This book examines the link between gender equality and corruption in Europe. It argues that corruption is a central element in hampering gender equality development, since in corrupt contexts women are often locked out of positions of power and have fewer opportunities to influence the will of the state. Furthermore, in corrupt contexts, resources intended for the public good are diverted to serve private interests, thereby depriving the state of opportunities to enforce progressive societal change.

In addition to developing a new framework for the study of gender equality development that integrates the role played by corruption, the book also launches the concept of gender-sensitive state power, a notion based on progressive legislation and budget priorities that strengthen women's self-determination, combined with mechanisms that make states stable and ensure that resources do not leak in ways that compromise women's room to manoeuvre in society.

This important book will appeal to all those interested in gender studies, corruption studies, and politics.

This book examines the heritagization of food in France, revealing how these processes reflect broader societal tensions around national identity and social inclusion. Addressing a gap in scholarship on French culinary heritage, it investigates top-down policies and local initiatives that promote 'authenticity'. Combining critical heritage and cultural studies, the book highlights the risks of commodifying culinary traditions while exploring sustainable, hybrid approaches to valuing foodways. It unpacks key concepts like terroir and savoir-faire to illustrate how food contributes to constructing social belonging, and considers the impacts of France's gastronomic UNESCO recognitions, highlighting unintended effects such as cultural essentialization and the freezing of tradition. By analysing terroir-based marketing and the "buy local" movement, this book demonstrates how such initiatives can reinforce exclusionary narratives and geopolitical borders. It calls for inclusive approaches to culinary heritage which recognize the flows and exchanges behind traditions, and will interest scholars and students in food studies, heritage and cultural studies, French studies, comparative literature, socio-cultural anthropology, environmental humanities, and human geography.

This book develops a new framework for explaining how political parties survive severe crises in Latin America. Challenging accounts that equate survival with electoral recovery, it argues that endurance emerges from elite incentives shaped by territorial depth, organizational routines, and shifting strategic opportunities. The analysis centers on Argentina's Radical Civic Union, showing how subnational structures and legislative footholds anchored elites after national collapse and enabled a gradual adaptation toward coalition-based relevance, culminating in the successful Cambiemos alliance in 2015. Comparative cases from Venezuela, Peru, and Costa Rica reveal why parties with similar histories failed to adapt. The concluding chapter applies the framework to Argentina's contemporary realignment under Javier Milei, demonstrating how outsider disruption once again pushes the UCR toward strategies rooted in its organizational inheritance. Across these chapters, the book offers a theory of party survival that explains not only why some parties endure without national recovery, but also how they reinvent their political purpose in fragmented political systems.

This volume explores the historical and cultural dimensions of Jerusalem through the lens of world literature and art.

Jerusalem inspired creation of various world literary works, spanning different time periods and contributing to various angles of views. This volume emphasizes Jerusalem's spiritual significance in the world culture, literature, history, and global society. Preservation of this Holy City is not a duty of one, two, three nations-it is a duty of all humanity. The chapters of this book contribute to the significance of the cosmic city as one of the most important destinations of human journey. The ultimate destination of many pilgrims is Jerusalem-the Holy City that unites all faithful and agnostics. Journey to the Holy City is the fulfillment of a sacred dream of believers.

Bringing together the distinct but connected disciplines of theology and ethics, Stand-up Comedy, Theology, and Ethics adds to the growing field of humor and religion.
Beginning by re-considering what we know about jokes and laughter, the authors propose that more attention needs to be paid to the quasi-sacramental, magical quality of jokes and the ways laughter can shift the affective states of an audience. They then turn their attention to key issues and debates within stand-up comedy. First, is the comical legitimacy or illegitimacy of comedians who employ humor ambiguously so that we are not sure at who or what they are "punching". Second, is the phenomenon of canceling comedians for their behavior off stage. Third, is the sociopolitical possibilities of stand-up. Ultimately, the authors argue that there is theological, religious, and ethical significance to contemporary stand-up comedy.

