Addresses broader issues such as power relations within Caribbean slavery, multiculturalism, and the forms of religious accommodation to cultural change. This book examines the religion's transatlantic route through Cuban Santeria, Puerto Rican Espiritismo, and Black Nationalism.
" -Journal of Economic History"In terms of synthesizing existing literature and extending comparisons across boundaries, Nugent offers a shining example for both students and established scholars." -Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Presents an investigation of sexual ideology in "The Faerie Queene", combining theoretical advances in feminist scholarship and... Læs mere
Philosophical aesthetics and theories of art are among the last areas in which feminist critiques of traditional disciplinary assumptions are being explored. This book examines the intellectual traditions of the philosophy of art and aesthetics.
Before turning to filmmaking, Franiois Truffaut was a film critic writing for "Cahiers du Cinema" during the 1950s. This title features the articles that... Læs mere
" -Journal of Speculative Philosophy"Larry Hickman has done an exemplary job in demonstrating the relevance of John Dewey's philosophy to modern-day discussions of technology." -Ethics
Includes essays devoted to traditional narratives found in Africa and in the New World.
She examines ritual, the religious trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named category designating religion.
Drawing on a wide variety of European sources, this title presents the history of Habsburg Jews - important but often forgotten community to be written since the nineteenth century.
Examines efforts to apply feminist principles to the research act. This title includes essays that addresses both abstract philosophical questions and the more practical ways theories are translated into feminist inquiry.
-Process Studies"It is one of the American classics.-Human Studies
The essays reveal science to be a cultural institution, structured by the political, social, and economic values of the culture within which it is practiced.