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The Virgin Mary has long been the object of both devotional and scholarly interest, and recent years have seen a proliferation of studies on Hindu goddess-worship traditions. Despite the parallels between the two, however, no one has yet undertaken a book-length comparison of these traditions. In     Divine Mother, Blessed Mother, Francis Clooney...

Moss begins by tracing the theme of imitating Jesus through suffering in the literature of the Jesus movement and early church and its application in martyrdom literature. She demonstrates the importance of imitating the sufferings of Christ as a practice and ethos in the Jesus movement. She then proceeds to the interpretations of the martyr's...

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state....

An accomplished playwright and co-founder of the Provincetown Players, Susan Glaspell was an artist of formidable but ill-acknowledged talent. In this revolutionary study, Makowsky seeks to combat the forces of literary obscurity that have nullified the writer's reputation, and to reinstate Glaspell in the canon. Makowsky's inquiry into the...

Foundations and Global PerspectivesThe concepts of psychological literacy and the psychologically literate citizen        promise to invigorate a new global approach to psychology education. The authors of        this volume offer a rich variety of international perspectives in discussing        psychological literacy, i.e. the attributes students...