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Land of Stark Contrasts

Land of Stark Contrasts

Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness in the United States

Edited by Manuel Mejido Costoya

Contributor(s): Paul H. Blankenship, Margaret Breen, Jeremy Brown, Sathianathan Clarke, John A. Coleman, María Teresa Dávila, Michael R. Fisher, Jr., Nancy Khalil, Lauren Lawson, Manuel Mejido Costoya, Roberto Mata, Bruce Miller, James Spickard and Laura Stivers

An important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today’s most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. Land...

ISBN: 9780823293964

Trauma and Transcendence

Trauma and Transcendence

Suffering and the Limits of Theory

Edited by Eric Boynton and Peter Capretto

Afterword by Mary-Jane Rubenstein

This volume gathers scholars in philosophy, psychology, religion, and sociology variety of disciplines to meet the challenge of how to think trauma and transcendence inlight of the interdisciplinary character of the field of Trauma Studies and its splintering across the multiple theoretical approaches.

ISBN: 9780823280278

Paul Hanly Furfey

Paul Hanly Furfey

Priest, Scientist, Social Reformer

Nicholas K. Rademacher

Recounts and analyzes Paul Hanly Furfey’s contribution to Catholic social thought and practice in the fields of sociology, social work, and higher education across the twentieth-century in his roles as priest, scholar, educator, and social reformer.

ISBN: 9780823276776

Making Italian America

Making Italian America

Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities

Edited by Simone Cinotto

Addressing topics in the history and sociology of fashion, film, food, popular music, sports, masculinity, youth subcultures, and the politics of consumption, Making Italian America explores consumer culture in Italian American history and life, the role of consumption in the production of ethnic identities, and the commodification of cultural difference.

ISBN: 9780823256242

Bruno Latour in Pieces

Bruno Latour in Pieces

An Intellectual Biography

Henning Schmidgen

Translated by Gloria Custance

Bruno Latour is one of the major figures of contemporary thought. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Latourian oeuvre, spanning from his early work in the sociology and anthropology of science to his recent philosophy of multiple “modes of existence.”

ISBN: 9780823263707

Speaking of Music

Speaking of Music

Addressing the Sonorous

Edited by Keith Chapin and Andrew H. Clark

A collection of essays that address the ways that writers, musicians, philosophers, politicians, critics, and scholars speak of music from varying standpoints and in varying ways. An introduction to the volume identifies common themes and issues.

ISBN: 9780823251391

In Search of Community

In Search of Community

Essays in Memory of Werner Stark, 1905-85

Eileen B. Leonard and Herman Strasser

In Search of Community is a collection of thirteen essays by former students of Dr. Werner Stark, influential historian of social thought. The work opens with an introduction succinctly relating an...

ISBN: 9780823213528

The Roads to Hillbrow

The Roads to Hillbrow

Making Life in South Africa's Community of Migrants

Ron Nerio and Jean Halley

This highly accessible portrayal of a post-apartheid neighborhood in transition analyzes the relationship between identity, migration, and place.Since it was founded in 1894, amidst...

ISBN: 9780823299409

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity

Edited by Ina Merdjanova

Contributor(s): Kristin Aune, Milica Bakic-Hayden, Maria Bucur, Ketevan Gurchiani, James Kapalo, Helena Kupari, Ina Merdjanova, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Eleni Sotiriou, Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir and Detelina Tocheva

This volume engages women’s lifeworlds, practices, and experiences in relation to Orthodox Christianity in multiple, varied localities, discussing both contemporary and pre-1989 developments. It critically engages the pluralist and changing character of Orthodox forms of institutional and social life in relation to gender by using feminist epistemologies and drawing on original ethnographic research.

ISBN: 9780823298617

In Defense of Secrets

In Defense of Secrets

Anne Dufourmantelle

Translated by Lindsay Turner

Finalist, French-American Foundation Translation PrizeIn an age that prizes political and personal transparency, In Defense of Secrets champions the secret as what permits...

ISBN: 9780823289233

American Parishes

American Parishes

Remaking Local Catholicism

Edited by Gary J. Adler Jr., Tricia C. Bruce and Brian Starks

Contributor(s): Gary J. Adler Jr., Nancy Ammerman, Mary Jo Bane, Tricia C. Bruce, John A. Coleman, Kathleen Garces-Foley, Mark M. Gray, Brett Hoover, Courtney Irby, Tia Noelle Pratt and Brian Starks

Between individual Catholics and a global institution, thousands of local parishes remake Catholicism each day. With fresh data and sociological methods, this book shows how parishes are shaped by community, geography, and authority; how parishes respond to diversity and change; and how parishes worship and educate for the future of Catholicism.

ISBN: 9780823284344

Being Brains

Making the Cerebral Subject

Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega

Sketches the history of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, and documents and critically discusses its contemporary forms across a range of contexts, including mental health, the human sciences, and literature and film.

