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This book explores women's obedience and resistance analyzing two women rebels who live on the social and geographical margins, in the Negev Desert in Israel. She examines their conscious and political transformation and exposes the challenges and sacrifices women experience on their path toward liberation.

This book examines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequalities. The volume demonstrates that poverty is a health issue because it erodes the social, political, and economic support systems that enhance well-being and healthy lifestyles necessary for human development and human betterment.

This book traces political, cultural, and technological aspects of the problem of enemy civilian casualties. By looking at the sociopolitical environment in the United States, Russia, and Israel, Ofer Fridman analyses the systematic failure of their military organizations to integrate technologies meant to minimize enemy civilian casualties.

In 1913the United States was one of the last major economies to establish a central bank. This book examines the history and evolution of central banking in the United States from the perspective of central banking functions such as aggregator of private lending to the federal government and the fiscal agent for the government.

This book shows how contemporary religious groups arrange very different sorts of rituals in order to achieve collective encounters with "the spirit." Mixed-methods analysis of rituals across a diverse range of religious traditions shows how Randall Collins' interaction ritual theory opens new pathways for the sociology of religion.

This book examines a century of language change in written Afrikaans since it's standardization in the early twentieth century. It also explores theoretical questions regarding language change, contact induced language change, and external influences on language use.

In conversation with the ethical-theological-philosophical role of love in the Abrahamic traditions and U.S. immigration, personal testimonies of refugee families seeking asylum join the witness of the interfaith community of greater San Antonio to explain the gift received when love of God is expressed as radical hospitality.

The main objective of this book is to understand the extent and the motives behind the shift in Turkey's foreign policy towards the Kurdistan Regional Government from an alternative globalist perspective by examining a ten-year period of Turkey's foreign policy.

This book expands on moral injury discourse and defines a new approach to conceptualizing and addressing moral injuries by articulating a new term-moral orienting systems-that better describes the process of morally significant traumas.

This book examines the religious rhetoric of the culture war in America. It offers examples of divisive rhetoric in the first four chapters and a case study in the final chapter of rhetoric that seeks to avoid division and bring a community together.

Drawing on insights from Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Art and Selfhood: A Kierkegaardian Account defends the idea that art matters in our society today because it can play a pivotal role in helping us become better and more authentic versions of ourselves.

The global challenge of climate change presents a daunting task that requires human thinking and ingenuity. In this context, stories, narratives, and images can provide incentives for the imagination, essential in grappling with the complex perplexities of abstract dimensions while also anchoring thinking in human spatial and temporal existence.

Through an approach informed by language ecology and linguistic ethnography, this book examines Hawai'i as a complex multilingual society. Focusing on situated language usage as well as underlying ideological beliefs, the book offers analyses of Hawaiian, Pidgin, Japanese, the languages of Micronesia, and the phenomenon of language mixing.

Between 1945 and 1965 rhythm and blues artists made dozens of recordings incorporating West Indian calypso. This book draws musical and cultural connections that make the case for recognizing the significance of West Indian calypso in the history of African American popular music.

This study provides a comprehensive intellectual biography of Filaret Drozdov, the prominent religious and political figure in nineteenth-century Russia. The author argues that rather than a traditional theologian, Filaret Drozdov was simultaneously a valued monarchical apologist and a guardian of the privileges of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Drawing from over 100 interviews, Identical Twins explores the unique status of twinship and how it can affect personal and familial relationships with siblings, romantic partners, and friends.

This study reconsiders Plato's "Socratic" dialogues-Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Euthydemus, Gorgias, and Meno-as parts of an integrated curriculum. By privileging reading order over order of composition, a Platonic pedagogy teaching that the Idea of the Good is a greater object of philosophical concern than what benefits the self is spotlighted.

This book analyzes the Russian post-Soviet experience in the context of political history, demonstrating the reach and linkages of political structures as long-term legacies of influence and continuity that resist transition and confound contemporary system analysis.

Reshaping Beloved Community examines the history of black male incarceration starting in the nineteenth century. This examination highlights how the label felon and the use of the prison was intentionally deployed to recast black men as dangerous and to justify the use of penal structures to systematically erase black radical projects.

This book uncovers Thucydides' decision making schemata and his thinking on how people decide, particularly when in power or war. Based on these ideas, the author interprets the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war and the Sicilian expedition, and shows that they were a result of decision making and, thus, not inevitable.

The Islamist Challenge and Africa examines Islamist militancy among Africans historically and at present, a topic largely ignored in the United States. It examines Islamist militancy's longstanding presence in Africa and its diaspora, Islamist militancy's distinct ideological features among Africans, and ways to minimize its violence.

Method as Identity considers how social identity shapes methodological standpoints. With a refreshing hip hop sensibility, Miller and Driscoll reorient the contemporary academic study of religion toward recognition of the costs and benefits of manufacturing "critical" distance from our objects of study.

This book treats six beloved films of Hitchcock: The 39 Steps, Saboteur, and North by Northwest, plus Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and To Catch a Thief. Padilla reviews their production histories with an eye to classical influences, and then analyzes their links with Greek art, poetry, and philosophy.

This work tests the relationship between international sporting events and human rights. It finds that hosts are sensitive to the increased attention their position brings and are more likely to then behave themselves.

This book uses a close reading of seven literary memoirs of the Nazi Occupation of France to show how the collective memory of the period has been shaped by political and social factors. It incorporates trauma theory, history, and folklore studies, examining a diverse group of writers and bringing to the fore the unique perspective of each.

This book evaluates the status quo of integrity management within sports that involve horses worldwide. It investigates the question of whether cheating is discouraged and fair play rewarded, both to an adequate degree.

This book reveals contradictions between the supposed democratizing mission of the social movements in Russia and Ukraine and their actual conduct and its outcomes. It uses cases studies of the "White Ribbons" movement for fair elections, the Ukrainian Euromaidan (2013-2014), and anti-corruption protests in Russia organized by Alexei Navalny.

This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire within literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. It invites readers to take a closer look at the black female vampire figure and how that figure shapes and is shaped by cultural narratives about African American womanhood.

Digital technologies and the advance of artificial intelligence are changing human nature. This book explores implications for pastoral and spiritual care providers, religious faith communities, clinical practitioners, and educators and asserts the need for theological reflection about both the existential risk and the opportunities of this change.

Women Leaving Prison uses qualitative research methods to uncover the spiritual and religious experiences of female returning citizens. The findings ground the call for a revised prison ministry praxis that details how people of faith and concerned citizens can facilitate returning sisters' successful reentry and work to remove current injustices.