This book examines how Christian writers portrayed the conversion of Slavs beyond the Elbe River-a complex, centuries-long process spanning the tenth through twelfth centuries. Rather than a simple narrative of religious transformation, this conversion unfolded through multiple influences, scholarly debates, and specific historical contexts.

The work explores the intricate relationship between conversion and warfare, examining how crusade ideology intersected with territorial conquest. Through detailed analysis, the chapters reveal how this religious and political dynamism affected marginalized populations and demonstrate theology's crucial influence on these processes. The final phase of Slavic integration coincided with a pivotal moment in the development of crusading rhetoric throughout German territories. This timing proved significant for understanding both the conversion process and broader medieval Christian identity.

The book offers fresh insights into medieval Christian identity while challenging modern assumptions about paganism. Medieval paganism emerges as a fluid concept rooted in biblical notions of disobedience, rebellion, apostasy, and idolatry-distinct from contemporary pagan movements. These findings will stimulate new research directions on paganism throughout the medieval Latin periphery.

In an era of rapid digital transformation, education faces unprecedented challenges that threaten to reduce learning to mere technological processes. This collection explores how love and care can serve as fundamental principles for humanising education in the digital age.

Drawing from diverse international perspectives, the volume examines the essential role of emotional connections in teaching and learning. The book presents evidence-based research on caring pedagogies, teacher-student relationships, and the integration of humanistic values within educational practice. With particular focus on Chinese educational contexts, contributors examine how parental encouragement affects academic achievement amongst Chinese students and explore culturally specific approaches to implementing love-based education in higher education institutions. The volume also features intercultural perspectives that demonstrate how caring pedagogies can bridge cultural differences whilst promoting holistic human development.

This volume is essential reading for educational researchers, teacher educators, policy makers, and practitioners seeking to understand how emotional foundations can enhance educational effectiveness. It will particularly appeal to those working in educational philosophy, teacher training programmes, and educational psychology, offering both theoretical frameworks and practical strategies for implementing caring pedagogies across diverse cultural contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Chinese Education & Society.

This book analyses the interconnection of space and experience in Roman antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages, ca. 100 BCE-1500 CE.

The joint analysis of these two conceptual spearheads enables a novel analysis of how space affected social frameworks and how experiences built communities and shaped individual lives over the longue duree. The volume manifests the richness and innovativeness of analysing individual and shared experiences together with space as cultural, political, and social constructions, bridging micro and macro levels. Ten high-quality case studies explore experiencing domestic, urban, political, and sacred space. An in-depth introduction explains the main concepts, and an epilogue binds the themes and chapters together. The volume utilizes a wide array of source material and has comprehensive coverage chronologically, geographically, and disciplinarily, including several branches of classical, Byzantine, and medieval studies.

The volume serves graduate students and scholars of several disciplines and fields: classics and ancient history, medieval history, Byzantine studies, archaeology, and art history. It will also be fruitful to scholars of the modern period whose work touches upon the field of the history of experiences.

Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Homeschooling in the United States is expanding and diversifying, creating urgent demand for rigorous research to inform policy and practice. This first volume-one of two derived from a special issue of the Journal of School Choice-responds to long-standing critiques that homeschool scholarship lacks rigour and is too often shaped by advocacy.

Featuring research studies from 26 authors across 13 institutions, the collection offers empirically grounded insights into a rapidly evolving educational landscape. Several years after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted millions of families to reconsider traditional schooling, homeschooling participation remains elevated and continues to grow. The studies examine who is homeschooling, how families navigate in-and-out of public schools, and how increasingly diverse demographic groups shape varied approaches to the practice. Authors introduce innovative methods for estimating homeschool participation in data-limited states, situate U.S. homeschooling within an international research context, and share perspectives from a national policy summit. Together, these findings challenge persistent stereotypes and counter false narratives about who homeschools and why.

This volume will be of interest to education researchers, policymakers, school administrators, and homeschooling families seeking evidence-based insights into contemporary home education practices. The comprehensive, peer-reviewed foundation supports evidence-driven decisions that benefit all students and families, including those choosing homeschooling.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted experiences of Indian migrants in the United States, weaving together narratives of ambition, resilience, and struggle. This volume delves into diverse dimensions of migration, from undocumented immigrants navigating precarious circumstances to high-skilled professionals balancing economic security with political uncertainty. It highlights critical themes such as the challenges faced by dependent visa holders, the nursing shortages in Massachusetts, and the evolving landscape of student migration post-COVID-19. Through rigorous qualitative and quantitative analyses, the book examines migration as a spatial, political, and transformative process, while also addressing broader issues like caste discrimination, climate resilience, and the socioeconomic impacts of remittances. By centering the voices of migrants, adoptees, and marginalized communities, this volume provides a nuanced understanding of migration's costs, benefits, and implications for both home and host countries. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of migration studies, diaspora studies, sociology, and public policy, as well as practitioners and policymakers seeking to understand the complexities of Indian migration and its global impact.

