Muslim Women Seeking Power, Muslim Youth Seeking Justice
This volume explores employment equity for Muslim women and the identity of Muslim youth in an age of Islamophobia. It offers a worldwide perspective on overcoming discrimination, developing the idea of peaceful resistance and patience in the face of persecution.
New Media and the Mediatisation of Religion
New media has transformed religious practice and expression. This book offers a unique, Africa-centred perspective on how technology influences religious engagement, shapes discourses, and enables beliefs to reach a broader audience.
Organizational Power and Ethical Subjectivity
This collection emphasizes the significance of the theoretical humanities in our times and their urgent task of reconstructing a more rationalized humanist-scientific foundation for a new type of human sciences through critically reorganizing all intellectual sources of mankind.
Perspectives of Five Kuwaiti Women in Leadership Roles
In intimate conversations, five remarkable Kuwaiti women leaders—including one of the first female MPs, an art advocate, and an oil industry leader—share their thoughts on gender equality, the women’s rights movement, and the role of religion in their country’s future.
Portable Roots
This book challenges the traditional understanding of human development by focusing on identity formation in bicultural children. Drawing on a three-decade study, it explores themes of “rootlessness” and asks how transplanted roots can thrive.
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.
Spirit, Faith and Church
Women are represented as inferior creatures or as privileged vessels for the divine. This volume questions how women have negotiated their spiritual roles in male-dominated institutions and reacted to perceptions of their bodies as facilitating or impeding access to God.
Sport and the Christian Religion
This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. It offers an important response to the ‘win-at-all-costs’ philosophy of modern sport for students, academics, and coaches.
The Birth of a Celestial Light
This book examines Iranian women who are neither conventionally religious nor secular, but explore spirituality. It investigates the feminist potential of the “Inter-universal Mysticism” movement for women seeking to transform their lives and construct their own selves.
The Legend, Lore and Spirit of the Water Horse
This book explores the legends of the water horse in mythology, folklore, and art. It delves into the romance and mystery of water as a sacred, cleansing element and also as an untamed, disruptive force. How are these manifestations linked to the human psyche?
Soviet repressions and a nationalist focus on Christian roots have made researching shamanism in Armenia no easy business. This study confronts this impasse, helping to set in motion the process of uncovering these ancient and suppressed practices.
Soviet repressions against shamanism, a recent surge of interest in the Orthodox church, and a nationalist preoccupation with Christian roots makes research into Georgia’s pagan practices no easy business. This study helps to set the process in motion.
The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity
This volume brings two worlds together. Instead of crisis, its contributors see the postmodern turn as an opportunity. These Christian scholars enter into dialogue with contemporary literary theory, offering innovative new readings informed by both theory and faith.
While Thomas Merton wrote extensively on racial justice, few books are devoted to summarizing and applying his ideas to current racial tensions. This book reviews his most important writings on race and uses Merton as a model for easing present-day tensions.
Unfashionable Objections to Islamophobic Cartoons
Byrd critiques the political philosophy of Stéphane Charbonnier of Charlie Hebdo, showing how the new “Enlightenment Fundamentalism” of the political left contributes to the Islamophobic politics of Europe’s neo-fascist right.