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Can we understand a religion without believing and practising it? Can we have knowledge about faith? Can people understand those different from themselves? Can outsiders ever understand the world of insiders? Examining different positions of knowledge - insider and outsider - Bryan S. Turner explores what understanding Islam entails. He argues that understanding Islam has in recent years been dominated by political events - the Iran Hostage crisis, the fall of the Iranian Shah, 9/11, Afghanistan and the foreign policy of Donald Trump - leading to western intellectuals and public figures, many of whom know nothing about Islam, suddenly becoming experts. Turner asks how they, or how anyone, can have the authority to speak on this subject. He brilliantly elucidates the questions and problems involved in the challenge of understanding - as opposed to explaining - religion. Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology at Australian Catholic University. He is one of the world's leading sociologists of religion and has written, co-authored or edited more than 70 books in the field.

Critically analyses the historical, cultural and political dimensions of white religious rage in America, past and present This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress. Contributors to the volume examine the sociological construct of the "white labourer", whose concerns and beliefs can be understood as religious in foundation, and uncover that white religious fervor correlates to notions of perceived white loss and perceived black progress. In discussions ranging from the Constitution to the Charlottesville riots to the evangelical community's uncritical support for Trump, the authors of this collection argue that it is not economics but religion and race that stand as the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the United States. Stephen C. Finley is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. Biko Mandela Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. Lori Latrice Martin is Professor of Sociology and Professor of African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University. Cover image: (c) Shutterstock.com Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-7370-5 Barcode

The nobile officium - the equitable jurisdiction of the Supreme Courts of Scotland - has the potential to be of continuing use today. But its scope and limitations are poorly understood. Placing it in its historical and conceptual context, it explores the development and application of the nobile officium.

This book provides a critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction; highlighting the rich diversity of the field, identifying key themes, analysing the main trends in Anglophone Jewish fiction and situating them in a historical context.

Provides a comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fiction.

New and original collection of scholarly essays examining the literary complexities of the Atlantic world system This Companion offers a critical overview of the diverse and dynamic field of Atlantic literary studies, with contributions by distinguished scholars on a series of topics that define the area. The essays focus on literature and culture from first contact to the present, exploring fruitful Atlantic connections across space and time, across national cultures, and embracing literature, culture and society. This research collection proposes that the analysis of literature and culture does not depend solely upon geographical setting to uncover textual meaning. Instead, it offers Atlantic perspectives on migration, race, gender and sexuality, ecologies, and other significant ideological crossovers in the Atlantic world. The result is an exciting new critical map created by leading international researchers of a lively and expanding field. Key Features -- Offers an introduction to the growing field of Atlantic literary studies by showcasing current work engaged in debate around historical, cultural and literary issues in the Atlantic World. -- Includes 26 newly-commissioned scholarly essays by leading experts in Atlantic literary studies. -- Fuses breadth of historical knowledge with depth of literary scholarship. -- Considers the full range of intercultural encounters around and across the Atlantic Ocean. Leslie Elizabeth Eckel is Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University, Boston. She is the author of Atlantic Citizens: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World (2013). Clare Frances Elliott is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Northumbria University. She is the co-editor with Michael Patrick Cullinane of International Perspectives on Presidential Leadership (2014) and (with Andrew Hook) of Francis Jeffrey's American Journal: New York to Washington 1813 (2011).

Provides a wide-ranging entry point and intervention into scholarship on nineteenth-century American letter-writing This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field--the history of letters and letter writing--is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature. Because of its mass literacy, population mobility, and extensive postal system, nineteenth-century America is a crucial site for the exploration of letters and their meanings, whether they be written by presidents and statesmen, scientists and philosophers, novelists and poets, feminists and reformers, immigrants, Native Americans, or African Americans. This book breaks new ground by mapping the voluminous correspondence of these figures and other important American writers and thinkers. Rather than treating the letter as a spontaneous private document, the contributors understand it as a self-conscious artefact, circulating between friends and strangers and across multiple genres in ways that both make and break social ties. Methodologically expansive, with intellectually interrogative chapters based on original research by leading academics, this book offers new insights into the lives and careers of Louisa May Alcott, Charles Brockden Brown, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Henry James, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edgar Allan Poe, among many others. Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of African American Studies at the University of Nottingham. Judie Newman, OBE, is a Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham. Matthew Pethers is an Associate Professor in American Intellectual and Cultural History at the University of Nottingham.

