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Book SynopsisThis collection of authoritative studies portrays how the A basic agencies of socialization transform the newborn human organism into a social person capable of interacting with others. Socialization differs from one society to another and within any society from one segment to another. Childhood Socialization samples some of that variation, giving the reader a glimpse of socialization in contexts other than those with which he or she is likely to be familiar.In the years since publication of the first edition of this book in 1988, childhood has become a territory open to broader sociological investigation. In this revised edition, Gerald Handel has selected and gathered new contributions that analyze the agents of socialization, including family, school, and peer group,, and explore the influences of television and gender. The balance of classical studies and more recent work reflecting changes in the family structure renews the centrality of this anthology for courTable of ContentsI: Socialization, Individuation, and the Self; 1: Socialization and Individuation; 2: Socialization and the Social Self; II: Childhood in History; 3: Little Angels, Little Devils: A Sociology of Children; III: Families as Socializing Agents; 4: The Mutuality of Parental Control in Early Childhood; 5: As the Twig Is Bent: Children Reared in Feminist Households; 6: Racial Socialization; IV: Day Care and Nursery School as Socialization Agents; 7: Power and Resistance in Infant-Toddler Day Care Centers; 8: Cooperation and Control in Japanese Nursery Schools; V: Schools as Socialization Agents; 9: Schools and Socialization; VI: Peer Groups as Socialization Agents; 10: Children’s Conception and Reaction to Adult Rules: The Underlife of the Nursery School; 11: The Carpool: A Socializing Adjunct to the Educational Experience , †; 12: Friends, Impression Management, and Preadolescent Behavior; VII: Television and Its Influence; 13: Theoretical Perspectives; 14: Children’s Desires/Mothers’ Dilemmas: The Social Contexts of Consumption; VIII: Gender Socialization; 15: Engendering Children; 16: Male Gender Socialization and the Perpetration of Sexual Abuse; IX: Social Stratification and Inequality in Socialization; 17: Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth; 18: Clashes in Values; 19: Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work

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Book SynopsisThis is a masterful effort to recognize and place the prison and asylums in their social contexts. Rothman shows that the complexity of their history can be unraveled and usefully interpreted. By identifying the salient influences that converged in the tumultuous 1820s and 1830s that led to a particular ideology in the development of prisons and asylums, Rothman provides a compelling argument that is historically informed and socially instructive. He weaves a comprehensive story that sets forth and portrays a series of interrelated events, influences, and circumstances that are shown to be connected to the development of prisons and asylums. Rothman demonstrates that meaningful historical interpretation must be based upon not one but a series of historical events and circumstances, their connections and ultimate consequences. Thus, the history of prisons and asylums in the youthful United States is revealed to be complex but not so complex that it cannot be disentangled, described, Table of ContentsThe Discovery of the Asylum; 1: The Boundaries of Qlonial Society; 2: Charity and Correction in the eighteenth Cmiury; 3: The Challenge of Crime; 4: The Invention of the Penitentiary; 5: Insanity and the Social Order; 6: The TSlew World of the Asylum; 7: The Paradox of Poverty; 8: The Almshouse experience; 9: The Well-Ordered Asylum; 10: The Legacy of Reform; 11: The Snduring Institution; Bibliographic Note

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind anthology of art and writing exploring how surveillance impacts contemporary motherhood.The tracking of our personal information, activities, and medical data through our digital devices is an increasingly recognizable field in which the lines between caretaking and control have blurred. In this age of surveillance, mothers'' behaviors and bodies are observed, made public, exposed, scrutinized, and policed like never before. Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance gathers together the work of fifty contributors from diverse disciplines that include the visual arts, legal scholarship, ethnic studies, sociology, gender studies, poetry, and activism to ask what the relationship is between how we watch and how we are watched, and how the attention that mothers pay to their children might foster a kind of counterattention to the many ways in which mothers are scrutinized.A groundbreaking collection, Supervision is a project ab

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Book SynopsisA novel exploration of popular photographic media cultures in 1930s Europe through a feminist lens?and how visual social media changes what it means to be human both then and now.Glitchy Vision takes a feminist approach to media history to examine how photographic social media cultures change human bodies and the experience of being human. To illuminate these glitches, Greene focuses on the inevitable distortions that arise from looking at the past through the lens of the present. Treating these distortions as tools as opposed to obstacles, Greene uncovers new ways of viewing social media cultures of the past, while also revealing parallels between historical contexts and our contemporary digital media environment.Greene uses three ?born-digital keywords??real time, algorithmic filters, and sousveillance?to examine photographic media environments in and around 1930s Europe. Each chapter of the book places one of the keywords in dialogue with an unconventional archive of popular ?feminized? cultural artifacts and technological innovations from this historical moment that have been overlooked as critical resources for media studies: Evelyn Waugh?s bestselling novel Vile Bodies (1930) and photographic reproductions for the tabloid press; Lee Miller?s war photography for British Vogue and glamourous photo-retouching techniques; and the Mass-Observation Movement?s surrealist anthropology.Glitchy Vision provides new strategies for reading history that show how small shifts in the circuits that connect bodies and media affect what it means to be human both in the past and today.

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Book SynopsisFrom the new afterword by the author:Humanity has had a long fascination with blood sacrifice. In fact, it has been by no means uncommon for a child to be born into this world only to be patiently and lovingly reared by religious maniacs, who believe that the best way to keep the sun on its course or to ensure a rich harvest is to lead him by tender hand into a field or to a mountaintop and bury, butcher, or burn him alive as offering to an invisible God. The notion that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that his death constitutes a successful propitiation of a “loving” God is a direct and undisguised inheritance of the superstitious bloodletting that has plagued bewildered people throughout history. . .

