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Up in Arms: Gun Imaginaries in Texas
Up in Arms provides an illustrative and timely window onto the ways in which guns shape people’s lives and social relations in Texas. With a long history of myth, lore, and imaginaries attached to gun carrying, the Lone Star State exemplifies how various groups of people at different historical moments make sense of gun culture in light of legislation, political agendas, and community buildin…
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- 9789004514676
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- 276 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- European Perspectives on the United States, Volume: 1
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Women Judges in the Muslim World = A Comparative Study of Discourse and Practice
Women Judges in the Muslim World: A Comparative Study of Discourse and Practice fills a gap in academic scholarship by examining public debates and judicial practices surrounding the performance of women as judges in eight Muslim-majority countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco). Gender, class, and ethnic biases are inscribed in laws, particularly in t…
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- 9789004342200
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- 346 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World, Volume: 15
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Women and War in Roman Epic
In Women and War in Roman Epic, Elina Pyy discusses the narrative and ideological functions of gender in the works of Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus and Valerius Flaccus. By examining the themes of violence, death, guilt, grief, and anger in their epics, she offers an account of the intertextual tradition of the genre and its socio-political background. Through a combination of classic…
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- 9789004443457
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- 342 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- The Language of Classical Literature, Volume: 33
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Religious Minorities in the Middle East : Domination, Self-Empowerment, Accom…
The relationship between religious majorities and minorities in the Middle East is often construed as one of domination versus powerlessness. While this may indeed be the case, to claim that this is only or always so is to give a simplified..
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- 978-90-04-21684-6
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Religious Discourse in Modern Japan : Religion, State, and Shintō
eligious Discourse in Modern Japan explores the introduction of the Western concept of “religion” to Japan in the modern era, and the emergence of discourse on Shinto, philosophy, and Buddhism. Taking Anesaki’s founding of religious studies (shuk
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- 978-90-04-27268-2
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Remaking Gender and the Family : Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese-languag…
In Remaking Gender and the Family, Sarah Woodland examines the complexities of Chinese-language cinematic remakes. With a particular focus on how changes in representations of gender and the family between two versions of the same film connect with...See More
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- 978-90-04-36330-4
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Security, Disinformation and Harmful Narratives: RT and Sputnik News Coverage…
It is a well-known fact both among scholars of propaganda and disinformation, and among political leaders that Sputnik and RT are using their news coverage for disinformation purposes to harm Western and European societies. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which enhanced the security threat by disinformation, the EU decided to ban these two media. Against this backdrop, the study asks…
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- 978-3-031-58747-4
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication
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Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of written, visual and quantitative modes of self-representations. This book uses examples to explore the balance between using technology to see ourselves and allowing our machines to tell us who we are.
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- 978-1-137-47666-1
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Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa
Protestants entering Africa in the nineteenth century sought to learn from earlier Jesuit presence in Ethiopia and southern Africa. The nineteenth century was itself a century of missionary scramble for Africa during which the Jesuits encountered their Protestant counterparts as both sought to evangelize the African native. Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa, edited by Robert …
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- 978-90-04-34714-4
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Jesuit Studies, Volume: 13
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Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)
'The Open Access publishing costs of this volume were covered by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Veni-project “Leaving a Lasting Impression. The Impact of Incunabula on Late Medieval Spirituality, Religious Practice and Visual Culture in the Low Countries” (grant number 275-30-036).' This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in …
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- 9789004520158
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- 432 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Intersections, Volume: 85
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