This book focuses on the work of Dutch educational philosopher Gert Biesta. It offers a comprehensive exploration of his revolutionary ideas, guiding readers through his critique of contemporary educational thought and his alternative vision for education. By engaging with Biesta's work, we are invited to grapple with fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of education in the twenty-first century. What does it mean to be educated? What is the role of the teacher? How can education contribute to a more democratic society?

The book illuminates a different approach to the key question underpinning all of Biesta's work: what is the purpose of education? It pays particular attention to unpicking the more abstruse areas of his work, in order to make it more accessible to practitioners who are attracted to the general tenor of Biesta's work but find some of the philosophical discussions hard to digest.

This book will be beneficial to researchers, educators, policymakers, or readers interested in the future of education. At the end of it, readers will have been introduced to the key ideas of one of the most original and challenging voices in contemporary educational philosophy, as well as being able to identify exactly what it is that bothers them about modern schools and universities, and how those issues might be addressed.

This work explores what the formative writers of the fourth century said about divine fatherhood in order to address a key subject in Trinitarian debate in modern theology.

D. Blair Smith examines the Father within classical Trinitarian thought. The question of the fatherhood of God occupied several 20th - 21st century theologians who sought to retrieve fourth-century Trinitarian developments in order to inform their systematic concerns. Smith explores the foundational period and engages with a number of the formative 'pro-Nicene' voices of Athanasius of Alexandria, Hilary of Poitiers, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Basil of Caesarea. This book then examines the crucial theological space given to eternal generation of the Son, divine simplicity, the coinherence of the persons, inseparability of operations, and even the Holy Spirit in order to understand the distinctiveness of the Father within the Trinity.

Smith argues Basil represents the most integrative pro-Nicene account of divine fatherhood, providing sharpness to the mature pro-Nicene Trinitarian categories emerging within this era and critically applies insights gleaned from the pro-Nicene development to questions raised by modern readings of the 'first' person of the Trinity as well as identify trailhead for further inquiry on the fatherhood of God within contemporary Trinitarian thought.

This book examines how political discourse on immigration is constructed across Italian social media, focusing on the ways "otherness" is reshaped within digital platforms. Drawing on Social-Media Critical Discourse Studies, it introduces the concept of alternative otherness to explain how migrants are symbolically repositioned in a polarized and mediatized communicative environment. The book is structured in three main parts. The first reconstructs and connects key socio-technical processes that shape the conditions under which political discourse on immigration emerges. The second part outlines the theoretical and methodological framework, grounded in the critical tradition of Critical Discourse Studies and its extension to social media environments. The third part presents four empirical case studies examining emblematic episodes related to immigration in the Italian context between 2017 and 2025, showing how political actors construct and circulate recurring discursive patterns that progressively shift attention away from migrants themselves toward new forms of antagonism.

This book sheds light on American exceptionalism-the belief that the United States is unique and superior and is destined to lead the world. It argues that this idea is not exclusive to the United States, as many other nations, including China, India, France, and Germany, have also claimed uniqueness based on their history, culture, or power. Such claims often distort reality, ignore comparisons, and justify questionable actions.

The book examines the roots of American exceptionalism in doctrines such as Manifest Destiny and the Doctrine of Discovery. It traces the impact of these doctrines on Native Americans, slavery, and U.S. identity. The book then follows America's rise from isolationism to global dominance, examining its triumphs and contradictions as well as the challenges of the 21st century.

By providing a critical, historical, and global perspective on this powerful idea-including its origins, evolution, and limits-this book will appeal to scholars, students, and anyone interested in U.S. history, global politics, and the myths that shape nations.

This book explores how language-in-use shapes the soul, identity, and spirituality of Asian American Christian women in diaspora, focusing on the theological and semiotic significance of language.

In employing an interdisciplinary framework cutting across Christian theology, linguistic anthropology, and feminist theory, the author suggests the concept of street-smart spirituality-a form of everyday mysticism embodied in vernacular speech acts. Focusing on the Korean term maum (heart-mind-soul), the book argues that everyday utterances, gestures, and vocal practices convey qualia-textured signs of internal experience-that articulate Christian subjectivity beyond institutional orders or dominant linguistic norms. Tracing the rhetorical tradition of sermo humilis and vernacularity from Augustine to Dante, and placing it in conversation with Marguerite Porete and Yi Suni, the book reveals how Christian vernaculars have functioned as vehicles of resistance, intimacy, and transformation. In grappling with the racialized demands of "standard" American English, this work affirms the power of fragile, diasporic, and accented speech as a site of divine encounter and theological agency. The book invites readers to rethink what makes language "Christian," what renders a person "American enough," and how voice becomes a sacred medium of becoming.

