims of education in a liberal democracy? Given the deep disagreement about moral and religious values in modern societies, what is the proper balance between public and private claimants to educational authority? Should parents be given greater control over their children's formal...

Loyalty

NOMOS LIV

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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013

Few topics are more ubiquitous in everyday life and, at the same time, more controversial in practice, than that of one’s moral obligation to loyalty. Featuring essays by scholars working in a variety of subjects from law to psychology, Loyalty presents diverse perspectives on dilemmas posed by...

The Many Colors of Crime

Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006

In this authoritative volume, race and ethnicity are themselves considered as central organizing principles in why, how, where and by whom crimes are committed and enforced. The contributors argue that dimensions of race and ethnicity condition the very laws that make certain behaviors criminal, the...

Ingratitude

The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature

by erin Khuê Khuê Ninh
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011

Anger and bitterness tend to pervade narratives written by second generation Asian American daughters, despite their largely unremarkable upbringings. In Ingratitude, erin Khuê Ninh explores this apparent paradox, locating in the origins of these women's maddeningly immaterial suffering not only...

Words upon the Word

An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study

by James S. Bielo
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009

Evangelical Bible study groups are the most prolific type of small group in American society, with more than 30 million Protestants gathering every week for this distinct purpose, meeting in homes, churches, coffee shops, restaurants, and other public and private venues across the country. What happens...
by Humphrey Davies, Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-Sanhuri
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Written in mid-17th century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on “rural” verse, mocking the pretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt’s countryside. The interest in the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus in its...
by George Athan Billias
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009

Winner of the 2010 Book Award from the New England Historical Association American constitutionalism represents this country’s greatest gift to human freedom, yet its story remains largely untold. For over two hundred years, its ideals, ideas, and institutions influenced different peoples in different...

Deeper Shades of Purple

Womanism in Religion and Society

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006

Womanist approaches to the study of religion and society have contributed much to our understanding of Black religious life, activism, and women's liberation. Deeper Shades of Purple explores the achievements of this movement over the past two decades and evaluates some of the leading voices and different...

Deported

Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism

by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015

Winner, American Sociological Association Latino/a Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award The United States currently is deporting more people than ever before: 4 million people have been deported since 1997 –twice as many as all people deported prior to 1996. There is...

In Search of the Swan Maiden

A Narrative on Folklore and Gender

by Barbara Fass Leavy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995

In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds. --The New York Times Book Review This is a study of the...

Ireland

Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History

by Hugh F. Kearney
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

What is the Irish nation? Who is included in it? Are its borders delimited by religion, ethnicity, language, or civic commitment? And how should we teach its history? These and other questions are carefully considered by distinguished historian Hugh F. Kearney in Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism...
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