Digging Politics

Digging PoliticsDigging Politics explores uses of the ancient past in east central Europe spanning the fascist, communist and post communist period. Contributions range from East Germany to Poland to Romania to the Balkans. The volume addresses two central questions: Why then and why there. Without arguing for an east central European exceptionalism, Digging Politics uncovers transnational phenomena across the region that have characterized political wrangling over

how feasting on Christ in the Eucharist shapes our understanding of the body—both our individual bodies and the body of the Church

and not international covenants

This pivotal era marked the rise of an unprecedented level of imperial autocracy

South Africans need to confront the economic and social policy choices that the liberation movement made and to see how these decisions may have facilitated the conditions for corruption to emerge and flourish

Potts brings together history

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and prayer in commemorations for martyrs in Islamic national rituals to create citizens who embody familial piety

who re-organised and re-composed this especially versatile literature

Mills explores how multiracial people navigate their complex—and often misunderstood—identities in romantic relationships

fitness to rule and comradeship

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Dittenhoefer was a young South Carolinian who embraced abolition and moved to New York in order to work for the newly formed Republican party and its antislavery platform