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"The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661 AD) is familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which treat it as a factual account. The story also informs the competing perspectives of Sunni and Shri Islam, which read into it the legitimacy of their claims. Yet while descriptive and varied, these approaches have long excluded a third reading, which views the conflict over the succession to the Prophet as a parable. From this vantage point, the motives, sayings, and actions of the protagonists reveal profound links to previous texts, not to mention a surprising irony regarding political and religious issues." "In a controversial break from previous historiography, Tayeb El-Hibri privileges the literary and artistic triumphs of the medieval Islamic chronicles and maps the origins of Islamic political and religious orthodoxy. Considering the patterns and themes of these unified narratives, including the problem of measuring personal qualification according to religious merit, nobility, and skills in government, El-Hibri offers an insightful critique of both carly and contemporary Islam and the concerns of legitimacy shadowing verious rulers. In building an argument for reading the texts as parabolic commentary, he also highlights the Islamic reinterpretation of biblical traditions, both by Quraanic exegesis and historical composition."--Jacket

"Daoist traditions introduced from China once flowed powerfully through the Japanese religious landscape, forever altering its topography and ecology. Daoism's presence in Japan still may be discerned in its abiding influence on astrology, divination, festivals, literature, politics, and popular culture, not to mention Buddhism and Shintō, yet few English-language studies of Daoism's influence on Japanese religious culture have been published. Daoism in Japan provides an exploration of the particular pathways by which Daoist traditions entered Japan from continental East Asia. After addressing the basic issues in both Daoism Studies and the study of Japanese religions, including the problems of defining 'Daoism' and 'Japanese', the book looks at the influence of Daoism on ancient, medieval and modern Japan in turn. To do so, the volume is arranged both chronologically and topically, according to the following three broad divisions: "Arrivals" (c. 5th-8th centuries CE), "Assimilations" (794-1868), and "Apparitions" ( 1600s-present). The book demonstrates how Chinese influence on Japanese religious culture ironically proved to be crucial in establishing traditions that usually are seen as authentically, even quintessentially, Japanese. Touching on multiple facets of Japanese cultural history and religious traditions, this book is a fascinating contribution for students and scholars of Japanese Culture, History and Religions, as well as Daoism Studies"--

1. The 1983 boycott movement : development, themes and tactics -- 2. "The sensitivity of a steamroller"? The state at cross-purposes -- 3. A new "war of religion" : ideological battle lines in 1987 -- 4. The battle in the streets, stairwells and courtrooms.

Preface / Ruth Wodak -- Introduction: Migration and crisis identity / Andreas Musolff and Lorella Viola -- 1. A comparative analysis of the keyword multicultural(ism) in French, British, German and Italian migration discourse / Melani Schröter, Marie Veniard, Charlotte Taylor and Andreas Blätte -- 2. Polentone vs terrone: A discourse-historical analysis of media representation of Italian internal migration / Lorella Viola -- 3. Featuring immigrants and citizens: A comparison between Spanish and English primary legislation and administration information texts (2007-2011) / Purificación Sánchez, Pilar Aguado and Pascual Pérez-Paredes -- 4. A humanitarian disaster or invasion of Europe? 2015 migrant crisis in the British press / Zeynep Cihan Koca-Helvaci -- 5. Aspects of threat construction in the Polish anti-immigration discourse / Piotr Cap -- 6. Gender, metaphor and migration in media representations: Discursive manipulations of the Other / Liudmila Arcimaviciene -- 7. Practical reasoning and metaphor in TV discussions on immigration in Greece: Exchanges and changes / Eleni Butulussi -- 8. The Great Wall of Europe: Verbal and multimodal potrayals of Europe's migrant crisis in Serbian media discourse / Nadežda Silaški and Tatjana Đurović -- 9. Representations of the 2015/2016 'migrant crisis' on the online portals of Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters / Ljiljana Šarić and Tatjana R. Felberg -- 10. Representation of unaccompanied migrant children from Central America in the United States: Media vs. migrant perspectives / Theresa Catalano and Jessica Mitchell-McCollough -- 11. Displaced Ukrainians: Russo-Ukrainian discussions of victims from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine / Ludmilla A'Beckett -- 12. Preaching from a distant pulpit: The European migrant crisis seen through a New York Times editorial and reader comments / Michael S. Boyd -- 13. Discourses of immigration and integration in German newspaper comments / Janet M. Fuller -- 14. 'They have lived in our street for six years now and still don't speak a work [!] of English': Scenarios of alleged linguistic underperformance as part of anti-immigrant discourses / Andreas Musolff -- Notes on contributors -- Indexk