Library of Social Science Newsletter
By Author
Abulof, Uriel
Associate Professor, Politics, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Associate Professor, Politics, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Memento mori, or Man’s Search for Meaning (in Politics) (Guest Newsletter)
- The Liberal Uncanny (Guest Newsletter)
Ackerman, John Wolfe
Researcher, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
Alvarez, Josefina
Researcher, Program for Peace Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Baxter, Kimberly
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy, John Jay College
- Hegel on Warfare and the State (Guest Newsletter)
- Humiliation or Death: the White Feather Campaign (Guest Newsletter)
Behnke, Andreas
Associate Professor, Political Theory, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading, United Kingdom
- ‘Postmodernising’ Security (Paper)
Bethke Elshtain, Jean
Jean Elshtain was Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago, IL
Bloom, Peter
Lecturer, Department of People and Organisations, Open University, United Kingdom
Bryson, Michael
English Professor, California State University, CA
Carpentier, Nico
Associate Professor, Communication Studies Department, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Chirila, Alexander
Professor, English and Literature, Webster University, Thailand
- Creating the Idealized Nemesis: The Collective Psychology of the Red Scare (Paper)
- Death, Sacrifice and Ruin (Guest Newsletter)
- Sacrificial Currency (Guest Newsletter)
- Secular Religion (Guest Newsletter)
Cocks, Geoffrey
Professor, History, Albion College, MI
Conversi, Daniel
Research Professor, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
- War and Nationalism (Paper)
Crim, Brian
Associate Professor, History, Lynchburg College, VA
Demopoulos, Panayiotis
Composer, Performer, Director of the Kozani International Music Seminar, Greece
Denton-Borhaug, Kelly
Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
Dunn, George
Professor, Philosophy and Religion, University of Indianapolis, IN
Feldman, Yael S.
Professor, Hebrew Culture and Education, New York University, NY
Gardiner, Steven L
Associate Professor, Humanities & Social Science, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Gentile, Emilio
Professor, Modern History, University of Rome, Italy
Greenfeld, Liah
Professor, Sociology, Political Science, and Anthropology, Boston University, MA
Griffin, Roger
Professor, Modern History, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
- Longing to Belong: Cultivating Transcultural Humanism as a Source of Identity (Paper)
- Part I: The Need to Belong (NL)
- Part II: Identificatory Belonging & the Desire to Destroy (NL)
- Part III: Transcultural Identities (NL)
- Staging the Nation’s Rebirth (Book Chapter)
- The Meaning of ‘Sacrifice’ in the First World War (Paper)
- The Metapolitics of Terrorist Radicalization (Paper)
- Part I: Terrorist Radicalization: Nomic Crisis (NL)
- Part II: Splitting and the Manichaean World-View (NL)
- Part III: The Bliss of Completion (NL)
- The Palingenetic Core of Generic Fascist Ideology (Book Chapter)
- Review Essay of The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body (Wittman)
Gullace, Nicoletta
Associate Professor, History, University of New Hampshire, NH
Gullestad, Anders, M.
Ph.D Candidate, Department of Linguistics, University of Bergen, Norway
Harrisville, David
Ph.D Candidate, History Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
Hemming, Judy and McKinley, Michael
Judy Hemming, Lecturer, International Studies and International Development Programme, University of Canberra, Australia.
Michael McKinley, Visiting Research Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences, Australian National University, Australia.
Michael McKinley, Visiting Research Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences, Australian National University, Australia.
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Major Wars and Regional Responses in Australia and New Zealand (Paper)
- Part I: Nation State, Civil Religion, and Blood Sacrifice (NL)
- Part II: Civil Religion & the Cult of the Dead (NL)
- Part III: The Cult of the Dead in Australia (NL)
Henry, Adam
Visiting Fellow, History and Language, Australian National University, Australia.
