Fordham University Press: 585 books
Upside-Down Gods
Gregory Bateson's World of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Science’s conventional understanding of environment as an inert material resource underlies our unwillingness to acknowledge the military-industrial role in ongoing ecological catastrophes. In a crucial challenge to modern science’s exclusive attachment to materialist premises, Bateson reframed...
Deus in Machina
Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
The essays in this volume explore how two domains of human experience and action—religion and technology—are implicated in each other. Contrary to commonsense understandings of both religion (as an “otherworldly” orientation) and technology (as the name for tools, techniques, and expert knowledges...
God, Hierarchy, and Power
Orthodox Theologies of Authority from Byzantium
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In the current age where democratic and egalitarian ideals have preeminence, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, among other hierarchically organized religious traditions, faces the challenging questions: “Why is hierarchy maintained as the model of organizing the church, and what are the theological...
Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference
Commentary, Conflict, and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Jews, Christians, and Muslims all have a common belief in the sanctity of a core holy scripture, and commentary on scripture (exegesis) was at the heart of all three traditions in the Middle Ages. At the same time, because it dealt with issues such as the nature of the canon, the limits of acceptable...
by Stathis Gourgouris
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Secular criticism is a term invented by Edward Said to denote not a theory but a practice that counters the tendency of much modern thinking to reach for a transcendentalist comfort zone, the very space philosophy wrested away from religion in the name of modernity. Using this notion as a compass,...
Words
Religious Language Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
It is said that words are like people: One can encounter them daily yet never come to know their true selves. This volume examines what words are—how they exist—in religious phenomena. Going beyond the common idea that language merely describes states of mind, beliefs, and intentions, the book...
Chasing Ghosts
A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn’t realize her quest would take ten years, and that it would yield more revelations about the man—and herself—and the effect of his military...
Deserter Country
Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
A “balanced, compelling” study of one rural region in the North where war resistance flourished (Civil War Times).
During the Civil War, there were explosions of resistance to the war throughout the Union—from the deadly draft riots in New York City to other, less well-known outbreaks....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Commentary on the financial crisis has offered technical analysis, political finger pointing, and myriad economic and political solutions. But rarely do these investigations reach beyond the economic and political causes of the crisis to explore their underlying intellectual grounds. The essays in...
by Evan Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In recent years, a number of books in the field of literacy research have addressed the experiences of literacy users or the multiple processes of learning literacy skills in a rapidly changing technological environment. In contrast to these studies, this book addresses the subjects of literacy. In...
Interdependence
Biology and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
From biology to economics to information theory, the theme of interdependence is in the air, framing our experiences of all sorts of everyday phenomena. Indeed, the network may be the ascendant metaphor of our time. Yet precisely because the language of interdependence has become so commonplace as...
by Daniel Berrigan, Robin Andersen, James L. Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm. The Catholic activists involved in this protest against the war included Daniel and Philip...
Dangerous Citizens
The Greek Left and the Terror of the State
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book simultaneously tells a story—or rather, stories—and a history. The stories are those of Greek Leftists as paradigmatic figures of abjection, given that between 1929 and 1974 tens of thousands of Greek dissidents were detained and tortured in prisons, places of exile, and concentration...
Journey into Social Activism
Qualitative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Academic study of social activism and social movements has become increasingly prevalent over the years; this is due in large part to the fact that activists have captured public imagination and gained substantial influence in political discourse. For instance, Occupy Wall Street activists, Tea Party...