This book investigates the discourses on origins, identifying four types: mythical, rational, scientific, and phenomenological. It analyzes the singular structure of each, defining them as ascending or descending to reveal the unique ways we talk about our beginnings.
Religious Messages in the Media
Can religious messages be transmitted through the media? This book analyzes the relationship between media and religion, arguing that media can only convey religious messages superficially and are unsuitable for mediating deep spiritual content or evangelization.
For 30,000 years, humans have created visual expressions of their sacred beings. This book investigates these interpretations of deities throughout history, exploring the psychological necessity for us to create gods and goddesses in a human-like form.
This volume gathers research on language acquisition, learning, and teaching. These inspiring contributions by Latin American scholars, or in the Latin American context, will be relevant to all those involved in the process of teaching and learning languages.
Mapping the Postcolonial Domestic in the Works of Vargas Llosa and Mukundan
A pioneering analysis of postcolonialism through the lens of the domestic. This study challenges the limits of Western theory, forging new methods to understand the ‘inner’ realm of colonial experience and its overlooked histories.
Early Feminist Pioneers, Their Lives, and Their Reform Efforts
This book explores the lives of eight early feminist pioneers of England and America. These reformers, activists, and abolitionists noticed injustices and took brave actions at great personal cost to provide remedies and protect vulnerable populations.
An Exploration of Prehistoric Ontologies in the Bering Strait Region
This book introduces the belief and symbolism in prehistoric Bering Strait art. It challenges traditional archaeology by reconsidering the relationship between materiality and spirituality, analyzing therianthropic motifs on ancient Inuit ivories to explore potential shamanism.
A Look at China and Sino-Belarus Cooperation
A guide to China’s new era under Xi Jinping. It explores the centralization of power, the anti-corruption fight, and strengthening diplomacy. This book examines the rapprochement with Russia, rising tensions with the US, and controversies of the “Belt and Road” initiative.
Trúc Lâm Buddhism in Vietnam
In the 13th century, the Trúc Lâm Zen sect flourished, then faded into obscurity for centuries. How and why was it revived in the 20th century? This book analyzes the history of this forgotten sect and examines its modern revival, reform, and traditions.
Change Agents at Work
This book investigates the change agent role, examining the skills they bring and how they develop over time. It provides crucial insights for agencies responsible for hiring and supporting change agents, helping them craft job postings and design effective support structures.
Theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich believed that to fully live, one must do so on the boundary. This book applies his work to pedagogy, demonstrating how a “Tillichian” approach can diminish students’ existential anxieties and prepare them to live in the modern world.
The World of Languages and Literatures
This book offers contemporary perspectives on the evolving world of languages and literatures. Using contemporary research, these essays highlight the dynamic global prism through which scholars view these issues, allowing educators, researchers and students to stay current.
Beyond the Frontier, Volume III
This volume re-imagines the classroom after COVID-19, offering pedagogy that will create teaching opportunities in both virtual and physical classrooms. Ideas are meant to be shared and evolve into methods that work for both teachers and pupils.
Teachers have expressed a lack of training in how to manage student aggression. This book improves understanding of antisocial orientation by examining its causes and treatments, and concludes with classroom strategies and school modifications to foster a prosocial orientation.
This book explores human universals in literature, cinema, and language. Scholars reveal how shared practices and concerns—from myth and trauma to identity—form a basis for intercultural communication, bridging gaps of misinformation across spatial and temporal boundaries.
An Anthropological Study of Marine Fishermen in Kerala
This anthropological study of Hindu marine fishermen in two neighboring Indian villages, administered by different state governments, explores how state interventions influence development, gender roles, and survival in an uncertain economy.
Mistress, Mother, Muse
Palaska fills a vacuum in comparative literary studies in laying the foundations for Mediterraneanism to develop as an area in literary studies. She discusses aspects of female liminality, including motherhood, sexuality and creativity, in three distinctive Mediterranean cultures
For decades, Western Europe has been under Anglo-American military tutelage. Now, amid a widening Atlantic rift and rising geopolitical tensions, the EU seeks “strategic autonomy.” This volume offers a critical assessment of the militarization of European integration.
The Scholar’s Thomas Jefferson
While most compilations focus on Jefferson the politician, this unique book remedies that shortcoming. It is a collection of Jefferson’s writings for those interested in the breadth and depth of his amazing mind, with sections on politics, morality, religion, and education.
Dangerous Men
This analysis of dangerous offender legislation in Canada develops a political economy of dangerousness. Using case studies and interviews, it argues that the label of “high-risk convict” obscures the social and economic conditions that many marginalized people experience.