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Book SynopsisThe tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behindTrade Review"A hilarious and lacerating look at the elite sociopathy wrecking the world, and a call to arms for how the rest of us can fight it." -- Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood"Beyond eye-opening, this book is eye-popping. A master storyteller, Rushkoff brings to life perhaps the greatest challenge of our time, The Mindset that drives so much destructive behavior, and blinds us to solutions beyond new technology and consumption. A must read." -- Frances Moore Lappé, author of Daring Democracy"Douglas Rushkoff’s keen eye as a seasoned media analyst, combined with his flair and wit as a writer and a performer, shine in this book..." -- Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute for the Future"A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A vital, lucid, and enraging read." -- Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

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Book SynopsisThis bibliography is now under the editorial direction and authority of the British Library of Political and Economic Science, at the London School of Economics. The editorial expertise of the world''s leading social science institution will ensure that the IBSS maintains its unrivalled position as a bibliographic source. This bibliography lists the most important works in anthropology published in 1988.

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Book SynopsisThis bibliography lists the most important works published in sociology in 1991. Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, IBSS provides researchers and librarians with the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. IBSS is compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics, one of the world''s leading social science institutions. Published annually, IBSS is available in four subject areas: anthropology, economics, political science and sociology.Table of ContentsForeword: Preface: List of Periodicals Consulted: Classification Scheme: Bibliography: Author Index: Subject Index

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Book SynopsisIBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

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Book SynopsisA Guide to Imagework is a pioneering guide to a new trend in ethnographic research: the use of imaginative, experiential methods such as dreamwork, artwork, Gestalt theory and psychodrama. Originating in group counselling and psychiatric therapy, imagework techniques explore subjects'' imaginative resources to reveal unconscious knowledge about identity, belief and society. They are ideal for accessing rich qualitative data about how individuals and cultures function. Iain Edgar, a leading specialist on ethnographic method, has condensed top-level research theory on imagework into this handy practical manual. Complete with case studies and examples, hands-on tips and guidance on methods and ethics, it is an ideal starting point for any imagework project.Table of ContentsForeword, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 Defining the imagework method, 2 ‘Imaginary fields’ and the qualitative research domain, 3 Dreaming as ethnographic research, 4 Methodological issues in dreamwork and imagework groups: a case-study approach, 5 Amplifying the data through groupwork methods or making ‘sense’ out of ‘nonsense’, 6 Charting ethnographic dreaming, 7 Ethical and practice issues, 8 Conclusion, Notes, References, Index

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Book SynopsisSince the development of modern medicine, men have become increasingly involved in childbearing as obstetricians and, more recently, as fathers. This book argues that the beneficial contribution of men has been taken for granted. Certain changes to childbearing practice have resulted, which, together with men''s involvement, have been encouraged without any reference to evidence and without adequate opportunity for reflection.Considering the findings of recent research and wider literature, and using qualitative research with mothers the text examines: how men became increasingly involved in childbearing the medicalisation of childbirth the difficulties men experience with childbirth as fathers challenging situations, such as fathers'' grief the taken-for-granted assumptions that men's increased contribution to childbearing is beneficialThis text will be of great interest to academics and postgraduate students of midwifery, obstetrics, mediTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Cultures and Times 2. The Midwife and Medical Men 3. Fathers and Fatherhood 4. The Labour and the Birth 5. Becoming a Father After the Birth 6. Childbearing and Domestic Violence 7. Men and Loss in Childbearing 8. How to Help - The Midwife's Role 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisGenetic science has advanced rapidly in recent years; things happen now that might have seemed like science fiction only ten years ago. Genetics and Society looks at the history of this science and the wide-ranging impact it has had on contemporary society. Using fascinating and cutting-edge examples throughout, Anne Kerr examines topics as diverse as: the institutional structures that have grown up around the diagnosis and treatment of genetic disorders the media representation of genetic debates from designer babies to the genetic sources of alcoholism the politics of genetic decision-making and the state regulation of both genetic research and the biomedicine industry. Each chapter begins with a summary and a definition of key terms and ends with annotated notes on further reading, meaning that it is as accessible for the layman as it is for the scientist. The resulting student-friendly text will be essential reading for anybody witTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Past 3. Discovery 4. Reproduction 5. Patients 6. Biobanks 7. Publics 8. Futures 9. Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThrough observations in three intensive care units, this book draws on the reality of practice to explore how nurses and doctors work in intensive care settings. It examines: the power held by the competing knowledge bases the roles of the different professions the decision-making process the sources of conflict the need for change.Drawing together sociological theories and clinical practice, Power and Conflict Between Doctors and Nurses explores the role of nurses in delivering contemporary health care. It makes a strong case for interdisciplinary working and is particularly timely when health care policy is challenging work boundaries in health care.Table of Contents1. Nursing Role Developments: Contemporary Perspectives 2. Collaboration: Working Partnerships or Sleeping with the Enemy? 3. Clinical Management Teams: The Impact of General Management 4. The Study 5. Understanding the Context 6. Clinical Decision Making and the Hierarchies of Knowledge 7. Roles in Clinical Decision Making: Working with a Historical Legacy 8. Power and Conflict on the Clinical Decision Making Stage 9. Breaking Through the Inner Circle: Rhetoric or Reality

