Same-Sex Love in India presents a stunning array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature.
Martin Buber was professor of the history of religions and Jewish religion & ethics from 1923 to 1933 at the University of Frankfurt.
This volume, a collection of essays by a number of high-profile personalities working in philosophy, literature,... Læs mere
Religion, Art, and Visual Culture is a cross-cultural exploration of the study of visuality and the arts from a religious perspective. This... Læs mere
Together these chapters demonstrate that the ideas of progress, rationality, order, and development encompassed by 'modernity' are profoundly gendered, whether conveyed by mass media images of consumption, agendas of nation-building, or legal discourse.
Addressing the need for a comprehensive map collection for reference and classroom use, this volume includes fifty two two-colour full page maps... Læs mere
The dramatic, tumultuous and often tragic human events that erupted in the Balkan Peninsula following the collapse of communism between 1989 and 1991 have captured the Western world's attention throughout the past decade.
Weasels and Wisemen is the first major study of David Mamet's work to investigate the moral vision and cultural poetics upon which this playwright's aesthetic vision is founded.
Jonestown, Waco, and Heaven's Gate resonate in the contemporary mind in the same way that Masada or Mount Tabor resonated in the minds of others long past.
Emerging from the growing convergence of intellectual and social history as well as the new interdisciplinary field of cultural studies, European Culture Since 1848 is the... Læs mere
Yet the dominant narrative of the movement remains that of a nonviolent movement born in the South during the 1950s that emerged... Læs mere
A very John Waters traveling show, replete with freaks, robbery, murder, sex, blasphemy, and savage shellfish - a lurid, surreal celebration of camp and trash.