Break the silence and inaction that perpetuate racism in everyday life

When racist incidents occur, they're too often met with silence - perpetrators remain unaware, targets feel powerless, bystanders freeze, and allies hesitate. Breaking the Deadly Dance of Racism provides a comprehensive framework for understanding how these four roles maintain racism and offers concrete intervention strategies. Drawing on decades of research, psychologists Derald W. Sue and Lisa B. Spanierman reveal the hidden scripts keeping racism thriving.

The book examines unique barriers each role faces - from perpetrators' defensive reactions to targets' racial trauma to bystanders' diffusion of responsibility to allies' performative gestures. Readers discover how cultural scripts like color-blind ideology protect racism from challenge, and learn detailed microintervention strategies for making racism visible, disarming biased behavior, educating offenders, and mobilizing support.

The book also offers:

• Evidence-based guidance for developing critical consciousness about how racism operates at individual, institutional, and cultural levels
• Concrete strategies for overcoming the fear, uncertainty, and social costs that prevent people from taking anti-racist action
• Detailed intervention tactics tailored to the specific challenges faced by perpetrators, targets, bystanders, and allies
• Practical approaches for combating both everyday microaggressions and systemic macroaggressions in organizations and society
• Foundational practices for racial socialization that help parents and educators raise antiracist children through microprotections

Essential reading for educators, mental health practitioners, diversity consultants, and activists, Breaking the Deadly Dance of Racism transforms abstract commitments into actionable strategies. By revealing how silence makes us complicit and providing specific intervention tools, this book empowers readers to break the deadly dance.

'Logic of the fantasy': the expression recurs throughout the Seminar as a leitmotif, yet not a single lesson is devoted to it; not even a briefly sustained development. Does this mean that the logic of the fantasy is here playing the role of some new-fangled mirage? No it doesn't, not if we can take on board how this logic is the very site at which Lacan's comments converge, which is what I have sought to indicate by entitling the final chapter 'The axiom of the fantasy'.

It begins with him audaciously blending the mathematical Klein group and the Cartesian cogito, modified in such a way as to offer up the alternative, 'Either I am not, or I am not thinking'. On this basis, Lacan summarises the course of an analysis in four phases.

A further mathematico-psychoanalytic blend: the sexual act is illuminated by the light of the Golden number. What ensues is that 'there is no sexual act', this being the first trace of what was to become a pons asinorum: 'there is no sexual relating'.

The reader will also come across the invention of a 'value of jouissance', inspired by Marx, and will be surprised to see the big Other, the 'locus of speech', being newly defined as 'the body', the primordial locus of writing.

A good many other gripping insights and constructions await this reader, if he is minded to follow the meandering, the stalling and the about-turns, along with advances and flashes of brilliance, an obstinate and profoundly honest thinking that, whenever it comes up against a stumbling block, never skirts around it but endeavours to turn it into a cornerstone.

Jacques-Alain Miller

This book addresses the issue of non-recent child sex abuse and its long-term impact on adult survivors from a broadly psychodynamic perspective.

Non-recent CSA is not a subject that can or should be confined to the clinical arena. It has legal, welfare and profound social implications, with its impact broadening out from the survivor to the family to the community and into wider society. The politics of power and oppression are intertwined with the experience and may be unconsciously repeated into adult experiences, often worsened by the interplay of intersectionality and the withdrawal of public services and support for people with complex mental health problems. This book has been developed to support survivors, families, practitioners and the wider public break the social taboo around the topic of child sexual abuse. It unites a broad range of voices to encourage better community support and improve social services to support those impacted.

With an ethical commitment to the field, this book will appeal to clinicians working in mental health but will also hold interest to those in other fields such as the social sciences, as well as the interested public, and CSA survivors in particular.

The definitive guide to autism and related conditions, with in-depth multidisciplinary coverage spanning clinical, developmental, biological, social, and public health perspectives

The Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders is the most influential reference work in the field of autism and related conditions. This Fifth Edition reflects updated diagnostic frameworks in the DSM-5 and ICD-11, as well as evolving societal perspectives on autism. Across two volumes, it addresses evolving and emerging topics such as gene-environment interactions, theoretical frameworks, developmental neurobiology, mental health care, clinical assessment, gender and minority issues, naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions, new learning technologies, economic aspects, and interactions with the law.