'The Medical Humanities have been at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research in the late twentieth century. But where should it go now? This volume demonstrates why the future lies with developing an exhilarating, robust and provocative critical medical humanities, and shows us how it can be done.' Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London A field-defining collection of original critical engagements at the intersection of the biomedical sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area. Topics covered in this volume include: the affective body, biomedicine, blindness, breath, disability, early modern medical practice, fatness, the genome, language, madness, narrative, race, systems biology, performance, the postcolonial, public health, touch, twins, voice and wonder. Together the chapters generate a body of new knowledge and make a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might address questions of individual, subjective and embodied experience. Anne Whitehead is a Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University. Angela Woods is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities and Deputy Director at the Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University. Cover image: Bullet Proof Breath (detail), 2001, Christine Borland, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Glass and spider silk (c) Christine Borland. Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0004-6 Barcode

A wide-ranging reference guide to the changing role of critical theory in the twenty-first century Featuring an international team of specialists on the subject, The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing role of critical theory in the new century. Taking note of the many new theoretical and socio-political developments in recent years, the volume conclusively demonstrates critical theory's continuing relevance across disciplines ranging from the arts and social sciences through to the hard sciences. Being theoretically informed is not an optional part of study any more, it is a necessary, central part, and The Companion will bring you up to date with what is happening across the spectrum of critical theory. The volume consists of 11 sections comprising 28 chapters, each covering a particular branch of critical theory from Marxism through to present-day developments such as Cognitive Theory. Every chapter considers the historical development of the theory in question, explaining the main concepts and thinkers involved, before proceeding to assess where it stands in relation to current academic and socio-political concerns and debates. Outlining recent advances in each area, and the emergence of new voices, The Companion offers readers a welcome opportunity to reorient themselves within the history and role of critical theory in its many forms. Key Features - Ranges from the humanities and social sciences right through to the hard sciences - Consists of contributions from highly experienced academic specialists from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand - Brings critical theory right up to date with new developments such as Cognitive Theory ('Cognitivism') Stuart Sim is retired Professor of Critical Theory at Northumbria University. He has published widely on critical theory, and is a Fellow of the English Association. Amongst his recent publications are Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers (2013), and, with Brett Wilson and Barbara Hawkins (eds) Art, Science and Cultural Understanding (2014). Cover image: Geometric Abstraction by Ian McNicol, Etching, 2009 (c) Courtesy of the artist and Glasgow Print Studio Cover design: Paul Smith [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com

The only volume to comprehensively bring together developments from different disciplines that address the complex interplay between British Romantic literature and the visual arts

Speculative realism challenges philosophical approaches and traditions for supposedly failing to do justice to the real world. Taking this realist challenge seriously, Continental Realism and Its Discontents refuses to discard the philosophical contributions of Kant, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Nancy without closer scrutiny. Instead, the contributors turn to these thinkers to meet the challenge of realism in contemporary philosophy.

The essays in this volume provide new scholarly insights into British fin de siA*cle and enrich our understanding of this complex period, while paying particular attention to the importance of regionalism.

Showcases the most contemporary scholarly and archival research into Ken Russell's career and work

The first book on the renowned and notorious cult filmmaker Roberta Findlay

Your complete guide to Expenses in Scotland Written by practitioners for practitioners, this definitive handbook covers all of the main aspects of costs and funding issues encountered in the Scottish Civil Courts. It covers the routes to funding, when expenses may be sought, the court's powers in awarding expenses and provides detail on issues including Success Fee Agreements, Qualified One Way Cost Shifting, Pre-Action Protocols, Pursuers' Offers and Tenders, party Litigants, Amendment, Abandonment, Caution and Simple Procedure. It brings together all of the key legislation, court rules and judgments to provide a user-friendly and quick-reference guide to expenses law and practice. Key features - Takes into account new costs and funding legislation including Damages Based Agreements, QOCS and Taxation Rules - Covers many important and recent cases including Finlay v Borders Health Board, Van Klavern v Servisair UK Ltd and Ho v Adelekun - Appendices provide full copies of: 1. The Qualified One Way Cost Shifting Regulations 2021, Success Fee Agreement Regulations 2020 and the Taxation of Judicial Expenses Rules 2019, the rules on Group proceedings and Pursuers' Offers, 2. The Compulsory and Voluntary Pre-Action Protocols for personal injury claims 3. Styles for Success Fee Agreements, Pursuers' Offers and Tenders 4. The Faculty Scheme for Accounting and Collection of Counsels' Fees Iain W Nicol is a Consultant at Thorntons, with almost 30 years' experience of pursuing personal injury, medical and professional negligence claims. James S Flett is Chairman of Alex Quinn & Partners Limited, Law Accountants.

