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  • Making Promises

    Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-jurisdictional and Multi-religious Societies

    by Pamela Klassen, Benjamin Berger, Monique Scheer ...
    How should we understand promises as public, private, or political commitments? What are the conditions for promise-making in religiously diverse societies with competing jurisdictions and sovereignties? Making Promises addresses how promises are made meaningful not only through law, but also through appeals to transcendent powers across diverse traditions.Each contribution in this volume takes a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Enthusiasm

    Emotional Practices of Conviction in Modern Germany

    by Monique Scheer ...
    Series series Emotions in History
    Enthusiasm seeks to contribute to a culturally and historically nuanced understanding of how emotions secure and ratify the truth of convictions. More than just pure affective intensity, enthusiasm is about something: a certainty, clarity, or truth. Neither as clearly negative as fanaticism nor as general as passion, enthusiasm specifically entails belief. For this reason, the book takes its ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • The Public Work of Christmas

    Difference and Belonging in Multicultural Societies

    Edited by Monique Scheer, Pamela Klassen ...
    Series Book 7 - Advancing Studies in Religion
    Christmas is not a holiday just for Christians anymore, if it ever was. Embedded in calendars around the world and long a lucrative merchandising opportunity, Christmas enters multicultural, multi-religious public spaces, provoking both festivity and controversy, hospitality and hostility.The Public Work of Christmas provides a comparative historical and ethnographic perspective on the politics of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Public Work of Christmas

    Difference and Belonging in Multicultural Societies

    Edited by Monique Scheer, Pamela Klassen ...
    Series Book 7 - Advancing Studies in Religion
    Christmas is not a holiday just for Christians anymore, if it ever was. Embedded in calendars around the world and long a lucrative merchandising opportunity, Christmas enters multicultural, multi-religious public spaces, provoking both festivity and controversy, hospitality and hostility.The Public Work of Christmas provides a comparative historical and ethnographic perspective on the politics of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Discriminations

    Making Peace in the Culture Wars

    by A. C. Grayling ...
    World-renowned philosopher A. C. Grayling explores the messy politics of the ‘culture wars’It seems like we can’t talk about anything nowadays… Whether it’s war or something utterly inconsequential, the internet is primed for furore. And the results can be horrifying – from online pile-ons and doxing to job loss and, in some cases, death. But how did we end up here?Nuanced and historically ... Read more

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  • Conservatism

    A Rediscovery

    by Yoram Hazony ...
    The idea that American conservatism is identical to "classical" liberalism—widely held since the 1960s—is seriously mistaken.The award-winning political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for Western democracy is a return to the empiricist, religious, and nationalist traditions of America and Britain—the conservative traditions that brought greatness to the English-speaking nations ... Read more

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  • Fear of Black Consciousness

    by Lewis R. Gordon ...
    Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopherIn this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and the ... Read more

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  • The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History

    by David Lowenthal ...
    Heritage has burgeoned over the past quarter of a century from a small élite preoccupation into a major popular crusade. Everything from Disneyland to the Holocaust Museum, from the Balkan wars to the Northern Irish troubles, from Elvis memorabilia to the Elgin Marbles bears the marks of the cult of heritage. In this acclaimed 1998 book David Lowenthal explains the rise of this obsession with the ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Comparative Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sabrina Ragone, Guido Smorto ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction aims to offer a concise introduction to Comparative Law—its objectives, methods, concepts and uses. After an overview of the fundamental definitions, key concepts and basic lexicon of the discipline, the book proposes an analysis of the most successful techniques adopted in legal comparison for ... Read more

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  • Equality

    The History of an Elusive Idea

    by Darrin M. McMahon ...
    The definitive history of the idea of equality—and why we’re so ambivalent about itEquality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don’t understand it? As much as we have struggled for equality, we have always been profoundly skeptical about it. How much do we want, and for whom?Darrin ... Read more

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  • Malthus

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Donald Winch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short Introduction, Donald Winch explains and clarifies Malthus's ideas, assessing the profound influence he has had on modern economic thought. Concentrating on his writings, Winch sheds light on the context ... Read more

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