Religion

Human Rights and the Arab Spring: The Cases of Tunisia and Egypt (St. James's Studies in World Affairs)(Paperback edition)

Author: 

El-Halabi, Bachar, Asfari Institute, American University of Beirut

By 2015, four years after the dawn of the Arab Spring, the prospects of a unifying political reform narrative in the Arab World were noticeably dwindling. The unprecedented opportunity for a regional workshop of reform and state building had stalled, with Islamist movements more anxious about questions of identity and religious ethics, and with the old guards of the “deep state” establishments (mainly military or religious personnel) countering the revolutions, rather than being concerned with constitutionalism.

Market: 
Middle East Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, Human Rights, Egypt, Tunisia, Arab Spring, Islam, Modern Middle East, Civil War, Power Vacuums, Criminal Justice, Law, Transition Politics
Release Date: 
July 15, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531671 Paperback
Price: 
$29.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
120
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Italia Rediviva: A Social and Cultural History of Italy, 1740-1900 (Paperback)

Author: 

Kent, Neil, University of Cambridge

Credentials: 

Author of Trieste: Adriatic Emporium and Gateway to the Heart of Europe and Crimea: A History

In this well received volume, Cambridge polymath Neil Kent seeks to provide a readable history, rich in both anecdotes and statistics, for students and a wide reading public who are interested in Italy in a period of history which - while it has been widely examined with respect to the Risorgimento as a positive and progressive movement which united Italy and enabled it to enter the modern world – has failed to consider Italy's multiplicity of cultures, art, architecture and societies. The period from 1740-1900, however, is neglected.

Market: 
Italy, Italian Studies, Italian History, Catholic Studies, Music, Music History, Risorgimento, Garibaldi, Verdi, Modernism, Modernization Theory, Modern Europe, Early Modern Europe, Eighteenth Century Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Global History, Italian Unification
Release Date: 
July 15, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531879: Paperback
Price: 
$29.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
405
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

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Divine Insight and Human Consciousness: Opening the Dynamic Stability of a New Creation

Author: 

Bigg, Reverend Dr Andrew

Credentials: 

Former Dean of Chapel, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge

Foreword by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, 2002-2012

“Doing” theology ought to be deep, creative, and awe-inspiring. Big theological questions should be asked in the most genuinely helpful manner. Often, and inevitably from a human perspective, we ask questions such as “Why doesn’t God…?” or “Why does God allow…?” or, perhaps more appropriately, “What is the best way to conceive of God through His engagement with creation?”

Market: 
Religion, Theology, Christianity, Incarnation, Divinity, Concepts of Divinity, Biblical Studies, Rhetoric, Belief, Faith, World Religions
Release Date: 
August 1, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680534917: Hardcover, 978-1680531640 Paperback
Price: 
$139.95 / $34.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
320
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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The Utopian Conceit and the War on Freedom

Author: 

Pilon, Juliana Geran, Ph.D.

Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon is a Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. Her books include "The Art of Peace: Engaging a Complex World", "Notes From the Other Side of Night", "Soulmates: Resurrecting Eve"; "Why America is Such a Hard Sell": "Beyond Pride and Prejudice", and "The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe -- Spotlight on Romania".

Market: 
American Studies, Political Science, Political Philosophy, Ideology, Intellectual History, Religion, Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, Utopianism, Anti-Semitism, Global Politics
Release Date: 
September 15, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531558 Hardcover; ISBN: 978-1680531664 Paperback
Price: 
$139.95 / $29.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Spiritual Shakespeare: Religious Subtext in the Plays

Author: 

Risden, E. L., Professor of English, St. Norbert College

Credentials: 

Author of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Maxims: A Politics of Rhetoric and Irony

For an author who tended to avoid explicitly Christian subjects in his plays and poems, Shakespeare showed an abiding interest in the spiritual qualities of his characters. Spiritual Shakespeare, the latest study by noted Shakespeare scholar E. L. Risden, considers the playwright not only as a Christian writer, but also one of considerable spiritual significance: the plays regularly highlight evidence of characters’ struggles with their own spiritual health. They often show the sorrows that result from spiritual blindness or neglect.

