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"Methamphetamine: A Love Story presents an insider's view into the lived experience of immersion in the world of methamphetamine. In-depth interviews were conducted with 33 adults formerly immersed in using, dealing, and manufacturing. Detailed accounts bring insight into the intoxicating aspects of the lifestyle including sex, money, power, and the ability to create methamphetamine. Social networks and environment play an important role in shaping and influencing drug-related decisions. The transformation of the lifestyle from one that is intoxicating to one that becomes risky and ultimately dark explains the unsustainability and the challenges exiting the life"--Provided by publisher.

Going native with evil / Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard -- Lost in the park: learning to navigate the unpredictability of fieldwork / Elizabeth Bonomo and Scott Jacques -- Unearthing aggressive advocacy: challenges and strategies in social service ethnography / Curtis Smith and Leon Anderson -- Going into the gray: conducting fieldwork on corporate misconduct / Eugene Soltes -- Hide-and-seek: challenges in the ethnography of street drug users / Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page -- Into the epistemic void: using rapid assessment to investigate the opioid crisis / Jason N. Fessel, Sarah G. Mars, Philippe Bourgois, and Daniel Ciccarone -- Conducting international reflexive ethnography: theoretical and methodological struggles / Avelardo Valdez, Alice Cepeda, and Charles Kaplan -- Hidden: accessing narratives of parental drug dealing and misuse / Ana Lilia Campos-Manzo -- Navigating stigma: researching opioid and injection drug use among young immigrants from the former Soviet Union in New York City / Honoria Guarino and Anastasia Teper -- Dangerous liaisons: reflections on a serial ethnography / Robert Gay -- The emotional labor of fieldwork with people who use methamphetamine / Heith Copes -- Ethnography of injustice: death at a county jail / Joshua Price

The commentary of Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzhak, b. Troyes 1040, d. 1105), part of the Jewish core curriculum, is reprinted here together with the Hebrew biblical text. This study takes selected portions to investigate citations of the Hebrew bible and the Masorah in Rashi's commentary, thus providing an introduction to medieval Jewish biblical interpretation and the Ashkenazi tradition of reading the Hebrew bible.

The commentary of Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzhak, b. Troyes 1040, d. 1105), part of the Jewish core curriculum, is reprinted here together with the Hebrew biblical text. This study takes selected portions to investigate citations of the Hebrew bible and the Masorah in Rashi's commentary, thus providing an introduction to medieval Jewish biblical interpretation and the Ashkenazi tradition of reading the Hebrew bible.

Introduction : On Otherism and Othering / Diana Dimitrova -- The Religion of Coolitude / Rashi Rohatgi -- Religion and "Otherness" in a New World : The Radhasoami Tradition in Transnational Space / Diana Dimitrova -- "Othering" through Language : The Construction of Two Languages and Communal Identities in British India / Rahman Tariq -- The Idea of a Nation : H.R. Bacchan's Palimpsestian House of Wine / Anne Castaing -- The Politics of "Otherness" : The Hindi Plays of Urdu-Hindi Author Upendranath Ashk (1910-1996) / Diana Dimitrova -- Imagining the Powerful "Other" : Representations of Razia Sultan / Urvi Mukhopadhyay -- Queer Bollywood : Same-Sex Sexuality, Gender Transgression and "Otherness" in Indian Popular Cinema of the 1990s / Thomas Waugh -- Towards an Inclusive, Fluid Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Commercial Indian Cinema(s) / Sunny Singh

In 'Reading the Rabbis' Eva De Visscher examines the Hebrew scholarship of Englishman Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-c.1194). Chiefly known as the loyal secretary and hagiographer of Archbishop Thomas Becket and enemy of Henry II, he appears here as an outstanding Hebraist whose linguistic proficiency and engagement with Rabbinic sources, including contemporary teachers, were unique for a northern-European Christian of his time. Two commentaries on the Psalms by Herbert form the focus of scrutiny. In demonstrating influence from Jewish and Christian texts such as Rashi, Hebrew-French glossaries, Hebrew-Latin Psalters, and Victorine scholarship, De Visscher situates Herbert within the context of an increased interest in the revision of Jerome's Latin Bible and literal exegesis, and a heightened Christian awareness of Jewish "other-ness"

The attitude of Jews living in the medieval Christian world to Jews who converted to Christianity or to Christians seeking to join the Jewish faith reflects the central traits that make up Jewish self-identification. The Jews saw themselves as a unique group chosen by God, who expected them to play a specific and unique role in the world.

This study researches fully for the first time the various aspects of the way European Jews regarded members of their own fold in the context of lapses into another religion. It attempts to understand whether they regarded the issue of conversion with self-confidence or with suspicion, and whether their attitude was based on a clear theological position, or on issues of socialisation.

