Jesus and Brian: Exploring the Historical Jesus and His Times via Monty Python's Life of Brian
Terry Jones and Joan E. Taylor
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Monty Python's Life of Brian film is known for its brilliant satirical humour. Less well known is...
Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods: Subjectivities and Resistance
Arianna Bove, Emiliana Armano and Annalisa Murgia
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The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a segment of the world of work or of...
Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church
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The Catholic Church stands at the forefront of an emergent majority-minority America. Parish and...
Policing the 2012 London Olympics: Legacy and Social Exclusion: 2012
Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti, Iain Lindsay and Gavin Hales
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The summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world's biggest single-city cultural event....
Seville: Through the Urban Void
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Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces....
Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings
Simone Weil, Eric O. Springsted and Lawrence E. Schmidt
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Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909-43) contributed to a wide range of subjects,...
The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics
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In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda...
The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo
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Yijiang Zhong analyses the formation of Shinto as a complex and diverse religious tradition in early...
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
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Described by Noam Chomsky as 'a very important book', Guy Standing's The Precariat has achieved cult...
The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood
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This book analyses the articulations of Tamil identity in the period of colonial modernity and...