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Prophetic Charisma

Oakes, Len

In this work, Len Oakes - a former member of a religious movement, or so-called cult - explores the phenomenon of cult leaders. He examines the psychology of charisma and proposes his own theory of the five-stage life cycle of the two types of prophets: the messianic and charismatic.

Conspiracy of Interests

Hauptman, Laurence M

The period between the American Revolution and the middle nineteenth century dramatically changed New York State and the Iroquois.Upstate metropolises - Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo – were founded and soon witnessed a phenomenal growth, making New York State one of the fastest-growi...

Interpreters of Occupation

Campbell, Madeline Otis

During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror. Deployed by the military as linguistic as well as cultural interpreters--translating the "human terrain" of Iraq--members of this network urgently...

Tel Aviv

Azaryahu, Maoz

Founded in 1909 as a "garden suburb" of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewel in the crown of Hebrew revival. Over time the city has transformed into a lively metropolis, renowned for its architecture and culture, op...

Women, Art, and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora

Ebrahimi, Mehraneh

Does the study of aesthetics have tangible effects in the real world? Does examining the work of diaspora writers and artists change our view of "the Other"? In this thoughtful book, Ebrahimi argues that an education in the humanities is as essential as one in politics and ethics, critical...

Art of Seeing Things

A collection of essays by noted naturalist John Burroughs in which he contemplates a wide array of topics including farming, religion, and conservation. A departure from previous John Burroughs anthologies, this volume celebrates the surprising range of his writing to include religion, philosophy, c...

Mysticism & Social Transformation

Ruffing, Janet K;Egan, Robert J

Explores the relationship between the mystical and the political dimensions of religious existence, beginning with the thirteenth-century Franciscon movement and ending with a feminist opproach to the norralives of African Americons who serve in the ministry. From the thirteenth-century Franciscan m...

Daniel

Buber, Martin

Better than any other single work, Daniel enables us to understand the significance of the transition Buber made from his early mysticism to the philosophy of dialogue. The book is written in the form of five dialogues, in each of which Daniel and his friends explore a crucial philosophical problem-...

Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington

Levenson, Leah / Natterstad, Jerry H

Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian

Ben-Dror, Avishai

In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the city to occupy Harar, a prominent Muslim hub in the Horn of Africa. In doing so, they turned this sovereign emirate into an Egyptian colony that became a f...

Medieval Studies

Powell, James M

In addition to sections devoted to Latin paleography, diplomatics, computer-assisted research, numismatics, archaeology, problems in chronology, and prospography, this text describes state-of-the-art research methodology and critical approaches to English literature, Latin philosophies, law, science...

Race Across America

Kastner, Charles B

On April 23, 1929, the second annual Transcontinental Foot Race across America, known as the Bunion Derby, was in its twenty-fifth day. Eddie "the Sheik" Gardner, an African American runner from Seattle, was leading the race across the Free Bridge over the Mississippi River. Along with the...