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Book SynopsisThe central objective of this book is to analyze the characteristics of the social contexts and environments in conflict situations, and the impact that these socializing environments may have on the political learning and emerging citizenship orientations of youngsters. Special attention is given to the socializing environments of Palestinian and Israeli youngsters, drawing on material recently collected in Israel.Ichilov''s incisive research uses a multilevel and interdisciplinary approach to argue that political learning is structured within social environments and that there are fundamental differences between the socializing environments in conflict and non-conflict situations.Trade Review'Could a book on 'the political socialization of Israeli and Palestinian youngsters' have any relevance for European citizenship educators? Absolutely. Orit Ichilov proved it in 2004 with the publication of Political Learning and Citizenship Education under Conflict. Despite the many obvious differences between Europe and Israel, there is much to be learned from a region that is in many respects much more explosive than our own.' Krijn Peter Hesselink, Politeia Newsletter '...Offers many stimulating insights. There is much to be learned for Europeans with an interest in citizenship education from the experiences in Israel.' Krijn Peter Hesselink, Politeia Newsletter Table of ContentsIntroduction: Environments and contexts In political socialization Part 1: Global Change, Conflict, and Political Learning 1. Conflict, Citizenship, and Global Change 2. Agents of Political Socialization in a Changing World 3. The Texture of Socializing Environments under Conflict 4. The Role of Socialization Agents under Conflict Part 2: Political Learning In Israel: A deeply divided society 5. Israel: A deeply divided society 6. Attempts at Bridging the Gaps 7. Citizenship Orientations of Israeli Youngsters Conclusion: Political learning and citizenship education in a world of conflict and change

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Book SynopsisThe study of death and dying truly crosses disciplinary boundaries. Scholars in the field represent a wide spectrum of disciplines in medicine, nursing, social work, sociology, psychology, philosophy, health education and the humanities. The volumes in this collection therefore take a broad and interdisciplinary approach and cover a wide range of materials, including classic studies that have helped frame the field, significant research that has influenced the development of the field, and current cutting-edge material. Moreover, the work brings together theory, research and clinical practice.Table of ContentsVolume I: The Human Encounter with Death Part 1: The Death System Part 2: Death—Historical Perspectives Part 3: Death in Philosophy and Religion Part 4: Death in Music, Art and Literature Part 5: The Emergence of Death Studies Volume II: Developmental Perspectives Part 1: Children’s Understanding of Death Part 2: Adolescent Experiences with Death Part 3: Adult Perspectives on Death Part 4: Death in Later Life Volume III: Illness, Dying and Death Part 1: Coping with Life-Threatening Illness and Death Part 2: Care of the Dying: Hospice and Palliative Care as International Social Movements, Ethics of Assisted Suicide Part 3: Modes of Death Part 4: Care for the Caregivers Volume IV: Loss and Grief Part 1: Funerals, Memorials and Rituals Part 2: Understanding Grief and Loss—Early Perspectives Part 3: Challenging the Paradigm—New Understandings of Grief

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Book SynopsisFocusing on politics and society in India, this book explores new areas enmeshed in the complex social, economic and political processes in the country. Linking the structural characteristics with the broader sociological context, the book emphasizes the strong influence of sociological issues on politics, such as social milieu shaping and the articulation of the political in day-to-day events. Political events are connected with the ever-changing social, economic and political processes in order to provide an analytical framework to explain âpeculiaritiesâ of Indian politics. Bidyut Chakrabarty argues that three major ideological influences of colonialism, nationalism and democracy have provided the foundational values of Indian politics.Structured thematically and chronologically, this work is a useful resource for students of political science, sociology and South Asian studies.Trade Review"…in the last ten years or so I have not read a book which is comparable to Bidyut Chakrabarty’s in it richness of material, quality, rigour, scope, sweep, lucidity, and readability. I would even consider this script as a kind of trend-setter." - P. Radhakrishnan, Professor, Sociology, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India, and prominent social critic"[T]he volume remains an appropriate and timely intervention that, with its thematically organised bibliography, will be an asset for all interested in the politics of modern India." - Soumen Mukherjee, University of Heidelberg, Germany; Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 2010Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Setting the Scene 2. Shaping Indian Politics: The Language of Identity 3. Indian Democracy: Liberalism in its Reinvented Form 4. Parliamentary Federalism in India: Redefining the Westminster Model 5. The Chaotic 1960s: A Decade of Experiments and Turmoil 6. The Left Front and the 2006 Assembly Elections in West Bengal: Marxism Reinvented 7. Coalition Politics in India: Cultural Synergy or Political Expediency. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe phenomenon of consumption has increasingly drawn attention from economists. While the sole purpose of production is consumption', as Adam Smith has claimed, economists have up to recently generally ignored the topic. This book brings together a range of different perspectives on the topic of consumption that will finally shed the necessary light on a largely neglected theme, such as Why is the consumption of symbolic goods different than that of goods that are not constitutive of individuals' identity? How does the consumption of symbolic goods affect social processes and economic phenomena? Will taking consumption (of symbolic goods) seriously impact economics itself? The book discusses these issues theoretically, and, through analyses of such cases as food, religion, fashion, empirically as well. It also discusses the possible role in the future of consumption.This book was previously published as a special issue of ReTable of ContentsConsuming Symbolic Goods: Identity and Commitment - Introduction Wilfred Dolfsma. Lauding the Leisure Class: Symbolic Content and Conspicuous Consumption Alan Shipman. Consumption, Identity, and the Sociocultural Constitution of 'Preferences': Reading Women's Magazines Martha A. Star. You Are What You Eat: The Social Economy of the Slow Food Movement Bruce Pietrykowski. Consuming Values and Contested Cultures: A Critical Analysis of the UK Strategy for Sustainable Consumption and Production Gill Seyfang. Religious Identity and Consumption Metin M. Cogel and Lanse Minkler. Paradoxes of Modernist Consumption: Reading Fashions Wilfred Dolfsma. Are Unpreferred Preferences Weak in Symbolic Content? David George. The Gift Paradox: Complex Selves and Symbolic Good Elias L. Khalil. Deriving the Engel Curve: Pierre Bourdieu and the Social Critique of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Andrew B. Trigg. The Post Affluent Society Amitai Etzioni

