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This open access book offers an overview of the relations between comics and religion from the perspective of cultural sociology. How do comics function in religions and how does religion appear in comics? And how do graphic narratives inform us about contemporary society and the changing role of religion? Contributing scholars use international examples to explore the diversity of religions, spirituality, and dispersed notions of the sacred, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Indian, and Japanese religions. In addition, the rituals, ethics, and worldviews that surface in the comics milieu are discussed. With the growing popularity and influence of comics and graphic novels in contemporary culture, this book provides a valuable addition to the discussion of the medium, focusing on religious and sociological aspects. A rich resource for both students and scholars in popular culture, media studies, and religion. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Faculty for Humanities and Education and the University Library at the University of Agder, Norway.

How did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such as probate inventories? These questions seem straightforward, yet few endeavours are more challenging than reconstructing a sixteenth-century domestic reality from written sources. This book takes full advantage of the inventory as a source and convincingly frames household objects in their original context of use. Meticulously connecting objects, people and domestic spaces, the book introduces the reader to the rich material world of Bruges citizens in the Renaissance, their sensory engagement, their religious practice, the daily activities of men and women, and other social factors. By weaving insights from material culture studies with urban history, At Home in Renaissance Bruges offers an appealing and holistic mixture of in-depth socio-economic, cultural and material analysis. In its approach the book goes beyond heavy-handed theories and stereotypes about the exquisite taste of aristocratic elites, focusing instead on the domestic materiality of Bruges' middling groups. Evocatively illustrated with contemporary paintings and images of furniture and textiles from Bruges and beyond, this monograph shows a nuanced picture of domestic materiality in a remarkable European city.

Introduction: Beyond the 'Religious Turn'? Past, Present and Future Perspectives in Gender History / Joanna de Groot, Sue Morgan -- Crossing Cultures and Transnational Exchanges. Witches, Female Priests and Sacred Manoeuvres: (De)Stabilising Gender and Sexuality in a Cuban Religion of African Origin / Carolyn E Watson -- Liberal Religion and the 'Woman Question' between East and West: Perspectives from a Nineteenth-Century Bengali Women's Journal / Clare Midgley -- Indeterminacy in Meaning: Religious Syncretism and Dynastic Historiography in the / Yuet Keung Lo -- 'All of Their Customs are Daughters of Their Religion': Baptists in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1920s-present / Kathleen M McIntyre -- Creating the 'Problem Hindu': Sati, Thuggee and Female Infanticide in India, 1800-60 / Daniel J R Grey -- Religion, Embodiment and Subjectivity. Engendering Purity and Impurity in Assyriological Studies: A Historiographical Overview / Erica Couto-Ferreira, Agnès Garcia-Ventura -- Lamentation Motifs in Medieval Hagiography / Anne E Bailey -- Architecture of Desire: Mediating the Female Gaze in the Medieval English Anchorhold / Michelle M Sauer -- The Alluring Beauty of a Leonardesque Ideal: Masculinity and Spirituality in Renaissance Milan / Maya Corry -- 'Deaf to the Word': Gender, Deafness and Protestantism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland / Esme Cleall -- Religion, Gender and Sexuality. The Sexual Shame of the Chaste: 'Abortion Miracles' in Early Medieval Saints' Lives / Zubin Mistry -- 'Give Me Chastity': Masculinity and Attitudes to Chastity and Celibacy in the Middle Ages / Pat Cullum -- Common Soldiers, Same-Sex Love and Religion in the Early Eighteenth-Century British Army / Susan Gane -- 'Dark Ecstasies': Sex, Mysticism and Psychology in Early Twentieth-Century England / Joy Dixon -- Made Flesh? Gender and Doctrine in Religious Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain / Mary Vincent -- Gender, Religion and Political Activity. Conversion Trouble: The Alawis of Hadhramawt, Empire, Gender and the Problem of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century South India / Wilson Chacko Jacob -- '': Exploring the History of a Slogan in Greece, 1880-1930 / Effi Gazi -- The More Things Change: Debating Gender and Religion in India's Hindu Laws, 1920-2006 / Rina Verma Williams.

Political Science - De serie 'Werkdocumenten' omvat stukken die in het kader van de werkzaamheden van de WRR tot stand zijn gekomen en die op aanvraag door de raad beschikbaar worden gesteld. De verantwoordelijkheid voor de inhoud en de ingenomen standpunten berust bij de auteurs.

From Isolation towards Integration was originally published in Dutch as Volume 41 (1963) in the series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.

Een Engelstalige uitgave van Van isolatie naar integratie is verschenen als Deel 80 (1977, ISBN 9789024719624) in de reeks Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.

'Rainbow families' – same-sex couples with or without children – can face many obstacles while exercising their free movement rights.