The book examines deep shifts in the religious life of Russia and the post-Soviet world as a whole. The author uses combined methods of history, sociology and anthropology to grasp transformations in
This interdisciplinary collection explores the dynamic relationship between literature and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributions take the reader on a journey throu
This volume presents a collection of the latest scholarly research on language, migration and identity. In a globalised world where migratory patterns are in constant flux, the traditional notion of t
Professor Ogura presents a collection of papers on the subject of aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England as a gift for select members of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies. There are
Scholars of English, linguistics, and translation investigate how people manifest culturally shaped identities in and through discourse in documents and texts from multiple spheres of action. They als
Drawing on the experience of her own passage from India to Mozambique and finally to Australia as well as on reports and testimony of others, Fernandes-Satar explores the history of women who made the
Sociologist Tie identifies the elements that now occupy the discursive space where utopia used to reside, and suggests how the practices of late capitalism can be retooled to change the course of hist
What is it to care for another human being? How do we show compassion for each other? Is ‘social care’ an activity only for paid professionals? This book sets out on a radical re-examination of the na
This book offers an in-depth study of the rich tapestry of happiness discourses in well-known philosophical novels by Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse and Ernst Jünger, published between 1922 a
This book examines the relevance of the concepts of space and place to the work of Jorge Luis Borges. The core of the book is a series of readings of key Borges texts viewed from the perspective of hu
