Nyu Press: 1737 books
The Impossible Jew
Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critical study of identity and identification. Displacing the assumption that Jewish Studies is necessarily the study of Jews, this book aims to break down the...
Spirituality, Inc.
Religion in the American Workplace
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
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
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...
Moral and Political Education
NOMOS XLIII
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
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
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
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
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
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...
American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776-1989
A Global Perspective
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
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
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
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...