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.
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....
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...
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...
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-...
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...
Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium
Faculty book about hadith (Muhammad's sayings and practices).
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...
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...
Puntos de encuentro: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Advanced Spanish
María J. de la Fuente, professor of Spanish, rethinks Advanced Spanish collegiate instruction by combining task- and content-based language pedagogy. Based on current research on...
The Evolution of Black Women in Television: Mammies, Matriarchs and Mistresses
History and evolution of the portrayal of Black women in television.
