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"In American Christian Programmed Quaker Ecclesiology, Derek Brown argues that American Christian Programmed Quakerism has inherited a practical and pragmatic ecclesiology at the expense of an ontological understanding of the church. Inspired by the work of Gerben Heitink, Brown proposes a normative, deductive, ontological ecclesiology based on the biblical concept of koinonia, which would act as a 'foundational' model for future confessional, empirical, and practical efforts. To help form the proposed ecclesiology, Brown explores the ecclesiological views of George Fox and Robert Barclay, the adoption of the pastoral system, and the emergence of the Evangelical Friends Church. The ecclesiological writings of Miroslav Volf, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Hans Kèung, Jennifer Buck, and C. Wess Daniels are also surveyed"--

With almost three decades of market democracy, South Africa has gone horribly wrong. This volume provides a left critique and explanation for the failed promise of national liberation of South Africa, and provides praxis-centred arguments for a new transformative politics.

In Marxism and International Relations: Perspectives from the Brazilian Global South, Brazilian authors approach Marxist theory in a way that inserts it into the field of International Relations.

The story of the mitre began during the 11th-century church reform movements and was, surprisingly, inspired by a popular pastime. After a thousand years of bare heads, the Church finally had an official hat, signaling newly-structured internal dynamics, an increase in power and influence in society, and greater parity with secular leaders.

The asymmetrical U.S.-China relationship that has been the fundamental axis of globalisation has definitively entered into crisis. Sciortino's book represents a timely, rich, and sophisticated analysis of the geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics at play in the looming confrontation between U.S. and China.

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the authority of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the determination of international humanitarian law, addressing, among other things, the institution's most distinctive interpretations and law-ascertainments through case studies.

"A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and further afield. If God-derived authority legitimized a monarch's rule, it did not necessarily prevent opposition to perceived arbitrary government as subjects put forward the counter-concept of consensual rule. The provincial elite might serve the ruler as advisors and officers at court but they also possessed an independent source of power based on their extensive estates. While monarchs wanted to perpetuate a system in which they could watch over members of the regional elite at court and keep them busy, they sought to make use of them as local and provincial administrators, that is, as long as they remained loyal: a fraught balancing act. Contributors include: Hâelder Carvalhal, Peter Edwards, Jemma Field, Cailean Gallagher, Pedro Josâe Herades-Ruiz, Graeme S. Millen, Vita Malaésinskienâe, Tibor Monostori, Steve Murdoch, David Potter, Peter S. Roberts, Irene Maria Vicente-Martin, and Matthias Wong"--

In this comprehensive volume, Gönenç Uysal analyzes state-military-society relations in Turkey from the late Ottoman era to today by exploring state-class-capital relations under the dynamics of uneven development.

Utilizing Performance Criticism, this volume explores how the traditional literary configurations of the disciples' characterization in the Gospel of Mark are complicated by considerations of the oral milieu of the first-century.

Examining manifestations and transformations of multi-sensorial expressions and experiences of Shiʿi Islam, Shiʿi Materiality beyond Karbala demonstrate how material things and less thing-like materialities make the praesentia and potentia of the Sacred tangible, how they cultivate intimate relations between human and more-than-human beings, and how they act as links and gateways to the Elsewhere and Otherworldly.

In this volume on Yoga and meditation from a sociological point of view, the contributions cover a wide range of topics, traditions, and geographic contexts, all raising a different facet of sociological approaches to Asian forms and dynamics of aesceticism.

"This book discusses the printers' devices used in Poland-Lithuania in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The compositions that served to identify the products of individual printers are explored here as previously unacknowledged research material for cultural studies: they allow for the reconstruction of the mentality of contemporary printers as well as their co-workers and reading public. The book investigates relationships within early modern intellectual communities and shows that the textual and visual discourses of the printers' devices were pan-European, reflecting the networked communities of European centres of learning and commerce. It documents the broad range of the output of Polish-Lithuanian presses as well and is therefore also a study of book culture in a multinational and multilingual state, whose inheritance is poorly recognised internationally"--

SEG LXVIII covers newly published Greek inscriptions and studies on previously known documents from the year 2018, with occasional additions from previous years that have been missed in earlier volumes and from studies published after 2017 but pertaining to material from 2018.

Interdisciplinary perspective on the origin and significance of the numeral zero. Over 40 international scholars explore zero under four broad themes: history; religion, philosophy & linguistics; arts; and mathematics & science. With the existing research being very specialized, this is the first serious interdisciplinary study.

Beyond the search for escape and nostalgia, by understanding the formative texts of early Arthurian historical narrative and the foundation stories with which Arthur is inextricably linked, we may better understand our own ethnic and individual identities in an age of increasing anonymity and globalization.

