Humanities books

Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240) believed there is one Sharia for humans and another for minerals. This Element rethinks what...  Read More >>

This Element explores emerging forms of religiosity among Japanese young adults. It argues that existing frameworks...  Read More >>

This Element offers a new historical account of Aristippus the Elder's views on pleasure and the present. It supports...  Read More >>

This book delivers an accessible history of the English revolution and Civil Wars, focusing on the effects of this...  Read More >>

Explore the background and contemporary significance of Black religious activism in the USA. In 1787, Richard Allen...  Read More >>

This book considers histories of home from the margins, highlighting the perspectives of displaced, colonised, and...  Read More >>

This edited volume theorizes and explicates “epistemic genres” of digital games, which are defined by the social...  Read More >>

An explanation of Deleuze’s cinema books that fleshes out a structuralist “method” applicable to film and media...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive feminist reading of ancient Greek fictional letter collections.  Read More >>

Analyzes the relationship between Charles Manson, music, and 1960's counterculture.  Read More >>

This book explores the link between political revolt and philosophical pursuit of true life in Badiou’s work.  Read More >>

Examines how complementarianism shapes lived Anglicanism, focusing on the experiences of parishioners and ministry...  Read More >>

Discover the field of health geography, which seeks to better understand the causes, spread, and mitigation of disease...  Read More >>

A study of children in the Cape colony during the period of slave emancipation to explore changing ideas of childhood...  Read More >>

This study presents an analytical investigation of the Christian concept of reconciliation and the Daoist concept...  Read More >>

This book analyses how British China officials grappled with China’s changing position in international affairs...  Read More >>

On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London’s...  Read More >>

This book explores the intertwined histories of internationalism and nationalism in the interwar period to examine...  Read More >>

The first English translation of Emanuele Severino’s crucial reflection on modern technology and science, fundamental...  Read More >>

This new edition illumines the context and key principles of Boal's work through a set of contemporary international...  Read More >>

A survey of indigenous Judaism in colonial Algeria from a Halachic perspective, looking at the transition from Muslim-Ottoman...  Read More >>

The two volumes of The Russian Experience of War demonstrate the critical significance of the war myth to Russia...  Read More >>

The book analyzes effective ways to spiritually engage the religiously unaffiliated (Nones) who are not interested...  Read More >>

This collection examines various types of displacement, reasons for migration, and rebuilding after forced migration...  Read More >>

This book examines African heritage, religion, and culture created in the Danish West Indies between the seventeenth...  Read More >>