This collection questions the capacity of Canadian democracy to promote religious pluralism. As efforts push religious belief from the public square, how Canada responds to these challenges will not only influence public policy, but test its commitment to democracy.
Faith in Higher Education
This book examines the church-founded model of higher education as a promising solution to current challenges, especially in developing countries. Case studies reveal this model emphasises student wellbeing over profit and delivers relevant courses over easily marketed subjects.
Faith of Our Fathers
This volume of essays explores popular culture and belief in England, Ireland and Wales from the Reformation onwards. Linked by the nexus between religion and popular culture, these interdisciplinary contributions reveal the remarkable resilience of popular traditions.
The possibility of fakes and forgeries has haunted our cultural imagination for centuries. Despite critical pronouncements on authenticity, making a distinction between the genuine and the fake continues to play a major role in culture, law and politics.
This book portrays all rational actions as social. It elucidates the significance of this perspective for psychology, political philosophy, and better living, challenging the damaging consequences of psychology’s assumption that rationality is strictly individualist.
Family
From the “In Defence of the Family” conference, these papers tackle the global challenges facing children and families. They champion a dialogue across cultures to build a more humane and promising future for humanity.
Family Dispute Resolution from a Cultural Perspective
This book uniquely focuses on how South Sudanese families in Australia resolve family disputes. It makes a vital contribution to our understanding of how the Australian legal system works within the context of legal pluralism, social integration, and family well-being.
Family Economic Adversity and Later-Life Physical Health and Well-being
This book presents a framework linking family economic adversity to later-life health. It details five biopsychosocial pathways, with particular attention to how enduring couple relationships shape these outcomes over the life course and guide future research.
Family History in Lancashire
Leading historians explore the family in Lancashire during industrialisation. This book shows how the family was society’s most effective shock absorber, adapting to the social stresses created by immense economic change.
Behind every crime novel is a family. Some are crime syndicates; others are dysfunctional, tearing themselves apart. Not everyone escapes alive. This collection of essays explores crime fiction, the family, and the disastrous impact society can have on personal relationships.
Garfield Lau investigates how the breakdown of the family and the conventional gendering of roles gives rise to terrorist violence as portrayed in various African Anglophone narratives by internationally renowned authors including Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, and J.M. Coetzee.
Fan Culture
Explore the shifting dynamics between fans, scholars, and creators. This accessible collection tackles the core ethical questions of fan studies through popular fandoms like Doctor Who, Star Wars, and Twilight.
Fandom At The Crossroads
As “aca-fans” of the television show Supernatural, the authors go behind the scenes with fans, writers, and actors. Their intimate examination explores fan psychology, passion, and shame, revealing the passionate relationship between a cult show and its fans.
Fantasy, Art and Life
William Gray’s Fantasy, Art and Life examines how life is affirmed and enhanced through fantasy literature. Focusing on George MacDonald and Robert Louis Stevenson, it explores how their Scottish backgrounds shaped their engagement with “The Fantastic Imagination.”
Fascism and History
The term “fascism” (or “fascist”) appears with regularity in accounts of past and contemporary politics. This accessible volume deals with the term as a concept, and traces its evolution over almost a century, as it has been employed virtually every place on the globe.
This book argues that contemporary fashion is a performative-conceptual turn. It presents a new approach from visual semiotics, where fashion emerges as a visual code for our hyperreal societies, combining cybernetics, fetishism, and transgression.
Fashion through History
This collection analyses fashion as a key indicator of social change. It offers a comprehensive analysis of clothes across history, cultures, and disciplines, from ancient costumes and craft traditions to modern media and the styles of marginalized groups.
Fashion through History
This book analyzes fashion as a main indicator of social change. It explores issues from economy, copyright, and trademarks to the impact of globalization, new technologies, and social media on the dynamic fashion system in the virtual world.
Alexander uses Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to examine several works by British writers from the Restoration to the Romantic era, providing a constructive perspective for thinking about literary depictions of the self-in-crisis.
Fatal Fascinations
What is the impact of portraying violence? This book examines representations of crime and violence across media—from fiction and film to journalism—to interrogate the ethics of spectacle and the political contexts in which narratives of good and evil are defined.
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