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Further Essays addresses Hebrew book arts, pressmarks and verses used to entitle books; the works of rabbis and scholars, once prominent but not well remembered today; several locations, once important, also not well remembered today; and articles on other book topics.

This book reflects critically on the value of research in, on and for teacher education. It explores the nature and role of teacher education research, identifying ways to enhance its value for policy and practice. Bringing together international studies, it offers a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches.

A revised reprint of the classic study of the communal Arabic dialects of Baghdad (Muslim, Christian, and Jewish).

Threshold Concepts in the Moment presents chapters that span the field, tackling questions that range from the overarching values and practices of higher education, teaching for breakthroughs and supporting students in difficult and complex learning.

How international is international humanitarian law? This book attempts to answer that question. It offers a culture-by-culture account of various unique restrictions placed on warfare over time. Containing essays by a range of laws of war academics and practitioners, it approaches the laws of yesterday's wars from a wide cross-section of history and culture, seeking to find any common ground and to demonstrate a history of international law outside the usual confines of its 'development' by Europeans and its later 'contributions.' This volume includes studies on Mongol, Iban and Ottoman rules of war.

The title concept 'in-between' (metaxu) refers to identity that remains in perpetual disjunction, dispersion and crisis. This book proves that 'in-between' is not an empty space, but a productive mode of creating new qualities, experiences, ideas and representations.

Threshold Concepts in the Moment presents chapters that span the field, tackling questions that range from the overarching values and practices of higher education, teaching for breakthroughs and supporting students in difficult and complex learning.

This handbook offers a comprehensive anthology of gender studies on the Caribbean islands of the Netherlands. It illuminates the diversity and complexity of Dutch Caribbean gender history, culture and politics, covering five decades of scholarship, source texts, and literary expression.

"In American Christian Programmed Quaker Ecclesiology, Derek Brown argues that American Christian Programmed Quakerism has inherited a practical and pragmatic ecclesiology at the expense of an ontological understanding of the church. Inspired by the work of Gerben Heitink, Brown proposes a normative, deductive, ontological ecclesiology based on the biblical concept of koinonia, which would act as a 'foundational' model for future confessional, empirical, and practical efforts. To help form the proposed ecclesiology, Brown explores the ecclesiological views of George Fox and Robert Barclay, the adoption of the pastoral system, and the emergence of the Evangelical Friends Church. The ecclesiological writings of Miroslav Volf, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Hans Kèung, Jennifer Buck, and C. Wess Daniels are also surveyed"--

With almost three decades of market democracy, South Africa has gone horribly wrong. This volume provides a left critique and explanation for the failed promise of national liberation of South Africa, and provides praxis-centred arguments for a new transformative politics.

This book presents a full commentary on a subversive second-century narrative of the shipwreck, capture by bandits, apparent human sacrifice, hippopotamus hunting, poisoning, and sightseeing of two young lovers on the run from parental authority in Egypt's Nile delta.

""As the Oracles of God" examines how Quakers in colonial America sought to control both the written and spoken word in their religious communities. It looks at the ways in which American Friends set up committees to censor texts deemed heterodox, as well as the ways Quakers sought to moderate the words of believers through encouraging self-censorship as a way to access personal revelation, while also paying particular attention to the experiences of those who ran afoul of Friends' rules in these regards, either by publishing works without the consent of their meetings or speaking in un-Quakerly fashion. Debates over freedom of speech, the work asserts, defined early modern religious communities just as much as it did more formal legal institutions"--

Provides philosophical definitions which help scholars and students to understand Plotinus' notions of eternity and time; presents a way in which to understand the relationship between eternity, time, and the hypostases; conveys the practical and experiential aspect of Ennead III.7.

The story of the mitre began during the 11th-century church reform movements and was, surprisingly, inspired by a popular pastime. After a thousand years of bare heads, the Church finally had an official hat, signaling newly-structured internal dynamics, an increase in power and influence in society, and greater parity with secular leaders.

The asymmetrical U.S.-China relationship that has been the fundamental axis of globalisation has definitively entered into crisis. Sciortino's book represents a timely, rich, and sophisticated analysis of the geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics at play in the looming confrontation between U.S. and China.

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the authority of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the determination of international humanitarian law, addressing, among other things, the institution's most distinctive interpretations and law-ascertainments through case studies.

As a sequel to Williamson (2020), An International Review of Empirical Research on the Psychology of Fundamentalism, by W. Paul Williamson and Sarah Demmrich, offers a critical analysis of 365 empirical studies, collected and organized from peer-reviewed journals.

For Durkheim sociology was not a form of knowledge closed in its specificity, nor an instrument for social order: it was an open science, aiming at promoting reflective change and the progressive development of society.

Volume 6/2 of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. It covers families Orsodacnidae, Megalopodidae and Chrysomelidae of the Palaearctic Region based on a critical review of published sources. It serves as a basic reference tool for the biodiversity of these families.

"A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and further afield. If God-derived authority legitimized a monarch's rule, it did not necessarily prevent opposition to perceived arbitrary government as subjects put forward the counter-concept of consensual rule. The provincial elite might serve the ruler as advisors and officers at court but they also possessed an independent source of power based on their extensive estates. While monarchs wanted to perpetuate a system in which they could watch over members of the regional elite at court and keep them busy, they sought to make use of them as local and provincial administrators, that is, as long as they remained loyal: a fraught balancing act. Contributors include: Hâelder Carvalhal, Peter Edwards, Jemma Field, Cailean Gallagher, Pedro Josâe Herades-Ruiz, Graeme S. Millen, Vita Malaésinskienâe, Tibor Monostori, Steve Murdoch, David Potter, Peter S. Roberts, Irene Maria Vicente-Martin, and Matthias Wong"--

This study explores the materiality of writing in the Deuteronomic composition, which--the book argues--adapts the media aesthetics of ancient treaty tablets and monumental inscriptions to a Hebrew narrative that is itself transformed into an artifact of the past.

Plato's political thought continues to be of enduring interest among classicists, philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians. The present volume introduces readers to the topic through a survey of important recent trends in the scholarly literature.

Examining manifestations and transformations of multi-sensorial expressions and experiences of Shiʿi Islam, Shiʿi Materiality beyond Karbala demonstrate how material things and less thing-like materialities make the praesentia and potentia of the Sacred tangible, how they cultivate intimate relations between human and more-than-human beings, and how they act as links and gateways to the Elsewhere and Otherworldly.

This book on the history of education in Africa gives a special attention to narratives of marginalized voices. With this original approach and cases from ten countries involving four colonial powers, it constitutes a dynamic and rich contribution to the field.

This book brings together 13 contributions which reflect upon the relation between worlds and arts from Africa, the Black Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. How do alternative worlds emerge in configurations of literature, visual arts, performance, art curation and film? Questioning notions of clearly defined borders, the essays offer a processual perspective of worlds constantly in the making.

In this volume on Yoga and meditation from a sociological point of view, the contributions cover a wide range of topics, traditions, and geographic contexts, all raising a different facet of sociological approaches to Asian forms and dynamics of aesceticism.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the study of gospels as a genre. By understanding the gospels as folk literature, gospels are interpreted as texts designed to push readers into taking a side on Jesus's identity.

This volume compiles reflection and guidance from experienced researchers on constructive pathways and pitfalls to avoid in designing and executing multidisciplinary research on religions, beliefs, and religious behaviour.

John Witte, Jr. has advanced the study of law and religion for nearly forty years. This collection of essays by leading scholars examines the impact of his work and its implications for new and challenging directions.

This book brings together leading international scholars in order to explore the creative possibilities of ritual studies and apply it to different fields in the study of contemporary religions.