Inside Volume Two: Assessment, Interventions, and Policy, readers will find the most authoritative information on screening, assessment, interventions, services and supports, as well as cultural and policy ramifications. Volume One (available separately), covers diagnostic, developmental, and neurobiological aspects of autism, alongside its genetic, environmental, biochemical, social, medical and theoretical dimensions.

Students and practitioners in psychology, special education, and related fields will appreciate this thorough update for the authoritative guide to autism spectrum disorder. It is a must-read resource discussing scientifically validated approaches to understanding and supporting individuals on the autism spectrum.

The definitive, in-depth guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), updated with new DSM-V and ICD-11 definitions and many new chapters

Since the original edition was first published more than a quarter of a century ago, The Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders has been the most influential reference work in the field of autism and related conditions and is now regarded as the definitive, in-depth guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Along with providing practical clinical advice including the role of psychopharmacology in treatment, the Handbook codifies the ever-expanding current body of research throughout both volumes, offering a wealth of information on the epidemiology of autism and the genetic, environmental, biochemical, social, and neuropathological aspects of the disorder.

The newly updated Fifth Edition takes into account the changes in the disorders' definitions in the DSM-V and ICD-11 and includes new chapters on topics including gene-environment interaction, theoretical models of autism, and developmental neurobiology.

Volume One of The Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders includes the latest research on:

• ASD in infants, toddlers, school-age children, and adults, with information on broader social development in autism
• Play development in children with ASDs through skills, object play, and interventions
• Imitation in ASDs, autism and emotion, and motor control and motor learning processes in ASDs
• Sensory features in ASDs and genetic features of ASDs
• Environmental factors in the preconception and prenatal periods in relation to risk for ASD

Volume One of The Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders is an essential reference for all students and professionals studying and working in fields related to ASD.

Presents a comprehensive guide to evidence-based coaching psychology for students and advanced practitioners

Coaching psychology has transformed into a thriving discipline that merges psychological theory with practical application, yet many existing resources no longer reflect the field's rapid evolution. The Coaching Psychology Handbook addresses this gap by providing an authoritative, research-driven exploration of the key psychological principles that underpin effective coaching. Demonstrating how evidence-based psychological frameworks can be applied in coaching to create meaningful, lasting change, this practical resource equips readers with a deep understanding of human development, motivation, behavior change, cognition, self-reflection, and attachment.

With contributions from internationally recognized scholars and practitioners, the Handbook is both comprehensive and practical, offering a structured, integrative approach to coaching psychology. Each chapter connects theory directly to real-world practice, incorporating cutting-edge research and contemporary challenges, including diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and the impact of AI and other technologies. Blending diverse perspectives with rigorous analysis, the book invites readers to engage critically with the field's most influential ideas while preparing them to contribute to its ongoing development.

A vital resource for those seeking to expand their understanding of coaching psychology and apply these insights to diverse professional contexts, The Coaching Psychology Handbook:

• Features over 40 chapters covering both foundational and advanced coaching psychology concepts
• Integrates core psychological theories with practical coaching frameworks
• Offers insights into motivation, behavior change, goal setting, and self-efficacy
• Connects positive psychology principles to real-world coaching practices
• Explores creative, arts-based, and systemic approaches to coaching
• Links theory to practice with applied case examples and evidence-based methodologies

The Coaching Psychology Handbook: Integrating Psychological Theory, Practice and Research is ideal for postgraduate students and advanced practitioners in coaching psychology, positive psychology, and organizational development. It is well-suited for courses such as Coaching Psychology, Evidence-Based Coaching, and Leadership Coaching, and is an essential resource for academic programs in psychology, business, and education.

In-depth exploration of the core neurobiological, psychological, and computational principles that underlie how the brain gives rise to the mind

Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience provides a broad and substantive foundation with which the reader can understand how the brain gives rise to the mind, spanning topics as varied as how we can pick out a familiar face in a crowd, send a text message while walking down the street, recall what we ate for dinner last Saturday, and be consciously aware of reading words on a page. Each chapter begins with an overview of foundational principles before transitioning to in-depth exploration of how today's scientists use state-of-the-art methods to advance our knowledge and understanding of the neural bases of human thought and behavior.

