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Concepts based on full-blown collective intentionality (aboutness) are central for understanding the social world. The book systematically studies social groups, collective commitment, group intentions, beliefs, and actions, especially authority-based group attitudes and actions, also addressing cooperation, cultural evolution, and responsibility.

Traces the story of the Portuguese Nation from its emergence in the late 15th century to its fragmentation in the middle of the 17th century and situates it in relation to the expansion and crisis of Spanish imperial dominion in the Atlantic. This book reconstitutes the life of a community based on movement, maritime trade, and cultural hybridity.

This book interprets the music theory of Henrich Schenker (1868-1935), as part of a project encompassing musical reform and social and political critique. It sets his work into the contexts of Viennese modernism, German cultural conservatism, and Schenker's position as a Jewish immigrant to the city where modern anti-semitism first developed.

Boardwalk of Dreams traces the transformations of public space in Atlantic City during the 20th century, grappling with themes of tourism, racial identity, class mobility, urban 'renewal', and the various roles of middle-class vacationers, residents, and business figures in shaping this particular landscape.

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), the first black American to publish a book, was internationally famous during her short life. This edition, with an essay by the editor, restores her to her proper place in America's literary heritage.

This title provides a chronicle of New York City's labour strife, social movements, and political turmoil in the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Twenty years after its initial publication, Wilentz has added a new preface that takes stock of his own thinking, then and now, about New York City and the rise of the American working class.

Shadows appear to be counter-examples to the causal theory of perception. After all, an absence of light cannot reflect light into our eyes. Roy Sorensen sets out to resolve this anomaly and to show how the causal theory solves a broad range of visual puzzles about dark things.

Recognition in Mozart's Operas uses both literary and musicological methods to illuminate some of Mozart's best-loved operas. Waldoff argues that, rather than offering the simple happy endings or tragic climaxes of 'easier' operas, many of Mozart's works feature scenes of recognition - movements in which a protagonist has an important revelation that changes the course of the drama.

This title argues that Mark's gospel represents an early and evolving Christianity, which shaped its theological discourse out of the forms familiar to early Judaism. He maintains that, following Jewish tradition, Mark reinterpreted the Word for early Christians, ensuring its relevance.

Once famous for the beauty of its beaches, reefs, and forests, today the Philippines typifies the deep economic and social problems that ecological decline can bring. The Green Tiger gives an intimate, unflinching, but optimistic view of a country struggling to integrate conservation with development.

Originally published in 1980, Fundamentalism and American Culture has long been considered a classic in religious history, and to this day remains unsurpassed. For this new edition, Marsden will add a chapter exploring the changes in American fundamentalism since the book's original publication, including evangelicals' extraordinary growth in political prominence.

What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory.

Argues that recognition of morally negative events in American history is essential to the health of the society. Focusing on the wrongs suffered by African Americans and Native Americans, this work examines the challenges associated with the call for collective repentance.