Philosophy of religion

This book explores the Japanese notion of hakanasa - the evanescence of all things.

This study offers a reading that avoids both literalism and sociological reductionism through a study of the Bible's intricate patterns of imagery.

The Chosen explores Judaism s key defining concept and inquires why it remains the central unspoken and explosive psychological, historical, and theological problem at the heart of Jewish-Gentile relations.

The biblical text and its key figures have played a prominent role in the development of religious discourse on pressing socio-political issues.

Barbeau reconstructs the system of religion that Coleridge develops in Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1840).

In this radical reinterpretation of Rousseau, Jeremiah Alberg argues that the philosopher's system of thought is founded on theological scandal, and on Rousseau's inability to accept forgiveness.

This book explores conceptual and institutional developments of the notion of the public sphere in the West and in the Islamic world, tackling historic ruptures spanning the formation and transformation of the Euro-Mediterranean world.

This book considers how white U.

The unique essays in this collection use the underlying allegiance to scripture in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity to underscore the deep affinities between the three monotheistic traditions while at the same time encouraging respect for the differences between the traditions to be preserved.

Abraham argues that a theological imagination can expand the contours of postcolonial theory through a reexamination of notions of subjectivity, gender, and violence in a dialogical model with Karl Rahner.

This book seeks to clarify the concept of irony and its relation to moral commitment.

This book explores the manifold connections between fundamentalism and literature in English.

Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of Religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and culture more broadly conceived.

This groundbreaking work explores media scholar Sut Jhally's thesis that advertising functions as a religion in late capitalism and relates this to critical theological studies.

Evil Children in Religion, Literature and Art explores the genesis, development, and religious significance of a literary and iconographic motif, involving a gang of urchins, usually male, who mock or assault a holy or eccentric person, typically an adult.

This volume aims to inspire a return to the energetics of Nietzsche's prose and the critical intensity of his approach to nihilism and to give back to the future its rightful futurity.

This original and accessible text is more than an introduction to comparative philosophy in the East and West.

Women and the Word examines why, in today's secular society, so many of the finest British and American women novelists seem preoccupied with Biblical themes and stories.

By reconstructing it and tracing its vicissitudes, David Conway rehabilitates a time-honoured conception of philosophy, originating in Plato and Aristotle, which makes theoretical wisdom its aim.

Here it is argued that we need to recover concepts from the distortions of philosophy.

A synoptic investigation of the underlying philosophies of twelve religious thinkers from Newman to Ratzinger.

This anthology contains some of the more important Marxist thinkers now working on dialectics.

A collection of essays by leading philosophers on the work of John Cottingham, focussing on his work in moral philosophy, discussing themes from his contributions to the debate on partiality and impartiality, the role of the emotions in the good life and the meaning of the worthwhile life.

The Record of Linji stands as one of the great classics of the Zen tradition, and modern Zen master and reformer Hisamatsu Shin'ichi offers a lively and penetrating exploration of the religious essence of the text.

God is said to be Spirit, but the language of spirit is ignored in contemporary philosophy of religion.

This is a collection of John Hick's essays on the understanding of the world's religions as different human responses to the same ultimate transcendent reality.

An updated new edition of the groundbreaking investigation which takes full account of the finding of the social and historical sciences whilst offering a religious interpretation of the religions as different culturally conditioned responses to a transcendent Divine Reality.

An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology is a lucid, intelligible and authentic introduction to the foundations of Buddhist psychology.

Why is there a world?

Walter Benjamin's work represents one of the most radical and controversial responses to the problems of twentieth-century culture and society.

This is the first collection of papers devoted to Ludwig Wittgenstein's cryptic but brilliant, On Certainty .

In this collection, distinguished theologians and philosophers of religion explore the relation of key Biblical concepts to our world.

Throughout history, compassion has stood at the base of the radical cry to change the world order and remedy injustices.

This work uses the writings of Kierkegaard to offer a novel and challenging way of approaching the concepts of anxiety, repetition, freedom and contemporaneity.

In Reclaiming Theodicy , Michael Stoeber explores various themes of theodicy - theology that defends God in the face of evil - by creatively developing a distinction between transformative and destructive suffering.

Of all the wide-ranging interests Coleridge showed in his career, religion was the deepest and most long lasting, and Beer demonstrates in this book how none of this work can be fully understood without taking this into account.

Is nature creation or merely the product of non-intentional, natural processes?

Hick gives a personal account of how he has come to accept religious pluralism - that the major world faiths are different but equally valid responses to ultimate Reality.

This book surveys the thesis that all religions are alike in referring and relating to a single, common transcendent and sacred reality.

This book critically examines the case for and against the belief in personal survival of bodily death.

An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology is a lucid, intelligible and authentic introduction to the foundations of Buddhist psychology.

This authoritative and accessible book explains the argument and strategy of Kant's analysis of beauty.

John Hick is one of the most widely read and discussed living writers in modern theology and the philosophy of religion.

Many people still believe in life after death, but modern institutions operate as though this were the only world - eternity is now eclipsed from view in society and even in the church.

The Apocalypse of John is perhaps the most alluring and dangerous text in any scripture.

This book examines the thinking of two nineteenth-century existentialist thinkers, Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Can theology still operate in the void of post-theism?

'A splendid book!

'A significant scholarly work.

The primary focus of this study is to view Eliade as not only a historian of religions but also as a theologian, a philosopher, novelist and as someone engaged in cross-cultural dialogue with other religious traditions.