“…Much of this attention has been directed at madrasas in Muslim countries, yet Islam in schooling contexts in the West has remained a blind-spot. In the UK, heightened anxieties about "home-grown" terrorists point to the need for a better understanding of Islam in both state and faith schools. …”

“…Ness spent almost two years in west and northeast Philadelphia to get a sense of how teenage girls experience inflicting physical harm and the meanings they assign to it. …”

“…Baker revisits Jamesian approaches to the formation of scientific objects including the child mind, exceptional mental states and the ghost to explore the possibilities and limits of social scientific thought dedicated to mind development and discipline formation around the construct of the West…”

“…Wilhelm Windelband (1848-1915) was a professor of philosophy during the German Empire, leader of the south-west German school of neo-Kantianism and an influential, when somewhat opinionated, public speaker. …”

“…Over the past decades, successive major accidents have caused deaths, injuries, significant environmental pollution and massive economic losses - from the hydrogen fluoride leak in Gumi (Korea) in 2012, the ammonium nitrate explosion in West, Texas (United States) in 2013 or, recently, the blow-up of a chemical facility in Tarragona (Spain) and the explosion at the port of Beirut (Lebanon) in 2020, and the blast in Leverkusen (Germany) in 2021. …”

“…Frances Negrón-Muntaner explores everything from the beloved American musical West Side Story to the phenomenon of singer/actress/ fashion designer Jennifer Lopez, from the faux historical chronicle Seva to the creation of Puerto Rican Barbie, from novelist Rosario Ferré to performer Holly Woodlawn, and from painter provocateur Andy Warhol to the seemingly overnight success story of Ricky Martin. …”

“…As agency came to take on a more central place in the philosophical, moral, and legal traditions of the West, certain classes of people were excluded as less-than-human. …”

“…When divorce did happen, it was most often on the husband's initiative. Now, not only in the West but around the world, people who never thought seriously about divorce are fantasizing about it. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The ancient law and the Early Middle Age. 6: Ancient Greek law / Michael Gagarin -- 7: Early Roman law and the west: a reversal of grounds / Pier Giuseppe Monateri -- 8: Classical and post-classical Roman law: the legal actors and the sources / Paul du Plessis -- 9: Institutions of ancient Roman law / Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi -- 10: Byzantine law: the law of the new Rome, Bernard Stolte --11: Germanic law / Karl Shoemaker -- Part III. …”

“…The enforcement of the imperial orders, and the sufferings of Christians under them, are examined on a diocese-by-diocese basis, comparing the situation in the West and in the East. In the late fourth century, Prudentius of Calahorra, poet and imperial official, complained about the loss of records on local martyrs, exclaiming, 'Alas for what is forgotten and lost to knowledge in the silence of the olden time! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…All the world in the time / David Damrosch -- Issues and definitions. Introduction ; The West and the rest: frames for world literature / Sarah Lawall ; The ethics of world literature: reading others, reading otherwise / Vilashini Cooppan ; Literary world systems / Emily Apter ; What is literature? …”

“…The theme of "The Nation that Forgot God" is the secularization of the West. These essays trace the effects on ordinary people of being the first post-religious society. …”

“…Augustine and the Disciplines takes its cue from Augustine's theory of the liberal arts to explore the larger question of how the Bible became the focus of medieval culture in the West. Augustine himself became increasingly aware that an ambivalent attitude towards knowledge and learning was inherent in Christianity. …”

“…The choice of DPs to live a free life in the West, and the West's welcome of them, became an important theme in America's Cold War propaganda battle with the Soviet Union. …”