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This book proposes an alternative, Dominican Thomist vision of a procedurally secular society that comprises three realms, namely sacred, secular and profane. Derived from experience and classroom research into dialogic RE interventions; a socially productive pedagogy is advocated as a starting point for the development of a procedurally secular society.

Abbas Khider has established himself as one of the leading literary voices of refugees and marginalised communities in Germany today.Born in Baghdad, Iraq, hs novels probe important questions related to political, cultural, and linguistic identity. This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted to Khider's works to date.

Hermann Hesse once stated that his Japanese readers understood him best. This book examines his reception in Japan and of Japan in the context of a transcultural reception process. It analyses the different phases of Hesse's reception in Japan, the influence of Wilhelm Gundert as well as his epistolary exchange with his Japanese readers.

The Picture Postcard, a new window into Edwardian Ireland uses the material culture of the picture postcard as a lens through which to examine life on the island of Ireland during the Edwardian period (1902-10).

This collection of essays is dedicated to John D. Lyons, Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia and a preeminent scholar of early modern France and Italy. The book is organized around the key themes of Lyons's research throughout his illustrious career.

This book brings together research perspectives on the theme of European linguistic and cultural identity. Its chapters are the responses of rising European researchers to the challenges of language and identity in the context of a multilingual Europe, particularly in urban settings.

The aim of this short book is to understand which countries do well on key indicators and why. Where in the world is the best place to live and why?

In this book noted economic anthropologist Scott Cook draws on many decades of fieldwork in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Tamaulipas to take on the challenge of crafting an academic memoir designed to provide insights into the role of commodities in his own life and times and especially in his anthropological career.

The Waldensians, members of a dissident religious movement originating in twelfth-century France, are particularly significant for understanding early Church history. This collection discusses the construction and transmission of Waldensian identity through discourse and cultural production at an international level.

The study of scents and all things olfactory is thriving, a sign of our current interest in direct and immediate experiences of reality. This volume contributes to the discussion by focusing on the mediality of smells, the mechanisms by which scents circulate and are diffused, explored across different cultures and historical periods.

This is the untold story of Counteract, the trade union sponsored anti-sectarian unit tackling violent sectarianism in the workplace in the Northern Ireland conflict.

This volume examines the knotty relationship between toleration and religious freedom. Spanning from the early modern period to the present day, it explores how discourses on toleration impact on current debates about religious freedom, and challenges assumptions about the associations between religious ideas and the law.

Medieval liturgical practice had a deep and far-reaching influence on thought and experience of the time. This book argues that Dante's engagement with liturgy is central to the daring and highly original poetic project of the Commedia, shaping its treatment of time, its engagement with theology, and its portrayal of the soul's awakening.

This collection brings together for the first time Peter Fitting's writings about the utopian impulse as expressed in science fiction, fantasy, cinema, architecture, and cultural theory.

This book follows the many echoes of Jean Racine's oeuvre across Europe, from courts to schools to other arts, opening up vistas for further exploration across cultural and political borders.

Marie Nimier's writing exemplifies a contemporary 'return of the subject' in the rich diversity of the fifteen novels she has published since Sirene in 1985, blending fiction and life-writing. This collection of essays explores central aspects of self and subject across her oeuvre and includes an original short story by Nimier.

The language of war is a potent dynamic and key inhibitor of sustainable peace. A case study of the Northern Ireland peace process has been used as a background for research into Sinn Fein political discourses in the period 1969-2019.

This book focuses on the affordances of contemporary, accelerated digital news production, proposing a new conception and connection between long-form journalism and archives. This approach is based on a theoretical framework of the contemporary digital experience which is defined as the 'Digital Landscape'.

Les contributions re¿unies dans cet ouvrage montrent les nombreuses e¿volutions qui ont touche¿ les arme¿es au cours de la dernie¿re de¿cennie en France, notamment depuis leur professionnalisation. Nombre de transformations re¿centes rede¿finissent en effet leurs pe¿rime¿tres d¿action, leurs liens au pouvoir politique, leurs modalite¿s de recrutement, leurs moyens ope¿rationnels, ainsi que le the¿ätre de leurs interventions dans le monde.L¿ouvrage actualise et renouvelle les approches comme les outils de connaissance du monde militaire. Il revient sur les enjeux classiques du champ d¿e¿tude de la sociologie militaire afin d¿entretenir l¿he¿ritage intellectuel et scientifique constitue¿ jusqu¿ici, et montre les proble¿matiques sociales et politiques actuelles qui la concernent au vu de toutes les transformations et adaptations de l¿institution militaire dans la pe¿riode re¿cente. Il ouvre la voie ä des pistes de recherches originales s¿appuyant sur les re¿cents acquis des sciences sociales et politiques.

QUEER(ING) GENDER IN ITALIAN WOMEN'S WRITINGS is the first study of its kind to systematically use queer theory as a theoretical framework of analysis in Italian literature in general, and in Italian women's writings in particular.

Derek Robbins here provides an abridged translation of Vers le style du XXe siecle, and he also examines the background to its production and its influence. How far can change be promoted just in a text? This is the question for our time as we assess competing visions of the 'new normal'.

This volume brings together 15 studies reporting the latest international research on developments and trends in religious education. These studies illustrate recurrent themes affecting the development of religious education in diverse locations.

This book explores the representation of industrial labor in Italian literature and film from the 1950s through the 1970s. Italian literature and film are shown to interpret - and influence - developments in labor during this period, from agriculture to industry to information technologies.

This book outlines a new literary form called "post-postmodernism", which abandons the ironic approach of postmodernism while also retaining some postmodern narrative devices such as autofiction and metafiction. This international study features authors such as Roberto Bolano, William T. Vollmann, and Jonathan Littell

This book explores the legacy of English-language women's writing about pregnancy and childbirth during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining the work of authors such as Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Jean Rhys, Anais Nin, Margaret Drabble, and Toni Morrison, this book posits a literary corpus of procreativity.

This volume offers a fresh approach to transmedia cultures, including not only franchises like Star Wars and Harry Potter but also contemporary transmedia worlds like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Walking Dead, and BTS Universe and urgent topics like such as COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and human rights on the internet.

Raina's book, reproducing the secret files kept on Lessing, is a unique insight into her political life. She was eventually disillusioned by communism, seeking a better understanding of human relations than Soviet-conforming cliches. Her understanding was much enriched by the experiences of her activism and knowledge of the opposition it aroused.

Mothers and mothering are significant features of contemporary women's writing in France, but in Marie NDiaye's writing, mothers often appear inadequate, abusive or even murderous. This book seeks to explore what this negative representation tells us about mothers and how mothers represent their own mothering to themselves.