Religion and Belief
This collection of essays initiates a discussion on the nuances of religion and belief. Topics range from ancient Greek philosophy to 21st century ‘New-Atheism’, challenging simple conceptions and showing caricatures of belief to be misleading.
Emerging Critical Scholarship in Education
The doctoral journey is fraught with challenges. This book explores the routes of candidates conducting critical research in education, addressing their isolation not as a self-help guide, but by honouring individual stories to highlight broader issues.
The Church and the Slums
In Victorian Liverpool’s notorious slums, the Anglican Church faced a seemingly impossible task. How could its clergy overcome local hostility to reach the working classes? This book reveals their surprising success, judged not just by worshippers, but by community engagement.
Not-I/Thou
In these essays, Art and Architecture emerge from the gray areas of cultural production as a type of knowledge with no utilitarian agency. They operate at the edge of authorized systems, quietly validating the shadowy and recondite operations of intellect.
This book addresses key issues in second language acquisition within the generative framework. Based on studies of Romanian learners of English, it explores the critical question of parameter resetting: can adult learners truly acquire new grammatical settings?
This volume analyzes the popularization of specialized discourse in the natural sciences, focusing on botany and gardening. A key feature is the diachronic approach, with chapters spanning from the 17th century to the present day.
Stories provide fictional encounters with death, giving meaning to both life and death. This volume examines narratives of mortality in literature from ancient Rome to today, exploring existential questions and literature’s role in social debates about death.
This book discusses the manuscript sources for the music of Luigi Boccherini, a foremost 18th-century composer. Experts explore manuscript types, chronology, catalogues, and specific works, making this an indispensable tool for any scholar of his life and work.
As modern thinkers declare the “death of the subject,” this volume searches for new ways of being a self. With renewed attention to religion, these essays guide readers beyond the crises of modernity to resurrect the subject in new and unexpected forms.
Parallaxes
Despite being major Modernists, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are seldom studied together. This volume fills that void, using the concept of parallax to provide new perspectives on the connections between their respective work and their difficult encounter.
Leading international experts share multidisciplinary perspectives on evaluation, illustrating its potential to demonstrate the impact of social interventions. This guide offers practical examples of contrasting methods and helpful advice with a human-centred focus.
Ethics and Poetics
This book explores the ethics of fiction, showing how literariness itself generates ethical communication. Authors investigate how modern narratives refine our understanding of recognition, disclosing how the reading experience can regenerate real social spaces.
Society Building
This volume presents research by non-Chinese scholars on “society building,” an indigenous concept guiding China’s social development. It tackles topics from infrastructure’s social impact to soft power, offering a unique understanding of China today.
In this collection, diverse authors discuss key ethical and metaethical issues and their relation to applied ethics. Expert scholars and young researchers reframe current philosophical debates, stimulating and challenging anyone curious about what we hold valuable.
Cultivating Peace
This book embraces a new approach: cultivating peace. Using global case studies, its narratives offer constructive lessons on preventing violence, restoring shattered societies, and creating positive change through nonviolent, locally-driven initiatives.
Languaging Experiences
This book explores languaging—the concept that language is a way of knowing, making personal sense of the world, and creating one’s identity. It offers new insights and unique interpretations on its implications for second language teaching and pedagogy.
Toward, Around, and Away from Tahrir
The 2011 revolution complicated questions about Egyptian identity. This volume focuses on written and oral expression, viewed through the lenses of rhetoric and communication, to understand how the demand for change altered Egyptians’ perceptions of themselves.
This collection of essays explores women’s complex relationship with the gothic. From novels to hypertext fiction, it reveals the scope, intensity, and risks of this evolution, challenging our understanding of why women engage with the gothic.
What is “soft power”? Chinese scholars debate how influence is won through admiration, not just military force. This volume assesses the concept in the United States, asking whether China can rival American prestige and what it means for US-China relations.
Democracy and Security in the 21st Century
As the Western order is challenged by the rise of the Asia-Pacific, this book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of this transformation, proposing responses to today’s global challenges.