Market: 
English Literature, Shakespeare, Drama, World Literature, Religion, Religion in Literature, Elizabethan Drama, Psychology
Release Date: 
July 1, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531565: Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
194
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Jewish Tradition in a Western Key: Essays on Jews and Judaism in a Changing World, 1789-1939

Author: 

Graff, Gil, J.D., Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles

Credentials: 

Executive Director, Builders of Jewish Education

The period 1789-1939 was a time of dramatic, global social, political and economic transformation, with considerable ramifications for Jews and Judaism. From the dissolution of corporate status and new-found standing as individual citizens; from diverse, religious approaches to the interplay of Judaism and modernity, to competing notions of Jewish peoplehood and nationalism; from demographic growth to mass migration and relocation, this was an era of substantial change.

Market: 
Jewish Studies, Judaica, Religion, Religious Studies, European History, Political Science, Intellectual History, Minority Studies, Nationalism, Zionism, Migration Studies
Release Date: 
June 15, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680530841: Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
175
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Shakespeare and Jung - The God in Time

Author: 

Driscoll, James, Ph.D.

In Shakespeare and Jung - The God in Time literary critic and philosopher James Driscoll presents original arguments for the existence and nature of God. He traverses the boundaries of art, philosophy, psychology, and religion to draw on Shakespeare, Carl Jung, and A. N. Whitehead to define and illuminate the interconnections of God and time.

Market: 
Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, Psychiatry, Literature, Existentialism, Shakespeare, Carl Jung, A. N. Whitehead, Time, Psychology of Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Theology, Metaphysics, Public Philosophy, Civilization Studies
Release Date: 
January 15, 2019
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534818
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
405
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Human Rights and the Arab Spring: The Cases of Tunisia and Egypt (St. James's Studies in World Affairs)

Author: 

El-Halabi, Bachar, National University of Ireland, Galway

By 2015, four years after the dawn of the Arab Spring,the prospects of a unifying political reform narrative in the Arab World were noticeably dwindling. The unprecedented opportunity for a regional workshop of reform and state building had stalled, with Islamist movements more anxious about questions of identity and religious ethics, and with the old guards of the “deep state” establishments (mainly military or religious personnel) countering the revolutions, rather than being concerned with constitutionalism.

Market: 
Middle East Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, Human Rights, Egypt, Tunisia, Arab Spring, Islam, Modern Middle East, Civil War, Power Vacuums, Criminal Justice, Law, Transition Politics
Release Date: 
December 15, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534702
Price: 
$149.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
120
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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The Revelation of Art-Religion

Author: 

Knoll, Reinhold, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna; Kenneth Quandt, Ph.D. in Classics, University of California, Berkeley

Art’s original function in Christian Europe is exemplified by the way the Eastern Icon served as a window to the divine. After the Great Schism of 1054, several developments in Western Christianity separated art from church, cult, and religion. Art continued to evolve independently of the Roman Catholic Church through the Renaissance, with a continuous development of artistic style that culminated in the Baroque Totalism of
the eighteenth century.

Market: 
Religion, Culture, European History, Western Civilization, Religious History, Philosophy, Cultural History, Wagner, Nietzsche, Modernity, Post-Modernity, Decadence, Decay, Decline of the West
Release Date: 
November 15, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534696
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
169
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

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Honor Killings: Socio-Legal Dimensions (Saint James’ Studies in World Affairs)

Author: 

Jan, Aneeda, University of Kashmir

In this fascinating new study, Aneeda Jan examines an enduring problem prevailing on an international scale. In the absence of any comprehensive approach, the phenomenon of honor killings is mainly viewed as a social menace than a criminal act demanding global solutions. Why is the menace of honor killing so rampant? How can we analyze or focus on social and legal measures adopted by different countries to prevent honor killings? To what extent have judicial bodies provided guidance to set standards regarding the prevention and control of honor killings?

Market: 
Sociology, Religion, South Asian Studies, Traditional Cultures, Religion, Honor Killings, Human Rights, Human Rights Law, Development Studies, India, Pakistan
Release Date: 
October 1, 2018
ISBN: 
978-1680530766: Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
204
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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