Grace Jantzen was an internationally-renowned feminist philosopher of religion whose work has transformed the way we think about the interactions between religion, culture and gender in Western culture. This book brings together many of Grace Jantzen's colleagues and former students in a wide-ranging exploration of her enduring influence.

The career of Gabriel Faure as a composer of songs for voice and piano traverses six decades (1862-1921). This title presents an illustrated study of each of Faure's 109 songs. It includes chapters for the student singer and serious music-lover that discuss interpretation and performance in both aesthetical and practical terms.

A collection of essays that allow the reader to fully understand how the causes of the war on terror, both the domestic and foreign policy implications, and the future challenges faced by the United States have moved on since 2003.

A collection that engages in a rigorous and sometimes contentious exploration of the legal, political, social and cultural implications of the authors' distinct theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality.

Contending that early modern fictional portrayals of sexual violence identify the position of the author with that of the chaste woman threatened with rape, this book challenges the prevalent scholarly view that this period's concept of 'The Author' was inherently masculine.

Presents a set of key studies on classical Arabic poetry (ca 500-1000 CE). This book focuses on interpretations of the form and function of the pre-eminent classical poetic genre, the polythematic qasida, or Arabic ode, particularly explorations of its ritual, ceremonial and performance dimensions.

The popularity of the long-running television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has long been matched by the range and depth of the academic critical response. This book describes the show's imaginative and widely varied use of music, sound and silence.

Traces the origin of Karl Barth's commitment to his doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son (Filioque) in his early career (particularly in Romans and the Gottingen Dogmatics). This book analyzes how the doctrine functions throughout the Church Dogmatics.

Focuses on the concept of distributed situation awareness, which takes a systems perspective on the concept and moves the focus on situation awareness out of the heads of individual operators and on to the overall joint cognitive system consisting of human and technological agents.

Illustrates the variety of ways in which minorities found a place in towns - as citizens, outsiders, or in some other role - and how that could vary according to local circumstances or over time. This book discusses questions of identity, perception, legal status and relations between groups.

Includes essays that help graduate students with research methodology and the application of relevant theoretical models. This work covers 7 themes: Film, Video and Multimedia; Technology and Studio Production; Gender and Sexuality; Identity and Ethnicity; Performance and Gesture; and, Reception and Scenes and The Music Industry and Globalization.

Examines the national and international law, human rights and civil liberties issues involved in governments calling out troops to deal with civil unrest or terrorism.

A just culture protects people's honest mistakes from being seen as culpable. But what is an honest mistake, or rather, when is a mistake no longer honest? Drawing on author's experience with practitioners (in nursing, air traffic control and professional aviation) whose errors were turned into crimes, this title lays out a view of just culture.

Deals with questions of political and constitutional principle and theory that affect the law and regulation of content in media that are based on digital technology.

Discusses the role of Gnostic theologians in the formation of catholic thought. This book offers a view of the controversies which gave rise to the councils of Nicaea, Ephesus and Chalcedon. It proposes a revision in the scholarly perception of early Christendom, demonstrating the essential unity of the tradition.

How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth century? This book examines books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist debate.

A collection of essays from South African critics that examine the treatment of Shakespeare's work in South Africa as an aspect of colonial history. It shows how the titanic political and ideological struggles that convulsed South Africa throughout the period also affected the way that Shakespeare was studied, interpreted, taught and performed.

A part of a series of books concerned with the Portuguese Encounters with the World in the Age of Discoveries. This book contains chapters covering the Portuguese arrival in Sri Lanka, and their first encounters with the island and its peoples, their relations with Kandy and Jaffna, and a chapter on Portuguese relations with the Maldive Islands.

Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg, this book presents an examination of the critical implications of his writings and their position in the Edinburgh and London literary marketplaces.

Addressing the shortcomings in research on the relationship between immigrants and rural areas, this book employs an innovative approach by exploring this relationship from a cross-national comparative, global perspective, drawing lessons from case studies across a range of geographical and political contexts, including Canada and the USA.