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In Kant, Liberalism, and the Meaning of Life, Jeffrey Church addresses the "meaning deficit" in contemporary liberal societies. Even though Western countries are wealthier now than ever, liberal governments nevertheless have become increasingly out of touch with the middle class and its moral needs for purpose and belonging. Instead, liberalism finds itself besieged by illiberal forms of populism, which supply sources of meaning contemporary individualsyearn for. In this book, Church argues that Kant's early work on anthropology can serve as the basis for a more meaningful liberalism, one that conceives of freedom and equality for all as a moral vocation of citizens and institutions to realize.

In this expansive new biography of George Reisner, Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian examines the life and work of America's greatest archaeologist. Manuelian presents Reisner's undeniable impact and considers his life within the context of Western colonialism, racism, and nationalism.

Bernard Williams (1929-2003), one of the great philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century, continues to exert a profound influence on contemporary ethical theory. This edited volume brings together new articles from prominent scholars that focus on the innovative ideas and methods that Williams developed as part of his distinctive "outlook" in ethics. The volume provides a fresh, up to date portrait of Williams's philosophy as a fully-fledged alternativeapproach in ethics.

John Edwards of Cambridge (1637-1716) has typically been portrayed as a marginalized 'Calvinist' in an overwhelmingly 'Arminian' later Stuart Church of England. In Retaining the Old Episcopal Divinity, Jake Griesel challenges this depiction of Edwards and the theological climate of his contemporary Church.

Proselytes of a New Nation analyzes questions such as: Why did many Muslims convert to Greek Orthodoxy? What did conversion mean to the converts? What were their economic, social, and professional profiles? And how did conversion affect the converts' relationships with Muslim relatives in Greece and the Ottoman Empire?Stefanos Katsikas maintains that in the era of nationalism-when Sharia law and the Ottoman legal system could keep converts from inheriting family property; when converts were regarded as either "traitors" or "heroes"-conversion more drastically affected the social fabric of communities and more often led to violence and conflict.

The Inner Life of Catholic Reform offers a longue durée overview of the sentiments and spiritual ideas of the 250-year long time span from the ending of the Council of Trent to the Catholic Enlightenment, known as Catholic Reform.

The book provides a complete translation of a groundbreaking Tibetan treatise on contemplation, the Samten Migdron by Nubchen Sangye Yeshe (10th century). This is one of the principal sources for our understanding of the various currents of meditation transmitted to Tibet during the early spread of Buddhism to that country. It offers a detailed window into the ways in which one of the most learned masters of the early Tibetan Buddhist tradition made sense ofthe different forms of meditation practiced in his day.

The Many Faces of Credulitas is about the relationship between belief, credibility, and credulity. It argues that due to a series of different historical factors, credibility assumed a central role in post-Reformation Catholicism. This led to an important reconsideration of the relationship between natural reason and supernatural grace and consequently to novel and significant tensions. This book seeks to elucidate some of the difficulties, anxieties, andtensions caused by the new insistence on credibility that came to dominate the theological and intellectual landscape of the early modern Catholic Church.

Public history is a large and complex field, with boundaries, methods, and subjects that are hotly debated, and the Oxford Handbook of Public History reflects these complexities. This book defines public history as a transnational field, and public history work as analytical and active: practical work informed by thoughtful reflection. The book locates public history as a professional practice within an intellectual framework that is increasingly democratic,technological, and transnational.

In Confronting the Caliphate, Isak Svensson and co-authors focus on a core set of questions: What can civilians, who oppose the jihadists' attempt to rule them, do to manifest their dissent? To what extent are civilians engaging in acts of resistance against jihadist rebel rule and what does such resistance look like? Does it matter, and can it in any way influence the trajectories of jihadist proto-states? New military and political realities in Iraq andSyria have opened up the possibility to generate new knowledge in areas where the IS has been pushed back. The authors draw from a novel survey on civil resistance against the IS in Mosul after the IS lost control of the city.

A comprehensive study of American state lotteries, For a Dollar and a Dream shows how players and policymakers alike got hooked on hopes for a big windfall.

