Nyu Press: 1737 books
Faith and War
How Christians Debated the Cold and Vietnam Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Throughout American history, Christianity has shaped public opinion, guided leaders in their decision making, and stood at the center of countless issues. To gain complete knowledge of an era, historians must investigate the religious context of what transpired, why it happened, and how. Yet too little...
The Slave Soul of Russia
Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts emphasizing...
Miracles
Wonder and Meaning in World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Despite the dominance of scientific explanation in the modern world, at the beginning of the twenty-first century faith in miracles remains strong, particularly in resurgent forms of traditional religion. In Miracles, David L. Weddle examines how five religious traditions—Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism,...
by Humphrey Davies, Yusuf al-Shirbini
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day.
In...
by Humphrey Davies, Yusuf al-Shirbini
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day.
In...
Are Racists Crazy?
How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness
In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after...
Deaf Subjects
Between Identities and Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In this probing exploration of what it means to be deaf, Brenda Brueggemann goes beyond any simple notion of identity politics to explore the very nature of identity itself. Looking at a variety of cultural texts, she brings her fascination with borders and between-places to expose and enrich our...
Talking Trash
The Cultural Politics of Daytime TV Talk Shows
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
When The Phil Donahue Show topped the ratings in 1979, it ushered in a new era in daytime television. Mixing controversial social issues, light topics, and audience participation, it created a new genre, one that is still flourishing, despite being harshly criticized, over two decades later. Now,...
Losing Our Heads
Beheadings in Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
What is the fascination that decollation holds for us, as individuals and as a culture? Why does the idea make us laugh and the act make us close our eyes? Losing Our Heads explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the chopped-off head. It asks why the practice of decapitation was...
Prophetic Activism
Progressive Religious Justice Movements in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
While the links between conservative Christians and politics have been drawn strongly in recent years, coming to embody what many think of as religious activism, the profoundly religious nature of community organizing and other more left-leaning justice work has been largely overlooked. Prophetic...
Transforming Citizenships
Transgender Articulations of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Transforming Citizenships engages the performativity of citizenship as it relates to transgender individuals and advocacy groups. Instead of reading the law as a set of self-executing discourses, Isaac West takes up transgender rights claims as performative productions of complex legal subjectivities...
Modern Love
Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
“My ideas of romance came from the movies,” said Woody Allen, and it is to the movies—as well as to novels, advice columns, and self-help books—that David Shumway turns for his history of modern love.
Modern Love argues that a crisis in the meaning and experience of marriage emerged when it...
Sexuality and War
Literary Masks of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
"A courageous analysis of Arab writers, addressing the connections between masculinity, violence, and nationalism."
-Robin Morgan, Ms..
"Rarely have sexuality and war been treated with such poignancy and historical concreteness .... The force of these often intertwined phenomena endemic...
by Patrick Degramont
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
Patrick de Gramont draws upon evidence from infant observaton and linguistics as well as from information theory in order to make two related points. First, he demonstrates how our prevailing theories of meaning have failed to account for how we distort meaning.