Everyday Religion and Sacred Work in Roman Antiquity and Medieval Societies offers a groundbreaking exploration of religious attitudes and practices surrounding labor in Roman Antiquity and Medieval societies, bringing together diverse religious traditions and methodologies.
Devotio Moderna and the Medieval University explores the origins and intellectual legacy of the Devotio Moderna, a Christian... Læs mere
Useful Cinema in State Socialist Europe offers a ground-breaking exploration of “useful” film production across Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the wider socialist world from the postwar period to the late Cold War.
By taking a geographical approach to the collection—like Scholten himself—this book revisits his incomplete project... Læs mere
The book’s chapters illuminate the roles of political and social actors engaged with renegotiating materialist politics—such as grassroots birth activist movements and maternalist social policy campaigns—as well as those defying militarism.
The Danmei Culture in Chinese Media and Society offers groundbreaking comprehensive mapping of the Chinese danmei (boys love) cultural ecology, tracing its evolution from Japanese origins into a distinct, female-driven transmedia phenomenon.
Who still remembers Tito’s Yugoslav Partisans? Once worshipped by some, now disparaged by others (or even by the very same),... Læs mere
Women’s rights activism and the reformation of the legal thought in early twentieth-century Poland were deeply... Læs mere
The book critically examines consumer advice urging Chinese citizens to change their food consumption habits and explores what it means to eat green in a country facing ecological risks, food safety concerns, and an authoritarian government aiming to create an eco-civilization.
Entangled Semantics of Power between Byzantium and the Italian Peninsula sheds new light on... Læs mere
This volume assembles voices of hope drawn from multiple generations, faith traditions, scholarly disciplines, and regions of the world. This book... Læs mere
This book traces the story of a Nenets indigenous community in Siberia and how their lives were transformed by religious conversion in post-Soviet and Putin’s Russia. Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in a region now largely closed to outsiders,