This book offers new essays from interdisciplinary perspectives on U2’s career-long dynamic of resisting conventional boundaries in order to erase barriers that inhibit growth, understanding, and prog
Method as Identity considers how social identity shapes methodological standpoints. With a refreshing hip hop sensibility, Miller and Driscoll reorient the contemporary academic study of religion towa
It is assumed institutions of higher education are a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and in turn a way of addressing poverty that is tied to certain racialized/sexualized bodies. But this is no
Eurasia, wherever one draws the boundaries, is very much at the center of discussions about today’s world. This book enables readers to achieve a better understanding of key security threats in
By recognizing tourism as a profound social force, this book engages with notions of power and perspectives of wellness in tourism and the contested conceptualizations of tourism spaces and places for
This book describes and analyzes the economic and administrative structure as well as the ideological background of the Old Babylonian state during the rule of the first dynasty. The author focuses on
This book explores women’s obedience and resistance analyzing two women rebels who live on the social and geographical margins, in the Negev Desert in Israel. She examines their conscious and po
Drawing on insights from Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Art and Selfhood: A Kierkegaardian Account defends the idea that art matters in our society today because it can play a pivotal rol
Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace examines the central role of the Internet in shaping national identity among stateless nations and national minorities in the twenty-first century. By creating new spaces f
"The structure of old and new biographies of God helpfully organizes a massive amount of material involving biblical studies, theology, history, and philosophy. The central distinctions in contempora
This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance in the European Union and the Council of Europe. Academics and policy makers will learn from its analysis of legal and poli
Anastaplo collects 17 essays he has written over the several decades of his academic career on a range of biblical passages and topics. Though they were produced for various and specific audiences and
In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville famously called for 'a new political science' that could address the problems and possibilities of a 'world itself quite new.' For Tocqueville, the democratic world need
The work explores the distinctive influences of philosophical pragmatism and absolute idealism on Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Ramsey, two influential twentieth-century theologians, who learned from and
Jane Rupert shows how Catholic philosopher, theologian, and priest John Henry Newman sheds light on contemporary liberal education and the humanities by distinguishing between the different ways reaso
This book discusses the role of women in Iranian rural-urban migration and the impact of such migration on women. Masoumeh Velayati examines the social and economic motivations of female migrants and
