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This book is an interdisciplinary work that combines theological anthropology and pneumatology through a postcolonial/decolonial perspective. With the questions about homely space, the author revitalizes the conversation about liminality as a decolonial pulse of the Holy Spirit by carefully examining histories and literature.

This book examines the lives of Muslim women living in Deccan, an area in south India, and collects observations and findings in the field focusing on issues of history and culture, family, education, work, and health.

This book presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan and examines human-plant entanglements on the island.

Explore the transformative potential of international students in shaping the politics of higher education. Moving beyond a focus on the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of the international student experience, this book breaks new ground by examining diverse forms of international student activism, advocacy, and political engagement.

This book provides a rich analysis of U2¿s songs, unveiling the light of hope amid the darkness of trauma and provide close interpretations of the band¿s lyrics and performances through the lenses of trauma and memory studies.

This book examines engagements of daily practices on different types of digital platforms and devices to present a local understanding of geographies of consumption in the digital age from a non-Western perspective and to understand the connections between local cultures and activities in the global development of digital technologies.

Drawing off ninety years of survey data, Zachary Cook argues that younger voters, as a function of the life cycle, tend to believe that government should do more to regulate the business sector to help provide high quality jobs for all.

Athletes might face a myriad of psychosocial difficulties when they retire from professional or elite level competition. This book explores the nuances of those struggles, focusing on identity reconstruction and the processing of grief related to the loss of self and sport.

The authors analyze the impact of COVID-19 on both public administration and the survival of democracy in Eastern Europe. They conclude that the more democratic states in the north, better handled administrative challenges such as corruption, accountability, trust, disease deaths, and election stability than did the states in the south.

This study explores how opposing ideological work, intended as a counterterrorism strategy decodes and defuses al-Qaedäs role in the current radicalization process in conflict and non-conflict areas. In this context it promotes to theological counterterrorism paradigm for current fundamental terror threats.

This book explores a novel approach to reform the Electoral College to allocate for two electoral votes from each state to the national popular vote winner, in order to bring the American presidential election process more in line with democratic norms and principles.

Hilary Putnam¿s Philosophical Naturalism: Making Philosophy Matter for Life offers a faithful illustration of the trajectory of Putnam¿s thought to show how, despite the shifts in opinion on issues of central philosophical importance, his thought reveals a systematic backbone and strong continuities.

This volume explores the many unique motivations driving the rapid growth of the esports industry from a variety of perspectives and theoretical vantage points. Contributors examine the traditions, cultures, expectations, and rituals that factor into decisions to play and watch esports.

This book critically investigates the standardization of heteronormativity and heteropatriarchal stereotypes. Critiquing the concepts of personhood, performativity, and the post-binary, the chapters deconstruct gender essentialism and embrace gender inclusivity in both theory and practice.

Autistic-Coded Representation and Autism Stereotypes: Looking for the Spectrum examines the stereotypes that often accompany representations of autism in literature, film, and television. It posits that coded characters offer more human, less one-dimensional representations of autistic people.

This book reimagines what it means to be Latina beyond borders and the ¿baggage¿ of cultural categories, definitions, and labels.

This book explores why and how the design of architecture contributes to Christian pursuits of social and environmental justice. Edwards offers a new understanding of architectural design¿s relation to Christian ethics and proposes five moral commitments for orienting the design process towards the flourishing of humanity and God¿s creation.

This book examines citizen engagement at the local level in Cuba through projects initiated by the community since the 1990s to provide an understanding of the relationship between citizens and the state in Cuba.

This is the story of the region where monotheism multiplied, where Christianity came into being, where Judaism reinvented itself, and where Islam won some of its greatest triumphs. This book tells the story of the monotheistic faiths in Galilee from Jesus and Josephus to the Crusades.

Exploring emotions as social relations through the lens of dramatic television serials, this book investigates the profound role emotions play in popular mediated narratives. E. Deidre Pribram argues that collective emotions, activated through aesthetic attributes, play a crucial role in cultural storytelling.

This book uses a theory of cyborg semiotics to explore the similarities between language and cyborgs in their formation, interpretation, and relationships. This intersectional theory provides a unique perspective on power and the human condition.