New in this third edition is an overview of theoretical frameworks and computational approaches needed to understand the latest developments in this rapidly evolving field, including: predictive coding; dynamical systems theory; reinforcement learning; recurrent neural network modeling; representational similarity analysis; diffusion-decision modeling; and representational geometry analysis.

Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience includes information on:

• High-level cognition, covering cognitive control, decision making, social behavior, emotion, language, and consciousness
• Memory and mental representation, covering visual object recognition and knowledge, neural bases of plasticity, declarative and semantic long-term memory, and working memory
• Perception, attention, and action, covering the visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems, spatial cognition, skeletomotor and oculomotor control, and the control of attention
• Principles of the organization, structure, and functions of the brain, and strategies for relating these to thought and behavior

Written in a narrative style that gives the reader a sense of what it's like to be a cognitive neuroscientist, Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience is a vital learning resource for students interested in psychology, neuroscience, and neurology.

Featuring contributions from leaders of top honors colleges across the country, this book tackles the most pressing issues facing honors administrators and universities in the twenty-first century, including the fate of the humanities, the value proposition of honors education, and selling honors to state legislatures and donors.

Since their inception, honors colleges have emerged as key vehicles for strong enrollments at public research universities, significantly reducing the "brain drain" of talented students from diverse backgrounds while maintaining affordability compared to private institutions. This book explores key topics in honors, including enrollment, curriculum, student success, financing and staffing, data-driven assessment, philanthropy, and more. It highlights effective methods for measuring the impact of honors programs and communicating that impact to a wide range of stakeholders.

A valuable resource for higher education administrators, scholars, and policymakers, Honors Education at Public Research Universities skillfully unpacks the two major parts of the honors equation: the how and the why.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Germany and Russia: two countries whose turbulent and interlocking histories have profoundly shaped the world in which we live today. The long twentieth century was in many ways a German-Russian century. In 1917, imperial Germany became the birthplace of Russia's October Revolution, whose ideological radicalism shook the established order of states. With Hitler's seizure of power and the outbreak of World War II, Germany and Russia were thrust into violent conflict with one another. Defeating Hitler led Stalin's Red Army into the heart of Europe and Germany became the training ground for the Cold War, where two highly armed military blocs confronted one another for four decades. It was only with the collapse of the USSR that Germany was able to re-unify. Sustained efforts were made in the aftermath of the Cold War to normalize relations between Germany and Russia, but the renewed tensions precipitated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine show how fragile this relationship remains.

In The German-Russian Century the distinguished historian Stefan Creuzberger tells the remarkable story of this crucial relationship between two states and two peoples. He lays out the large ideological contexts of fascism and communism and patiently traces the efforts that each state made to confront and balance the power of the other, from the tense years leading up to the Second World War through the Cold War to the present day. He shows how each side often saw the other in terms of itself - how Stalin perceived Hitler as a fellow imperialist while Gerhard Schroeder was drawn to Putin as a modernizer and reformer seemingly similar to himself.

Engagingly written and magisterial in its grasp of high-stake issues as well as historical detail, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the historical forces that have shaped the modern world.

This book explores critical and thought- provoking questions about the role and impact of psychotherapy in addressing societal, environmental, and economic challenges. It examines whether the therapeutic practices we offer benefit our clients at the expense of others or even their own broader well- being. Through an analysis of concepts such as 'acceptance,' 'the unconscious,' and 'the relational,' the book interrogates whether psychotherapy contributes to societal problems or perpetuates self- centered colonialism, making catastrophe inevitable. It challenges psychotherapists to consider their responsibility for their clients' accountability to others and explores how insights from non- Western cultures, which emphasize collective social identity, can enrich therapeutic practices. Additionally, the book delves into how interdisciplinary approaches from sociology, anthropology, economics, history, politics, and psycho- social studies can help psychotherapists transcend traditional boundaries and foster a more impactful education for trainees.

This book is an essential read for students and scholars in social sciences, cultural studies, and psycho- social disciplines who are interested in the intersection of psychotherapy, societal issues, and global perspectives. It will also appeal to psychotherapists, counsellors, mental health professionals, and trainees seeking to critically reflect on their practice and its broader implications.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling.

The integration of generative AI into higher education presents a unique opportunity to enhance sustainability. AI-driven solutions can optimize resources and processes and provide tools to tap into the potential of generative AI in creating more personalized, efficient, and sustainable educational environments. This book discusses the role of generative AI in higher education and provides a clear vision of how to integrate AI technology within the framework of sustainability. It balances theoretical insights with practical applications and ethical considerations. Readers will learn how to navigate the ethical and social implications, understand sustainability initiatives, and foresee future trends.

