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Political Activist Ethnography
Various Authors
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As activists strategize, build resistance, and foster solidarity, they also call for better dialogue between researchers and movements and for research that can aid their causes. In this volume, contributors examine how research can produce knowledge for social transformation by using political... |
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Wahhābism
Cole M. Bunzel
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Cole M. Bunzel is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
An essential history of Wahhābism from its founding to the Islamic State
In the mid-eighteenth century, a controversial Islamic movement arose in the central Arabian region of Najd that forever changed... |
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Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism
Teena U. Purohit
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Teena U. Purohit is Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University. She is the author of The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India.
Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identity
Muslim modernism was a political and intellectual... |
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A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse
Yaron Z. Eliav
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Yaron Z. Eliav is associate professor of rabbinic literature and Jewish history of late antiquity at the University of Michigan. He is the author of God's Mountain: The Temple Mount in Time, Place, and Memory and the producer of the documentary Paul in Athens.
A provocative account of Jewish... |
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Eco-Emancipation
Sharon R. Krause
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Sharon R. Krause is the William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is the author of Freedom Beyond Sovereignty, Civil Passions (Princeton), and Liberalism with Honor.
The case for an eco-emancipatory politics to release the Earth from human... |
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Busted
Wendy Ruderman
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In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's Savage City comes Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran... |
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