The United States is in the midst of a religious revolution. Around a quarter of US adults now say they have no religion, and the great majority of these religious "nones" are nonverts: think "converts," but from having religion to having none. Stephen Bullivant draws on dozens of interviews, original analysis of high-quality survey data, and a wealth of cutting-edge studies, to present an entertaining and insightful exploration of America's ex-religiouslandscape.

This is the first book on the history of the Jews in ancient and medieval Armenia. Drawing on literary, epigraphical and archaeological sources, the book assembles and analyses the information available on this community from earliest times to the fourteenth century. It takes account of many types of evidence bearing on its history including documents from the Cairo Geniza, newly uncovered inscriptions, medieval itineraria, and diplomatica. Thisbook shows that the communis opinio that there were few if any Jews in ancient and medieval Armenia, must now be discarded.

What happens when democracy produces "bad" outcomes? Is democracy good because of its outcomes or despite them? This "democratic dilemma" is one of the most persistent, vexing problems for America abroad, particularly in the Middle East-we want democracy in theory but not necessarily in practice. To look then at the democratic dilemma is to consider a deeper set of questions around why we believe democracy is good as well as whether we think it is good for othernations and cultures. In The Problem of Democracy, Shadi Hamid offers an ambitious reimagining of this ongoing debate and argues for "democratic minimalism"-democracy without expecting that Western-style liberalism will accompany it-as a path to resolving democratic dilemmas in the Middle East andbeyond.

This is the first volume to provide a comprehensive review and thorough analysis of the connection between consciousness and quantum mechanics. Written by leading experts in physics, philosophy, and cognitive science, Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics will be of value to students and researchers working on the foundations of quantum mechanics and philosophy of mind.

Elizabeth Anscombe was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, as well as a friend, pupil and the main translator of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She wrote on a wide range of philosophical topics, publishing a handful of books and a large corpus of articles in her lifetime. This collection of twenty-two essays on the philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe by an international array of experts in the field covers intention, ethical theory, human life, thefirst person, and Anscombe on other philosophers.

This book is a reflection on the meaning of spiritual darkness-especially those difficult places in human experience where meaning seems to elude us, where we are emptied out and are compelled to dig deeper into who we truly are. Douglas E. Christie takes up this facet of experience, in ordinary human experience, but also in relation to the Christian contemplative and mystical traditions, where such experience is often understood to be both painful andtransformative, allowing the mind and heart to open in love.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of International Criminology offers an up-to-date collection of essays written by leading academics from regions around the world, addressing contemporary and significant issues and trends in criminology and criminal justice in global, comparative, transnational, and historical contexts. The essays spotlight further readings that will complement and guide readers interested in deepening their understandings of the issues.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Neuroendocrine and Autonomic Systems provides an up-to-date survey of the wide range of scholarship being conducted in these two systems within the field of neuroendocrinology. The Encyclopedia includes more than 50 articles-each ~8,000 words in length-that provide thorough overviews of a diverse set of topics in neuroendocrine regulation, neuroimmunology, behavioral neuroendocrinology, autonomic regulation, stress,thirst and water balance, regulation of food intake, and biological rhythms and sleep, among many others. All authors were commissioned specifically for the Encyclopedia, and all articles received blind peer reviews. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Neuroendocrine and Autonomic Systems represents a unique contribution toscholarship in neuroendocrinology and will be a standard reference for researchers, students, and professionals in this field.

With over 80,000 entries, 10,000 brand new, and thousands more revised and expanded, the second edition of the Dictionary of American Family Names explains the meanings of the family names for more than 90 percent of the US population. The product of seventeen years of exhaustive research, the dictionary provides comparative frequencies, linguistic and historical explanations, selected associated forenames, and occasional genealogical notes, revealing the meaningsof names, some intuitive, some amusing, and some quite surprising.

A climate crisis and other pressures on planetary ecology are cause for profound anxiety. Climate change threatens to trap hundreds of millions of people in poverty and to separate further an already deeply divided world. Now, a new generation of activists is offering inspiration and hope. This book provides an accessible and empirically informed philosophical discussion of climate change, global poverty, and the importance of a political response that offershope.