When prophets die

When the charismatic founder/leader of a religious movement dies, the popular belief is that the movement usually disintegrates. However, many new religions not only survive but prosper, despite leadership transition. In this book, prominent scholars examine what happened to eleven new movements ...

Islam in modern turkey

A biography of the prominent Turkish theologian and thinker.Islam in Modern Turkey presents one of the most comprehensive studies in English of the seminal Turkish thinker and theologian, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1876–1960). A devout Muslim who strongly believed in peacefully coexisting with the W...

The olde daunce

In this volume a variety of perspectives reevaluate the nature of friendship, desire, and the olde daunce of love in the Middle Ages. Challenging earlier scholarly notions about medieval marriage, this book suggests and explores the legitimacy of marital friendship, affection, and mutuality. The ...

Life after the soviet union

Examines the political, social, and economic issues confronted by each of the newly independent republics in the Transcaucasus and Central Asian regions.In separate chapters covering Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, this book examines the impact of the radical social, economi...

Heterosexism

A ground-breaking book that shows that the prevailing sexual ethic is no longer useful.In this ground-breaking book the authors show that the prevailing sexual ethic is no longer useful. It presumes as ideal, a uniform morality based on a limited understanding of human sexuality. Heterosexism is ...

Productive postmodernism

Investigates a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture to address the role of history in postmodern cultural productions.Productive Postmodernism addresses the differing accounts of postmodernism found in the work of Fredric Jameson and Linda Hutcheon, a debate that centers ar...

Killing children in british fiction

Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.This book stems from a simple yet disturbing observation: contemporary British fiction is full of children killing or being killed. Thoughtfully c...

A sort of utopia

Scarsdale, New York, is a small community with a large reputation. Long before it had gained general recognition as a source of fad diets and the presumed site of sensational murders, it was well-known in upper-middle-class circles for the rigor of its zoning, the excellence of its schools, the s...

Congressional preemption

Examines the use of preemption powers by Congress to completely or partially remove regulatory authority from state and local governments.Congressional Preemption provides an in-depth account of the use of preemption powers by Congress to either partially or completely remove regulatory authority...

The politics of torah

A study of the origins and early history of the Agudat Israel movement in Germany, the first international political movement among Orthodox Jews.Founded in Germany in 1912, Agudat Israel was the first comprehensive, international political movement among Orthodox Jews. This study examines the fo...

Narrating postmodern time and space

Defines postmodern writing and distinguishes it from modern writing by citing examples from two modern and three postmodern writers: Italo Calvino, John Barth, Toni Morrison, E. L. Doctorow, and Antonio Tabucchi.Francese defines postmodern writing and distinguishes it from modernist prose by citi...

Folk songs of the catskills

Patronage and community in medieval china

A vivid portrait of the culture of a provincial military society in China's early medieval period and its interactions with the southern imperial court.This first book-length treatment of a provincial military society in China's early medieval period offers a vivid portrait of this milieu and inv...

Troubling play

This new interpretation of Plato's Parmenides emphasizes its treatment of time and language—insights especially relevant for those working in the Continental tradition.Troubling Play is a new and illuminating interpretation of Plato's Parmenides-notoriously the most difficult of the dialogues. Sh...

Incentive pay and career ladders for today's teachers

This book examines how teacher incentive pay and career ladder programs have been implemented-what forms they've taken; what issues arose as programs were established; what their impact has been so far; and what their future might be. It provides a program taxonomy and conceptual framework for un...

Bad seeds and holy terrors

Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror's most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil...

The teachings of the odd-eyed one

A study and translation of a tantric contemplative manual and the commentary on it.This book offers the first published translation of the contemplative manual Virūpāksapañcasikā, written circa the twelfth century CE, and the commentary on it, Vivrti by Vidyācakravartin. These late works from the...

Spiritualism and the foundations of c. g. jung's psychology

Charet uncovers some of the reasons why Jung's psychology finds itself living between science and religion. He demonstrates that Jung's early life was influenced by the experiences, beliefs, and ideas that characterized Spiritualism and that arose out of the entangled relationship that existed be...

The masks of dionysos

The metaphysical center of Plato's work has traditionally been taken to be his Doctrine of Forms; the epistemological center, the Doctrine of Recollection. The Symposium has been viewed as one of the clearest explanations of the first and Meno as one of the clearest explanations of the other. The...

Romantic science

Uncovers the vital role that new scientific discoveries played in Romantic literary culture.Although "romantic science" may sound like a paradox, much of the romance surrounding modern science-the mad scientist, the intuitive genius, the utopian transformation of nature-originated in the Romantic...

Voicing the void

Explores the connections between muteness and the complicated acts of survival, testimony, memory, and interpretation, through focused readings of Holocaust fiction by Kosinski, Wiesel, Tournier, Ida Fink, and others.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksThrough new close readings of Holocaust fi...

Austerity and the labor movement

An overview and analysis of austerity policies and labor movement resistance in several countries.Austerity policies have become the new norm throughout both the developed and developing world. Indeed, austerity has become the new buzz word in the lexicon of politicians from across the political ...

"our relations…the mixed bloods"

Articulates the relationships between kinship, racial ideology, mixed blood treaty provisions, and landscape transformation in the Great Lakes region.In the Great Lakes region of the nineteenth century, "mixed bloods" were a class of people living within changing indigenous communities. As such, ...

The threefold struggle

Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.We members of settler colonial culture-the latest form of what novelist and cultural crit...

