Books published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This groundbreaking book in comparative theology analyzes the contributions of the Mother to the Integral Yoga that she and Sri Aurobindo co-created. The book reveals important ways that she both fulfilled and changed his initial vision that are based on her experiences of what they called the "Supermind."

This book argues that in addition to seismic shifts in social justice, Black Twitter's activism fueled a representation revolution in television. Sherri Williams explores how Black social TV -- a subset of Black Twitter -- successfully got shows blocked from airing, taken off the air, and even revived as a result of its digital activism.

This book explores how LAPD has sought to regulate officer conduct in the face of repeated controversies over 60 years. It provides important insights into LAPD's successes and failures, and makes recommendations for ways in which improvement in policing transparency and accountability can be made permanent.

This book advances knowledge about Guatemala's democracy by embedding the country in recent conceptual and theoretical work in comparative politics and seeks to shed light upon the stubborn realities and challenges afflicting Guatemalan democracy today.

This book is a historically grounded critical exploration of how the skin whitening industry has become a contemporary site that facilitates commodification of unregulated whiteness on a global scale.

This book explores how Moral Injury, the collective manifestation of shame and guilt resulting from betrayal and transgression, experienced by veterans returning from war deeply affects one's ability to recover from PTSD and find meaningfulness in the world.

This book explores Hollywood film within the context of America's late-seventies "malaise." The author demonstrates how Hollywood films reflect cultural anxieties surrounding energy, fiscal austerity, the "broken" American family, and decreasing visibility of people of color in popular culture.

Violence Against Women: International Legal Standards and Trends examines the successes and failures of the international legal framework in addressing gender-based violence.

This book provides a new reading of the famous Egyptian Islamist Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) beyond the traditional paradigm of Islamic fundamentalism. Dragos Stoica opens a fresh analytical and comparative path by approaching Sayyid Qutb's work as the first anti-modern political theology developed in the modern Muslim space.

This book explores the challenges Japan has been facing as a post-industrialized society that is characterized by a declining population rate, an aging population, and an increased reliance on imports, and seeks to learn lessons on sustainability from Japan's experiences.

This book offers portraits of psychoanalysis applied to contemporary theory and practice in the education of young children (ages 0-8) as well as in the training of educators and mental health professionals who work with young children. It provides a deeper understanding of children's emotional needs and how to meet these needs.

This book provides a snapshot and assessment of the state of comparison in Biblical Studies and has significant implications for the future of the field. These ten studies illustrate just how expansive and sound comparative studies can be in both method and materials compared.

This book explores and reorients our approach to animal thinking through the intersection between literary fiction and continental philosophy, and seeks to understand animality as neither entity nor essence, but as a new "impossibility."

This book explores the lives of prominent and lesser known artists from a dozen different Latin American countries, and seeks to understand their contributions and their complex lives, celebrating their creativity and impact on Latin American art.

This volume describes Dungeons & Dragons as a generative and creative space by exploring the tabletop role-playing game's intersections with the academic disciplines of Theology and Religious Studies. Readers might not gain advantage on all religion checks, but they will recognize the deeply formative potential of the game.

This book explores the profound and enduring impact of The Office, and delves beyond its humor to uncover deeper philosophical, religious, and theological insights. It will be a compelling read for academics interested in the intersections of religion, theology, and popular culture.

The Function of Narrative Comments in the Gospel of John is a comprehensive study of a major feature of the Fourth Gospel. It provides a clear and accessible overview of scholarship in this field, as well as providing fresh insights from contemporary literary and linguistic theories.

Theology, Religion and The Witcher: Gods and Golden Dragons explores the power of a popular culture phenomenon like The Witcher to illuminate and question real-world theology, religion and spirituality.

Analyzing the spirituality in a hit television series, this scholarly volume explores topics ranging from spiritualism to secularism, Mormonism to mythology, rock & roll to Dungeons & Dragons. The book demonstrates that popular culture can serve as an effective lens through which to reflect on the soul of humanity.

Theology and the Blues showcases theological themes inherent within the organic and expressive genre of the blues. The blues offers safe space to explore the raw material of our fallen condition, urging our voices to join the universal, primal cry for new creation.

What happens to the racial identity of those who follow Jesus? Abraham, Ancestry, and Ethnicity in Luke's Gospel: From These Stones explores how Luke employs the concept of ancestry-especially descent from Abraham-to recategorize believers and nonbelievers. Luke's use of the patriarch is informed by his function in Second Temple literature, as the ancestor of the Israel, but also the father of several other races, and a point of surprising contact between Jews and gentiles. In his gospel, Luke offers a new layer of ethnic identity to gentile believers, as adjunct members of Abraham's family tree.

This book bridges economics and biblical scholarship, challenging the misconception that economics is limited to neo-classical models. Through detailed examples, the book demonstrates the value of New Institutional Economics in analyzing the economic landscape of the Roman Empire and its influence on New Testament teachings.

This book engages in constructive dialogue with the legacy of the eminent Protestant theologian, Eberhard Jüngel (1934-2021). The essays bring Jüngel's wide-ranging thought to bear on today's theological, philosophical, and socio-cultural challenges.

Kant and the Path of German Idealism examines numerous key texts from the rich philosophical period spanning from Kant through Hegel to illuminate the consequential development of Kant's core systematic principles by his successors, ultimately arguing in favor of the strength of Kant's discursive epistemic foundation.