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by Leigh E. Schmidt, Sally M. Promey
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
An enlightening look at the surprising connections between spirituality and progressive thought in the United States.
Religious liberalism in America is often associated with an ecumenical Protestant establishment. This book, however, draws attention to the broad diversity of liberal cultures that...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, Material Feminisms presents an entirely new way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality. In lively and timely essays, an international group...
West Africa's Women of God
Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
West Africa’s Women of God examines the history of direct revelation from Emitai, the Supreme Being, which has been central to the Diola religion from before European colonization to the present day. Robert M. Baum charts the evolution of this movement from its origins as an exclusively male tradition...
by Sara Brill
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
By focusing on the immortal character of the soul in key Platonic dialogues, Sara Brill shows how Plato thought of the soul as remarkably flexible, complex, and indicative of the inner workings of political life and institutions. As she explores the character of the soul, Brill reveals the corrective...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In this engaging book, Jeremy Black argues that technology neither acts as an independent variable nor operates without major limitations. This includes its capacity to obtain end results, as technology’s impact is far from simple and its pathways are by no means clear. After considering such key...
Plotting Power
Strategy in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Military strategy takes place as much on broad national and international stages as on battlefields. In a brilliant reimagining of the impetus and scope of eighteenth-century warfare, historian Jeremy Black takes us far and wide, from the battlefields and global maneuvers in North America and Europe...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the South had won the American Civil War? The questioning of apparent certainties or "known...
Fighting for America
The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871 when, with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal of most British garrisons, Britain accepted American mastery in North...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
History and geography delineate the operation of power, not only its range but also the capacity to plan and the ability to implement. Approaching state strategy and policy from the spatial angle, Jeremy Black argues that just as the perception of power is central to issues of power, so place, and...
Charting the Past
The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
This book argues that in the 18th century Britain used its present as a way of interpreting the significance of its past. One can easily trace this way of viewing history straight through to the recent Brexit vote. This book shows how and why this process began.
Well-known and highly regarded...
Epic Sound
Music in Postwar Hollywood Biblical Films
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Lavish musical soundtracks contributed a special grandeur to the new widescreen, stereophonic sound movie experience of postwar biblical epics such as Samson and Delilah, Ben-Hur, and Quo Vadis. In Epic Sound, Stephen C. Meyer shows how music was utilized for various effects, sometimes serving as...
Rising Tides
Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Global climate change and global refugee crises will soon become inextricably interlinked. A new tsunami of climate refugees flows across the earth. We are now at the moment of truth."
Climate change is with us and we need to think about the next big disturbing idea – the potentially disastrous...
How about Demons?
Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1988
Quite an interesting book... " —Religious Studies Review
It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years." —The American Rationalist
... Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatment of a compelling and much-debated subject."...
The Stigmatized Vernacular
Where Reflexivity Meets Untellability
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
As part of this multilayered conversation about stigma, this volume discusses the relationship between the stigmatized individual and our role as researchers. Here we address our own perspectives as researchers struggling with stigma issues and tellability, as well as scholarly reflexive concerns...