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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...

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Today, Muslims are the second largest religious group in much of Europe and Northern America. The essays in this collection look both at the impact of the growing Muslim Population on Western Societies, and how Muslims are adapting to life in the west. Part I looks at the Muslim diaspora in Europe, comprising essays on Britain, France, Germany,...