Bücher von Northwestern University

Examining the concept of habitus - acquired patterns of thought, behaviour and taste that result from internalizing culture or objective social structures - Katharine Breen argues that the adaptation of elite, clerical forms of habitus for lay audiences established the conceptual foundations for a reading public in medieval England.

The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel uncovers a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity, according to which a god has more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Sommer's book has important repercussions not only for biblical scholarship and comparative religion but for Jewish-Christian dialogue.

In an original study of the history and politics of the Rhineland region, Michael Loriaux argues that the European Union is about frontier deconstruction, but that deconstruction has stopped half-way. While political frontiers have been deconstructed, cultural separators are still in place and compromise the development of the European Union.