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In Latina/o/x Studies and Biblical Studies Jacqueline M. Hidalgo introduces Latina/o/x studies for a biblical studies audience. She examines themes such as identity and difference; ethnicity and race; migration with attention to homing, diaspora, transnationalism, and citizenship; and epistemological commitments to complexity, relationality, particularity, and collaboration.

The "Good news" not always been experienced as good for minorities within evangelical communities in the United States. Vincent Bacote argues a reckoning with race is necessary for evangelical theology to cultivate an evangelicalism more hospitable to minorities, particularly African-Americans.

Drawing on a thousand years of European travel writing and mapmaking, Dym suggests that after centuries of text-based itineraries and on-the spot directions guiding travelers and constituting their reports, maps in the fifteenth century emerged as tools for Europeans to support and report the results of land and sea travel. With each succeeding generation, these linear journey maps have become increasingly common and complex, responding to changes in forms of transportation, such as air and motor car 'flight' and print technology, especially the advent of multi-color printing. This is their story.

When claiming territories, States use all kinds of legal, geographical, and historical arguments, as well aseffectivités. In recent maritime cases, States have begun using underwater archaeology and submerged heritage as a basis for their claims. This book takes a critical look at that policy.

The book An Introduction to Islamic Psychology discusses the possibility, foundations, and characteristics of Islamic Psychology. It also introduces research methodology in Islam-based psychology. Additionally, it reviews the Quranic theory of personality and presents the methods of Islamic psychotherapy.

The first women Latinists lived in renaissance Italy. The new learning spread from there to the rest of Europe. The original purpose of teaching women Latin was diplomacy, but later women used the language in many ways.

Jesuit libraries, which date from the foundation of the order, helped build a global culture as part their evangelization. Although few ties to the original libraries remain today, Jesuit librarianship left an intellectual legacy which still informs library science today.

How does a modern society that venerates soldiers write about ancient wars? This book explores how the intellectual environment of the German Empire left lasting militaristic traces on the way we write the history of warfare in ancient Greece.

This is the first serious book wholly devoted to games based on maps: board games, playing cards and dissected puzzles from Western Europe and America are analysed and illustrated in all their historic variety.