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“…Social history as discipline and as method -- Social history as a sub-discipline of historical studies -- Social history as an exegetical method -- The history of events and "the long term" -- Description of social history -- Social history as the history of institutions -- Social history as the history of time periods (epochs) -- History of scholarship -- The tradition of biblical antiquities -- The religious sociology of ancient Judaism -- Since 1968 -- Methods for studying the social history of Israel -- Environment as living space -- The geographical environment -- The historical environment -- Material remains -- Archaeology : artifacts and interpretation -- Epigraphic material from Israel and its environment -- The texts of the Hebrew Bible -- The historical reliability of the biblical accounts -- Fiction and milieu -- Intentional and unintentional tradition -- Norm and reality -- Dating biblical texts -- In search of analogies -- Societies in Israel's environment -- Ethnology : from empirical studies to theory -- Sociological categories -- The epochs of Israel's social history -- Israel's origins as a kinship-based society -- The beginnings of something called Israel -- Canaanite society in the late bronze age (1550-1200) -- "Israel" on a stele of Pharaoh merenptah -- Transformations of Canaanite society in the transition to the Iron Age -- The beginnings of Israel as an evolutionary process -- Structures of kinship-based societies -- Designation of eras -- State of the sources -- The social structure of kinship-based societies -- The unity of kinship-based societies -- Economy -- Leadership structures -- Social stratification -- Israel and Judah : from early statehood to full development -- From initial statehood to the middle of the eighth century -- The beginnings of a state -- Reasons for establishing the kingship -- "Early states" -- Resistance to the kingship -- Society and state under monarchical rule -- Perseverance of the kinship-based society -- State apparatus -- Activities of the national state -- Role of the temple -- Profiles of monarchy in Israel and Judah -- Israel : revolution, overthrow, and stability -- Judah as a participatory monarchy -- The formation of an ancient class society -- The political background from the eighth to the sixth century -- Israel and Judah as an ancient class society -- Manifestations of social crisis -- Causes and structures of an ancient class society -- Responses to the crisis -- Exiles and their consequences -- From Nebuchadnezzar to Cyrus -- Judah under Babylonian rule -- Structures of governance -- Property relationships in the land of Israel -- Israel in exile -- The Babylonian exile -- The Egyptian exile -- Provincial society under Persia -- From Cyrus to Alexander -- Society and state in Judah and Samaria in the Persian period -- Family structures under threat -- Social relationships -- State structures in Judah and Samaria -- Temple and Torah -- The role of the second temple -- Ezra's promulgation of the Torah -- The process by which Torah became law -- Life in the diaspora -- Babylonian Judaism -- The Egyptian diaspora -- Yehud, Samaria, Israel : a provincial society in the Persian period -- The Jewish ethnos in the Hellenistic age -- From Alexander the Great to the Hasmoneans -- Changes in society and state -- The family between ideal and reality -- Further intensification of social contrasts -- Institutionalization of almsgiving -- Hellenistic governance structures -- The Ptolemaic kingdom and central administration -- The Seleucids and the establishment of Jerusalem as a polis -- From the Maccabees to the Hasmoneans -- The many forms of "Israel" -- The separate development of Samaria -- The hellenistic diaspora -- The multiplicity of the one Israel…”
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“…Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: On Life Betwixt and Between -- Prologue to a Diasporan Journey -- Part I. Reimagining North America's African Diaspora -- 1. …”
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“…Yemoja's aesthetics : creative expression in diaspora. "Yemaya blew that wire fence down" : invoking African spiritualities in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera : the new mestiza and the mural art of Juana Alicia / Micaela Díaz-Sánchez -- Dancing aché with Yemaya in my life and in my art : an artist statement / Arturo Lindsay -- What the water brings and takes away : the work of Maria Magdalena Campos Pons / Alan West-Durán -- "The sea never dies" : Yemoja, the mother-force flowing infinitely in Africana literature and cinema / Teresa N. …”
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“…Diaspora theology as an optic for analyzing exile and return -- The causal connections of empire with exile and return -- Exile in second Isaiah and the Mexican immigrant expereince -- Return in second Isaiah and the Mexican immigrant expereince…”
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“…Zaidi, Amanda couture and Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale -- Place of subcaste (jati) identity in the discourse on caste : examination of cast in the diaspora / P. Pratap Kumar…”
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“…"No one knows the mysteries at the bottom of the ocean" / Towards African diaspora citizenship : politicizing an existing global geography / "Sittin' on top of the world" : the challenges of blues and hip hop geography / Memories of africville : urban renewal, reparations, and the Africadian diaspora / "Freedom is a secret" / Henry Box Brown, an international fugitive : slavery, resistance, and imperialism / "Realm of monuments and water" : lorde-ian erotics and Shange's African diaspora cosmopolitanism / "Lost tribe of a lost tribe" : black British Columbia and the poetics of space / Deportable or admissible? …”
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“…. -- Korean diaspora in China: ethnicity, identity and change. -- Koreans in Japan: new dimension of hybrid and diverse communities. -- Korean diaspora in the USA: challenges and evolution. -- Comparing Korean identities in diaspora: strategies of global networks and KOCIS information systems…”