Features

• Provides a holistic explanation of complex AI concepts for readers without technical backgrounds.
• Includes detailed real-world case studies and practical examples showcasing generative AI's impact on education.
• Incorporates sustainability and highlights eco-friendly approaches and sustainable practices in educational settings.
• Offers insights into the ethical considerations and responsible use of AI in education.
• Forecasts future trends and advancements, helping educators stay ahead in the fast-evolving educational landscape.

This is an excellent resource for everyone interested in implementing AI technologies in higher education to enhance students' learning experience and outcomes and for all readers who are interested in the latest trends and applications of AI in higher education.

This cutting-edge book provides a comprehensive overview of up-to-date research in the field of social psychology of gender identity and sexual orientation. The book is unique in considering perspectives from both dominant and marginalized groups. It illustrates how LGBTQ+ individuals conceptualize gender identity and sexual orientation and their intersections with other social categories. At the same time, the book examines how the dominant group (heterosexual cisgender individuals) forms impressions and interacts with LGBTQ+ people and how these people navigate social norms, expectations, and stigma.

Across the different chapters, the book examines the experiences of stigma in different life stages and contexts and maps out the different ways in which stigma manifests and impacts the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals. The book also addresses strategies to reduce stigma and provides solid and contemporary evidence-based knowledge to pave the way for a more inclusive future.

Offering a way to better understand the similarities and differences in the experiences of gender and sexual minorities from a social psychological perspective, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of gender and sexualities, social psychology, sociology. It will also appeal to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) consultants looking for research-informed resources, health professionals, and anyone interested in knowing more about LGBTQ topics.

This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to explore how constructivist learning theories can meaningfully guide teacher preparation for today's dynamic and diverse classrooms. It examines the theoretical implications of the constructivist theory, shares practical examples of educators fostering constructivist principles through their practices, and discusses challenges they face in embracing such practices.

Chapters are organized into three parts: Theoretical Foundations, Constructivism in Action, and Beyond the Classroom. Each part provides frameworks, ideas, and strategies for designing transformative learning experiences. From relational teaching and reflective practice to community engagement and hybrid learning, contributors illuminate how constructivism fosters agency, connection, and authentic understanding.

Ideal for teacher educators, graduate students, curriculum leaders, and professional development providers, this book bridges theory and practice to provide affirming examples of constructivism at work in teacher education. It confers valuable insights into how constructivist theories are shaping teacher education and invites all who prepare teachers to cultivate classrooms where curiosity, reflection, and love of learning thrive.

Decolonizing Educational Research examines the ways through which coloniality manifests in contexts of knowledge and meaning making, specifically within educational research and formal schooling. Purposefully situated beyond popular deconstructionist theory and anthropocentric perspectives, this 10th Anniversary Edition continues to investigate the longstanding traditions of oppression, racism, and white supremacy that are systemically reseated and reinforced by learning and social interaction. Through meaningful explorations into the unfixed and often interrupted narratives of culture, history, place, and identity, a bold, timely, and hopeful vision emerges to conceive of how research on and within higher education institutions might break free of colonial genealogies and their widespread complicities.

The new edition invites intergeneration knowing and contains rich stories about ways of learning, including curriculum, grief, research frameworks, and abolition. It includes a fully updated introduction by the author that addresses the current context, as well as scholarly commentary from leaders in the field reacting to each chapter from the original publication.

The 10th Anniversary Edition of Decolonizing Educational Research is essential reading for Foundations of Research, Research Methods in Education, Research Ethics, and Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies courses.

Now in its third edition, Understanding Education Research is designed to help students learn to read educational research articles carefully, systematically, and critically.

Readers learn how to categorize titles, decode abstracts, find research questions, characterize research arguments, break down methods and procedures, explore references, apply analysis strategies, and interpret findings. This textbook doubles as a quick reference guide that shows students how to easily develop the skills they need to become research literate, and this third edition has been updated to offer simple guidelines for qualitative, quantitative, and statistical approaches; up-to-date information on complex and confusing methodologies; discussions on understanding the role of AI; and insights on how students will use education research going forward.

Understanding Education Research is essential reading for teacher preparation educational research courses.

This essential collection is a transformative guide for academics at all career stages, offering practical strategies and research-driven insights to help them flourish in Higher Education. With a core focus on social justice, diversity, and inclusion, the book empowers readers to navigate the complexities of academia while fostering personal and professional growth.

