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Christianity is the world's largest religious grouping. It has undergone massive change in the 20th century, and seems poised to undergo major transformations in the next. This text examines these changes, and their implications for the future.

This manifesto traces the genealogy of "true religion" in the western world. It charts changes in our understanding of the term from Shakespeare to Salmon Rushdie, pointing out how closely linked those changes are to secularism, liberalism, and the development of capitalism.

Focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing the debates around it. This book offers a critique of postmodern 'culturalism', arguing instead for a more complex relation between Culture and Nature, and trying to retrieve the importance of such concepts as human nature from a non-naturalistic perspective.

Addresses anxieties about theory and claims that it still has a crucial role to play. This book sketches its genealogy, particularly its relation to surrealism, philosophy, and the hard sciences. It proposes that theory, like hysteria, consistently points out the inadequacies of official, serious and 'masterful' knowledge.

This important Manifesto argues that we still need a concept of society in order to make sense of the forces which structure our lives.

Presents the history of the idea of popular culture. This book traces the invention and reinvention of the concept of popular culture from the eighteenth-century 'discovery' of folk culture to accounts of the cultural impact of globalization. It argues that the idea of popular culture is an invention of intellectuals.

* Asks what literary criticism should do in the post--theory era. * Articulates the case for a theoretically aware but textually centred literary studies. * Controversial in its privileging of texts over readings and in its insistence on the rehumanisation of literary studies.

In this major contribution to debates about English identity, leading theorist Robert J.C. Young argues that Englishness was never really about England at all. In the nineteenth century, it was rather developed as a form of long-distance identity for the English diaspora around the world.

Argues that it is only at the turn of the 21st century that the powerful lessons of the avant-garde - an avant-garde cruelly disrupted by the Great War and subsequent political upheavals - were learned. This book offers readings of T S Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, and Velimir Khlebnikov. It examines various related poetic concerns.

Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, The Threat of Race explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated, if often denied, in today's world.