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Book SynopsisGender Inequality in Our Changing World: A Comparative Approach focuses on the contemporary United States but places it in historical and global context. Written for sociology of gender courses, this textbook identifies conditions that encourage greater or lesser gender inequality, explains how gender and gender inequality change over time, and explores how gender intersects with other hierarchies, especially those related to race, social class, and sexual identity. The authors integrate historical and international materials as they help students think both theoretically and empirically about the causes and consequences of gender inequality, both in their own lives and in the lives of others worldwide.Trade ReviewKenschaft and Clark’s Gender Inequality in Our Changing World is a treasure trove for teachers. The book has theory and empirical data woven through each chapter and addresses the gender issues of our time from a clearly outlined and integrated comparative, historical and global perspective. The framework promotes higher-level thinking and the thorough examination of key subjects and concepts in the sociology of gender. Each chapter features a section of suggested activities and pedagogical resources that can serve as any teacher’s best allies in the process of creating a collaborative, interactive, reflective and intellectually challenging classroom.-Ana S.Q. Liberato, Sociology, University of KentuckyThis book’s contribution to undergraduate education in gender inequality is that the authors provide a strong historical perspective on the area of gender inequality they discuss in each chapter. Traditional college students do not have a depth of historical knowledge, especially about gender inequality and the author’s inclusion of history makes the problem of gender inequality more understandable.-Nancy Sonleitner, Sociology, The University of Tennessee at MartinTable of Contents1. Introduction: What Is Gender? Section I. Four Core Issues 2. Work and Its Rewards 3. Families as the Crucible of Gender Inequality 4. Gender and Violence 5. The Control of Sexuality Section II. Consequences 6. Life and Death Matters: Consequences of Inequality Section III. Continuity and Change 7. Learning and Performing Gender in School 8. Gender, Power, and Politics 9. Religion and Gender Inequality 10. Displaying and Constructing Gender in the Media 11. Acting Out Gender on the Sports Field Section IV. Looking Towards the Future 12. Conclusion: Possible Futures of Gender Inequality

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Book SynopsisEven in the twenty-first century, the contemporary Chinese prison camp remains a more obscure and poorly understood realm than the Forbidden City of old. Apolitical service organizations such as the International Red Cross have routinely been denied access to PRC prison camps and prison camp inmates who have smuggled out frank, unofficial accounts of their incarceration have only been published overseas, and often had their sentences extended as a result. Presenting extensive analysis of literary and biographical accounts, this illuminating book provides a window to the affective side and emotional tenor of day-to-day life in modern day labour camps. With contributions from well-known and respected scholars, the book covers the contentious issues of prison economics, prisoner 'remolding' and post-traumatic stress disorder. Drawing parallels with Soviet, Nazi and Japanese prison camp practice, this outstanding new book will be invaluable to those interested in how the human miTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Repercussions of Thought Remolding and Forced Labor on Chinese Writers: Introduction2.Zhang Xianliang as Author and Hero: A Study of His Record of My Emotional Life 3. Traumatic "Remolding" and Its Ethical Implications in Three of Zhang Xianliang’s Novels 4. Labor Camp Fiction as Conversion Literature: Zhang Xianliang and Ooka Shohei5. Resisting the Regime of Remolding 6. Expressing the 'Inexpressible': Pain and Suffering in Wumingshi’s Hongsha [Red Sharks] 7. Profit and Loss in China's Contemporary Prison SystemSinograph Glossary of Selected Names and Terms Sinograph Glossary of Selected Titles Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDeveloping Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change is a collection of 21 expert essays on the institutions that transmit cultural values from generation to generation. The essays are an outgrowth of a research project begun by Samuel Huntington and Larry Harrison in their widely discussed book Culture Matters the goal of which is guidelines for cultural change that can accelerate development in the Third World. The essays in this volume cover child rearing, several aspects of education, the world''s major religions, the media, political leadership, and development projects.The book is companion volume to Developing Cultures: Case Studies.(0415952808).Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Introduction -- Lawrence Harrison CHILD REARING 1. Culture, Values, and the Family, Jerome Kagan 2. Parenting Practices and Governance in Latin America: The Case of Costa Rica, Luis Diego Herrera EDUCATION 3. Cultural Values and Parenting Education, Sharon Lynn Kagan and Amy Lowenstein 4. Character Education: Restoring Virtue to the Mission of the Schools, Thomas Lickona 5. Civic Education and the Development of Civic Knowledge and Attitudes, Richard Niemi and Steven Finkel 6. Schooling Open Societies in Latin America, Fernando Reimers and Eleonora Villegas-Reimers RELIGION 7. Evangelical Expansion and 'Progressive Values' in the Developing World, David Martin 8. Anglo-Protestant Culture, Samuel Huntington 9. The Development of the Jews, Jim Lederman 10. Culture Begins with Cult: The Surprising Growth of the Catholic People, Michael Novak 11. Re-Imagining the Orthodox Tradition: Nurturing Democratic Values in Orthodox Christian Civilization, Nikolas Gvosdev with a response by Georges Prevelakis 12. Market Development, Political Change, and Chinese Cultures, Robert Weller 13. Buddhist Economics in Asia, Christal Whelan 14. Cultural Change in Islamic Civilization, Bassam Tibi 15. Islam Matters: Culture and Progress in the Muslim World, Robert Hefner 16. Hinduism and Modernity, Pratap Bhanu Mehta THE MEDIA 17. Journalism and Values, Mariano Grondona and Carlos Alberto Montaner 18. The Global Battle for Cultural Domination, Reese Schonfeld LEADERSHIP 19. Public Policy and Culture, Richard Lamm DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 20. Donor Projects And Culture Change: The Case Of Costa Rica, James Fox 21. Can Social Capital Be Constructed? Decentralization and Social Capital Formation in Latin America, Mitchell Seligson

