Ten articles on contemporary Muslim thought, gathered here, give testimony to the existence of plurality in Muslim theology. They each focus on the thought of a contemporaneous Muslim theologian and deliberate the interdependence between theological debates and their context.
Philosophical Considerations on Contemporary Music
Fronzi describes how complexity in music of the 20th and 21st centuries can be tackled philosophically, starting from certain characteristics. He identifies nine characteristics that permit us to open up philosophical-cultural paths and interpret contemporary music developments.
Experiencing Rhythm
What is the common rhythmical base that unites the diverse musical styles of Madagascar? Musician and researcher Jenny Fuhr explores this claim through intense involvement in music-making, challenging prevalent Western perspectives on music.
This book summarizes state-of-the-art methods in credit analysis, a vital area of finance. Written by leading experts, it provides insights for estimating default probability, evaluating individual loans and bonds, and managing entire portfolios of such assets.
Moses
This intellectual biography describes the personal development and motivations of Moses from childhood to death. It shows how he developed into a leader and law-giver who led the Jewish people in their struggle for freedom and influenced their religion.
The recent financial crisis has challenged accepted economic paradigms. This book offers a broad overview of recent developments in international economics, providing new theories, empirical insights, and practical policy recommendations.
Containing chapters from both Turkish- and Greek-Cypriots, as well as outside scholars, this volume explores the difficulty of producing viable constitutional and civic arrangements in an ethnically-divided polity.
Popular and Visual Culture
This book questions the concepts of visual and popular culture, analyzing how iconic productions are outcomes of political, economic, and social circumstances. It explores how visual artefacts are socially built, preserved, and contested as symbolic discourses on values.
Timeless Experience
Offering unique insights into a key figure in the development of Gestalt therapy, this volume comprises Laura Perls’s heretofore unpublished writing, including journal entries, letters, poems, translations, short stories, and drafts for lectures and publications.
Malady and Mortality
This study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics.
The essays collected here explore the dynamics of myths throughout time and space, along with the mythmaking processes in various cultures, literatures and languages, bringing together not only classical myths, but also their contemporary constructions and reconstructions.
Teaching Literacy across Content Areas
This book answers teachers’ questions about implementing the Common Core State Standards. It contains practical teaching strategies, examples, and illustrations to prepare diverse students for college and career by helping them analyze complex texts and solve real-life problems.
Nordic Work with Traumatised Refugees
Nordic countries are seen as safe havens for refugees. But has society done what it could for their mental health? This book provides an investigative perspective on the challenges in refugee mental health and care, addressing key issues faced by them.
Displacing the Anxieties of Our World
Discussing fictive spaces of literature, film, and video-gaming, this compilation bridges the imagined space between 17th-century utopia and 21st-century dystopia. It argues that the space of imagination offers a virtual battleground—and the possibility of triumph.
Presence of the Cross in Public Spaces
This collection discusses the debate on the presence of the cross in the public space in a number of European states and it considers its potential effects. The analyses presented concern not only the established democracies of Western Europe, but also post-communist states.
Digital processes affect the perception of time, space, and identity. This book invites a shift of perception, proposing the “Point of Being” as an alternative to the “Point of View” to situate the self in our physical and digital world.
Leading scholars pose fundamental questions about contemporary art in the global age. This volume maps current debates on archives, politics, labor, and the post-natural condition, providing a cartography of the conceptual intersections in global art studies today.
Keyboard Warriors
Geddes explores the kind of Islamophobic identity that is produced by supporters of the far-right English Defence League within networking sites, and discusses on how this identity is constructed around insecurities that are central to the lives of this population.
Equestrian Rebels
This collection of essays commemorates the first centenary of Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo, and traces its impact on twentieth-century autobiographies, memoirs and, more specifically, on the Novel of the Mexican Revolution.
Studies in Philology
This volume offers a holistic view of Philology, showing the thin line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies. It is a miscellanea of studies on Modern Language research, focusing on Spanish, English and French.
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