Newdick's season of frost

In 1935 Professor Robert Newdick of Ohio State University wrote to Robert Frost-already America's most famous living poet-in order to suggest certain revisions in the arrangement of the poet's collected poems. The brief letter was to begin a relationship of nearly five years (ending only with New...

America's forgotten poet-philosopher

Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.This book examines the ideas and influences of a nearly forgotten Swedish-American philosopher, John Elof Boodin (1869–1950). A friend and student of William James and protégé of Josiah Royce at Harvard, Boodi...

The world of perversion

An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective.In The World of Perversion, James Penney argues that antihomophobic criticism has nothing to lose-and indeed everything to gain-by reclaiming the psychoanalytic concept of perversion as psychic structure. Analyzing the antago...

Journey of a goddess

First English translations of a novel and two play excerpts based on tales of the goddess Chen Jinggu, an eighth-century shaman and present-day cult deity.This book offers the first translation into English of the Chinese novel Haiyouji, as well as excerpts of a marionette play based on the cult ...

Dorothy day and the catholic worker

Fifty years ago, Dorothy Day sold the first issue of the Catholic Worker in New York, and one of the most remarkable newspapers in American history was born. It advocated something revolutionary for 1933 America: the union of Catholicism with a passionate concern for social justice and with perso...

Aristotle on political enmity and disease

Explores Aristotle's theory of the causes that give rise to stasis ('civic disorder'), and provides an original and systematic account of his understanding of political justice and friendship.This book explores Aristotle's theory of stasis, a word usually translated to mean "revolution," "civic d...

Climate and cultural change in prehistoric europe and the near east

Rich case studies examining responses to climatic events in ancient Europe and the Near East.The subject of climate change could hardly be more timely. In Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East, an interdisciplinary group of contributors examine climate change through...

Memory and mastery

Interdisciplinary explorations into the work of one of the premier writer-survivors of the Holocaust.This book carefully examines the work of Primo Levi, one of the premier survivor-writers of the Holocaust and one of the outstanding Italian writers of the twentieth century. Artists, writers, and...

Hobbes and the democratic imaginary

A critical interrogation of elements of Hobbes's political and natural philosophy and its capacity to enrich our understanding of the nature of democratic life.At a time when nearly all political actors and observers-despite the nature of their normative commitments-morally appeal to the language...

Virtue, order, mind

Discusses the nature of philosophical rationality and modernity.While the articles in this book reflect not only different adventures in philosophy as well as conceptions of what philosophy itself is, there is a core around which they all turn. Each one of the authors represented here deals, in h...

The broken whole

Considers the problem of pluralism and offers a vision of human solidarity for the postmodern era.In an increasingly precarious global situation, and in light of the postmodern emphasis on difference, efforts to grasp the "whole" as something universally shared by all human beings have fallen sho...

The time of memory

Explores the mythology of memory, involuntary memory, and the relation between time and memory in the context of questions prominent in contemporary thought.The Time of Memory places emphasis on nonvoluntary memory and the mythology of memory in the context of questions that are prominent in cont...

The blossom which we are

Charts the vicissitudes of a distinctly modern and peculiarly human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile, time-bound cultural framework that we inhabit—in the history of the realist novel.The Blossom Which We Are traces the emergence of a distinctly modern form of human vulnerabil...

The hard sell of paradise

Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai'i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.The Hard Sell of Paradise examines how mid-twentieth-century Hollywood, negotiating the rhetoric of the tourism industry, offered a complex and contradictory vision ...

A geology of school reform

Provides a rare look at how successive waves of educational reforms have interacted within a single school district.A Geology of School Reform provides a rare look at how successive waves of reform have interacted within a single school district. Among the questions raised are: Which practices pr...

School-university partnerships

A research-based, practical guide to the Professional Development Schools (PDS) approach to school-university partnershipsSchool-University Partnerships offers an introductory guide for education faculty members and in-service school professionals seeking clinically rich teaching experiences. It ...

Cultural diversity in schools

This book confronts the patterns of school failure often faced by subordinated minority groups in the United States. It does so by presenting a socioacademic framework that is based on the notion that all groups can have comparable access to quality schooling, comparable participation in the scho...

Photography, vision, and the production of modern bodies

Examines photography and its contribution to changing notions of the body in modernity.Lalvani argues that modernity represents the powerful privileging of vision and the introduction of a paradigm of seeing that is historically distinctive. Taking the introduction of photography in the nineteent...

Protectors or praetorians?

This analysis of state policy under the last two Mamluk rulers enables modern readers to observe a pivotal era in the history of Egypt and southwest Asia.This analysis of state policy under the last two Mamluk rulers enables modern readers to observe a pivotal era in the history of Egypt and sout...

Women and school leadership

International in scope, this is an unprecedented compilation of current theories and perspectives on women and leadership issues in schools at all levels.This international collection of work by leading feminist scholars in educational administration from five Western liberal democratic countries...

Feminism, foucault, and embodied subjectivity

Argues that Foucault's work employs a conception of subjectivity that is well-suited for feminist theory and politics.Addressing central questions in the debate about Foucault's usefulness for politics, including his rejection of universal norms, his conception of power and power-knowledge, his s...

Otherwise than the binary

Examines traditional sites of binary thinking in ancient Greek texts and culture to demonstrate surprising ambiguity, especially with regard to sexual difference.Otherwise Than the Binary approaches canonical texts and concepts in Ancient Greek philosophy and culture that have traditionally been ...

Ida rubinstein

The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.Ida Rubinstein (1883–1960) captivated Paris's dancers, composers, artists, and audiences from her time in the Ballets Russes in 1909 to her final performances ...