Lexington Books: 3858 books
Confucianism in Contemporary Chinese Politics
An Actionable Account of Authoritarian Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
How Not to Be Governed
Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
How Not to Be Governed explores the contemporary debates and questions concerning anarchism in our own time. The authors address the political failures of earlier practices of anarchism, and the claim that anarchism is impracticable, by examining the anarchisms that have been theorized and practiced...
Working through Whiteness
Examining White Racial Identity and Profession with Pre-service Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
This book critically examines nine pre-service teacher candidates and the author’s experience to explore the ways in which white educators manifest understandings of white racial identity and professional choice through oral narratives. Ultimately the text proposes a new, non-developmental model...
by Fawzia Reza
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This book examines the challenges that Pakistani-American families have faced in their attempts to assimilate within the U.S. school culture since the September eleventh terrorist attack.
Negative stereotyping has permeated into schools, and affected Pakistani-American students and their families....
Out of the Revolution
The Development of Africana Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
The introduction of 'Black' studies programs into institutions of higher education was a direct response to the mandate for change at all levels that characterized the civil rights movement and the social rebellions of the 1950s and 1960s. In Out of the Revolution, Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene...
The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry
Imagining the Earth Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Thomas Berry had a gentle yet mesmerizing and luminescent presence that was evident to anyone who spent time with him. His intellectual scope and erudite manner were compelling, and the breadth, depth, clarity, and elegance of his vision was breathtaking. Berry was an intellectual giant and cultural...
The Bible
Respectful Readings
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The Biblical heritage is generally recognized as vital to the development and guidance of Western Civilization as we know it. It is also recognized that it is in the interest of both believers and skeptics that the Bible be read with care. Among the things to be noticed is the status of the virtue...
Across Borders
Latin Perspectives in the Americas Reshaping Religion, Theology, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
While work in theology and religious studies by scholars in Latin America and by Latino/a scholars in the United States has made substantial contributions to the current scholarship in the field, there are few projects where scholars from these various contexts are working together. *Across Borders:*Latin...
Islam in China
Religion, Ethnicity, Culture, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2002
'Are they really Muslims?' Islam in China reveals the struggle for identity of the small yet vital Muslim community of China, a little studied minority on the fringes of the Islamic world now thrust into the spotlight by the opening of China to the world and the rise of independent Muslim republics...
Washington Irving and Islam
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Washington Irving and Islam contributes to understanding the relationship between the United States and the Islamic world, valuable not only for studies of Washington Irving, American Literature, or Islam, but also for thinking through the role Islam and the “Orient” have played in American literature...
Decentering Discussions on Religion and State
Emerging Narratives, Challenging Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This volume explores dynamic conversations through history between individuals and communities over questions about religion and state. Divided into two sections, our authors begin with considerations on the separation of religion and state, as well as Roger Williams’ concept of religious freedom....
The Philosophical Foundations of Classical Chinese Medicine
Philosophy, Methodology, Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book makes Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) intelligible to those who are not familiar with the tradition, many of whom may choose to dismiss it off-hand or to assess it negatively) . Keekok Lee uses two related strategies: arguing that all science and therefore medicine cannot be understood...
by Haiming Wen
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
This engaging work of comparative philosophy brings together American pragmatism and Chinese philosophy in a way that generates new interpretations of Chinese philosophy and a fresh perspective on issues in process philosophy. Through an analysis of key terms, Haiming Wen argues that Chinese philosophical...
Strangers to Nature
Animal Lives and Human Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly...