Charity shops are now significant occupiers of the UK high street and are becoming familiar sites of consumption in the USA, Australia, Canada and Ireland. This volume provides an overview of the history and development of the charity shop. Material is drawn from a variety of disciplines, including marketing, retailing, cultural studies and social geography.
Charity shops are now significant occupiers of the UK high street and are becoming familiar sites of consumption in the USA, Australia, Canada and Ire...
This volume sheds twenty-first-century light on the charged interactions between memory, mourning and landscape. A century after Freud, our understanding of how memory and mourning function continues to be challenged, revised and refined. Increasingly, scholarly attention is paid to the role of situation in memorialising, whether in commemorations of individuals or in marking the mass deaths of late modern warfare and disasters. "Memory, Mourning, Landscape "offers the nuanced insights provided by interdisciplinarity in nine essays by leading and up-and-coming academics from the fields of...
This volume sheds twenty-first-century light on the charged interactions between memory, mourning and landscape. A century after Freud, our understand...
This volume provides a theoretically and empirically-grounded study of the significance of landscape in the experience of Christian pilgrimage across different denominations and its intersection with cultural heritage and tourism. The book focuses on pilgrimages to Meteora (Greece), Subiaco (Italy) and the Isle of Man. These are each sites of scenic beauty that boast a rich heritage associated respectively to Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Ecumenical/ Protestant denominations. The study discusses different Christian theologies, practices and perspectives on the nature and the purpose...
This volume provides a theoretically and empirically-grounded study of the significance of landscape in the experience of Christian pilgrimage acro...
The fields of gender and religious studies have often been criticized for neglecting to engage with one another, and this volume responds to this dearth of interaction by placing the fields in an intimate dialogue. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach and drawing on feminist scholarship, the book undertakes theoretical and empirical explorations of relational and co-constitutive encounters of gender and religion. Through varied perspectives, the chapters address three interrelated themes: religion as practice, the relationship between religious practice and religion as prescribed by formal...
The fields of gender and religious studies have often been criticized for neglecting to engage with one another, and this volume responds to this dear...
