Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Writing Islam from a South Asian Muslim Perspective
Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam, Shamsie
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book explores whether the post-9/11 novels of Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam and Shamsie can be read as part of an attempt to revise modern ‘knowledge’ of the Islamic world, using globally-distributed English-language literature to reframe Muslims’ potential to connect with others. Focussing on...
Reason, Will and Emotion
Defending the Greek Tradition against Triune Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
This powerful exploration of an important topic in philosophy of mind from ancient to contemporary philosophy presents an original argument against the current direction of debate and examines a wide range of philosophers from both continental and analytic traditions.
Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century
Rhetoric of Identification
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book explores the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children of Ham, and how the denomination relied on both the rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism.
Beyond Catholicism
Heresy, Mysticism, and Apocalypse in Italian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographical discoveries and of forced conversions: from two-faced conversos to serial converts, from demoniacs to stigmatics, and from self-appointed ambassadors to lying cosmographer.
Faith and Fascism
Catholic Intellectuals in Italy, 1925–43
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This is a study of the Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana (FUCI) between 1925 and 1943, the organisation of Catholic Action for the university sector. The FUCI is highly significant to the study of Catholic politics and intellectual ideas, as a large proportion of the future Christian Democrats...
Cultural Awareness in the Military
Developments and Implications for Future Humanitarian Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Featuring chapters from social scientists directly engaged with the process, this volume offers a concise introduction to the U.S. military's effort to account for culture and increase its cultural capacity over the last decade. Contributors to this work consider some of the key challenges, lessons learned, and the limits of such efforts.
Ideal Islamic Economy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This book provides an introduction to the vision of an economic system based completely on the Holy Qur’an—a system defined as a collection of institutions, representing rules of behavior, prescribed by Allah for humans, and the traditions of the Messenger. The authors argue that the main reason...
by Fatemeh Shayan
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book examines changes in the Persian Gulf security complex following the United States (US) invasion of Iraq in 2003, focusing on threats to the collective identities of two religious sects - Shia and Sunni. Although there is a growing body of literature examining security in the Persian Gulf,...
The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI
The Christocentric Shift
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Many refer to Pope Benedict XVI as "the Mozart of Theology." Who are the thinkers who have informed his theology? What events, and which religious devotions, have shaped his personality? This study attempts to shed light on the unifying melody of the policies and positions of a pontificate charged with spiritual and theological depth.
Social Enterprises
An Organizational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Presents an organizational perspective of social enterprises, which allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of operation and their marketing strategies, and to begin to formulate some theoretical constructs on how these entities can survive and thrive.
by Professor Stuart Cunningham, Prof Terry Flew, Adam Swift
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Understanding the economic paradigms at work in media industries and markets is vitally important for the analysis of the media system as a whole. The changing dynamics of media production, distribution and consumption are stretching the capacity of established economic paradigms. In addition to succinct...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Highlights new realities, challenges and opportunities facing organizations and businesses in managing people in contemporary Africa and attempts to propose alternative sustainable strategies and models that address critical issues ranging from managing knowledge and technology appropriation in organizations to social issues of poverty and ecology.
Evaluating European Education Policy-Making
Privatization, Networks and the European Commission
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
This collection is an inside look at European Commission policy-making in education and the privatization of policy-making in the European Union. Along with contributions from leading academics in the field of educational policy and policy-sociology, this book also introduces the voices of policy consultants and policy-makers.