My Mother’s Table
This study explores how Lebanese immigrants construct home in diaspora. When traditional ties of kinship, village, and sect are transformed, they face a crisis of belonging. The study finds home is not a physical place but a metaphysical state, created by women.
This book highlights the cultures and religions of Mediterranean countries, discussing diversity, minority rights, and interreligious dialogue. It provides a roadmap to manage pluralism, helping different populations live together in harmony, acceptance, and coexistence.
The Jagannath temple’s heterogeneous tradition has given rise to a vibrant oral and written culture. This volume explores the representation of Jagannath in literary texts, oral tales, songs, and dance, investigating the different modes of representation of the deity.
The Christian Cross in American Public Life
From towering monuments to roadside memorials, the cross is a vital symbol in American life. It marks identity, grief, and sacrifice, while sparking legal debates over church and state. This volume explores the cross in art, politics, and culture in an accessible A-to-Z format.
Anticipating Veil Ban Effects
How do veiling bans truly impact Muslim women? This vital research uses critical racial feminism to analyze the consequences for their quality of life and human rights, questioning the balance between state interest and individual freedom in the West.
Sharma explores Quakerism, its legacy, and its relevance for Gandhian research, covering topics such as the historical circumstances that led to the birth of Quakerism, the history of the movement, the practices of the sect, and efforts of Quakers to make people more tolerant.
Ten Gods
This book uncovers the shared origins of Indo-European gods, proposing a pantheon of ten deities who reflect the social organization of their prehistoric society. Analyzing sources like the Edda and Rāmāyaṇa, it reveals Europe’s original culture.
Women’s Movements and Countermovements
This volume explores women’s movements and their countermovements in Southeast Asia and North Africa. Covering case studies from Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco and Tunisia, it reveals the dominant pattern of Islamist movements countering the goals of women’s movements.
Edward Said and Jacques Derrida
By placing Edward Said and Jacques Derrida in each other’s company, these essays by leading scholars reconstellate their work on humanism. This collection opens questions of ethics and politics to reconsider the human subject in the global moment.
This book examines how religion, politics, gender, and sexuality in Zimbabwe have been gendered and sexualised to trap women in tradition and bar them from playing a participative role. Its findings cut across disciplines to empower people in theory and practice.
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.
The Quaker Condition
This book sociologically examines the ‘Quaker Condition’ in present-day Britain. A pioneering social science study of a single faith group, it analyses Quakerism as a hyper-liberal religion, prefiguring developments that may overtake conservative groups.
Africana Jewish Journeys
Millions of people worldwide are identifying as Jews or converting. In this volume, scholars and practitioners explore this new shaping of modern Jewish identities in Africa, the United States, and India.
This book challenges the assumption that Islamism and democracy are incompatible. Drawing from fieldwork in post-Suharto Indonesia, it reveals how these forces can coexist through contestation and compromise, with implications for Muslim-majority countries.
On the Move
Fleeing their land, the refugee’s journey is fraught with danger and despair. They are the “untouchables” of the 21st century, testing our moral duty of hospitality. This collection of essays explores their journey as represented in literature since WWII.
Ogbonnaya examines varieties of the intercultural process in world Christianity. He shows that the centrality of culture for world Christianity showcases the important position the scale of values occupies in world Christianity.
This study presents the Pentateuch in both its wider Biblical context and a close reading of the five books. Synthesizing historical and literary approaches, it investigates aspects of these texts that remain challenging and helpful for anyone searching for the path of faith.
Islam in its International Context
Changing attitudes to Islam influence political cultures and national identities. This volume offers in-depth, multi-nation perspectives from Europe, the USA and the Middle East, addressing issues from Muslim radicalism to Islamophobia and Islamic art.
Rethinking Secularization
A philosophical appraisal of secularization in light of religion’s re-emergence. This volume challenges dominant theories of a linear emancipation from a religious past to a secular age, considering philosophy’s role in such prophecies and offering a more complex view.
The Secret History of the Soul
What if the soul wasn’t an abstract entity but a physical force? This book examines forgotten models from the ancient world where spirit was a potent, transferable energy that blurred the line between body and soul and was used to effect magical cures.