Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Divine Currency
The Theological Power of Money in the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
This book shows how early economic ideas structured Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such power in the West. Examining the religious and theological sources of money's power, it shows how early Christian thinkers borrowed ancient notions of money and economic...
Close Reading with Computers
Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens when such telescopic techniques function as a microscope instead. The first monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear on a single novel in a...
And Then We Work for God
Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the split between rural and urban populations. The reality, of course, is more complicated than the assumptions. Exploring religious expression in two villages,...
Genesis 1-11
Tales of the Earliest World
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
This book invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis, from the creation of the world, through the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel, to the introduction of Abraham. Edwin M. Good offers a new translation...
Hotels and Highways
The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The early decades of the Cold War presented seemingly boundless opportunity for the construction of "laboratories" of American society abroad: microcosms where experts could scale down problems of geopolitics to manageable size, and where locals could be systematically directed toward American...
Milton and the Post-Secular Present
Ethics, Politics, Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Our post-secular present, argues Feisal Mohamed, has much to learn from our pre-secular past. Through a consideration of poet and polemicist John Milton, this book explores current post-secularity, an emerging category that it seeks to clarify and critique. It examines ethical and political engagement...
Rights After Wrongs
Local Knowledge and Human Rights in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
The international legal framework of human rights presents itself as universal. But rights do not exist as a mere framework; they are enacted, practiced, and debated in local contexts. Rights After Wrongs ethnographically explores the chasm between the ideals and the practice of human rights. Specifically,...
Discreet Power
How the World Economic Forum Shapes Market Agendas
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the primary agenda-setting organizations of our day, they draw on interviews and participant observation to examine how the WEF wields its influence. They situate...
Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership
An Examination of Grassroots Leaders in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership contributes to the growing tradition of giving voice to grassroots leaders, focusing on the largely untapped potential of faculty and staff on college campuses. In an increasingly corporatized environment, grassroots leadership can provide a balance to the...
by Johan Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The spread of market-oriented reforms has been one of the major political and economic trends of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Governments have, to varying degrees, adopted policies that have led to deregulation: the liberalization of trade; the privatization of state entities;...
New Destination Dreaming
Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have long been shaped by immigration. These gateway cities have traditionally been assumed to be the major flashpoints in American debates over immigration policy—but the reality on the ground is proving different. Since the 1980s, new immigrants have increasingly...
For Love of the Father
A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Ruth Stein's pioneering study explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. She argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of blind hatred, nor even for political gain, but to achieve an explosive merger with a transcendent awesome...
Normalizing Japan
Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
Normalizing Japan seeks to answer the question of what future direction Japan's military policies are likely to take, by considering how policy has evolved since World War II, and what factors shaped this evolution. It argues that Japanese security policy has not changed as much in recent years as...
China’s Christian Colleges
Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
China's Christian Colleges explores the cross-cultural dynamics that existed on the campuses of the Protestant Christian colleges in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on two-way cultural influences rather than on missionary efforts or Christianization, these campuses,...