Faculty Books

From the history of race and caste in Latin America to the role of music in religion around the world, Columbian College faculty publish numerous thought-provoking and timely titles every year. Their work has topped bestseller lists, inspired debate and dialogue and received positive reviews from high-profile outlets like the Los Angeles Review of Books and The New York Times.
 


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The Routledge Course in Business Korean

"The Routledge Course in Business Korean" is a textbook for teaching Korean to mid-intermediate to low-advanced students to learn the language used in a business context in every-day life in Korea...

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Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600

The majority of medieval and 16th-century Iberian manuscripts contain fragments or are fragments — isolated bits of manuscript material with a damaged appearance, or a piece of a larger text that...

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Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones

Tones are the most challenging aspect of learning Chinese pronunciation for adult learners and traditional research mostly attributes tonal errors to interference from learners' native languages....

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Rewriting Revolution: Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction

Immanuel Kim’s book confronts North Korean stereotypes, offering a more complex portrayal of literature in the North based on writings from the 1960s to the present. The state,...

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Imperial Idiocy: A Reflection on Forced Displacement in the Americas

Accepting the ancient Greeks’ definition of the idiot as a privatized man and expanding on Tocqueville’s understanding that in modern democracies it is mass idiocy that invites tyranny, argues...

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Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction Intellectuals, World Disorder and the Politics of Empire

Co-author Christopher Britt, associate professor of Spanish, formulates a new understanding of a common concept (enlightenment) by framing it as a trans-historical and cross-...

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Jesus Followers in the Roman Empire

Professor Paul Duff offers an accessible and informed account of Christian origins, beginning with the teaching of Jesus and moving to the end of the first century. Duff's...

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Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium

Faculty book about hadith (Muhammad's sayings and practices).

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Cave of the Immortals: The Poetry and Prose of Bamboo Painter Wen Tong (1019-1079)

Wen Tong's poems and prose pieces bring to light aspects of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism that are of great importance in Chinese civilization, but rarely addressed in the literature of the...

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Religious Zionism, Jewish Law, and the Morality of War

Robert Eisen, professor of religion and Judaic studies, examines a dilemma within modern Jewish thought: Although the state of Israel has been plagued by war for much of its...