This book offers a global perspective on how Anglican ministry evolved throughout a century marked by radical upheavals and dramatic changes in theological, social, and political perspectives.
That history begins with the end of the Victorian era, when Anglicanism had spread around the world but was deeply enmeshed with colonialism and it was assumed that it was shaped and defined by its North Atlantic history. Kater explores how the Anglican Way became rooted in widely different contexts and identifies the many pressures and movements that challenged that history-including two world wars, a global Depression, anti-colonialism and the struggles against the many forms of oppression and discrimination that marked the century. This book is the story of how Anglican ministry has been broadened and deepened by its constantly growing diversity even as that diversity has brought new challenges.

This book highlights the Church's significant cultural, social, and political presence across the Anglophone Caribbean.

Individual authors collectively provide a series of readings of historical and contemporary issues negotiated by the Anglican Church in the Caribbean that capture the complex, integral role the church played in shaping the individual identities of the islands while seeking also to be a pan-national voice for a shared set of global values and aspirations expressed regionally.

The volume offers religious and secular readers an opportunity to better understand the role and history of the Anglican Church in the region. It acknowledges historical failures, challenges the notion that the church is "colonial," and highlights the continuing importance of the Church to individual lives and regional aspirations. Combining examination of the church's complicated relationship with history and a variety of personal engagements with Anglicanism in the Caribbean, The Anglican Church in the Anglophone Caribbean demonstrates the continuing significance of the Anglican Church in the development and contemporary life of the region.

The book presents a bold and transformative exploration of how Pentecostal theology can be revitalized by critically engaging with the Nicene Creed through the lens of African spirituality and decolonial thought.

In an era marked by profound cultural exchanges and theological diversification, Kaunda challenges traditional Nicene faith and calls for a new approach that reflects the pluralistic realities of the 21st century. Rooted in the rich metaphysical and philosophical traditions of the Bemba people of Zambia, the book critiques the classical dualistic interpretations of Christian theology, which have long emphasized divisions between the sacred and secular, material and spiritual, human and nonhuman.

Through a decolonial framework, this powerful work seeks to dismantle these entrenched dualisms and reintroduce an integrated approach to faith, one that embraces the interconnectedness of all things. African indigenous concepts are central to this reimagining of Nicene Christianity. It demonstrates how Pentecostalism, with its emphasis on the Spirit's dynamic presence, can speak powerfully to issues such as gender relations, ecological crises, power dynamics, and the lived realities of African communities. Grounding theological reflection in the lived experiences and cultural contexts of African Pentecostal believers, Kaunda reveals a more holistic, contextually resonant, and responsive form of Christian theology.

Dominican Political Rising in NYC traces how a relatively recent immigrant community became a consequential force in the city's governing coalitions. Centering New York's post-1965 migration, the book situates Dominican mobilization within shifting urban pluralism, party machines, and inter- and intra-ethnic competition across Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn. Drawing on oral histories, demographic and electoral data, and author's candidacy during the 2021 cycle, the study follows leaders incubated in churches, CUNY campuses, trade associations, and community-based organizations amidst anti-immigrant politics and transnational ties.

How does the Islamic tradition create space for, and resist, constructive inter-religious dialogue?
In this book, Adis Duderija considers the conditions necessary for inter-religious dialogue, comparative theological learning, and theological growth within an Islamic context. Applying the writings of Catherine Cornille, Duderija presents fresh discussions of the Qur'an, hadith, and orthodox Islamic doctrines (takfir, tashabbuh bi-l-kuffar, bid'a, and al wala' wal bara') from the perspective of comparative theology. Primarily focusing on Islamic dialogue with Christianity and Buddhism, Duderija juxtaposes the work of foundational Islamic scholars, revealing how each promote various forms of inter-religious dialogue.

