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A narrative of the Jesuit experience on the continent from the time of St. Ignatius of Loyola in the sixteenth century to that of Pedro Arrupe in the twentieth, succinctly covering key themes, places, and persons in that period.

Using Inner Mongolian cases, this book explains the attenuation of inter-ethnic solidarity in the critical period of Chinese imperial transformation (1900-1930). It engages the key issues related to imperial organization, elite politics, and ethnic relationship. The book will attract a large audience in comparative sociology, empire and ethnic studies.

New papyrological sources from Egypt shed light on where and how Manichaeism mattered to ancient individuals in their everyday life, thereby opening up new perspectives on religious change in late antiquity.

Concept Formation is the final part of the trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. It investigates some of the most perplexing and provocative discussions on conceptual thinking in the Greek, Latin, and Arabic reception of Aristotle's psychology.

Sense Perception is the first part of the trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. It investigates some of the most complex and intriguing aspects of theories of perception in the Greek, Latin, and Arabic reception of Aristotle's psychology.

Dreaming is the second part of the trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. It investigates some of the most fascinating and enduring discussions on dreams in the Greek, Latin, and Arabic reception of Aristotle's psychology.

This book examines the European commercial landscape of the early China trade c.1700-1750. It studies the making of expanding markets for Chinese consumer goods in Europe by exploring the private networks and interloping activities of British-born East India Company traders.

This volume brings to English-language readers, for the first time, the most recent European scholarship, based on primary research, in the medieval movements of religious dissent known as "Waldensian". It charts the movement across Europe from the 12th - 16th centuries.

In Becoming Citizens in China Shi Yunqing describes the two interlinked histories that have made China's urban and economic miracle: the unfolding of inner city renewal and the production of citizen. __________ 在《再造城民》这本书中，施芸卿讲述了造就中国城市和经济奇迹的两段互为表里的历史：旧城的再造与公民的生产。

For the first time, the reader can have a synoptic view of the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, East and West, in a multicultural perspective. All the major themes of Pythagoreanism are addressed, from mathematics, number philosophy and metaphysics to ethics and religious thought.

Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures explores how contemporary Japanese female speculative fiction writers have challenged historical inequalities of sex, gender difference, and family roles by imagining alternative worlds where sexes are fluid and childbearing crosses the boundaries of male/female, biological/bioengineered, and human/nonhuman.

In Transatlantic Charismatic Renewal, c.1950-2000, Atherstone, Maiden and Hutchinson curate new approaches to the study of charismatic renewal as an effective response to globalization, modernity and secularization.

In Sufi Women of South Asia. Veiled Friends of God, Tahera Aftab, drawing upon various sources, offers the first unique and comprehensive account of South Asian Sufi women, from the eleventh to the twentieth century.

The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi examines the life and doctrine of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311), a little-known Ḥanbalī Sufi master from the circle of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328).

In Islam in Post-communist Eastern Europe Egdūnas Račius reveals how governance of religions and practical politics in Eastern Europe are permeated by churchification and securitization of Islam, and Muslim religious organizations have been turned into ecclesiastical-bureaucratic institutions akin to 'Muslim Churches'.

In The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-Āḫira, Ghassan el Masri makes the case for etymologia as a late antique tool for producing discursive authority in the Qurʾān, and applies it to a multifaceted interpretation of the Qurʾān's main eschatological concept.

This book charts the gender differences in crime in early modern Frankfurt. It shows that women's prosecuted crime patterns in Frankfurt were both similar and different to that of other European cities.

The book describes the Makasar language of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, drawing heavily on three centuries of literary sources. Makasarese is notable as head-marking and ergative/absolutive in alignment, and its large number of geminate and pre-glottalised consonants.

This title is available in its entirety in Open Access. Living on the margins of German society, Jews and Muslims in interwar Berlin explored common ground. Based on a number of private archives, the study discusses the contact zones and personal entanglements that arose from their meeting.

This book conducts a comprehensive study of identity crime, which encompasses both identity theft and identity fraud, and tackles head-on the various facets of what is needed to deal with one of the fastest growing crimes around the world.

In The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine Francesco Paolo de Ceglia offers an overview of the evolution of the science of the 'signs of the corpse', from necromancy to forensic medicine.

In Tangut Language and Manuscripts, Shi Jinbo offers by far the fullest introduction to the Tangut script, grammar and manuscripts, which lay the foundation of historical narratives of Western Xia.

Tracing the figure of Black Venus in literature and visual arts from different periods and geographies, Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices discusses how aesthetic practices may restore the racialized female body in feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial terms.

In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.

A Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages is a cross-disciplinary collection of fourteen essays on medieval sigillography. It is organized thematically, and it emphasizes important, often cutting-edge, methodologies for the study of medieval seals and sealing cultures.