This volume examines questions concerning the construction of gender and identity in the earliest days of what is now Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Methodologically explicit, the contributions analyze textual and…

The 1960s, in retrospect, may be chiefly remembered for the unprecedented constitutional developments it witnessed in countries emerging from colonial rule. Originally published in 1963, an examination of these constitutional…

Right now, millions of Christians are suffering from depression-but this silent pain does not have to continue.

The conflict between Christianity and Roman Imperial theology manifested at very early stages in Christian history. Richard Cassidy argues that ignoring or downplaying such political-theological implications because of some supposedly…

An academically reviewed first English translation of the Wushi Zhongkuilu, one of the earliest Chinese works on home cooking and the only culinary work written by a Chinese woman from…

This monograph provides an account of young children’s socialization with respect to death and develops a conception of children’s understanding of death that encompasses affective and cognitive dimensions.

Takes OutKast’s aesthetic as a lens through which readers can understand and explore contemporary issues of Blackness, gender, urbanism, southern aesthetics, and southern studies more generally. These essays collectively offer…