Fordham University Press: 585 books
Witnessing Witnessing
On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Witnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust survivors. Questioning the notion that traumatic experience is intrinsically unspeakable and that the Holocaust thus lies in a quasi-sacred realm beyond history, the book asks whether much current theory...
Common Goods
Economy, Ecology, and Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In the face of globalized ecological and economic crises, how do religion, the postsecular, and political theology reconfigure political theory and practice? As the planet warms and the chasm widens between the 1 percent and the global 99, what thinking may yet energize new alliances between religious...
Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul
A Summer on the Lower East Side
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In these pages Jonathan Boyarin invites us to share the intimate life of the Stanton Street Shul, one of the last remaining Jewish congregations on New York’s historic Lower East Side. This narrow building, wedged into a lot designed for an old-law tenement, is full of clamorous voices—the generations...
Victor Herbert
A Theatrical Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Victor Herbert is one of the giants of American culture. As a musician, conductor, and, above all, composer, he touched every corner of American musical life at the turn of the century, writing scores of songs, marches, concerti, and other works. But his most enduring legacy is on a different kind...
by Aaron Goodfellow
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
While the topic of gay marriage and families continues to be popular in the media, few scholarly works focus on gay men with children. Based on ten years of fieldwork among gay families living in the rural, suburban, and urban area of the eastern United States, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the...
Miracle on High Street
The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Just outside downtown Newark, New Jersey, sits an abbey and school. For more than 150 years Benedictine monks have lived, worked, and prayed on High Street, a once-grand thoroughfare that became Newark’s Skid Row and a focal point of the 1967 riots.
St. Benedict’s today has become a model...
Undocumented and in College
Students and Institutions in a Climate of National Hostility
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The current daily experiences of undocumented students as they navigate the processes of entering and then thriving in Jesuit colleges are explored alongside an investigation of the knowledge and attitudes among staff and faculty about undocumented students in their midst, and the institutional response...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The category of the “West” has played a particularly significant role in the modern Eastern Orthodox imagination. It has functioned as an absolute marker of difference from what is considered to be the essence of Orthodoxy and, thus, ironically has become a constitutive aspect of the modern Orthodox...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This volume offers original studies on the subject of medieval education, not only in the formal academic
sense typical of schools and universities but also in a broader cultural sense that includes law, liturgy, and the new religious orders of the high Middle Ages. Its essays explore the transmission...
The House of Early Sorrows
A Memoir in Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
DeSalvo is a noted American writer, editor, and professor at Hunter College. Much of her work focuses on Italian-American culture, though she is also a renowned Virginia Woolf scholar.
by David Prior
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship. Historians have studied the period’s racial views, political maneuverings, divisions between labor and capital, debates about woman suffrage, and of course its struggle between...
Educational Reconstruction
African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilians, and their white allies created, developed, and sustained a system of African American schools following the Civil War.
Hilary Green...
by Anson Rabinbach
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step—from Jacques de Vaucanson and his Digesting Duck, through Karl Marx’s Capital, Hermann von Helmholtz’s social thermodynamics,...
Strategies for Media Reform
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Media reform plays an increasingly important role in the struggle for social justice. As battles are fought over the future of investigative journalism, media ownership, spectrum management, speech rights, broadband access, network neutrality, the surveillance apparatus, and digital literacy, what...