Books published by Indiana University Press

How do people experience spirituality through what they see, hear, touch, and smell? Sonja Luehrmann and an international group of scholars assess how sensory experience shapes prayer and ritual practice among Eastern Orthodox Christians. Prayer, even when performed privately, is considered as a shared experience and act that links individuals and personal beliefs with a broader, institutional, or imagined faith community. It engages with material, visual, and aural culture including icons, relics, candles, pilgrimage, bells, and architectural spaces. Whether touching upon the use of icons in age of digital and electronic media, the impact of Facebook on prayer in Ethiopia, or the implications of praying using recordings, amplifiers, and loudspeakers, these timely essays present a sophisticated overview of the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianities. Taken as a whole they reveal prayer as a dynamic phenomenon in the devotional and ritual lives of Eastern Orthodox believers across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.

Leigh H. Edwards explores Partons roles as musician, actor, author, philanthropist, and entrepreneur to show how her gender subversion highlights the challenges that can be found even in the most seemingly traditional form of American popular music. As Parton depicts herself as simultaneously "real" and "fake," she offers new perspectives on country music's claims of authenticity.

In 1931, Gustav Becker and Erna Kohen married. He was Catholic and she was Jewish. Erna and Gustav had no idea their religious affiliations, which mattered so little to them, would define their marriage under the Nazis. As one of the more than 20,000 German Jews married to an "Aryan" spouse, Erna was initially exempt from the most radical anti-Jewish measures. However, even after Erna willingly converted to Catholicism, the persecution, isolation, and hatred leveled against them by the Nazi regime and their Christian neighbors intensified, and she and their son Silvan were forced to flee alone into the mountains. Through intimate and insightful diary entries, Erna tells her own compelling and horrifying story and reflects on the fortunate escapes and terrible tragedies of her friends and family. The Nazis would exact steep payment for Erna''s survival: her home, her family, and ultimately her faithful husband''s life. The Evil That Surrounds Us reveals both the great evil of Nazi Germany and the powerful love and courage of her husband, friends, and strangers who risked everything to protect her.

Investigates the business and personal experiences of women entrepreneurs in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, to understand their successes, challenges, and contributions to development. This book also advances the literature on gender and development, offering a study of women's role as entrepreneurs in the microeconomic sector.

First published by Indiana University in 1982, this illustrated book places emphasis on ecology with descriptions of Indiana's habitats, climate, and vegetation and detailed species accounts. It summarizes knowledge about Indiana's mammal species.

Akinwumi Ogundiran is Chair of the Africana Studies Department and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is author of Archaeology and History in the Ilare District, 1200-1900.Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is editor (with Matt D. Childs) of The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (IUP, 2005).

Examines the authority of saints in Islam and their ability to build communities among Muslims in North Africa. This book analyzes the power generated in religious communities through their allegiance to saints, a power usually identified with the term "Sufism."

Offering a comprehensive description and analysis of women and religion in North America, this encyclopaedia focuses on institutions, movements, and ideas. It demonstrates that neither the story of women nor the story of religion in North America can be accurately told unless the religious experience of women is integrated into religious history.

Showcases the dramatic natural beauty of the Hoosier state.

The Jewett Car Company was born in the heyday of the electric railway boom in the 1890s. The company gained an excellent reputation for its elegant, well-built wooden cars for street railway companies, interurban lines, and rapid transit service. Cities large and small used Jewett cars, including New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco.

The political context in which historians of India find themselves is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism. This title offers a view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this conjuncture.

Presents a variety of primary sources on the lives of Russian women from the reign of Peter the Great to the Bolshevik revolution. This is a guide to the social, economic, political, and cultural history of women in Imperial Russia. It includes illustrations, a chronology, a glossary of Russian terms, a map, and a guide to further reading.

For several generations Indiana shippers and travellers enjoyed an excellent network of railroad services, in large part thanks to the Monon Railroad. This title celebrates the history of this railroad, from its inception in 1847 as the New Albany & Salem Rail Road and then the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago to its merger in 1970 with the L&N.

A collection of photographs of children taken during the Great Depression by some of the most famous photographers of the Farm Security Administration. Spanning the period from 1930-1945, the images represent children of diverse social strata and ethnicity from all regions of America.

A comprehensive history of North American railroad electrification.

Spectacular photographs of Indiana's impressive 19th and early 20th century courthouses

Ethnological show business has a long history in Europe, and it became increasingly common after advances in navigational technology put Europeans in touch with human communities. This book discusses about how 3 groups - players, promoters and spectators - individually and in concert helped to shape European and American perceptions of Africans.

Includes works for the tuba alone, tuba and piano, and tuba with other types of accompaniment - woodwind quartet, string quartet, and orchestra. Each entry gives complete publication data, a history of the piece, its instrumentation and movements, and a description of its musical structure and characteristics.

A pocket guide to Indiana's wildflowers and plants

Analyzes the piano music of Czech composers from the late-18th through the early-20th centuries. Ranging from composers - Janacek, Smetana, and Martinu - to more obscure composers - Benda, Stepan, and Suk, this collection contains essays that can be useful for liner and program notes, and for pedagogical and performance insights.

Why haven't development programs sponsored by local NGOs been moreeffective in Africa? In this careful study of NGOs in three African countries --Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and Senegal -- Sarah Michael exposes reasons why successful, well-run, and powerful development programs are infrequent in Africa. Michael'sargument focuses on issues of power. NGOs in Africa do not command the financialresources, employ the professional staff, or have the same access to donors thatNGOs in other parts of the world enjoy. Main topics covered in this probing bookinclude: What does a powerful NGO look like? How does power affect sustainabledevelopment? What circumstances prevent local NGOs in Africa from wielding power?How can African NGOs remedy their absence of power? What relationship with donorsand international NGOs should be cultivated? This book will interest readersconcerned with issues pertaining to the organization, mission, and implementation ofdevelopment NGOs in Africa and beyond.

A collection of personal essays related with compassion and wit about growing up and settling in the Midwest, including photographs of the region and some of its inhabitants.