{"title":"Series: Critical Terms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCritical Terms\u003c\/em\u003e presents a diverse range of works that delve into essential concepts across philosophy, business, history, health, travel, and technology. This series encourages readers to engage with complex ideas, offering insightful perspectives that challenge and expand understanding in various fields.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom thoughtful explorations of value investing and altruism to guides on wellness and global travel, these titles provide a rich tapestry of knowledge. Whether interested in analytical theory or practical applications, readers will find \u003cstrong\u003eCritical Terms\u003c\/strong\u003e a stimulating collection for deepening their grasp of the world’s most pressing and intricate subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"critical-terms-for-religious-studies-second-edition-9780226839851","title":"Critical Terms for Religious Studies, Second Edition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new edition of a classic resource—composed of twenty-three essays written specifically for this volume.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published nearly thirty years ago, \u003cem\u003eCritical Terms for Religious Studies\u003c\/em\u003e proved a vital resource for an emerging interdisciplinary conversation. We still use much of the same language in the study of religion, but fresh concerns have both changed the meaning of terms and given rise to new terms altogether. This edition consists of twenty-three entirely new essays that offer students and scholars alike the tools to historicize and evaluate the shifting role of familiar and emerging critical terms in religious studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are \"critical terms\" both because they are important in our cultural moment and because thinking through them reveals how religions are embedded in and shaped by material, social, economic, and political forces. A shared conviction unites contributors from a range of traditions and methodologies: a recognition that our world is saturated by the persistence of religious traditions as shape-shifting (not static or transcendent) forces of authority, as powerful today as ever before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46790159073516,"sku":"9780226839851","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20626793482268.jpg?v=1756965789"},{"product_id":"critical-terms-for-literary-study-second-edition-9780226472034","title":"Critical Terms for Literary Study, Second Edition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince its publication in 1990, \u003cem\u003eCritical Terms for Literary Study\u003c\/em\u003e has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory—giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese six new chapters are \"Popular Culture,\" \"Diversity,\" \"Imperialism\/Nationalism,\" \"Desire,\" \"Ethics,\" and \"Class,\" by John Fiske, Louis Menand, Seamus Deane, Judith Butler, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, and Daniel T. O'Hara, respectively. Each new essay adopts the approach that has won this book such widespread acclaim: each provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies the term permits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study, as the nation's most distinguished scholars put the tools of critical practice vividly to use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470360330476,"sku":"9780226472034","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226472034-critical-terms-for-literary-study-second-edition.jpg?v=1775217245"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-critical-terms.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}