By examining non-fiction travel narratives and travel fictions in relationship to each other, Daniel Cooper Alarcón highlights the sophisticated ways that both types of writing have anticipated ideas central to critical studies of travel, tourism, and migration.

This volume examines questions concerning the construction of gender and identity in the earliest days of what is now Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Methodologically explicit, the contributions analyze textual and material sources related to these religious traditions in their cultural contexts. The sources examined are predominantly products of patriarchal elite discourses requiring innovative approaches to unveil aspects of gender otherwise hidden. This volume extends the discussion represented in the volume Gender and Second-Temple Judaism (2020) and highlights the fruitfulness of interdisciplinary research beyond anachronistic discipline distinctions.

Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel is the first biography of Gordon Merrick, the most commercially successful writer of gay novels in the twentieth century. This book shows how Merrick's novels were largely based on his own life and time as a Princeton theater star, a Broadway actor, a New York reporter, an OSS spy, and the friend of countless artists and celebrities as an expatriate in France, Greece, and Sri Lanka. He lived much of his life as an openly gay man with his longtime partner, Charles Hulse. His 1970 novel, The Lord Won't Mind, broke new ground by showing that an affirming, explicitly gay novel could be a bestseller. His subsequent gay novels were both a cultural phenomenon and a lightning rod for literary critics. This book also examines the complex, often conflicting responses to Merrick's novels by gay readers and critics, and it thus recovers the early post-Stonewall debates over the definition of ';gay literature.' By reconstructing Merrick's life and critical fortunes, this book expands our understanding of what it means to be a gay man in the twentieth century.

Exploring Caste and Sexuality in Indian English Writing: Outcast Subcultures examines the ways in which caste intersects and shapes matters of desire, gender, religion, and language. This book argues that the epistemology violence in contemporary India derives its strength from caste texts.

A Hindu-Jewish Conversation: Root Traditions in Dialogue is a historical, theological, and phenomenological engagement of the Hindu and Jewish traditions, two "root" traditions that give rise to other-in some ways very different-types of religious traditions. Rachel Fell McDermott and Daniel F. Polish explore conceptions of the divine, which are frequently cited as the most serious obstacle to a serious theological engagement between the two traditions; differences in attitude towards heroes, saints, and holy people; the religious resources and challenges experienced by Hindu and Jewish women; what can be learned about Hindu and Jewish spiritual outpouring by comparing Hindu devotional poetry and the Book of Psalms; the ways in which the two traditions address the fraught question of theodicy, or why bad things happen to good people; the status of "the land" and nationalist claims on it; and the uncomfortable question of caste and its possible social parallels in the Jewish tradition. The authors weave considerations of these topics into an ongoing conversation that offers students of both traditions new ways of thinking both about their intersections and about the history of religion in general. A coda explores these same issues by recounting an actual series of discussions convened between Hindu and Jewish practitioners.

This bookdiscloses the history of relations among members of the Quakers of Philadelphia and Japanese intellectuals, educators, and activists. Throughout the modern era, these ties, often between women, have transformed efforts for peace, equality, and women's rights in Japan and the United States.

This book examines the rituals and texts of the Hutsuls, who inhabit a small mountainous region located in today's Ukraine. The pages cover local affairs, habits, and dispositions as they manifested themselves in rituals and texts in the late nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century.

In Earth Polyphony, Suhasini Vincent analyzes the theory of ecocriticism in its entirety, and its existence in the global paradigm of climate change. Vincent shows how a polyphony of voices can affect law and decision making in the era of the Anthropocene, and aptly shows how voices can coexist as in Bakhtinian polyphony where multiple perspectives coexist despite contradictions and differences.Vincent argues that both material and non-material worlds are endowed with storied forms of knowledge that prompt ecocritical writers to engage in new experimental modes of expression. She explores the 'material turn', the 'animal turn' and the 'narrative turn' to highlight how law meets literature, prompts eco-activism, and how these crisscrossing narratives influence each other to spark judicial activism in forums around the planet.

The US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018 and the return of international sanctions against Tehran turned out to have enormous implications for the Middle Eastern country's commercial interactions with its largest trading partner, China, affecting corrosively every aspect of economic, financial, and technological relationship between the two sides.