Divided into three parts, the book begins by exploring academic identity, socio-emotional intelligence, and belonging, encouraging readers to reflect on their values and aspirations. The second part delves into enhancing teaching practice, presenting evidence-based strategies to engage students, enrich learning experiences, and embrace inclusive practices. The final part examines how Higher Education leaders can create supportive, inclusive environments that prioritise wellbeing, challenge systemic barriers, and champion social justice, ensuring long-term success for academics and their communities. Throughout, readers are shown effective ways to refine their teaching practice, develop a strong academic identity, and foster a thriving academic environment.

The Flourishing Academic is an invaluable resource for academics at any stage of their journey, from early career researchers to senior leaders. Packed with tools and guidance from expert voices across different Higher Education environments, it is a must-read for anyone committed to advancing excellence, inclusion, and wellbeing in Higher Education.

Beauty: The Body as Artefact traces the history of physical beauty in Western art and thought from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Bringing together foundational texts and newly translated works accompanied by scholarly commentaries, this volume explores how the human body was understood as both a product of nature and an artistic creation.

Examining the intersections of aesthetics, art theory, medical practices and cosmetics, it reveals how ideals of beauty and beautification shaped conceptions of gender, the body and artistic creation. The book focuses on the early modern period, when the cosmetic transformation of the body became closely associated with artistic imagery and techniques. Drawing on art-historical, philosophical and cultural perspectives, the volume presents key writings by figures from Cicero and Alberti to Behn and Hogarth, highlighting shifting notions of imitation, ornament and naturalness.

Suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in art history, cultural history and gender studies, Beauty: The Body as Artefact offers a framework for understanding physical beauty as a historical and artistic category at the intersection of image, body and knowledge.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has
been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
(CC BY) license

Through a fusion of autoethnography and critical theory, this bold, cutting-edge volume examines how South African universities, instead of fulfilling their post-apartheid promise of democratic transformation, have become sites of bureaucratic control, epistemic erasure, and neoliberal authoritarianism.

Drawing on African critical theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the book interrogates the coloniality of knowledge, the corporate instrumentalisation of higher education, and the role of AI-driven surveillance in policing thought. It critically engages with movements like #FeesMustFall, positing that universities have become complicit in state repression. Amidst this backdrop, the book envisions an alternative - one where the university is reclaimed as a site of insurgent knowledge, radical democracy, and epistemic justice.

Positioned as both a theoretical intervention and a real-world call to action, the book encourages students, scholars, and educators to reclaim higher education as a practice of freedom, resistance, and liberation.

Intellectual shifts in the late 20th century led to profound change in the questions that could be asked about the ancient world; the chapters in this volume are inspired by the way these shifts have affected scholars' attitude towards and use of Athenian oratory in the study of social history.

Readers will encounter some of the most up-to-date directions of enquiry in the social-historical study of the Athenian orators. Case studies from across the corpus of the orators explore themes in gender, status, and space as well as their intersections. The contributors to this volume, primarily early-career researchers representing a range of nationalities and academic positions, combine philological and social-historical methodologies with disciplinarily diverse contemporary theoretical frameworks, including spatial analysis, queer theory, and disability theory.

Gender, Status, and Space in Athenian Oratory and Society is intended for students and scholars of the Athenian orators and of Athenian social history and is designed to be accessible to readers without extensive knowledge of ancient Greek.

This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh examination of Jesus Christ's significance for our contemporary world, seventeen centuries after the Council of Nicaea formulated the Christian Creed.

Bringing together leading evangelical theologians and emerging scholars from across the globe, this comprehensive work explores the enduring relevance of Nicene Christology while addressing pressing questions of our time. From biblical interpretation to cultural engagement, from historical analysis to contemporary challenges, these 15 chapters provide a robust restatement of evangelical Christology. Distinguished contributors examine Christ's identity and significance through multiple lenses-biblical, historical, philosophical, and cultural-while maintaining deep roots in orthodox Christian faith. This volume uniquely bridges classical theological affirmations with modern contextual concerns, offering fresh perspectives on:

• The historical development and contemporary relevance of Nicene Christology
• Christ's role in an age of competing salvific claims
• The intersection of Christology with science, politics, and global Christianity
• Distinctive evangelical approaches to understanding Jesus' person and work

Who is Jesus Christ for Us Today? is essential reading for students, scholars, and pastors seeking to understand and articulate who Jesus Christ is for today's world. This landmark work demonstrates how historic Christian convictions about Christ can meaningfully engage with contemporary questions while remaining faithful to evangelical theological traditions.