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Book SynopsisThis is a volume of original contributions from scholars in eight different humanities and social science disciplines. The aim of the book is to present a range of surveillance technologies used in everyday life and investigate the politics of their use. It is truly an interdisciplinary project that will find purchase in courses on security studies and the sociology of culture and the sociology of science. Courses on security studies and its impact on culture can be found in a variety of academic departments including STS, criminology, sociology, women's studies, anthropology, political science and justice studies.Table of Contents1: Questioning Surveillance and Security; I: Neoliberal States; 2: The State Goes Home; 3: Soft Surveillance; 4: Everyday Insecurities; 5: Indoor Positioning and Digital Management; 6: Technologies of Citizenship; 7: The Surveillance Curriculum; 8: “Don't Be Low Hanging Fruit”; 9: Cop Watching in the Downtown Eastside; 10: Defensive Surveillance; II: Mobilities and Insecurities; 11: Borderline Identities; 12: “Divided We Move”; 13: Why Where You Are Matters; 14: Using Intelligent Transport Systems to Track Buses and Passengers; 15: The Bundling of Geospatial Information with Everyday Experience; 16: Techniques of Preparedness; 17: Technology Studies for Terrorists

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Book SynopsisUsing arresting case studies of how ordinary people understand the concepts of race, class, and gender, Celine-Marie Pascale shows that the peculiarity of commonsense is that it imposes obviousness-that which we cannot fail to recognize. As a result, how we negotiate the challenges of inequality in the twenty-first century may depend less on what people consciously think about difference and more on what we inadvertently assume. Through an analysis of commonsense knowledge, Pascale expertly provides new insights into familiar topics. In addition, by analyzing local practices in the context of established cultural discourses, Pascale shows how the weight of history bears on the present moment, both enabling and constraining possibilities. Pascale tests the boundaries of sociological knowledge and offers new avenues for conceptualizing social change.Table of ContentsChapter One Introduction 1 Chapter Two Routine Matters of Race 47 Chapter Three All The Right Stuff: Gender and Sexuality 97 Chapter Four Class: A Representational Economy 143 Chapter Five Moving Forward 190 Appendix A Interviewees 201 Appendix B Data Collection of Newspaper Articles 202 References 204

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Book SynopsisPresented in bilingual form (English/French), these bibliographies list the most important publications in the field of Sociology in 1985. Arranged in a decimal system of classification and including author and subject indexes.

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Book SynopsisThe authors aim to provide practical guidance to enable practitioners in the various criminal justice, health and social care agencies to divert mentally disordered offenders from prosecution and custody and to help prevent re-offending.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword by Timothy F. Durkin, Chairman, MIND; Acknowledgements; Why are people with mental health problems sent to prison?; Development of diversion projects nationally; Turning vision into reality; Key points of intervention; The role of the prison; Diversion into what?; Funding and managing a project; Record keeping, monitoring and evaluation; The future of the project; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisA landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community’s contributions to the English language—an intersectional, inclusive, playfully illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms and fabulous phrases created by and for queer culture.Do you know where “yaaaas queen!” comes from? Do you know the difference between a bear and a wolf? Do you know what all the letters in LGBTQIA+ stand for?The Queens’ English is a comprehensive guide to modern gay slang, queer theory terms, and playful colloquialisms that define and celebrate LGBTQIA+ culture. This modern dictionary provides an in-depth look at queer language, from terms influenced by celebrated lesbian poet Sappho and from New York’s underground queer ball culture in the 1980s to today's celebration of RuPaul’s Drag Race.The glossary of terms is supported by full-color illustrations and photography throughout, as well as real-life usage examples for

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Book SynopsisThis highly acclaimed, 'bold and refreshing' collection of essays takes a critical look at Asians' perception of their natural environments as well as at Western views of Asia in this respect.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Images of Nature, Ole Bruun, Arne Kalland; Chapter 2 Socio-Political Structures and the Southeast Asian Ecosystem, J. Kathirithamby-Wells; Chapter 3 Sacred Trees and Haunted Forests in Indonesia, Peter Boomgaards; Chapter 4 Taming Nature – Controlling Fertility, Stephen Sparkes; Chapter 5 Thinking through Nature in Highland Nepal, Graham E. Clarke; Chapter 6 State Intervention and Community Protest, Are Knudsen; Chapter 7 Nature in the Kalasha Perception of Life, Birgitte Glavind Sperber; Chapter 8 Nature as the Virgin Forest, Klas Sandell; Chapter 9 Fengshui and the Chinese Perception of Nature, Ole Bruun; Chapter 10 The Japanese Attitude to Nature, S. N. Eisenstadt; Chapter 11 Japanese Advertising Nature, Brian Moeran, Lise Skov; Chapter 12 Culture in Japanese Nature, Arne Kalland; Chapter 13 Nature, Religion and Cultural Identity, Poul Pedersen;

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2004. These four classic masterpieces in esoteric research by the noted orientalist - M. Penzer explore customs and traditions from other cultures and periods of history which, for all their apparent strangeness, mask fundamental subjects of continuing interest. The first concerns the motif of the poison damsel -- the beauty who dealt death in many forms to her admirers - which originated in India, was prevalent in medieval Europe, and persists today in the belief of the femme fatale. The volume includes a study in the ancient Tate of the Two Thieves, an essay on sacred prostitution in India, the ancient East and West Africa, and an exhaustive treatment of the custom of chewing the betel or areca nut which is widespread in the far East from India through Indonesia to New Guinea. A natural stimulant and narcotic whose effects are similar to that of tobacco, betel is of growing interest to the medical world, and has, as the author shows here, a rich legacy of customs aTable of ContentsChapter 1 Poison-Damsels; Chapter 2 The Tale of the Two Thieves; Chapter 3 Sacred Prostitution; Chapter 4 The Romance of Betel-Chewing;

