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Stick ‘em Up: How a South African Horror Film Prophesied Apartheid’s Road to Nowhere

By Calum Waddell Last year’s superior possession shocker Hereditary (from director Ari Aster) and the recent release of Jordan Peele’s Us has resulted in a new term, ‘elevated horror’, being introduced into the critical lexicon, much to the chagrin of…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • April 29, 2019

Gender and Family in the History of Christian Missions

The April 2015 issue of Studies in World Christianity is largely based on a handful of the many papers presented at the 24th meeting of the Yale–Edinburgh Group on the history of missions and world Christianity, held at New College,…

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