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Making Fields: Women in Publishing
Read more: Making Fields: Women in Publishingby Nicola Wilson, Claire Battershill, Sophie Heywood, Marrisa Joseph, Daniela La Penna, Helen Southworth, Alice Staveley and Elizabeth Willson Gordon […]
Interreligious Polemics as a Window into Early Modern Iran
If anyone decided to do a quick search for scholarship on interreligious polemics, especially of the Muslim-Christian kind, he or she will immediately notice a few patterns: Most of the major studies focus on the Classical period (that is, from…
Health Service Provision Challenges in 19th-century Afghanistan and Now
By Namatullah Kadrie The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest of many public health crises that have struck Afghanistan—and that have made the country a site of international intervention by medical experts. Indeed, it was the fifth international cholera epidemic…
Was there a Catholic school architecture?
By Diane M Watters In 2018, Scotland commemorated 100 years of local authority-run Catholic schooling since the 1918 Education Act. Following the act, both the Catholic and Episcopalian churches transferred their own church-run schools, known as ‘voluntary’ schools, into public…
Queering Freud Differently: On the new special issue of Psychoanalysis and History
By Andrew DJ Shield, University of Leiden Queer Freud Today At an all-gay dinner last month, a friend – trained biologist, amateur astrologist, and psychoanalytic dilettante – shifted the dinner conversation to his playful diagnosis of the dinner guests’ stages…
The real effects of offshore petroleum developments on environmental protection in Guyana
By Alicia Elias-Roberts My inspiration for writing the article on Balancing Environmental Protection and Offshore Petroleum Developments in Guyana, which is published in the newly launched Global Energy Law and Sustainability journal, came about because I wanted to write about…
Threat Perception in International Relations: Gender, Race, and Heteronormativity
Studies in World Christianity turns 25: The complete SWC index
The Edinburgh University Press journal Studies in World Christianity recently turned an impressive 25 years old, and to celebrate we have created and hosted a range of activity, including a recent blog post. We’re also excited to let you know that…