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Book SynopsisWil Gesler examines how different environments affect physical, mental, spiritual, social, and emotional components of healing.Trade ReviewGesler brings important insights to our understanding of healing, making innovative connections between different kinds of environments in the process. He highlights the complexity of health, and the importance of understanding how healing takes place in, and is shaped by particular places. Healing Places demonstrates clearly that geographers have an important and original contribution to make in understanding health and wellbeing, both historically and in the present day. * Area *Healing Places asserts emphatically and eloquently that place matters to health. The case studies provide fascinating evidence that links between healing and place are well grounded in history and are now being reconsidered in hospital design. This book will be important reading for researchers, teachers, and professionals with an interest in health care settings. [It] adds weight to a major shift in contemporary thinking: reassessing the links between place and health. -- Robin A. Kearns, The University of AucklandTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Epidauros: Asclepius and Dream Healing Chapter 3 Bath: Healing Mineral Springs Chapter 4 Lourdes: Healing Pilgrimages Chapter 5 Therapeutic Hospital Environments Chapter 6 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDomesticity in Colonial India offers a trenchant analysis of the impact of imperialism on the personal, familial, and daily structures of colonized people''s lives. Exploring the ''intimacies of empire,'' Judith E. Walsh traces changing Indian gender relations and the social reconstructions of the late nineteenth century. She sets both in the global context of a transnationally defined discourse on domesticity and in the Indian context of changing family relations and redefinitions of daily and domestic life. By the 1880s, Hindu domestic life and its most intimate relationships had become contested ground. For urban, middle-class Indians, the Hindu woman was at the center of a debate over colonial modernity and traditional home and family life. This book sets this debate within the context of a nineteenth-century world where bourgeois, European ideas on the home had become part of a transnational, hegemonic domestic discourse, a ''global domesticity.'' But Walsh''s interest is more in Trade ReviewThoughtful and balanced—a very thorough job of impressive scholarship. -- Gail Minault, University of TexasWalsh makes a good case for how elite women's agency was involved in escaping from abuse and exploitation by their in-laws. Recommended. * CHOICE *Domesticity in Colonial India deals with women's reform in the late nineteenth-century colonial Calcutta. It traces the development of a reformist for women first promulgated by the Brahmo Samaj and gradually accepted by members of the English-educated, Bengali urban middle class known as bhadralok. Unlike other authors, Judith Walsh uses these findings to try to position women's reform in Bengal within a "global domesticity" produced reflexively in colony and metropole. This comparative approach to women's reform enhances the value of the book and opens up some interesting avenues for future research. -- Jennifer Dubrow, University of Chicago * Journal of Asian Studies *Judith Walsh's book adds to the scholarship on the re-shaping of gender roles in nineteenth-century Bengal by examining in detail a rarely discussed archive. Her English translations from this Bengali archive are valuable in their own right. Moreover, her comparative approach is one of the most stimulating aspects of this volume and opens up interesting possibilities for future research focusing on other regions of India. Further, the global breadth makes the book suitable for assignment in non-area specific women's studies courses. -- Debali Mookerjea-Leonard, James Madison University * Itinerario *The book stimulates thought. Additionally this volume makes for an entertaining and lucid read. It should prove popular in undergraduate and graduate courses in Colonial Studies, Colonialism, Gender and Women's Studies as well as to the people who are just interested in the subject. -- Indrani Chatterjee, Rutgers University * Journal Of Colonialism and Colonial History *Domesticity in Colonial India tells the story of India's confrontation with a new colonial modernity that comes to be contested within the most intimate of everyday spaces: the home. . . . The book . . . offer[s] some wonderful examples of men tutoring their wives in the lessons of these manuals. . . . As this book reveals, understanding how the ideas that governed everyday life affected society and culture will help further our knowledge of domestic ideology as a culturally organizing principle that pervaded during the nineteenth century and beyond. * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *[A] genuinely comparative text…Walsh seeks to show domesticity’s complicity with colonial conquest….The great strength of this book is Walsh’s close attention to documenting how western ideas were learned, employed, and spread through their target populations. -- Nicole Tonkovich * Journal of Women's History *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Global Domesticity Chapter 2 Domesticity in Colonial Calcutta Chapter 3 Rewriting Patriarchy: The Companionate Marriage Chapter 4 Will the Educated Woman Still Cook and Scour Plates? Chapter 5 What's Love Got To Do with It? Chapter 6 The Well-Ordered Home Chapter 11 What Women Learned: Rewriting Patriarchy, Writing the Nation and the Self

