Using the example of the Eastern Algonkians, this book argues that Native Americans did not convert to Christianity, but rather made sense of Christianity ...

Speaking Culturally presents case studies of two cultures, focusing on how speaking is thematized and enacted in each. The Teamsterville culture is drawn ...

Here is an account of the enlightenment experience and its consequences written by a trained philosopher and mathematician who is also a master of English ...

Highlights the private side of this public figure-his weaknesses as well as his heroics; his religious life and domestic affairs. Robert Dankoff has ...

Explores how whiteness is culturally constructed in American films. 2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Performing Whiteness crosses ...

Too often attacked as hopelessly abstract, contemporary critical social theory can help us to understand both public policy and its analysis. In this ...

Argues that philosophical reflection today must include the findings of depth psychology and the critical study of non-ordinary states of consciousness. ...

Argues that the only way to understand the Confucian vision of the consummate moral life is to take the tradition on its own terms.

This volume continues the stories of the Israelite patriarchs and prophets who figured in Volume II, as well as of the semi-mythical rulers of ancient ...

Provides a coherent and defensible interpretation of Eliade's thought which allows less familiar readers to approach Eliade with a greater clarity and ...