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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Can we understand a religion without believing and practising it Can we have knowledge about faith Can people understand those different from themselves Can outsiders ever understand the world of insiders Examining different positions of knowledge - insider and outsider - Bryan S. Turner explores what understanding Islam entails. He argues that understanding Islam has in recent years been dominated by political events - the Iran Hostage crisis, the fall of the Iranian Shah, 9/11, Afghanistan and the foreign policy of Donald Trump - leading to western intellectuals and public figures, many of whom know nothing about Islam, suddenly becoming experts. Turner asks how they, or how anyone, can have the authority to speak on this subject. He brilliantly elucidates the questions and problems involved in the challenge of understanding - as opposed to explaining - religion. Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology at Australian Catholic University. He is one of the world's leading sociologists of religion and has written, co-authored or edited more than 70 books in the field.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents a detailed critical analysis of a period of significant formal and thematic innovation in Muriel Spark's literary career. Spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, it identifies formative instances of literary experimentation in texts including The Comforters, The Driver's Seat and The Public Image, with an emphasis on metafiction and the influence of the nouveau roman. As the first critical study to draw extensively on Spark's vast archives of correspondence, manuscripts and research, it provides a unique insight into the social contexts and personal concerns that dictated her fiction.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Uncovering the neglected theories of the council system in the 20th century This book examines the historical emergence of the council system in Russia and Germany by the end of the First World War, reconstructing the intellectual history of council democracy in 20th century political theory, and providing in-depth analysis of council democracy in the political thought of Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort and Hannah Arendt. Popp-Madsen argues that council democracy can productively be interpreted through the prism of constituent power: the form-giving power of the people to decide on their own institutional forms of political co-existence. Whereas other interpreters of constituent power claim an unbridgeable gap between constituent power and constituted power, this book asserts that council democracy discloses a historically grounded way of institutionalising the constituent power. Council democracy, in this interpretation, becomes a way of controlling the constituent power without completely exhausting it, thereby giving the citizenry continual access to the powers of self-transformation, co-creation and constituent freedom. Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The horror film is often read as a low-budget and disreputable genre that is disparaged by critics and loved by only a small core of committed fans. However, there has always been a high end to horror, a high end that is made up of both art films and prestigious productions from the major studios. In this book, then, Church offers a crucial contribution to an understanding of this trend through his analysis of recent developments in its history. Grounded in an analysis of the reception contexts within which these films are produced, mediated, and consumed, this book is a must for those interested in contemporary film culture in general and the horror film in particular.' Mark Jancovich, University of East Anglia 'With this book, David Church confirms his status as one of the most interesting contemporary scholars working on horror and on taste politics. Church expands the notion of art-horror and shows the links between contemporary post-horror and 1940s woman's films, melodrama, science fiction and European art cinema, with great chapters devoted to the post-horror connection between family and intimate relationships to epistemic violence. Meticulously researched and theorized, this is a book that, like the films it analyzes, rewards multiple readings. A thumping good read.' Joan C. Hawkins, Indiana University Horror cinema has long been a popular but culturally denigrated genre. This assumption has been challenged by a new wave of films that mix arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Dubbed 'elevated horror' or 'post-horror', films such as The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, Get Out, Hereditary, Midsommar, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema. David Church is a film and media scholar specializing in genre studies, taste cultures, and histories of film circulation. Cover image: A Ghost Story. Photo: Andrew Droz Palermo. Courtesy of David Lowery / Sailor Bear.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Offering a comprehensive and highly original perspective, Cinema and Soft Power is a significant contribution to the field. Anyone seeking to understand the value of cinema as a soft power instrument in case studies beyond the 'usual suspects' will appreciate both the breadth and depth of this collection of essays.' Gary Rawnsley, University of Nottingham Ningbo China 'The relationship between soft power and popular culture, especially cinema, has largely been overlooked in academic literature. Dennison and Dwyer's innovative collection admirably fills this gap: a very useful resource for students and researchers.' Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University The apparent shift in power relations between the developed and developing world, along with the increasing emphasis that national and transnational organisations place on the role of 'soft power' in global foreign policy, has profound implications for global film culture. Focusing primarily on the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), this innovative collection examines the diverse and often competing ways the group as a whole engages with film as a medium of artistic expression, and as a 'soft power' resource. The contributors explore the wider implications for world cinema of its members' differing and dynamic positions in the global media landscape, and the book includes a comparative analysis by examining the post-imperial soft power of the UK at the time of Brexit. Stephanie Dennison is Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Leeds. Rachel Dwyer is Professor Emerita of Indian Cultures and Cinema at SOAS University of London. Cover image: Film Dangal, Beijing, China, 2017 (c) AP/Shutterstock ISBN: 978-1-4744-5627-2.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Breathtaking in scope, Rethinking Language Policy offers a world tour of language policy by a scholar whose work has defined the field. Demonstrating that language policy depends on many non-linguistic factors, Professor Spolsky leads readers from the individual, to the familial, to the myriad institutional forces that shape language policy, illustrating it all with case examples through time and across every region of the globe. Timely, fascinating, and highly accessible, this unparalleled comparative account reveals language policy as practices, beliefs, and management mediated by relations of power.' Teresa L. McCarty, GF Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology, University of California Rethinks the presentation of a theory of language policy and management by starting with the individual speaker rather than the nation Drawing on four decades of research, Bernard Spolsky reflects on earlier models that he proposed and presents an updated theory of language policy that starts with the individual speaker instead of the nation. In this book, he surveys the language practices, beliefs and planning efforts of individuals, families, public and private institutions, local and national activists, advocates and managers, and nations. He examines the diversity of linguistic repertoires and the multiplicity of forces, linguistic and non-linguistic, which account for language shift and maintenance. By starting with the individual speaker and moving through the various levels and domains, Spolsky shows the many different policies with which a national government must compete and illustrates why national policy is so difficult. A definitive guide to the field, with a rich description of examples, this is essential reading for policymakers, stakeholders, researchers, and students of language policy. Key Features - Written by a world-leading expert in the field of language policy and management - Draws on a range of examples and case studies, including examples of threatened indigenous and minority languages throughout the world - Surveys the language practices, beliefs and planning efforts of families, education systems, neighbourhoods and the workplace, public institutions, local and national activists, advocates and managers, and nations Bernard Spolsky is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Cover image: Big Fish Eat Little Fish, Pieter van der Heyden, 1557. Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An exploration of storytelling and narrative devices in the Qur'an In this book, Leyla Ozgur Alhassen approaches the Qur'an as a literary, religious and oral text that affects its audience. She looks at how Qur'anic stories function as narrative: how characters and dialogues are portrayed; what themes are repeated; what verbal echoes and conceptual links are present; what structure is established; and what beliefs these narrative choices strengthen. And she argues that in the Qur'an, some narrative features that are otherwise puzzling can be seen as instances in which God, as the narrator, centres himself while putting the audience in its place. In essence, this makes the act of reading an interaction between God and the audience. Qur'anic Stories demonstrates that a narratological and rhetorical approach to the canonised text can contribute new insights to our understanding of the Qur'an and its worldview. Key Features ? Draws on narratology, rhetoric and Qur'anic studies to develop a new methodology to analyse Qur'anic stories ? Examines the interaction of the text, the audience, characters and the narrator, while analysing Qur'anic commentary (classical and modern; Sunni, Sufi and Shi'i) ? Studies stories that represent the variety of Qur'anic narrative: Surat Yusuf; Surat Al 'Imran; Surat Maryam; Surat ?aha; and Surat al-Qa?a? Leyla Ozgur Alhassen is a Visiting Scholar in the Near Eastern Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines the centrality of Greek tragedy for modernist performance This book explores how encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in modernist experiments in performance. It analyses the experiments of Isadora Duncan, Edward Gordon Craig, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, H. D., and Bertolt Brecht in creating a modernist aesthetic in performing, dancing, translating, and designing Greek tragedies, sometimes for the stage and sometimes for the page. The book proposes a modernist aesthetic of Greek tragedy based on Hellenism as theatricality that radically revises the philosophical discourses of tragedy. Olga Taxidou is Professor of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of Revolutions Cutting across disciplines and linguistic borders, this book highlights revolutionary movements in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean between the mid-eighteenth century and the revolutions of 1848. The chapters in the book adopt transnational approaches to revolution to show how political uprisings often reverberated far beyond the borders of the states directly affected - in the form of narratives, metaphors, translations, letters, pamphlets and dialogues, as well as physical objects. Elizabeth Amann is Professor of Literary Studies at Ghent University Michael Boyden is a chair professor of English at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brings together previously dispersed sources to argue for a tradition of Scottish colonial writing before the Union of Parliaments This book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s). Analysing works written in the larger context of the Scottish Atlantic, it examines how the Atlantic influenced seventeenth-century Scottish literature and vice versa. The relationship between art and ideology is key to the author's discussion as Sandrock argues early modern writing employed utopianism as a tool for empire-building and as a means of claiming power over the Atlantic. Kirsten Sandrock is Assistant Professor at the English Department at the University of Goettingen, Germany.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - China's haunted screens boast a rich legacy of uncanny, bizarre, grotesque, horrific, mystical and paranormal tales dating back to the silent era. Emerging from a period in which the supernatural ran afoul of censors in the Peoples' Republic of China, the resurgence of films rooted in 'superstition' merits serious critical attention. This anthology provides penetrating insight into this re-enchantment seen in films by auteurs such as Zhang Yimou (PRC), Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan), and Tsui Hark (Hong Kong) as well as in reimagined classics such as Journey to the West in its multiple manifestations on screen. Gina Marchetti, University of Hong Kong Although Chinese film audiences have always maintained a foundational cultural interest in the fantastic, this trend has dramatically increased over the last decade. Sino-Enchantment is the first work in English to approach this recent explosion of fantastic film in Chinese cinemas, where each re-envisioning of the form is determined by cultural, economic, political and technological factors to produce fresh inventions and creative reinventions of familiar narratives, characters and tropes. With case studies of films such as The Assassin (2015), Monster Hunt (2015) and The Great Wall (2016), this novel approach uses the framework of 'Sino-enchantment' as a new theoretical lens through which readers can engage with elements of the fantastic in Chinese cinema. Kenneth Chan is Professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado. Andrew Stuckey has taught at Kalamazoo College, the Ohio State University, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Challenging conventional views of Hans Kelsen and foreign-policy realism in International Relations theory This book is the first work to show this iconic legal philosopher's significance as a progressive political realist. In a lively account of Kelsen's life and political thinking, Robert Schuett introduces him as a political realist and brings his thought on human nature, the state and war into productive tension with today's Schmittians and conventional views of foreign policy realism. At a precarious moment in world history, where Western liberal principles are challenged by visions of illiberal democracy at home and abroad, this new reading of the Pure theory of law, state and international legal order is a timely defense of the ideals of an open society through a realistic style of politics. Robert Schuett is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Salzburg.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brings Schelling's ontology into conversation with contemporary analytic metaphysics of powers Charlotte Alderwick presents Schelling's ontology as fundamentally power-based and demonstrates that this ontology enables his unique conception of human freedom outlined in the Freedom essay, thereby providing a novel interpretation of his metaphysics and conception of freedom. This distinctive reading demonstrates that Schelling's power-based ontology can usefully problematise and supplement contemporary work on power-based ontologies. Firstly, where current work focuses on powers in relation to specific areas of metaphysics, Schelling provides a holistic picture, encompassing these areas into a single ontological story. Secondly, engagement with Schelling's work points to problems (though also to possible solutions) that will arise for any power-based metaphysics, but are currently unexamined in the literature. Charlotte Alderwick is Associate Head of Department and a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a much overdue reading of Scotland's largest city as it was during the long 18th century. These formative years of Enlightenment, caught between the tumultuous ages of the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution, cast Glasgow in a new and vibrant light. Far from being a dusty metropolis lying in wait for the famous age of shipbuilding, Glasgow was already an imperial hub - as implicated in mass migration and slavery as it was in civic growth and social progression. Craig Lamont incorporates case studies such as the Scottish Enlightenment, the transatlantic slave trade and 18th-century print culture to investigate how the city was shaped by the emergence of new trades and new ventures in philosophy, fine art, science and religion. The book merges historical, literary and memory studies to provide an original blueprint for new research into other cities or civic spaces. Craig Lamont is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, working on two major ongoing AHRC-funded projects: Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century (PI: Gerard Carruthers) and The Collected Works of Allan Ramsay (PI: Murray Pittock). He completed his Ross Roy Medal-winning PhD in 2015.