Cultural studies
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Madeira, Port, Sherry
Madeira, Port, Sherry: The Equinox Companion to Fortified Wines fills a niche for all those seeking to understand the fortified wine industry as a whole: its history, producers, winemaking methods, and practical aspects of enjoying these unique wines, numbered among the world's most long-lived bever...
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And Then Your Soul is Gone
Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Equinox Publishing
The sharp and unforgiving suffering of the morally injured veteran cannot be fully understood, much less effectively addressed, without a comprehensive investigation of moral injury's underlying causes in American culture and society. This book exposes the threads of violence that tie together the n...
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Words of Experience
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, Brannon M. Wheeler, Bruce B. Lawrence, Brannon Ingram, Ali Altaf Mian, Michael Muhammad Knight, Joy Laine, James W. Laine, Frederick S. Colby, Samah Choudhury, Katherine Pratt Ewing, Robert Rozehal, F. Canguzel Guner Zulfikar, Candace Mixon, Katherine Merriman, Carl W. Ernst
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, Brannon M. Wheeler
Carl W. Ernst devoted his academic life to translating Islam, linguistically and culturally, typically within the intellectual context of religious studies. His work has focussed on how Islamic concepts have travelled across time and space and his influence on Islamic studies and religious studies i...
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Stag and Stone
Stag and Stone: Religion, Archaeology and Esoteric Aesthetics is a timely and innovative evaluation of the interdisciplinary dialogue between religious studies and archaeology. Investigating the core concepts of materiality, perception, ritual and agency the volume redefines conceptual categories an...
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Identifying Roots
This volume presents a cultural history of Alex Haley's Roots as a case study in 'operational acts of identification.' It examines the strategy and tactics Haley employed in developing a family origin story into an acclaimed national history. Where cultural studies scholars have critiqued notions of...
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Ritual and Democracy
Sarah M. Pike, Jone Salomonsen, Paul-Francois Tremlett
This transdisciplinary and theoretically innovative edited volume contains seven original, research-led chapters that explore complex intersections of ritual and democracy in a wide range of contemporary, cultural and geographic contexts. The volume emerged out of a workshop held at the Open Univers...
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Cultural Mapping and Musical Diversity
'Cultural mapping' has become a central keyword in the UNESCO strategy to protect natural and world cultural heritage, including music traditions. As a tool to increase the awareness of cultural diversity it transforms the concept of intangible cultural heritage to visible items by establishing mult...
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Miniature Books
Kristina Myrvold, Dorina Miller Parmenter, James W. Watts, Marianne Schleicher, Lucy Razzall, Heather Coffey, Andreas Johansson, Jonas Svensson, Jon Skarpeid, Yohan Yoo, Woncheol Yun
Kristina Myrvold, Dorina Miller Parmenter
Miniature books, handwritten or printed books in the smallest format, have fascinated religious people, printers, publishers, collectors, and others through the centuries because of their unique physical features, and continue to captivate people today. The small lettering and the delicate pages, bi...
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New Antiquities
Dylan M. Burns, Almut-Barbara Renger
Just as we speak of "dead" languages, we say that religions "die out." Yet sometimes, people try to revive them, today more than ever. New Antiquities addresses this phenomenon through critical examination of how individuals and groups appeal to, reconceptualize, and reinvent the religious world of...
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How and Why Books Matter
Religious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They ritualize the dimension of semantic interpretation through teaching, preaching, and scholarly commentary. This dimension receives almost all the attention of academic scholars. Communities also ritualize a...