Key Words in Religion, Media and Culture

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'From The Passion of the Christ to the presumed 'clash of civilizations', religion's role in culture is increasingly contested and mediated. Key Words in Religion,...

Published June 26th 2008 by Routledge.

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Emigrant Players

Sport and the Irish Diaspora

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Ireland and its inhabitants have often been described as being ‘sports mad’. As a relatively small geographical entity, Ireland, north and south, has produced a...

Published June 25th 2008 by Routledge.

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Multicultural Horizons

Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation

By Anne-Marie Fortier

The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the ‘New Britain’ of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

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Matters of Sport

Essays in Honour of Eric Dunning

Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Ivan Waddington

Matters of Sport is a tribute to Eric Dunning, the leading sports sociologist in the English-speaking world. This book addresses Dunning's contributions to the sociological and historical...

Published December 21st 2007 by Routledge.

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Sound Moves

iPod Culture and Urban Experience

By Michael Bull

This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social, mediated through mobile technologies of communication....

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

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Fringe Nations in World Soccer

Edited by Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Martha Saavedra, Sabyasachi MallickJ A. ManganBoria Majumdar

Soccer is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, gaining huge media coverage and reaching all levels of society in countries all around...

Published November 14th 2007 by Routledge.

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Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences

Edited by Peter Weingart, Bernd Huppauf

What is a popular image of science and where does it come from? Little is known about the formation of science images and their transformation...

Published October 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Netherlands

Globalization and National Identity

By Frank J. Lechner

The Netherlands is the first concise, authored introduction available on the topic. The Netherlands has been a key entrepot in the world capitalist system for centuries,...

Published September 19th 2007 by Routledge.

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Fit for Consumption

Sociology and the Business of Fitness

By Jennifer Smith Maguire

This is the first text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the current fitness culture.

Fitness today is not simply about health clubs and...

Published September 11th 2007 by Routledge.

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Tiny Revolutions in Russia

Twentieth Century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes and Jokes

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This book presents a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the twentieth century to provide an unusual perspective on Soviet and...

Published May 14th 2007 by Routledge.

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