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Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation offers diverse perspectives on the presence of the Guianese Maroon at the twentieth-first century, and on the contemporary lives of the descendants of those who fled from slavery in the Americas.

This volume explores early modern recreations of Ovid's Metamorphoses, focusing on the creative ingenium of artists and writers who freely handled the original text so as to adapt it to different artistic media and genres.

In Playing On: Re-staging the Passion after the Death of God, Mirella Klomp shows how the Dutch playfully rediscover Christian heritage. Engaging theologically with a public Passion play, she demonstrates how precisely a production of Jesus' last hours carves out a new and unexpected space for God in a (post-)secular culture.

In this historical study, Jonathon D. Beeke considers the various sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Reformed expressions regarding the duplex regnum Christi, or, as especially denominated in the Lutheran context, the "doctrine of the two kingdoms."

Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia offers contributions to various practical and theoretical aspects of divination from antiquity to the present in East Asia.

This handbook, the first of its kind, includes descriptions of the ancient and modern Jewish languages other than Hebrew, including historical and linguistic overviews, numerous text samples, and comprehensive bibliographies.

In A Study of the Gospels in Codex Alexandrinus W. Andrew Smith delivers a fresh and highly-detailed examination of the codex and its rich variety of features using codicology, palaeography, and statistical analysis.

Pentecostals have not sufficiently worked out a distinctively Pentecostal philosophy of art and aesthetics. In Pentecostal Aesthetics, with a foreword by Amos Yong, Steven Félix-Jäger corrects this by reflecting theologically on art and aesthetics from a global Pentecostal perspective, particularly through a pneumatic Pentecostal lens.

By examining the emotional practices central to political, social, and religious life in late sixteenth-century Augsburg, this book offers a new framework for analyzing religious coexistence in the generations following the Reformation.

Taking the province of Languedoc as a microcosm for France as a whole, this comprehensively researched riveting narrative demonstrates the way in which the class relations enforced by the absolutist state brought about the revolutionary upheaval of 1789.

Changes in the marking of direct discourse show us the vitality of Latin and the creativity of Late Latin authors, who were able to integrate two potentially conflicting traditions - "classical" and "biblical".

Ammianus Marcellinus was a soldier and an author. This book explores how his experience of 4th-century military life affected his writing of history and conversely how his knowledge of literature influenced his writing about the Roman army.

Transformative STEAM Education For Sustainable Development presents international perspectives and practices of teachers across all levels of education as they recount their unique design and implementation of transformative learning environments for developing students' capabilities and values as socially responsible citizens.

Transformative STEAM Education For Sustainable Development presents international perspectives and practices of teachers across all levels of education as they recount their unique design and implementation of transformative learning environments for developing students' capabilities and values as socially responsible citizens.

Roman imperialism has historically been viewed as displays of masculine power and agency. This volume explores the intersection of imperialism and gender to deepen our understanding of systems of power to provide a gendered history of Roman imperialism.

This study follows green tea from China to Mali along its historical trade routes halfway around the world, examining the circumstances of its introduction, the course of the tea ritual, the equipment to prepare and consume it, and the meanings that it assumed.

Intercultural Twinnings presents innovative practices that enable direct contact between people of diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, languages, and religions. This collection explores models and intervention tools to support the work of teachers, researchers, practitioners, and students.

Intercultural Twinnings presents innovative practices that enable direct contact between people of diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, languages, and religions. This collection explores models and intervention tools to support the work of teachers, researchers, practitioners, and students.

Adapt or perish! During the past 50 years, theological libraries world-wide have met with huge societal changes challenging their relevance, while simultaneously discovering opportunities for technological advancement, renovation and international cooperation in librarianship. Read in this volume how the European theological libraries adapted.

The volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes's philosophy in the early modern age, across the borders of countries, and confessions, both within and without the university setting - public conferences, private tutorials, distance learning by letter.

This book explores several fascinating medieval Christian and Islamic artworks that represent and reimagine Jerusalem's architecture as religious and political instruments to express power, entice visitors, console the devoted, offer spiritual guidance, and convey the city's mythical history.

This book is about the origin and development of the presentation of gypsies as narrative device in West-European children's literature.

Digital Fissures: Genders, Bodies, Technologies is a transnational transfeminist exploration into the ways technologies, bodies and identities cohabitate. The collection explores how radical approaches to the cyber and the cyborg are transforming how we inhabit and think about identity-defining categories like gender and sexuality.

The active agents in the multiethnic, multicultural East African Revival are African leaders who forge a new, distinctly African Christian spirituality that precipitates the moral and spiritual transformation of countless individuals throughout the region.

Examined here is political discourse about the pattern and desirability of economic development, extending from historical and contemporary views about race, culture, and labour regimes, to how the same themes inform travel writing.