Oxford University Press

As public funding for social services has been slashed, there has arisen an unprecedented interest in the potential (and dangers) of faith-based institutions as agents of social change. Now, as President Bush begins his second term, he has placed government funding of faith-based programs at the top of his domestic agenda. Providing a far more...

Ovid's     Metamorphoses have been seen to mark a culmination of the classical epic tradition and a revolutionary transferral of narrative interest from warfare to love and fantasy. This introduction considers how Ovid defined and shaped his narrative, its cultural context, and its vivid depictions of the cruelty of jealous gods, the pathos of...

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A regiment of women warriors strides across the battlefield of German culture - on the stage, in the opera house, on the page, in paintings and prints. This book examines representations of the transgressive figure of the woman warrior from Cranach's painting of Judith, to Schiller's Joan of Arc, Wagner's Bruennhilde, and Fritz Lang's Bruenhild....

Conservative evangelicalism has transformed American politics, disseminating a        sometimes fearful message not just through conventional channels, but through        subcultures and alternate modes of communication. Within this world is a "e;Religion        of Fear,"e; a critical impulse that dramatizes cultural and political conflicts...