Kaul upturns many prevalent views about the cultural history of Kashmir...

Why do we put other animals in the various categories we do, and treat them in the various good and bad ways that we do?

Magnusdottir explores depictions of America in post-war Soviet propaganda. While the 1945 “meeting on the Elbe” marked a high point in United States/Soviet friendship, official relations deteriorated quickly thereafter...

Epistemologists working traditional modes have sought to discover the necessary and sufficient conditions under which one has knowledge...

Schmidt puts himself and the reader into conversation with Machiavelli, exploring Machiavelli’s thinking and how Machiavelli explains his theories...

Transnational feminist theory and practice is faced with a dilemma: how should we contest and resist gender-based oppression, while at the same time respecting cultural difference?

Through Baker, Cheng invites us to reconsider the mutual imbrication of object/subject, surface/depth, and exploitation/fascination...

Nathan McGovern draws on ancient texts to problematize the distinction between Brahman and non-Brahman in this era, shedding light on the presence of various Buddhist, Jain and Vedic groups who equally identified as Brahmans.

As Romans established imperial control over Italy and beyond, the city itself radically transformed from an ambitious central Italian settlement into the capital of the Mediterranean world...

What does it mean to consider trauma and media from the perspective of technology and not from that of the subject of trauma, the clinician or the witness?

Elizabeth Schechter argues that while split brain subjects have two minds and two subjective perspectives, and are two intentional agents...

What accounts for the antagonism between Christianity and Darwinism?

Ratner-Rosenhagen offers a sweeping examination of the key ideas that have infused American society...

In this book, Dr. Vivian asks readers to reconsider our almost sacred regard for the act of witnessing in public culture,,,

Bingham argues against several centuries of historical interpretation of the new religious movement that emerged in London in the late 1630s and now numbers around 35 million adherents worldwide...

Jonathan Edwards is by now widely recognised as America’s most important early philosopher and theologian...

Studies of Hindu saints tend to focus primarily on the saints themselves—their words, teachings, and practices—rather than tending to the often complex and complicated world of texts and traditions about those saints...

In State Capture, Hertel-Fernandez focuses on the development and political power of  three inter-locking interest groups...

Howe examines the social and spiritual contexts of Muslims living outside of Chicago...

It seems to go against evolutionary theory for an individual to give up its own chances at reproducing in order to increase the fitness of others...

Alexander’s religious practices were a vital part of his legitimacy as a ruler of his people, and were interwoven into his daily activities...

The murder of Emmett Till and subsequent trial was a national and international news story, but the exact meaning of events in Mississippi were contested...

Andrew surveys the period in which Irish Presbyterians came together as a community, to debate different ways of being conservative...

Even those among us who think that morality is rooted in timeless normative truths will acknowledge that the overall moral fabric that binds us to one another is subject to various kinds of renovation and expansion...

Dr. Hirota’s book focuses on state legislation policies of immigration control in New York and Massachusetts...