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T D Jakes has emerged as one of the most prolific spiritual leaders of our time. In 2001, "Time" magazine featured Jakes on the cover and asked: Is Jakes the next Billy Graham? This work examines his rise to prominence. It frames Jakes' success as a metaphor for changes in the Black Church and American Protestantism more broadly.

Ranging across formal institutions of government such as legislatures, courts, and bureaucracies and intermediary institutions such as labor unions and party systems, this work features contributors who show how these instruments of control give shape to the state, articulate its relationships, and express its legitimacy.

Illuminates the ways in which Jewish girls' adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender, ethnicity, religion, and education. This work looks at a neglected group of fascinating historical figures during a pivotal moment in the development of gender roles, adolescence, and the modern American Jewish community.

Winner of the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award The Midwest of popular imagination is a "Heartland" characterized by traditional cultural values and mass market dispositions. Whether cast positively—as authentic, pastoral, populist, hardworking, and all-American—or negatively—as backward, narrow-minded, unsophisticated, conservative, and out-of-touch—the myth of the Heartland endures. Heartland TV exa...

Shows how two well-established, traditional criminal law defenses - the doctrines of provocation and self-defense - enable certain defendants to more easily justify their acts of violence than others. This work suggests three tentative legal reforms to address problems of bias and undue leniency.

This anthology aims to offer incisive analysis of the plethora of issues raised by advances in reproductive medicine, including abortion, contraception, cryopreservation of gametes and embryos, surrogate motherhood and psychosocial issues of in-vitro fertilisation.

Fresh understandings concerning the Bible have not filtered down beyond specialists in university settings. This volume seeks to meet this need, with chapters describing how archeology, theology, ancient studies, literary studies, feminist studies, and other disciplines understand the Bible.

Brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work spans the interdisciplinary fields of Chicana/o studies and cultural studies. This work provides an overview of the debates, locating Chicana/o cultural criticism at the intersections of these fields.

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Alexander Hamilton has been the focus of debate from his day to ours. On the one hand, Hamilton was the quintessential Founding Father, playing a central role in every key debate and event in the Revolutionary and Early Republic eras. Who was he really and what is his legacy? Was Hamilton a closet monarchist or a sincere republican?

Brings together two often neglected topics in the study of American Jews the roles of women and of Jewish communities outside the Northeast. This book traces the history and contributions of Jewish women in the American West. It contains stories from the memoirs and records of Jewish pioneer women.

Explores the complex aspects of honesty in the legal world. This book includes tales of questionable practices and poor behavior. It takes readers on a tour of the law in their everyday lives, and forces them to rethink how they really feel about honesty and truth.

Full of legendary stories, amusing anecdotes, and the shared triumph and tragedy of the Red Sox and their fans, "Faithful to Fenway" offers a fresh and insightful perspective, offering readers an unforgettable pilgrimage to the Mecca of baseball.

A unique and richly textured look at global television through a cultural lens

Offers an overview of the American Catholic experience from both the "top down" of institutional and intellectual history as well as from the "bottom up" of social, devotional, women's and ethnic histories.

Offers a fascinating history of a once devastating social problem

Asks why the boundaries of anti-discrimination laws rest where they do

A deeply moving book, filled with stories of mothers who have committed the ultimate crime

Since the 1970s, Americans have witnessed a pyrrhic war on crime, with sobering numbers at once chilling and cautionary. Our imprisoned population has increased five-fold, with a commensurate spike in fiscal costs that many now see as unsupportable into the future. As American society confronts a multitude of new challenges ranging from terrorism to the disappearance of middle-class jobs to global warming, the war on crime may be up for recons...

Hitchens, author of the "New York Times"-bestselling "God Is Not Great, " is one of the most controversial and prolific writers of his generation. This volume brings together Hitchens' most incisive reflections on the war on terror, the war in Iraq, and the state of the contemporary Left.