This book gives readers foundational, step-by-step processes to improve journalistic content and help journalists adapt to today's rapidly-changing media landscape, including evolving technologies. The book establishes a writing progression incorporating narrative flow, thinking about interviewing in a multimedia package, understanding how to incorporate media assets into a story, and evaluating the quality of journalistic work. These practices will connect to the more considerable discussion of defining journalism in the world of media and its more critical connection to society as a whole. Journalists and other media professionals can use this book to practice their skills and critically examine the state of journalism.

Business is at a sustainability crossroads. There is pressure from some shareholders and elected politicians to dial back on environmental and social issues, sustainability being "too woke" and a constraint on economic growth. However, there are competing pressures that mean that these same issues are now increasingly material to the bottom line; businesses ignore them at their peril as they threaten the true longer-term value of the company.

This book sets out the case for the "Sustainability of Sustainability". There is compelling evidence from underlying trends in finance, trade and technology that shows that there is a sustainability bedrock, beyond which it cannot be pushed back. That bedrock is not too deep, and so a course correction is coming. Businesses should be investing now in core sustainability to be ready for the new, more durable sustainability to come.

Morrison argues that while sustainability is already perceived by many as an orthodoxy, it has yet to secure the legitimacy and trust required to deliver real and lasting change.

The book is for anyone who is curious about why. when and how sustainability will re-emerge and how best to prepare for its homecoming. There is a big opportunity: we will lose a lot of the fluff, green-washing, and noise and build a stronger and more meaningful version of sustainability as we do. The book helps any business manager, policy-maker or community leader find their sustainability bedrock and to build upon solid foundations.

This textbook provides scholarly analysis of recent developments in US Politics and puts contemporary controversies in their ideological and historical context. The tenth edition addresses a period of extraordinary political division and conflict. It tackles crucial questions on the state and future of US democracy in light of the attempted insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the Trump trials and the assertive start of Trump's second term. It considers the changing status of the US in global politics and shifting foreign policy in the face of challenges from China, Russia and problems in the Middle East and Ukraine. The book explores a range of domestic issues and debates including those over race, 'woke' politics, the Dobbs decision on abortion, immigration and environmental policies. It assesses the likely impact of the second Trump presidency on political dynamics in the United States and the stability of America's democratic culture.

Drawing upon 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork in an evangelical youth group in London, this book investigates the practices used in church contexts to bring about evangelical transformation, how these are experienced and interpreted by young people, and what this process can tell us about evangelicalism more widely.

Rob Barward-Symmons argues for the significance of the adolescent experience within evangelicalism, and explores how adult experience and subjectivity forms in these overlooked spaces. Through the lens of ritual and rites of passage theory, the book argues that the youth group period can be understood as one of sustained liminality for group members, enabled through spatial and structural separation between the youth and adult evangelical contexts.

Grounded in the case study, each of the chapters begin with an extended ethnographic vignette, with other fieldwork reflections and first-hand interview quotes incorporated through the analysis. The book raises important questions about whether the rite of becoming an evangelical subject is truly complete, and whether adult evangelical spaces can accommodate the lingering liminality fostered in youth group spaces.

A healthy and fruitful political theology is essential for the future of Pentecostal and Charismatic movements worldwide. This book offers crucial reflections on how to develop this area of theology.

First, Binyet presents a central debate in political theology: the rift between neo-traditional and liberal Augustinianism. This debate helps situating the emerging voices of Pentecostal and Charismatic scholarship within the field of political theology, revealing the diversity, creativity, and significant potential of Pentecostal and Charismatic approaches to politics.

Second, this incisive work provides a constructive proposal for the development of Pentecostal and Charismatic political theology. This analysis is grounded in the underlying conviction that Pentecostal and Charismatic spirituality is inherently political, and that political theology should begin with the ecclesial practices of Pentecostalism.

Binyet advocates for a critical yet radical embrace of Pentecostal and Charismatic spirituality, particularly its charismatic and apocalyptic dimensions, as a means to engage fruitfully with the political realm.