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Book SynopsisLonglisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2007Writing in 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois suggested that the goal for the African-American was ''to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture''.He was evoking ''culture'' as a solution to the divisions within society, thereby adopting, in a very different context, an idea that had been influentially expressed by Matthew Arnold in the 1860s. Du Bois questioned the assumed universality of this concept by asking who, ultimately, is allowed into the ''kingdom of culture''? How does one come to speak from a position of cultural authority?This book adopts a transatlantic approach to explore these questions. It centres on four Victorian ''men of letters'' - Matthew Arnold, William Dean Howells, W. B. Yeats and W. E. B. Du Bois--who drew on notions of ethnicity as a basis from which to assert their cultural authority. In comparative close readings of these figures Daniel Williams addresses several key areas of contemporary literary and cultural debate. The book questions the notion of ''the West'' as it appears and re-appears in the formulations of postcolonial theory, challenges the widespread tendency to divide nationalism into ''civic'' and ''ethnic'' forms, and forces its readers to reconsider what they mean when they talk about ''culture'', ''identity'' and ''national literature''.Trade ReviewRanging across English, Irish, and American writing, Ethnicity and Cultural Authority is not only a deft analysis of his chosen authors, but also an admirably independent-minded charting of some of the tensions between culture as the sphere in which univeral human values are expressed, and culture as the vehicle for the expression and development of particular ethnic identities. In this imaginatively conceived book, Daniel Williams manages to address several of the most central and most contentious areas of contemporary literary and cultural study. -- Professor Stefan Collini, Cambridge The possibilities of extension offered by this vital book are a key indication of its importance. -- Neil evans Translation and Literature Williams has produced a well-written and useful book that brings the analysis of Victorian culture into productive dialog with Irish and American studies. Victorian Studies Ranging across English, Irish, and American writing, Ethnicity and Cultural Authority is not only a deft analysis of his chosen authors, but also an admirably independent-minded charting of some of the tensions between culture as the sphere in which univeral human values are expressed, and culture as the vehicle for the expression and development of particular ethnic identities. In this imaginatively conceived book, Daniel Williams manages to address several of the most central and most contentious areas of contemporary literary and cultural study. The possibilities of extension offered by this vital book are a key indication of its importance. Williams has produced a well-written and useful book that brings the analysis of Victorian culture into productive dialog with Irish and American studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Matthew Arnold: Culture and Ethnicity; 2. William Dean Howells: Realism, Ethnicity and the Nation; 3. W. B. Yeats: Celticism, Aestheticism and Nationalism; 4. W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Folk in the 'Kingdom of Culture'; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the characteristics of the Chinese economic development model and its reception in Africa and Latin America. It also investigates the current competition over governance models in the Muslim world and asks which model or models will guide development in Muslim countries.Trade Review...the core of the book is excellent. -- Ali Abd al-Malik, The Islamic Quarterly ...the core of the book is excellent.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Lure of Development Models, Robert Springborg; Section One: The Chinese Model and its Global Reception; 1. A China Model or Just a Broken Mould?, William Hurst; 2. Latin America's View of China: Interest, but Scepticism, Barbara Stallings; 3. The China Model in Africa: A New Brand of Developmentalism, Catherine Boone with Dhawal Doshi; Section Two: The Chinese Model and its Competitors in the Muslim World; 4. Learning the Right Lessons from Beijing: A Model for the Arab World?, Emma Murphy; 5. Toward an Islamic Model for the Middle East and North Africa?, Clement M. Henry; 6. Democracy, Development, and Political Islam: Comparing Iran and Turkey, Mohammed Ayoob; 7. Can the East Asian Developmental State be Replicated? The Case of Malaysia, Jeff Tan; Section Three: The Role of Governance in Development Models; 8. Governance against Development in Pakistan, Ishrat Husain; 9. Is 'Good Governance' an Appropriate Model for Governance Reforms? The Relevance of East Asia for Developing Muslim Countries, Mushtaq Khan; Conclusion: Not Washington, Beijing Nor Mecca-The Limitations of Development Models, Robert Springborg; About the Contributors.

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Book SynopsisCurrent popular and academic discussions make certain assumptions regarding Islam and its lack of compatibility with pluralism. Some notable liberal thinkers have even argued that pluralism itself is inherently antithetical to Islam. This volume addresses these assumptions by bringing clarity to some of its key suppositions and conjectures.Table of ContentsPart One: Theoretical Frameworks; 1. Introduction: Theoretical Approaches to Cultural Diversity, Abdou Filali-Ansary; Part Two: The Heritage: Historical Contexts; 2. Pluralism in Muslim Societies, Aziz Al-Azmeh; 3. The Public & the Private in Middle Eastern History and Society, Sami Zubaida; 4. Civil Society & Conflict Management: Bangladesh's Experiences, Amena Mohsin; Part Three: Contemporary Thought; 5. Pluralism & Liberalism in Contemporary Islamic Thought, Ridwan Al-Sayyid; 6. Democracy, Pluralism & Political Islam, Adel Daher; 7. Islam, Conflict & Democracy, Akeel Bilgrami; 8. The Diversity of Cultures in The Crucible Of Globalisation, Nur Yalman; About the Contributors.

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Book SynopsisThis is an innovative reference catalogue of 200 annotated bibliographies and abstracts of encyclopaedias published during the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Material is presented in English, Arabic and Turkish.Table of ContentsEnglish-language Abstracts; Turkish-language Abstracts; Arabic-language Abstracts.

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Book SynopsisThis work offers a unique contribution to gender and Scottish history breaking new ground on several fronts: there is no history of inter-war women in Scotland, very little labour or popular political history and virtually nothing published on women, the home and family. This book is a history of women in the period which integrates class and gender history as well as linking the public and private spheres. Using a gendered approach to history it transforms and shifts our knowledge of the Scottish past, unearthing the previously unexplored role which women played in inter-war socialist politics, the General Strike and popular political protest. It re-evaluates these areas and demonstrates the ways in which gender shaped the experience of class and class struggle. Importantly, the book also explores the links between the public and private spheres and addresses the concept of masculinity as well as femininity and pays particular reference to domestic violence. The strength of the book is the ways in which it illuminates the complex interconnections of culture and economic and social structure. Although the research is based on Scottish evidence, it also uses material to address key debates in gender history and labour history which have wider relevance and will appeal to gender historians, labour historians and social and cultural historians as well as social scientists.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Usurpers of men? Gender, work and political identities; 2. Socialist women, the ILP and the politics of the kitchen; 3. Class fragmentation, respectability, religion and residence; 4. 'A docile workforce?' Women work and political identity; 5. Socialist women, feminists and feminism; 6. The politics of marriages of conflict; 7. Marriage, mothering and political identity; 8. Gender and the politics of everyday life; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis volume seeks to fill the gap in the historiography of premodern Islam and is conceived as a new standard scholarly resource for those interested in the Seljuk period.

