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This volume explores the manner in which Western missionary Christianity has been shaped through contact with indigenous peoples. The conversion of the local population ususally resulted in a religion and culture that was a mixture of orthodox Christianity and indigenous customs.

This collection offers a systematic and accessible account of the central issues in the thought of Rav Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine. It concentrates on three areas: his relationship with Jewish tradition; his approach to faith and culture; and his political thought.

Where was God during the Holocaust? And where has God been since? Holocaust Theology provides a panoramic survey of the writings of more than one hundred leading Jewish and Christian thinkers on these profound theological problems.

This work provides a historical study of Asian/Pacific women's diverse experiences in America. It covers topics from pre-large scale Asian emigration and Hawaii in its pre-Western contact period to the continental US, Philippines, and Guam at the end of the 20th century.

The concepts of representation and narratives have played a key role in the development of psychoanalysis, clinical research and theoretical speculation. This title analyzes the growth of representation and narratives in the history and practice of psychoanalysis.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016From the presidential race to the battle for the office of New York City mayor, American political candidates’ approach to new media strategy is increasingly what makes or breaks their campaign. Targeted outreach on Facebook and Twitter, placement of a well-timed viral ad, and the ability to roll with the memes, flame wars, and downvotes that might spring from ordinary citizens’ engagement with the issues—these skills are heralded as crucial for anyone hoping to get their views heard in a chaotic election cycle. But just how effective are the kinds of media strategies that American politicians employ? And what effect, if any, do citizen-created political media have on the tide of public opinion?   In Controlling the Message, Farrar-Myers and Vaughn curate a series of case studies that use real-time original research from the 2012 election season to explore how politicians and ordinary citizens use and consume new media during political campaigns. Broken down into sections that examine new media strategy from the highest echelons of campaign management all the way down to passive citizen engagement with campaign issues in places like online comment forums, the book ultimately reveals that political messaging in today’s diverse new media landscape is a fragile, unpredictable, and sometimes futile process. The result is a collection that both interprets important historical data from a watershed campaign season and also explains myriad approaches to political campaign media scholarship—an ideal volume for students, scholars, and political analysts alike.

It is estimated that between 11 and 17 million American women use firearms everyday, whether through their jobs, for sport or for personal security. This study analyzes the reasons why so many women possess and use guns, focusing especially on the link between firearms and feminism.

Offers an array of the provocative gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender scholarship produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) over the years of its existence at the CUNY Graduate School. This title also offers a compelling panorama of gay and lesbian life.

This text is a portrait of a continent through the author's encounters with African leaders from Zaire to South Africa. Russell recounts meetings with each in an attempt to answer questions of Africa's future: can a new generation of leaders change the future or is Africa doomed to further turmoil?

Redefines the field of women and politics. By displacing the experiences of white, middle and upper class elite women as central, this volume brings to light the lives and actions of poor and working class women, women of color, and others defined as marginal.

Chronicles the intimate, behind-the-scenes encounters of an American Francophile and the stars of the French Avant Garde theater and literary worlds. This book reflects the author's experience of the modern French theater and with those artists who wrote and staged the work that has revolutionized the way we think of theater.

Guides you on how to manage finances, how to avoid falls, how to care for aging parents. This book discusses topics such as the normal processes of aging, how laws affect the elderly, what forms of exercise are most beneficial at various stages of life, family issues, and more.

Explores both nineteenth century conditions that led Progressives to their search for order and some of the solutions applied to children and youth in the context of that search.

How do contemporary activists navigate and challenge these borders? What meanings do they ascribe to different social, cultural and political boundaries, and how do these meanings shape the strategies in which they engage? This book explores these questions through eleven selected case studies situated in geographic contexts around the globe.

Jewish and Islamic histories have long been interrelated. Both traditions emerged from ancient cultures born in the Middle East and both are rooted in texts and traditions that have often excluded women. This volume focuses attention on the theoretical innovations that gender scholarship has brought to the study of Muslim and Jewish experiences.

Working across the disciplines of Latina/o media, cultural studies, and communication, the authors examine how Latinos are being affected both by the continued Latin Americanization of genres, products, and audiences, as well as by the whitewashing of "mainstream" Hollywood media where Latinos have been consistently bypassed.

Resisting an oversimplified account of participation as empowerment, this collection of essays brings together a diverse range of leading scholars to reveal surprising insights into how dilemmas of the new public participation play out in politics and organizations.

The Year 2000 is at hand. The end of the millennium means many things to many people, but it has significance for almost everyone. A thousand years ago, monks stopped copying manuscripts and religious building projects came to a halt as panic swept Europe. Today, anxiety about global warming, government power, superviruses, even recycling, is on some level rooted in the fear of irreversible cataclysm. In a landscape shadowed by racial conflict, technological upheaval, AIDS, and nuclear weapons, we reasonably fear the end of history. 2000 looms large in our religious, political, and cultural imagination. But while 2000 brings dread it also raises the prospect of transformation. There is hope to be found in the apocalyptic. This panoramic volume explores how the Year 2000 operates in contemporary political discourse, from Black evangelical politics to radical right-wing rhetoric. One section is devoted specifically to apocalyptic violence, analyzing twentieth-century cults and cultural movements, from David Koresh--who renamed his Waco compound Ranch Apocalypse and perished in a modern-day Armageddon that fueled the millennialist angst of other extremist groups--to environmental campaigns like Earth First! that also rely on the language of violence and imminent doom in their greening of the Apocalypse.

Chronicles the effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare. This book profiles the day-to-day struggles of Mexican immigrant women in the Los Angeles area, showing that the "welfare-to-work" regime has produced tremendous instability and insecurity for these women and their children.

Former Army officer, Gulf War veteran, and Princeton alumnus McCormick consulted officers and Pentagon documents in order to determine the effect of downsizing on morale, devotion, and disposition among the officer corps. Citing problems such as declining professionalism and military competence, hi

The reissue of this anthology serves as a provocative and wide-ranging reminder of American gay and lesbian culture in the days before gay life became "chic". It demonstrates the influence of gays and lesbians on language, literature, theatre, poetry, dance, music and the arts.

A pioneering compilation of essays on mixed-race romance, individuals, families, and stars in U.S. film and media culture

The Internet has dramatically altered the landscape of crime and national security, creating new threats. This work brings together leading experts to describe crime prevention and security protection in the electronic age. It provides information ranging from government requirements that facilitate spying to methods of digital proof.

Looks beyond broadcasting's mainstream, toward cable's alternatives, to critically consider the capacity of commercial media to serve the public interest. This work offers an overview of the industry's history and regulatory trends, case studies of cable newcomers aimed at niche markets, and analyses of programming forms introduced by cable TV.

Raises issues concerning what an international perspective can contribute to the history of psychology and to our understanding of psychology as a whole. This volume also aims to show that for too long, much of what we have taken to be the history of psychology has actually been the history of American psychology.

For well over a century, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) has been the most vilified multinational corporation operating in Latin America. Using a previously unexplored source - the internal archives of Colombia's UFCO operation - Bucheli examines the company.

In "110 Stories", Ulrich Baer has gathered a multi-hued range of voices that convey, with vivid immediacy and heightened imagination, the shock and loss suffered in September. From a lineup of 110 renowned and emerging writers-including Paul Auster, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Edwidge Danticat.