ISBN: 9780823283682

Levels of Organic Life and the Human

Levels of Organic Life and the Human

An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology

Helmuth Plessner

Translated by Millay Hyatt

A modern classic, this powerful and sophisticated account of embodiment was first published in German in 1928 and now appears in English for the first time. With reference simultaneously to science, social theory, and philosophy, Plessner shows how life can be seen on its own terms to establish its own boundaries. Plessner’s account of how the human establishes itself in relation to the nonhuman will invigorate a range of current conversations around the animal, posthumanism, the material turn, and the biology and sociology of cognition.

ISBN: 9780823283989

Counter Institution

Counter Institution

Activist Estates of the Lower East Side

Nandini Bagchee

Counter Institution is a history of three re-purposed buildings in the Lower East Side--Peace Pentagon, ABC No Rio, and El Bohio--that have been used by activists as their headquarters to launch various actions over the past forty years.

ISBN: 9780823279265

The Common Growl

The Common Growl

Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community

Thomas Claviez

An impressive collection bringing together contributions of renowned scholars on the topic of a "New Poetics of Community" that goes beyond both a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity and the myths of social engineering and rational choice.

ISBN: 9780823270927

The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

The Essential Early Essays

W. E. B. Du Bois

Edited by Nahum Dimitri Chandler

The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays assembles essential essays by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois – thinker, writer, scholar, activist, leader – from half a dozen years on each side, respectively, of the turning of the twentieth century, from 1894 to early 1906. In this essays are the first formulations of some of Du Bois’s most famous ideas, namely, “the veil,” “double-consciousness,” and the “problem of the color line.” Clustered around the turn of the century, they comprise a kind of essential companion to The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches.

ISBN: 9780823254552

At Freedom's Limit

At Freedom's Limit

Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament

Sadia Abbas

At Freedom’s Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament is a critique of how the current anthropology and sociology of Islam has used Muslims as a discursive site on which contemporary aporias of modernity are worked out. The book shows that some of the most intricate critiques of Islamism and of state theocracy are being produced by theologically adept Muslim writers.

ISBN: 9780823257867

X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought

X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought

Nahum Dimitri Chandler

X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of the African American as an object of discourse, knowledge, and general social practice, conceiving the focus of such a concern -- with W. E. B. Du Bois -- as forms of social and historical problems on an epochal scale, above all the global-level “problem of the color line,” as the mark of both historical limit and possibility.

ISBN: 9780823254071

Theopoetic Folds

Theopoetic Folds

Philosophizing Multifariousness

Edited by Roland Faber and Jeremy Fackenthal

This book explores a “theopoetics” of multiplicity, how it contributes to scholarship on the edge of theology, philosophy, literature, and sociology, how it questions the establishment of the difference between philosophy and theology and resides in the dangerous realm of relativism, but might also heal the desperateness of orthodox persecution.

ISBN: 9780823251568

Living Together

Living Together

Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace

Edited by Elisabeth Weber

For Jacques Derrida, the notions and experiences of “community,” “living,” “together” never ceased to harbor radical, even infinite interrogations. Gathered around an unpublished essay by Derrida, the contributions to this volume explore the struggles and chances of living together in the post-9/11 era and in regions of intense political conflict.

ISBN: 9780823249930

Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean

Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean

Franco Cassano

Translated and Edited by Norma Bouchard and Valerio Ferme

In 1996, with the publication of Southern Thought, Italian writer Franco Cassano became widely recognized as one of the most important voices in the contemporary Italian and European intellectual...

ISBN: 9780823233656

Pragmatism in the Americas

Pragmatism in the Americas

Edited by Gregory Fernando Pappas

In the last ten years, investigators worldwide have focused on the connections between the philosophy of classical figures in American pragmatism (e.g., William James, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey)...

ISBN: 9780823233687

Powers

Religion as a Social and Spiritual Force

Edited by Meerten B. ter Borg and Jan Willem van Henten

This book, the first themed volume in the series The Future of the Religious Past, elaborates the manifold and fascinating interconnections between power and religion. It carries forward the work...

ISBN: 9780823231577

The Opinion System

The Opinion System

Impasses of the Public Sphere from Hobbes to Habermas

Kirk Wetters

This book revises the concept of the public sphere by examining opinion as a foundational concept of modernity. Indispensable to ideas like "public opinion" and "freedom of opinion," opinion-though...

ISBN: 9780823229888

Religion and the Family

Religion and the Family

Edited by Ronald A. Simkins and Gail S. Risch

In this volume, the complex relationships between religion and the family is explored by fourteen scholars across a range of disciplines. Grounded in a shared focus on the evolving realities of family...

ISBN: 9781881871491