What is a popular image of science and where does it come from? Little is known about the formation of science images and their transformation into popular images of science. In this anthology, contributions from two areas of expertise: image theory and history and the sociology…
What is a popular image of science and where does it come from? Little is known about the formation of science images and their transformation into popular images of science. In this anthology, contributions from two areas of expertise: image theory and history and the sociology…
The foundations of European civilization as we know it today were laid in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. "The faces of the other: Religious rivalry and ethnic encounters" in the Later Roman World traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or e…
The foundations of European civilization as we know it today were laid in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. "The faces of the other: Religious rivalry and ethnic encounters" in the Later Roman World traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or e…
Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and flawed. Why are we so afraid of it? Time and again, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher levels of cunnin…
This study examines the statements about strangers, foreign peoples, and gods in Deuteronomy. It shows that representations of the stranger were closely tied to differently nuanced constructions of the authors' own Israelite identities during different eras. The approach combine…
"The Arc of a Bad Idea presents a penetrating, provocative, and promising and analysis of--and alternative to--the hegemonic racial worldview. How race came about, how it evolved into a seemingly natural aspect of human identity, and how racialization, as a habair of the mind, c…