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Book SynopsisWill our addiction to profit destroy the world we live in? The profit motive now exercises an effective tyranny over our lives: in the private as well as the public sector, nowhere seems immune from its reach. International tycoons, economists and politicians are obsessed with economic growth. Yet, as Stuart Sim shows, the pursuit of excessive profit brought the world to the brink of economic chaos in the recent credit crisis and threatens us with environmental disaster as well. Despite this, neoliberalism still sets the agenda for economic policy in the West. Sim suggests various ''act up'' strategies so that we might resist becoming slaves to personal gain and, in doing so, he demonstrates that life needn''t be all about profit.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction: It's All About Profit; 2. The Tyranny of Profit: Confronting an Addiction and a Fetish; 3. 'What Shall It Profit a Man?': Profitless Activities; 4. Life Before Profit, Life Minus Profit; 5. Profit in the Genes?; 6. Neoliberalism, Financial Crisis, and Profit; 7. Global Warming and Profit; 8. Healthcare and Profit; 9. Education and Profit: The World of Pay-as-You-Learn; 10. The Arts, the Media Industries and Profit; 11. Conclusion: It Needn't All Be About Profit; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book Synopsis- Organized by themes which are central to understanding religion today - Suitable for advanced undergraduates: emphasis on controversy and debates in the field - International range of sources and religions - Includes popular as well as scholarly sourcesTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part I: From sacred text to internet - contributions from: Clive Marsh and Steve Moyise; Marcus J. Borg; Diana L. Eck; Rammohun Roy; Dayananda Sarasvati; Swami Vivekananda; M.K. Gandhi; Geshe Kelsang Gyatso; Stephen Batchelor; Denis J. Sullivan and Sana Abed-Kotob; Margaret Wertheim; Part II: Religion and social transformation - contributions from: Józef Tischner; Shaik Hamid Al Nayfar, interviewed by François Burgat; Kyung Hyun Chung; Ana Maria Bidegai; Jacquelyn Grant; Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza; Sallie McFague; Chris Pauling; The 14th Dalai Lama Tensin Gyatso; Ajahan Pasanno and Nick Scott; Part III: Perspectives on Civil Religion - contributions from: Robert Bellah; Charles Regan Wilson; Vine Deloria Jr.; Tony Walter; Timothy Pain; Paul Barker; Cara Sutherland; Charles Harbutt; Marilyn Knapp Litt; Jan C. Scruggs and Joel L. Swerdlow; P. Ciabattini; Alan Dundes and Alessandro Falassi; Alessandro Falassi and Giuliano Catoni; Part IV: Global Religions in Regional Context - contributions from: Oliver Barclay; Dave Tomlinson; N.O. Hatch and M.S. Hamilton; Billy Graham; Todd Hunter; Luis Palau; Felicity B. Houghton; Guido Lombardi; M. Manazir Ahsan; Seán McLoughlin; Nichiren; Daisaku Ikeda; Win Hunter; Elio Montel; Part V: Belief beyond boundaries - contributions from : Prudence Jones; Wouter J. Hannagraaff; Sabine Magliocco; Graham Harvey; Ronald Hutton; Caitlin Matthews; Ian Bradley; Simon James; J.H.T. Davies; Sara Simon et al; Vine Deloria, Jr.; Catherine L. Albanese; Amanda Porterfield; Delores LaChapelle; Margot Adler; Gerald Gardner; Starhawk; Jules Michelet; John Updike; Jill Murphy; Walter de la Mare; Dorothy Edwards; John Hedley Brooke; John Brooke and Geoffery Cantor; Carl Jung; David Tracey; Index.

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Book Synopsis- Organized by themes which are central to understanding religion today - Suitable for advanced undergraduates: emphasis on controversy and debates in the field - International range of sources and religions - Includes popular as well as scholarly sourcesTrade Review'Nicely produced and not too expensive. Reflects UK authors whom students have heard about. Good level of detail and illustrations and clear font' Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Cardiff Research Fellow, Department of Religious and Theological Studies, Cardiff University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part I: From sacred text to internet - contributions from: Clive Marsh and Steve Moyise; Marcus J. Borg; Diana L. Eck; Rammohun Roy; Dayananda Sarasvati; Swami Vivekananda; M.K. Gandhi; Geshe Kelsang Gyatso; Stephen Batchelor; Denis J. Sullivan and Sana Abed-Kotob; Margaret Wertheim; Part II: Religion and social transformation - contributions from: Józef Tischner; Shaik Hamid Al Nayfar, interviewed by François Burgat; Kyung Hyun Chung; Ana Maria Bidegai; Jacquelyn Grant; Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza; Sallie McFague; Chris Pauling; The 14th Dalai Lama Tensin Gyatso; Ajahan Pasanno and Nick Scott; Part III: Perspectives on Civil Religion - contributions from: Robert Bellah; Charles Regan Wilson; Vine Deloria Jr.; Tony Walter; Timothy Pain; Paul Barker; Cara Sutherland; Charles Harbutt; Marilyn Knapp Litt; Jan C. Scruggs and Joel L. Swerdlow; P. Ciabattini; Alan Dundes and Alessandro Falassi; Alessandro Falassi and Giuliano Catoni; Part IV: Global Religions in Regional Context - contributions from: Oliver Barclay; Dave Tomlinson; N.O. Hatch and M.S. Hamilton; Billy Graham; Todd Hunter; Luis Palau; Felicity B. Houghton; Guido Lombardi; M. Manazir Ahsan; Seán McLoughlin; Nichiren; Daisaku Ikeda; Win Hunter; Elio Montel; Part V: Belief beyond boundaries - contributions from : Prudence Jones; Wouter J. Hannagraaff; Sabine Magliocco; Graham Harvey; Ronald Hutton; Caitlin Matthews; Ian Bradley; Simon James; J.H.T. Davies; Sara Simon et al; Vine Deloria, Jr.; Catherine L. Albanese; Amanda Porterfield; Delores LaChapelle; Margot Adler; Gerald Gardner; Starhawk; Jules Michelet; John Updike; Jill Murphy; Walter de la Mare; Dorothy Edwards; John Hedley Brooke; John Brooke and Geoffery Cantor; Carl Jung; David Tracey; Index.

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