"In Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari, Julie B. Deluty investigates the mediation of prophecy for kings in biblical narratives and the Old Babylonian corpus from Mari. In many cases, the prophet's message is delivered through a third party-sometimes a royal official or family member-who may exercise a degree of autonomy in the transmission of the words. Drawing on social network theory, the book highlights the importance of third-party intermediaries in the process of communication that lies at the core of biblical and ancient Near Eastern prophecy. Recognition of the place of non-prophetic intermediaries in a monarchic system offers a new dimension to the study of prophecy in antiquity"--

"After 1979, Switzerland became increasingly involved in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan as a provider of humanitarian aid and good offices. It delivered aid to the region, hosted Soviet prisoners of war and eventually mediated between the Afghan regime and the mujahideen. What is puzzling about this development is that initially, following the Soviet invasion, both government and parliament refused to become diplomatically involved in Afghanistan on account of Swiss neutrality. The present study investigates how and why this changed between 1979 and 1992. While the practical impact of Switzerland's good offices was modest, the crisis revealed that Switzerland continued to struggle to balance the competing imperatives of permanent neutrality and international solidarity in an increasingly multilateral world"--

"Renewal of higher-education programs in US prisons creates a need for science education. This is the first book to address STEM education in prisons in the United States. It calls on activist science teachers to develop innovative ways to teach in challenging carceral settings. Over the last fifty years, science education and prison education have moved in different directions, one expanding and the other contracting. This book brings these educational endeavors into cooperative engagement. Democratic citizenship opens opportunities for all people, irrespective of civil status, to study science. The book presents student narratives and case studies emphasizing the achievements of STEM education behind prison walls. STEM education equity can help address the deep social inequities that mass incarceration creates and magnifies. Contributors are: Cassandra Barrett, Andrew Bell, George Bogner, Adrian Borealis, Drew Bush, Kelli Bush, Sandy Chang, Kelle Dhein, Amalia Handler, Steven Hart, Steven Henderson, Tiffany Hensley-McBain, Paul Kazelis, Joe Lockard, Edward Mei, Tsafrir Mor, Rob Scott, Laura Taylor, Joslyn Rose Trivett and Emily Webb"--

"This is the first work exploring the colonial roots, modern context, trajectory and legacy of the Shining Path insurgency in the region of Huancavelica, Peru, one of Peru's most impoverished and Quechua-speaking regions. The use of terroristic violence to implement a revolutionary and exclusivist ideology was without precedent in Latin America, presaging later movements such as ISIS. Integrating interviews, testimonials, survey data and the vast primary and secondary literature on the insurgency, this work examines how Huancavelican communities experienced and continue to shoulder the consequences of an exterminatory conflict thirty years after the insurgency was largely, although not entirely, defeated"--

The entertaining and informative Arabic anthology by al-Thaʿālibī (d. 1038), Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful, offers poems and prose with contrary or paradoxical statements, thematically arranged. The book contains a new edition and a richly annotated English translation.

This book examines whether the current system of international law is still adequate. Analysing the compatibility of trade measures on child labour with world trade law, it makes the case for a new cognitive frame, a New Legal Humanism.

The leadership challenges discussed in this book will resonate with any denomination or church that has grown or wrestled with polity and culture, but will hold special appeal for those interested in the history of the Assemblies of God.

"Unheil," curse, disaster: Anders Gerdmar takes a fresh look at the dangers of the politicization of biblical scholarship and the ways in which unrecognized interpretive filters led to a Jewish apocalypse in Nazi Germany.

How widespread was authorship among rulers in the premodern Islamic world? The writings of different types of rulers in different regions and periods are analyzed, shedding light on the role that authorship had in the construction of the rulers' authority and legitimacy.

Political Theology the "Modern Way" details the life and provides an original interpretation of the political theology of the French philosopher-theologian, Jacques Almain (d. 1515).

Early modern Japanese graphic narratives (kusazōshi) have found their go-to guide: this edited volume is the first in English to treat them in the round, uncovering fresh research avenues for the specialist and advancing provocations around comics, manga, and the literary.

This collection of 26 original essays by an international team of leading scholars investigates the influence and reception of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day.

In this book, Barbara Wall analyses sixty Korean variations of The Journey to the West as dynamic texts, arguing that their artists are participants in the ongoing creating of the story world known as The Journey, in the process challenging typical assumptions about the classics of world literature.

The present volume will serve its purpose if it consolidates the view of early modern Catholic book culture as an autonomous field of investigation and encourages further research and discussion.