This book positions the «prophetic» as an organizing concept that can bridge religious and secular criticism of popular media. Drawing from philosophical ethics and moral psychology, the book argues t
Scholars of communication, English, and journalism examine how critics of popular media draw on the prophetic traditions of Judaism and Christianity. The topics include prophetic voices, the boundary
A collection of articles presented at the international conference "English and German nationalist and anti-semitic discourse (1871-1945)" held at Queen Mary, University of London on November 10-11, 2
Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect is a multi-authored, interdisciplinary journey. It continues the work started in Public Education and the Imagination-Intellec
Poet/playwright/scholar of urban education, Weems (Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect: I Speak From the Wound in My Mouth) introduces essays that extend Freire's pedagogy of freedom with a
How should past injustices be addressed in order to allow victims and perpetrators to overcome their memories and move on towards a better future? After the end of the Cultural Revolution and the peri
This anthology collects some of the most current research and reflection on the complex interactions between religion and computer-mediated communications (CMC). The contributions cohere around the ce
Cheong (communication, Arizona State U.) unites contributors in religious studies, digital communication, pastoral theology, media studies, and philosophy in this collection of papers from a January 2
Eleven papers from a 2008 conference on the Wormy Corpus held at Boston U. answer the question posed in the preface by editor Misha Todd (religious studies, Loyola Marymount U.): "Why honor the creepy
This multi-authored volume offers the first extensive exploration of cultural memory in Portugal and Spain, two countries that are normally studied in isolation from one another due to linguistic dive
Since 2004, more than 80% of all high school graduates in Korea went on to university or at least junior college, although higher educated people suffer more seriously from unemployment. In human capi
This book contains the first comprehensive collection of Seventh-day Adventist texts and statements on interchurch and interfaith relations. With more than 16 million baptized members and about 30 mil
Fears and Fantasies: Modernity, Gender, and the RuraluUrban Divide explores the ways in which fantasies about returning to, or revitalising, rural life helped to define Western modernity in the early
This volume collects 11 papers that vary widely across a range of speech and language disciplines and are only united by the rather broad theme of "between the regular and the particular." Some exampl
This book is the first modern overview of the history of historiography in Spain. It covers sources from Juan de Mariana’s History of Spain, written at the end of the sixteenth century, up to current
Caribbean literature records a uniquely complex richness of literary content and form, says Deena (multicultural and post-colonial literature and criticism, East Carolina U.), because of historical, s
Wenner (communication and ethics, U. of Iowa) and Jackson (physical education, U. of Illinois) present fourteen essays from scholars in disciplines including sociology, gender studies, telecommunicati
Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life brings together a group of esteemed international scholars to focus on the important, complex, and mutually reinforcing relat
In 1995, a British doctor first alleged that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine might be linked to autism. Boyce (Risk, Science, Health and Media Group, Cardiff U.) examines why this claim
Rather than studying queer girls as a distinct sexual minority, Driver (social sciences, York U., Toronto) frames "queer" in relationship to coming-of-age identification with diverse gender identities
Taking as a model the 8-year-old Internet-based master's program at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, contributors from that school and others
This brief volume provides a critical defense of the U.S. Supreme Court's view expressed in its San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez ruling that education is not a fundamental right de
Welburn (English and Native American Indian Studies at the U. of Massachusetts, Amherst) states in his preface that his lineage "...follows several native paths [Cherokee/Assateague-Gingaskin], intert
This doctoral thesis examines why and how prison ombudsmen charged with investigating claims of injustice and breaches of human rights proliferated across countries and legal cultures and how they wer
This is the second of two thematically arranged volumes with papers that were presented at the "World Conference of Pluricentric Languages and their non-dominant Varieties" (WCPCL). It comprises 17 pa
Nobody doubts that music has a special, somewhat mysterious power. Less clear is how we can evaluate that power. What makes music good or bad? Are there objective criteria for such a distinction? What
Six papers from a March 2012 conference in Berlin explore the analytical concept of policy translation that has recently entered the study of how policy ideas move from one culture to another. They an
The editors of this book respond to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation study that showed US youth now spend 12 hours and 20 minutes each day using media (Internet, video games, TV, texting, music playe
The continuing advance of globalization, together with deepening European integration, has increased the significance of the transnational level of trade union organization and action. This study offe
This is a study about man who is a part of the world of physical events, including actions. As a bunch of actions which are conditioned by beliefs and other attitudes, man co-creates communities which
An important question concerning literary studies is the circulation of literary works beyond their place of origin. Many other aspects must also be taken into consideration, such as the asymmetric po
This book focuses on matching theoretical predictions about language and cognition against empirical language data. The contributions use corpus linguistics methodology for their analysis. The contrib
