Stanford University Press: 1317 books
To Sin No More
Franciscans and Conversion in the Hispanic World, 1683-1830
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
For 300 years, Franciscans were at the forefront of the spread of Catholicism in the New World. In the late seventeenth century, Franciscans developed a far-reaching, systematic missionary program in Spain and the Americas. After founding the first college of propaganda fide in the Mexican city of...
Monsters by Trade
Slave Traffickers in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Transatlantic studies have begun to explore the lasting influence of Spain on its former colonies and the surviving ties between the American nations and Spain. In Monsters by Trade, Lisa Surwillo takes a different approach, explaining how modern Spain was literally made by its Cuban colony. Long...
by Xiaowei Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
China's 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imperial order. On the contrary, they were a powerful political and economic elite deeply entrenched in local society and well-respected both for their imperially...
Soundtrack of the Revolution
The Politics of Music in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Music was one of the first casualties of the Iranian Revolution. It was banned in 1979, but it quickly crept back into Iranian culture and politics. The state made use of music for its propaganda during the Iran–Iraq war. Over time music provided an important political space where artists and audiences...
by Niklas Luhmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the editorial work of André Kieserling. One of Luhmann's most important projects, it exemplifies his later work while redefining the subject matter of the sociology...
Uprising of the Fools
Pilgrimage as Moral Protest in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees—called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians—are mostly...
Police Encounters
Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian Rule
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Egypt came to govern Gaza as a result of a war, a failed effort to maintain Arab Palestine. Throughout the twenty years of its administration (1948–1967), Egyptian policing of Gaza concerned itself not only with crime and politics, but also with control of social and moral order. Through surveillance,...
Cultures@SiliconValley
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Since the initial publication of Cultures@SiliconValley fourteen years ago, much has changed in Silicon Valley. The corporate landscape of the Valley has shifted, with tech giants like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter vying for space with a halo of applications that connect people for work,...
by Jean-Christophe Attias
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Despite its deceptively simple title, this book ponders the thorny issue of the place of the Bible in Jewish religion and culture. By thoroughly examining the complex link that the Jews have formed with the Bible, Jewish scholar Jean-Christophe Attias raises the uncomfortable question of whether it...
Bodies of Truth
Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory. In 2002, victims of apartheid-era violence filed suit against multinational corporations, accusing them...
Rawls and Habermas
Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the two preeminent post-WWII political philosophers, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Both men question how we can be free and autonomous under coercive law and how we might collectively use our reason to justify exercises of political power. In pluralistic...
Campaigning for Children
Strategies for Advancing Children's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Advocates within the growing field of children's rights have designed dynamic campaigns to protect and promote children's rights. This expanding body of international law and jurisprudence, however, lacks a core text that provides an up-to-date look at current children's rights issues, the evolution...
Islandology
Geography, Rhetoric, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the development of philosophy and the study of limits (Greece)...
Convulsing Bodies
Religion and Resistance in Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault's thinking, this book offers a strong alternative to the way that the philosopher's work is read across the humanities. Foucault was famously interested in Christianity as both the rival to ancient ethics and the parent of modern discipline...