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Conventional wisdom has it that the successful functioning of the UN Security Council almost completely depends on the role played by its five permanent members and the extent to which they can agree--or avoid to fundamentally disagree--on the many issues on the Council's agenda. But the Council also consists of ten non-permanent or elected members who represent five different regions of the world, and who, though not vested with the right of veto, play an indispensable role in Council decision-making. This book aims to take a closer look at that role.

This work lays the foundation for developing an original Liberal Quaker reconciliation theology, in dialogue with Christian reconciliation theology, focusing specifically on the metaphorical language employed to describe the relationship of interdependence between humans and God.

Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work offers the first substantial, academic work to assess the many strands of the life and work of this important, if presently overlooked, Scottish poet who died prematurely in 1975.

The horrifying idea of child sacrifice, and the offering to the gods of a beloved only son by his father is a theme which appears repeatedly in Western traditions. This book focuses on religious rituals of violence, imagined and real.

In American History in Transition, Yoshinari Yamaguchi provides fresh insights into early efforts in American history writing, ranging from Jeremy Belknap's Massachusetts Historical Society to Emma Willard's geographic history, and Francis Parkman's history of deep time to Henry Adams's thermodynamic history.

This study presents an overview of the wooden furniture that has come to light since the rediscovery of Herculaneum in the 18th century, with an emphasis on the form, function and the techniques employed. The combination of comments in the excavation reports with the information derived from the surviving pieces of furniture and fittings made of other materials as well as indications for the presence of furniture in the architecture and decoration of the houses, offers a representative idea of the role of wooden furniture in the interior arrangements of the houses at Herculaneum.

The Matica and Beyond is a comparative study of the cultural associations established to further national movements in nineteenth-century Europe by publishing literary and scientific texts in the national language.

Les romans de Mathias Énard connaissent un succès qui ne se dément pas. Ce volume cherche à éclairer les modalités narratives qui permettent à l'auteur de transformer l'érudition en roman, mais aussi à situer son oeuvre dans le contexte littéraire actuel. The novels of Mathias Énard have become instant classics. This volume seeks to shed light on the narrative modalities that allow the author to transform erudition into a novel, but also to situate his work in the current literary context.

Dans Essai d'histoire locale, Djiguiba Camara, un intermédiaire colonial et un interprète, décrit l'histoire de la Haute Guinée, de l'empire de Samori Touré et des résistances anticoloniales. In Essay on Local History, Djiguiba Camara, a colonial intermediary and interpreter, describes the history of Upper Guinea, with emphasis on the Empire of Samori Touré and of anticolonial local resistance.

In Experiments in Empathy: Critical Reflections on Interreligious Education, the contributors provide a roadmap for practicing and developing innovative ways to teach religion that promotes interfaith understanding and cooperation.

These inter-disciplinary essays explore the foundational ambiguity of borders, their roles, functions and place in the Anglophone world, whether it be in history, politics, literature, art or music or, theoretically, in the critical relations between space, discourse and representation.

Ce volume se propose d'étudier les marqueurs de la féminité et de la judéité, de l'' algériance ' et de la filiation allemande comme les principaux lieux d'interrogation de l'origine dans l'oeuvre récente d'Hélène Cixous.

In Law's Dominion, Jay Berkovitz offers a new history of early modern Jewry. Set in the city of Metz, legal sources reveal a robust community able to integrate religion and civic consciousness while navigating competing Jewish and French jurisdictions.

The twenty-one essays of Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500-1500 employ innovative methods to unlock the historical potential of hagiographical sources and reach new discoveries about the medieval world that extend well beyond the study of sanctity.

The missionaries from the Presbyterian Church of Canada and locally trained personnel provided the educational, religious and social foundations that allowed the marginalized peoples in the Caribbean to progress and assimilate during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In The Theatre of the Street: Public Violence in Antwerp During the First Half of the Twentieth Century Antoon Vrints offers a historical analysis of the meanings and functions of street violence in a modern European city.

Dispersals and diversification offers a reassessment of some of the pivotal linguistic and archaeological questions concerning the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, including discussions of the methodological approaches involved.

In The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, twenty-one international scholars discuss the afterlife of early Greek lyric poetry (iambic, elegiac, and melic) from the 5th century BCE to the 12th century CE.

Aquinas' theology can be understood only if one comes to grips with his metaphysics of being. The relevance of this perspective is exhibited in his treatment of topics like creation, goodness, happiness, truth, freedom of the will, the unity of the human being, prayer and providence, God's personhood, divine love, God and violence, God's unknowablility, the Incarnation, the Trinity, God's existence, theological language and even laughter. This book endeavors to treat these questions in a clear and convincing language.

The history of the world's second international organisation, an innovative techno-political institution established by Europe's Concert of Powers to remove insecurity from the Lower Danube.

Ryan R. Gladwin provides a cogent introduction to Latin American Protestant Theology (LAPT) for students and scholars alike. The text offers a lucid analysis of the landscape of LAPT through an in-depth historical-theological engagement of the three dominant theological streams (Liberal, Evangelical, and Pentecostal) and how these streams understand themselves through the primary lens of 'mission.'

EU citizenship and Free Movement Rights examines how EU citizenship reconstructs in unexpected ways what citizenship as a status means and stands for in relation to family reunification, social rights, expulsion and discusses the effects of Brexit for EU citizens.

Jus Post bellum: Restraint, Stabilisation and Peace records the theory of military ethics and the process of attempting to achieve a safe and lasting peace after conflict from the basis of the Just War Theory.

This volume offers an edition with translation and commentary of Daniel Heinsius's Auriacus, sive Libertas saucia of 1602.

Based on consilia and decisions, Wouter Druwé studies the multinormative framework on loans and credit in the Golden Ages of Antwerp and Amsterdam (c. 1500-1680). He analyzes the use of a wide variety of legal financial techniques in the Low Countries.