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Women in Marvel Films provides the first rigorous analysis of the portrayals of women, heroic and otherwise, in films based on Marvel comics from the 1980s to the present.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Analyses the expansion of head and body masking from nineteenth-century Paris to its international maturity in contemporary culture This book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus, dance, gestural theatre and theatre of objects. Popenhagen traces artistic disguising from fin de siècle Pierrots in Paris, Marseille and Vienna to early twentieth-century masquerading in Moscow and Zürich. He explores identity play and display through the complementary lenses of image studies, cultural history and performance theory. Ron J. Popenhagen is Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Humanities and Performance at California State University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A radical re-interpretation of the nature of medieval Arabic love poetry in the classical age This book examines in detail the concept of the body in Arabic love poetry in the 'Udhri tradition. Avoiding familiar clichés about the purity of love in 'Udhri poetry - broadly speaking, an Arabic counterpart to the western medieval concept of unconsummated courtly love - it instead questions the traditional much-vaunted emphasis on chastity and the assumption that this poetry omits any concept of the body. Challenging this view, Jokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries. She focuses on the key differences between what the poetry itself says and the views of later sources about 'Udhri poets and their works. She also documents how the representation of the beloved in the 'Udhri ghazal was influenced by pre-Islamic poetry, showing how this tradition developed, with a series of overlapping historical layers. And she breaks new ground by examining how this poetry treats not only the body of the beloved but also that of her lover, the poet himself. Key Features ? Challenges the stereotypical idea about the absence of the body in 'Udhri love poetry ? Investigates the 'Udhri tradition through close readings of the classical 10th-century Arabic sources including anthologies such as the Kitab al-Aghani ? Contributes to literary studies on the representations of the body ? Includes close readings of difficult literary texts in classical Arabic including the work of 'Urwah b. Hizam, Majnun Layla, Qays b. Dharih, Jamil Buthaynah and Kuthayyir 'Azzah Jokha Alharthi is Associate Professor of Classical Arabic Literature at the Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat. She obtained her PhD in classical Arabic literature from the University of Edinburgh. She is the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019 for her novel Celestial Bodies (Sayyidat al-Qamar). To date, translation rights in the novel have been sold in 21 languages.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While legal technology may bring efficiency and economy to business, where are the people in this process and what does it mean for their lives Around five billion people globally are unable to address their everyday legal problems and do not have the security, opportunity or protection to redress their grievances and injustices. Courts and legal institutions can often be out of reach because of costs, distance, or a lack of knowledge of rights and entitlements and judicial institutions may be under-funded leading to poor judicial infrastructure, inadequate staff, and limited resources to meet the needs of those who require such services. This book sets out to embed access to justice into mainstream discussions on the future of law and to explore how this can be addressed in different parts of the legal industry. It examines what changes in technology mean for the end user, whether an ordinary citizen, a client or a student; and looks at the everyday practice of law through a sector-wide analysis of law firms, universities, startups and civil society organizations. In doing so, the book provides a roadmap on how to address sector-specific access to justice questions and to draw lessons for the future. The book draws on experiences from judges, academics, practitioners, policy makers and educators and presents perspectives from both the Global South and the Global North. Key features: - Brings together leading judges, academics, practitioners, policy makers and educators from several countries, including India, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom South Africa and Nigeria - Offers a dialogue between theory and practice by presenting practical and reflective essays on the nature of changes in the legal sector - Analyses technological changes taking place in the legal sector, situates where these developments have taken place, who has brought them about and their impact on society Siddharth Peter de Souza is a research fellow and PhD candidate at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Maximilian Spohr is the policy advisor on civil rights to Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, primarily leading the foundation's international human rights program. He holds a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Heidelberg.