"After a century-long hiatus, honor is back. Academics, pundits, and everyday citizens alike are rediscovering the importance of this ancient and powerful human motive. This volume brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor's meaning and its compat…
This book brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor's meaning and its compatibility with liberalism, democracy, and modernity. Contributors examine honor past to present, from masculine and feminine perspectives, and in North American, European, a…
This project examines the role of honor as a moral economy in the factional competition that enables and constrains Iran's foreign policy preference formation. Honor is treated as a currency and resource by which faction leaders recruit new members, challenge other faction leade…
Christianity originated in what has often been described as an honor-shame culture. In Mediterranean antiquity, society, rather than the individual, defined both worthy behavior and a person's worth. While who and what was honored varied according to location and community, the …
The purpose of this dissertation is to identify the semantics of honor and shame in the Hebrew Bible and to demonstrate how these social values intersect with Israel's fundamental social organizing principle, covenant. Though many scholars have claimed that honor and shame are p…
Available social psychological studies of honor cultures have mostly focused on emotional, cognitive, and behavioral consequences of perceiving an honor insult. The aim of this study was to examine possible ways of re-instilling a sense of honor and thus avoiding the negative em…
The Bible's attitudes toward Moabites are more varied than those expressed toward any other group. By studying biblical portrayals of Moab, this study aims to describe 1) how biblical authors imagine encounters with foreignness, 2) how texts about foreigners construct in-group i…
The literature addressing suicidal behaviour in young South Asian women is reviewed. Most published literature cites 'culture conflict' as a causal mechanism for the high rates of suicidal behaviour found in this group. Whilst this concept is undoubtedly of relevance, it is ill …
Honor killings are perpetrated for a wide range of offenses in several parts of the world, including marital infidelity, pre-marital sex, flirting, and divorce. This study investigated the opinions of 18 to 22 Muslim American women, born in the United States, aged 25 to 40, of S…
This article-based dissertation examines the impact of male migration and the feminization of agriculture upon the status of women in Rmāyniyya, a village of Northwest Tunisia (delegation of Nefza). It attempts to study the changes that have occurred during the last decades in t…