This work brings new dimensions to the relationship between Islam and the Holy region. It unveils that Islamicjerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis) is not a single city but a large spiritual region, delving into overlooked topics and raising questions for further scholarship.
Showing the World to the World
This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these “political fictions” contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.
Mourning and Disaster
Why did the Hillsborough disaster and the death of Princess Diana provoke such contrasting scenes of public mourning? This book asks what these events reveal about society, identity, and the ways we grieve for those we don’t know personally.
This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.
These essays explore how Maine’s unique identity was constructed through its literature as a place imagined primarily through its “nature” and landscape. Discussing writers from Thoreau to E.B. White, this collection shows how this image was formed and endures.
Mediations in Cultural Spaces
These essays explore the cultural production of space across East and West. Through interdisciplinary treatments of architecture, politics, and new media, this volume reveals space as a radically mobile concept, conceived in terms of power and emancipation.
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.
Natural Law
Amid renewed interest in natural law theory, this volume provides an overview of its history, key authors, and ongoing research. An excellent introduction and reference text, it offers a solid basis for understanding human goods without bias.
Between the Pigeonholes
An intellectual pioneer praised by Huxley and Forster but now largely unknown, Gerald Heard was a cultural force. This first full-length study examines how his ideas bridged science, spirituality, and politics, influencing both the Left and the Right.
Religious Attachment
Using attachment theory, this book explores the faith experiences of Christian women. Based on in-depth interviews, it identifies three patterns of religious attachment—Distance/Avoidance, Anxiety/Ambivalence, and Security—with practical implications for pastoral care.
In the French Third Republic (1870-1914), literature was mobilized for political and social warfare. These essays analyze how literature became the site for fierce culture wars over national identity, secular education, women’s liberation, and more.
Reading America
This collection of essays offers a refreshing perspective on classic American novels. It explores familiar texts through unfamiliar lenses, shedding light on surprising aspects of works by authors from Toni Morrison to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
These essays examine mysticism from Eastern, Western, philosophical, and religious perspectives. Featuring studies of thinkers from Teresa de Avila to Nietzsche and Kant, this collection attests to the power of mysticism to provoke reasoned thought on ultimate matters.
New Approaches to Teaching Italian Language and Culture
This collection of essays offers a variety of up-to-date approaches to teaching Italian. International scholars provide case studies and hands-on strategies using curricular innovations, technology, film, and study abroad programs as effective pedagogical tools.
ZONA NORTE
What began as an ethnographic study of sex workers on the U.S./Mexican border turned inward. The author studies himself within the culture, examining his feelings and reactions as he observes dancers and hookers on both sides of the border.
Trust and Transitions
This volume examines trust within social capital theory, using empirical studies of post-Communist countries and theoretical analysis. Noted scholars explore trust’s role in marketization and democratization, presenting contemporary perspectives for times of transition.
The roots of Chechnya lie in shamanism. The rich stories of the Nokhchii people have survived for thousands of years through oral traditions, providing virtually the only remaining evidence of their ancestors. This book contains these tales and commentaries on them.
This book tackles the challenges of translating children’s literature, from picturebooks to classics like Beatrix Potter and Tolkien. It examines the active role of translators and publishers, linking theory with practice through diverse examples.
Celebrating forty years of interpreter and translator training at Bath, this volume explores key issues in the field. Professionals and academics cover teaching techniques, the use of IT, quality assessment, and other modern workplace challenges.
This pioneering volume introduces recent research into less-studied Iranian languages like Kurdish, Balochi, and Pamir. Covering theoretical, descriptive, and applied linguistics, it is a valuable contribution to our understanding of a complex language family.
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