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First modern scholarly edition of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's 1824 novel Redwood: A Tale Redwood follows Ellen Bruce as she enters adulthood, navigating the clashing social currents of pious New England farmers, southern belles from South Carolina, slave-owning atheists from Virginia, and sophisticated Philadelphia socialites on her journey to discover the secret of her parentage and craft her own identity as a strong American woman. The novel's embedded slave narrative provides a powerful early prototype for later anti-slavery fiction. Ellen's formidable mentor, Debby Lenox, a single woman who stands over six feet tall and makes her own rules about what constitutes respectable behaviour for women, is remarkably refreshing and original almost two centuries after Sedgwick crafted her. This new edition includes a historically and theoretically informed critical introduction that situates the novel within American social and literary history, also featuring a bibliography for further research and appendices detailing the significant differences between the two nineteenth-century editions. Jenifer B. Elmore is Professor of English at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This wide-ranging collection examines the films of John Hughes from diverse angles, considering how he depicted young characters, how he revealed the humour of family life, and how his films subtly critiqued social issues such as class, race, gender, education and domestic relationships.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A front-row seat to the debate on blasphemy and apostasy in Islam Is it lawful to shed the blood of a man or a woman who insults the Prophet Muhammad Does the Qu'ran stipulate a worldly punishment for apostates Beginning with a genealogy of religious freedom in contemporary Islam, this book tells the gripping story of Rafiq Taqi, an Azerbaijani journalist and writer, who was condemned to death by an Iranian cleric for a blasphemous news article in 2006. Delving into the most sacred sources for all Muslims - the Qu'ran and Hadith - Mohsen Kadivar explores the subject of blasphemy and apostasy from the perspective of Shi'a jurisprudence to articulate a polarisation between secularism and extremist religious orthodoxy. In a series of online exchanges, he debates the case with Muhammad Jawad Fazel, the son of Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani who issued the fatwa pronouncing death penalty on Taqi. While disapproving of the journalist's writings, Kadivar takes a defensive stance against vigilante murders and asks whether death for apostasy reflects the true spirit of Islam. Key Features ? Presents a back-and-forth debate between two modern Shi'a jurists (one conservative, one reformist) that locates the exact points of controversy surrounding apostasy and blasphemy ? Engages with the broader subjects of religious freedom and human rights, addressing both secular and religious interests ? Articulates the secular-religious divide and proposes a comprehensive pluralistic solution, making a case that apostasy and blasphemy are non-existent in the Qu'ran ? Packed with translations of primary sources, including fatwas and interviews, that allow English-speaking readers to understand the arguments advanced by both parties in the debate Mohsen Kadivar is Research Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, Duke University. Hamid Mavani is a Persian-English translator and Associate Professor at Claremont School of Theology, Bayan Claremont.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores and analyses the Abbasid Caliphate as it was re-imagined in late medieval Cairo This book presents a thorough investigation of a forgotten dynasty: the Cairene descendants of the Abbasid family. It uncovers the public and private lives of the eighteen men invested as caliphs during the period of 'Mamluk' rule in Egypt and Syria (1250-1517) and reveals a nuanced understanding of the Abbasid Caliphate according to elite members of Syro-Egyptian society. In doing so, it addresses the function of the caliph and his office amidst the breakdown and recreation of each new socio-political order of the sultanate. The uniquely Cairene context of the idea and institution of the caliphate is examined, including the ways in which it was socially and textually performed in the late medieval sultanate of Cairo. Key Features ? Provides the first and only complete historical treatment of the Abbasid dynasty in late medieval Cairo ? Presents different types of source material - jurisprudential, historiographical and documentary - which speak about topics in turn, resulting in a highly nuanced image of the Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo ? Includes multiple passages of previously unpublished material in translation including biographical literature, investiture documents and epigraphical evidence ? Explores a variety of textual dimensions of the Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo based on narrative, prescriptive and documentary sources Mustafa Banister is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first and only anthology dedicated to Douglass's three journeys to Britain, covering oratory, print and visual culture This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented and comprehensive 60,000-word introduction that places the speeches, letters, poetry and images printed here into context, the sources provide extraordinary insight into the myriad performative techniques Douglass used to win support for the causes of emancipation and human rights. Editors examine how Douglass employed various media - letters, speeches, interviews and his autobiographies - to convince the transatlantic public not only that his works were worth reading and his voice worth hearing, but also that the fight against racism would continue after his death. Hannah-Rose Murray is Early Career Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. John R. Kaufman-McKivigan is the Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.