Indiana University Press: 1129 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
These readings in international relations in Africa grapple with the continent’s changing place in the world. The essays confront issues such as the increasing tempo of armed conflict, the tendency of Western states and agencies to intervene in African settings, the presence of China, and the health...
The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast
Muslim Cosmopolitans in the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a global movement with more than half a million Ghanaian members, runs an extensive network of English-language schools and medical facilities in Ghana today. Founded in South Asia in 1889, the Ahmadiyya arrived in Ghana when a small coastal community invited an Ahmadiyya...
Healing the Nation
Literature, Progress, and Christian Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Exploring the surprising presence of Christian Science in American literature at the turn of the 20th century, L. Ashley Squires reveals the rich and complex connections between religion and literature in American culture. Mary Baker Eddy's Church of Christ, Scientist was one of the fastest growing and...
Rolling Away the Stone
Mary Baker Eddy's Challenge to Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
This richly detailed study highlights the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a prominent religious thinker whose character and achievement are just beginning to be understood. It is the first book-length discussion of Eddy to make full use of the resources of the Mary Baker Eddy Collection...
Franz Rosenzweig’s Conversions
World Denial and World Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Franz Rosenzweig's near-conversion to Christianity in the summer of 1913 and his subsequent decision three months later to recommit himself to Judaism is one of the foundational narratives of modern Jewish thought. In this new account of events, Benjamin Pollock suggests that what lay at the heart...
Global Heartland
Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois. Recruited to work in the local meat-processing plant, African Americans, Mexicans, and West Africans re-create the town in unexpected ways. Drawing on ethnographic...
by Martin Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Volume 18 of Martin Heidegger's collected works presents his important 1924 Marburg lectures which anticipate much of the revolutionary thinking that he subsequently articulated in Being and Time. Here are the seeds of the ideas that would become Heidegger's unique phenomenology. Heidegger interprets...
by Nikolai Findeizen, Daniel C. Waugh, Malcolm Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history.
Volume 2 of...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
In a time of national introspection regarding the country’s involvement in the persecution of Jews, Poland has begun to reimagine spaces of and for Jewishness in the Polish landscape, not as a form of nostalgia but as a way to encourage the pluralization of contemporary society. The essays in this...
On Islam
Muslims and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In the constant deluge of media coverage on Islam, Muslims are often portrayed as terrorists, refugees, radicals, or victims, depictions that erode human responses of concern, connection, or even a willingness to learn about Muslims. On Islam helps break this cycle with information and strategies...
by Lawrence L. Langer
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2006
"Langer, by the force of scholarship and literary precision rather than dogmatic affirmation and pathos, is one of the few writers, with the exception of significant poets and novelists, who unsettles both our customary language and conceptual instruments. His book is a moral as well as an intellectual...
Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This book presents an unconventional history of minority nationalism in interwar Eastern Europe. Focusing on an influential group of grassroots activists, Tatjana Lichtenstein uncovers Zionist projects intended to sustain the flourishing Jewish national life in Czechoslovakia.The book shows that Zionism...
Material Vernaculars
Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this volume offer revealing insights into the significance...
The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
By Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
**“Remarkable . . . provides a graphic and unparalleled description of the conditions under which the Jews of Kaunas tried to live and survive.” —**The Forward
As a force that had to serve two masters, both the Jewish population of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania and its German occupiers,...