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This book examines and clarifies the nature, meaning, significance, richness and vitality of the sacred (and the profane), and several key theories of the sacred, in the context of theological and philosophical ontology.

The author argues that interactions between the movement and US Cold Warriors had a profound and lasting impact on Japanese society and Japan-US relations.

This introduction to the literature of eSwatini follows a trajectory that reaches back to the country's construction in colonial discourse and into the present with the growth and development of a national literature.

This book explores challenging doctrines dealing with women's bodies and rebirth in Shin Buddhism, and relates those teachings to similar concerns around women's bodies in Christianity.

Trauma and Repair is an interdisciplinary study of inequality and complex trauma. Annie Stopford's interview-based exploration of life in four specific low-income neighborhoods captures in sharp relief a complex trauma that has multiple sources, including intergenerational economic distress and repeated exposure to community violence.

This translation of collected articles by Yan Chen (1916-2016) examines the role of the Maritime Silk Road in the formation of world civilizations. Analyzing the Maritime Silk Road's political, economic, cultural, and technological influence, Chen argues that this expansive trade network was vital to the spread of traditional Chinese culture.

Nonverbal Communication in Political Debates presents a framework for understanding the role of nonverbal behavior in political debates, including an examination of candidates' attempts to undermine opponents while presenting themselves as likeable. Theory and historical examples underline the importance of nonverbal elements in political contests.

With an increasing number of individuals living with chronic illness and pain, integrative approaches offering self-management support are needed. This book proposes a multi-layered framework integrating the body/self/environment that cultivates wholeness as an authentic embodied presence in alignment with a reflexive self.

This book analyzes American Jewish millennials and explains their behavior in terms of the history of American Jewishness. The author shows that Zionism serves as a means by which American Jewish millennials department from earlier American Judaism and construct alternate sense of purpose and solidarity.

Political Economy of Public Education Finance clarifies organizational, political, and socioeconomic contexts in equity in public education spending, arguing that through appropriate policy and reorganization of school finance, policymakers can reform the organizational and political set-up of school districts for more effective public education.

This book identifies the most important sources of intra-state conflict in the individual countries of the Horn of Africa. It explores the seriousness of the threats to the security of the states, their peoples, and the region; and it identifies the appropriate conflict resolution approach.

This book addresses the idea of justice in order to guide society towards a more effective justice system. The authors trace impoverished and accomplished thinking in criminological and justice discourses and show that when justice and love are seen as synonyms, the historic ills that have plagued humanity tend to evaporate.

Tropical Idolatry examines how thinkers within the Society of Jesus attempted to convert indigenous peoples of New Spain, the Philippine Islands, and the Mariana Islands to Catholicism. This book demonstrates the importance that both religious and political beliefs played in the establishment of the Church in the Spanish Pacific world.

This book examines the psychic and emotional effects of the dehumanization of children based on discrimination and difference in classrooms. Using psychoanalysis, it highlights the emotional structures that develop in learners through the repeated trauma of racism and homophobia. Recommended for scholars in education, psychoanalysis, and sociology.

This book sustains a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for disposal: veneered mortuary internment, green burial and its attendant rot, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, donation and display, and ecological burial. Through tracing the possible futures of the dead that haunt the living, through both the stories that we tell and physical manifestations following the end of life, we expose the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization. This book creates a space for ritualized practices surrounding death: corpse disposal; corpse aesthetics that shape both practices attendant upon and representations of the corpse; and literary, figural, and cultural representations that deploy these practices to tell a story about dead bodiesabout their separation from the living, about their disposability, and ultimately about the living who survive the dead, if only for a while. There is an aesthetics of erasure persistently at work on the dead body. It must be quickly hidden from sight to shield us from the certain trauma of our own demise, or so the unspoken argument goes. Expertsscientists, forensic specialists, death-care professionals, and law enforcementare the only ones qualified to view the dead for any extended period of time. The rest of us, with only brief doses, inoculate ourselves from the materiality of death in complex and highly ritualized ceremonies. Beyond participating in the project of restoring our sense of finitude, we try to make sense of the untouchable, unviewable, haunting, and taboo presence of the corpse itself.

In Judgments of Beauty in Theory Evaluation, the author argues that judgments of beauty are a justified part of theory evaluation. This argument bears on the debate over judgments of beauty in scientific theory evaluation and also prompts an examination of judgments of beauty in philosophical theory evaluation.

This book presents a Buddhism-inspired contribution to the ethics of AI and robotics, and the idea that a possible norm for technology must be guided by the standard of "machine enlightenment" informed by a combination of ethical and technical excellences.

This study provides a cultural history of Australia and nuclear power. The author examines the country's role as a nuclear test site, the aspirations of the nation toward the postwar nuclear club, its deference to the demands of Britain and the United States, and the complex discourses of Australian society surrounding nuclear power.

Chinese Media in Africa: Perception, Performance, and Paradox is a contribution to the debate on Chinese media expansion into Africa. Interviews bring to light the paradoxical nature of Chinese media organizations that both preach equality with Africa and simultaneously promote Chinese hegemony in the media.

Providing a unique record of the authoritarian, centralist and ultra-nationalist nature of the Turkish state manifested in Erdogan's "New Turkey," Candar challenges stereotyped and conventional views on Turkey and details account of the encounter between Turkey and the Kurds in historical perspective with special emphasis on failed peace processes.

This book examines the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, an ancient colonial court, and how the Caribbean community, specifically, the fifteen former British colonies of the Caribbean Basin, are navigating their changing political environments during the transition to its own extraterritorial court, the Caribbean Court of Justice.

Shakespeare asked, "To be, or not to be?" Likewise, the author of this work asks a similar question of Puritan authors: "To please nor not to please God?" The Puritans eternal struggle is embodied by this singular phrase that the Puritans used in an attempt to decipher the rectitude of their own actions.

This book reconstructs the postmodern in light of an analysis of technology through classical pragmatism. It provides a pragmatic interpretation of information and communication technologies, exploring how social interactions occur through these technologies, and ways to democratically address the challenges of postmodernity.

Matt LaVine argues that there is more potential in bringing the history of early analytic philosophy and critical theories of race and gender together than has been traditionally recognized. In particular, he explores the changes associated with a shift from revolutionary aspects of early analytic philosophy.

This book proposes a theory of reference--answering the question of whether Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures refer to the same God--within a semantic framework acceptable to atheists and fideists.

This book provides four strategic recommendations to address challenges inherent in the collaboration between donors and aid agencies. Bell discusses the role of organizational behavior in aid flow predictability, places for improvement, and whether collaborations between people with different interests can meaningfully address societal problems.

Arguing that the universe is absolutely directioned and that there exist spatial (directional) relations that Leibniz overlooked, H. Scott Hestevold formulates a new relationalist theory of space, exploring its implications for the Special Composition Question, reductivism regarding boundaries and holes, and the nature of spacetime.

This book shows how Plato's Statesman and Thucydides' presentation of the moral collapse in Athenian political discourse reveal many points of agreement between Plato and Thucydides.

This book explores the Japanese emigration to the planned colony of Bastos in Sao Paulo, Brazil in the early twentieth century. Using interviews and fieldwork done in both Bastos and Japan, Ethel Kosminsky analyzes the consequences of these temporary labor migrations on the immigrants and their families.

Michele Lewis, inspired by African-Centered psychologists and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, argues for a more humanistic cultural neuroscience to further understandings of the influence of isolation, injustice, power, and bias on brains and behavior.