Your complete guide to Expenses in Scotland Written by practitioners for practitioners, this definitive handbook covers all of the main aspects of costs and funding issues encountered in the Scottish Civil Courts. It covers the routes to funding, when expenses may be sought, the court's powers in awarding expenses and provides detail on issues including Success Fee Agreements, Qualified One Way Cost Shifting, Pre-Action Protocols, Pursuers' Offers and Tenders, party Litigants, Amendment, Abandonment, Caution and Simple Procedure. It brings together all of the key legislation, court rules and judgments to provide a user-friendly and quick-reference guide to expenses law and practice. Key features - Takes into account new costs and funding legislation including Damages Based Agreements, QOCS and Taxation Rules - Covers many important and recent cases including Finlay v Borders Health Board, Van Klavern v Servisair UK Ltd and Ho v Adelekun - Appendices provide full copies of: 1. The Qualified One Way Cost Shifting Regulations 2021, Success Fee Agreement Regulations 2020 and the Taxation of Judicial Expenses Rules 2019, the rules on Group proceedings and Pursuers' Offers, 2. The Compulsory and Voluntary Pre-Action Protocols for personal injury claims 3. Styles for Success Fee Agreements, Pursuers' Offers and Tenders 4. The Faculty Scheme for Accounting and Collection of Counsels' Fees Iain W Nicol is a Consultant at Thorntons, with almost 30 years' experience of pursuing personal injury, medical and professional negligence claims. James S Flett is Chairman of Alex Quinn & Partners Limited, Law Accountants.

This is the first English-language anthology on experimental and independent Italian cinema. Providing an overview of the legacies and transformations of Italian vanguard practices of moving images, the book also explores the historical and sociocultural milieus, the individual artists and filmmakers, and the original work peculiar to Italian stock. Outlining the individual movements, the diverse film artists (from the last century and into the twenty-first), the book pays particular attention to the underground and independent practices of the 1960s and 1970s onwards, and includes an enlightening overview of Italian 'family films', as well as studies of contemporary champions of independent practices of documentary and narrative cinema. Anthony Cristiano is a media, culture and communication scholar. He is lecturer in Digital Media and Journalism at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada). Carlo Coen is a film expert, scholar and festival curator. He is lecturer in Italian Cinema and Culture at York University (Canada).

Bringing together a range of creative practitioners and notable scholars, such as Thomas Elsaesser, Catherine Grant, Roberta Mock, Warren Buckland, Kiki Tianqi Yu, William Brown and others, this fascinating collection explores the challenges of retaining integrity during times of political and economic tensions in higher education and elsewhere. Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness offers a space for reflection for both practitioners and theorists, examining the conflict between creative inspiration and the reality of having to produce work that contributes to human knowledge, and that can also be measured against governmental standards, rules and regulations. The contributors present a radical and much-needed intervention that will interest all academics engaged with creative practice research. The volume also contains Thomas Elsaesser's unique personal account of the making of his first and only film The Sun Island. Agnieszka Piotrowska is an award-winning filmmaker and theorist, a Reader in Film Practice and Theory at the University of Bedfordshire and Visiting Professor at Gdansk University. Best known for her iconic documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower (2008), she is the author of three monographs and numerous journal articles. This is her fourth edited collection.

Perhaps because they are so immediately absorbing, narrative films can also be profoundly confusing and disorienting. This fascinating book neither proposes fool-proof methods for avoiding confusion, nor does it suggest that disorientation is always a virtue. Instead, it argues that the best way to come to terms with our confusion is to look closely at exactly what is confusing us, and why. At the heart of the book are original close readings of four important recent films: David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE (2006), Leos Carax's Holy Motors (2012), Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth (2006) and Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language (2014). Clearly written but critically and theoretically bold, The Cinema of Disorientation: Inviting Confusions explores both how we get (or fail to get) our bearings with respect to a film, and what we might discover by (and while) doing so. Dominic Lash is a film scholar and musician. His writing on film has appeared in Screen, Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, Senses of Cinema and elsewhere. He has taught film studies at the Universities of Bristol and Reading, and at King's College London.