The book will primarily interest students and lecturers of Jewish/Christian relations, the Middle Ages, Jews in the Medieval period, and inter-religious research.

The contentious origins of Medicare and Medicaid / Julian E. Zelizer -- Civil rights and Medicare : historical convergence and continuing legacy / David Barton Smith -- The early days of Medicaid and Medicare : a personal reflection / Rashi Fein -- The road not taken : what happened to Medicare for all? / Jonathan Oberlander and Theodore Marmor -- The transformation of Medicaid from poor law legacy to middle-class entitlement? / Jill Quadango -- How the courts created the Medicaid entitlement / Sara Rosenbaum -- Medicare and the social transformations of American elders / Mark Schlesinger -- The third rail of politics? : Medicare's untouchability / Mark Peterson -- Medicare innovations in the war over the key to the U.S. treasury / Uwe E. Reinhardt -- Medicaid rising : the perils and potential of federalism / Frank Thompson -- Independence and freedom : public opinion and the politics of Medicare and Medicaid / Andrea Louise Campbell -- The era of big government : why it never ended / Keith Wailoo -- The missing piece : Medicaid, Medicare, and long-term care / Judith Feder -- From servant to master? : Medicare, cost control, and the future of American health care / Jacob Hacker -- Medicare in American political history : the rise and fall of social insurance / James Morone and Elizabeth Fauquert -- Built to last? : policy retrenchment and regret in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act / Paul Starr

Introduction: the rise of the study of digital religion /Heidi A. Campbell --Ritual /Christopher Helland --Identity /Mia Lövheim --Community /Heidi A. Campbell --Authority /Pauline Hope Cheong --Authenticity /Kerstin Radde-Antweilier --Religion /Gregory Price Grieve --Hindu worship online and offline /Heinz Scheifinger --Virtual Buddhism: Buddhist ritual in second life /Louise Connelly --Playing Muslim hero: construction of identity in video games /Vit Sisler --Digital storytelling and collective religious identity in a moderate to progressive youth group /Lynn Schoefield Clark and Jill Dierberg --Charting frontiers of online religious communities: the case of Chabad Jews /Oren Golan --Considering religious community through online churches /Tim Hutchings --The kosher cell phone in ultra-Orthodox society: a technological ghetto within the global village? /Tsuriel Rashi --Formation of a religious Technorati: negotiations of authority among Australian emerging church blogs /Paul Emerson Teusner --Alt-Muslim: Muslims and modernity's discontents /Nabil Echchaibi --You are what you install: religious authenticity and identity in mobile apps /Rachel Wagner --Japanese new religions online: Hikari no Wa and "net religion" /Erica Baffelli --"'Go online!' said my guardian angel": the Internet as a platform for religious negotiation /Nadja Miczek --Theoretical frameworks for approaching religion and new media /Knut Lundby --Ethical issues in the study of religion and new media /Mark D. Johns --Theology and the new media /Stephen Garner --Concluding thoughts: imagining the religious in and through the digital /Stewart M. Hoover.

Written at different times and for different audiences - some for scholars of rabbinic literature, some for laymen or for scholars not necessarily Jewish - the essays gathered together in this volume nevertheless have an inner coherence. They reflect the author's lifetime interest in the history of halakhah - not as intellectual history per se, but rather a concern to identify measurable deflection in the unfolding of halakhic ideas that could point to an undetected force at work. What was it that stimulated change, and why? What happened when strong forces impinged upon halakhic observance, and both the scholarly elite and the community as a whole had to grapple with upholding observance while adapting to a new set of circumstances? Haym Soloveitchik's elegant presentation shows skilfully that the line between adaptation and deviance is a fine one, and that where a society draws that line is revelatory of both its values and its self-perception. Many of the articles presented here are well known in the field but have been updated for this publication (the major essay on pawnbroking has been expanded to half again its original size); some have been previously published only in Hebrew, and two are completely new. An Introduction highlights the key themes of the collection and explains the underlying methodology. Having these essays in a single volume will enable scholars and students to consult all the material on each theme together, while also tracing the development of ideas. The opening section of the volume is a brief description and characterization of the dramatis personae who figure in all these essays: Rashi and the Tosafists. It covers the halakhic commentaries and their authors; the creativity of Ashkenaz; and the halakhic isolation of the Ashkenazic community. The second section focuses on usury and money-lending, including the practice of pawn-broking, while the third section deals with the ban on Gentile wine and how that connected to the development of money-lending. The final section presents general conclusions in the form of four studies of the communal self-image of Ashkenaz and its attitude to deviation and change.