- The Nation-State, Killing and Death (Guest Newsletter)
Jones, James
Professor, Religion, Rutgers University, NJ
Kimura, Akio
Professor, Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan
Lockwood, Renee
Adult Educator, Navitas, Sydney, Australia
McKinley, Michael
Visiting Research Fellow, Arts and Sciences, The Australian National University
- Civil Religion and Secular Culture (Guest Newsletter)
Mendible, Myra
Professor, Languages and Literature, Florida Gulf Coast University, FL
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Post-Vietnam Syndrome: National Identity, War, and the Politics of Humiliation (Paper)
- Part I: The Politics of Humiliation (NL)
- Part II: The Erosion of National Self-Esteem (NL)
- Part III: Pride, Patriotism, & the Gulf War Redemption (NL)
Monnet, Agnieszka
Professor, English Department, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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War and National Renewal: Civil Religion and blood sacrifice in American Culture (Paper)
- Part I: National Identity is Strengthened by Lives that are Lost (NL)
- Part II: Iwo Jima and Sept. 11: American Sacrifice as a Ritual of National Regeneration (NL)
- Part III: The Soldier Body and the Flag Body (NL)
- Part IV: The Ritual of War and National Solidarity (NL)
O'Brien, Gerald V.
Professor, Social Work, Southern Illinois University, IL
O’Donnell, Meghan
Lecturer, Global Studies and the Humanities & Communications Dept., CSUMB, CA
- Dangerous Undercurrent: Death, Sacrifice and Ruin in Third Reich Germany (Paper)
- Part I: The Nazi Cult of the Dead (NL)
- Part II: The ‘Ruin Value’ of Monumental Architecture (NL)
- Part III: The Suicide of a Nation (NL)
Rahimi, Babak
Assistant Professor, Iranian and Islamic Studies, University of California, San Diego, CA
Redles, David
Associate Professor, History, Cuyahoga Community College, OH
Roberts, Michael
Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Adelaide, Australia
- Hitler, Nationalism, Sacrifice: Koenigsberg and Beyond … Towards the Tamil Tigers,
Review Essay of Richard Koenigsberg's book, Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler, the Holocaust and War
- Part I: Hitler, Nationalism, Sacrifice (NL)
- Part II: Sacrificial Devotion (NL)
- Australian Nationalism & the Ideology of Sacrificial Death (Guest Newsletter)
Salimi, Rana
Lecturer, Languages Department, University of California, San Diego, CA
Schwartz, Murray
Professor, English Department, Emerson College, MA
Scutts, Joanna
Literary Critic and Cultural Historian, NY
Seitz, David, S.
Assistant Professor, Speech and Communications, Penn State Mont Alto, PA
Skya, Walter
Director, Asian Studies, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
- Part I of Japanese Nationalism & the Second World War (Guest Newsletter)
- Part II of Japanese Nationalism & the Second World War (Guest Newsletter)
- Part III of Japanese Nationalism & the Second World War (Guest Newsletter)
Strenski, Ivan
Professor, Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside, CA
- How to Think About Suicide Bombers (Paper)
- Sacrifice: Bad Math, Bad Grammar (Paper)
- Sacrifice, Gift and the Social Logic of Muslim ‘Human Bombers’ (Paper)
- Part I: Human Bombers: Suicide or Sacrifice? (NL)
- Part II: Human Bombers as Sacrificial Gifts (NL)
- Part III: Nation-Building, Meaning-Making and Sacrifice (NL)
- To Live and Die in Iraq? Questions About Sacrifice (Guest Newsletter)
Tepora, Tuomas
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Helsinki, Finland
Terrell, Robert
PhD Candidate, History, University of California, San Diego, CA
Thorup, Mikkel
Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Victoria, Brian
Visiting Research Fellow, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan
Vlahos, Michael
Professor, Global Security Studies Program, John Hopkins University, MD
- Street Fighting Family: The Mythic Power of Barricades and Sacrifice (NL)
- Terrorism’s Sacred Heart: The Sacrifice (Guest Newsletter)
- America is a Religion: Our High-Church Politics and Sacred War (Paper)
- Part I: America is a Religion: Our High-Church Politics and Sacred War (NL)
- Part II: Why See America as a Religion? (NL)
- Counterterrorism, American Exceptionalism, and Retributive Justice (Paper)
- Part I: American Exceptionalism (NL)
- Part II: Three Kinds of Terrorist (NL)
- Part III: Retribution (NL)
- The Primary Purpose of War is Ritual and Symbolic (Guest Newsletter)
- The ideology of sacrifice is hemorrhaging (NL)
- D-Day (June 6, 1944), the Invasion of Normandy: “A moment of unique American sacrifice” (NL)
- Rites of Spring: Sacrifice, Incarnation, and War (Paper)
Walker, David
Professor, History, Boise State University, ID
Weddle, David
Professor, Department of Religion, Colorado College, CO
Zhu, Pingchao
Associate Professor, History, University of Idaho, ID