Oxford University Press

In the long and tortured history of American ideas about race, religion has played a prominent role. In this book, Curtis Evans traces ideas about African American religion from the antebellum period to the middle of the twentieth century. Central to the story, he argues, is the notion--popular throughout this period--that blacks were somehow...

Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World examines how religious and        historical memory was fashioned, distorted, preserved, or erased in ancient        societies - and what wide-ranging effects these actions had on the historical        process. The volume is interested in how memory intersects with and shapes...

Ruth Glasner presents an illuminating reappraisal of Averroes' physics. Glasner is        the first scholar to base her interpretation on the full range of Averroes'        writings, including texts that are extant only in Hebrew manuscripts and have not        been hitherto studied. She reveals that Averroes changed his interpretation of...

A study of the changing representations of debate, or agon, across and within classical Greek epic, historiography, and tragedy. Elton T. E. Barker shows the importance of debate to these key genres and also the role of literature in the construction of a citizen body through the exploration, reproduction and management of dissent from authority....

Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations and a wide variety of puzzles        and brainteasers, Taking Sudoku Seriously uses this popular craze as the starting        point for a fun-filled introduction to higher mathematics.How many Sudoku solution        squares are there? What shapes other than three-by-three blocks can serve...

The academic study of death rose to prominence during the 1960s. Courses on some aspect of death and dying can now be found at most institutions of higher learning. These courses tend to stress the psycho-social aspects of grief and bereavement, however, ignoring the religious elements inherent to the subject. This collection is the first to...