Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
by Anne Anlin Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture. This study pushes our vocabulary about the woman of color past the usual platitudes about objectification...
Bollywood and Globalization
The Global Power of Popular Hindi Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The field of Bollywood studies has remained predominantly critical, theoretical and historical in focus. This book brings together qualitative and quantitative approaches to tackle empirical questions focusing on the relationship between soft power, hybridity, cinematic texts, and audiences.
Adopting...
The Souls of Yoruba Folk
Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture. The book highlights how Yoruba peoples in the African...
The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions
Devi as Corpse
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The Great Goddess, in her various puranic and tantric forms, is often figured as sitting on a corpse which is identified as Shiva-as-shava (God Shiva, the consort of the Devi and an iconic representation of the Absolute without attributes, the Nirguna Brahman). Hence, most of the existing critical...
The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo
Hermeneutics and the Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. This book is an enquiry into the integral philosophy of Aurobindo and its contemporary relevance. It offers a reading of Aurobindo’s key texts by bringing them into conversation with religious studies and the hermeneutical...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Jaina Studies is a relatively new and rapidly expanding field of inquiry for scholars of Indian religion and philosophy. In Jainism, "yoga" carries many meanings, and this book explores the definitions, nuances, and applications of the term in relation to Jainism from early times to the...
Yoga in Modern Hinduism
Hariharānanda Āraṇya and Sāṃkhyayoga
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The Sāṃkhyayoga institution of Kāpil Maṭh is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Hariharānanda Āraṇya. This...
Religious Actors and Conflict Transformation in Southeast Asia
Indonesia and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Drawing on a rich body of multimethod field research, this book examines the ways in which Indonesian and Philippine religious actors have fostered conflict resolution and under what conditions these efforts have been met with success or limited success.
The book addresses two central questions:...
International Migrants in China's Global City
The New Shanghailanders
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Long a source of migrants, China has now become a migrant destination. In 2016, government sources reported that nearly 900,000 foreigners were working in China, though international migrants remain a tiny presence at the national level. Shanghai is China’s most globalized city and has attracted...
Science and Narratives of Nature
East and West
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The discourse and practice of science are deeply connected to explicit and implicit narratives of nature. However, nature has been understood in diverse ways by cultures across the world. Could these different views of nature generate the possibility of alternate views on science? Part of the innovative...
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights
History, Politics, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice is an edited collection that brings together analyses of human rights work from multiple disciplines. Within the academic sphere, this book will garner interest from scholars who are invested in human rights as a field of study,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions has not been examined before as a process involving various methods to affect the socio-cultural cognition of the community. It is therefore essential to consider the context of "divinizing" and to analyse what groups, institutions or individuals...
Soft Power in Japan-China Relations
State, sub-state and non-state relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Soft power has tended to be overlooked in the field of international relations, often dismissed as lacking relevance or robustness as a theoretical concept. This book seeks to expand upon the idea of ‘soft power’ in international relations and to investigate how it actually functions by looking...
by Ronald L. Mize
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Who are Latinos? What’s the difference between Hispanic and Latino – or indeed Latina, Latina/o, Latin@, Latinx? Beyond the political rhetoric and popular culture representations, how can we explore what it means to be part of the largest minority group in the United States?
This compelling...