This book traces changing perceptions of Egypt''s monastic landscape through an analysis of archaeological and documentary evidence from late antiquity.
Apocalyptic scenarios remain prevalent and powerful in popular culture (in television, film, comic books, and popular fiction), in politics (in debates on climate change, environmentalism, Middle East policy, and military planning), and in various religious traditions.
One of the controversial issQes which have recently come into prominence among philosophers and theologians is how one should understand the term l God.
Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is repurposed or re-envisioned in relation to experiences of modernity, urbanization, conflict, migration and displacement.
Over the past several decades, scholars working in biblical, theological, and religious studies have increasingly attended to the substantive ways that our experiences and understanding of God and God's relation to the world are structured by our experiences and concepts of race, gender, disability, and sexuality.
This volume argues that theistic philosophy should be seen not as an "e;armchair"e; enterprise but rather as a critical endeavor to bring philosophy of religion into close contact with emerging sciences of religion.
Becoming a Mensch is a "e;user's guide"e; to becoming a better person, taking readers through a process of personal growth by means of modern-day vignettes that draw upon the Talmud's ancient wisdom.
As advanced by astronomer-cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomy, biology, astrobiology, astrophysics, and cosmology converge agreeably with natural theology.
Perhaps the most important discovery in the long history of research on the Gospel of Matthew is that the book represents a self-contained literary whole as it participates in a vibrant intertextual network.
The first is that a miracle, understood as an event produced by a transcendent agent overriding the usual course of nature, involves a violation of the laws of nature.
Icon of modern-day fundamentalist movements, firebrand religious purist, tireless polemicist against the intellectual schools of his time-the Ibn Taymiyya we know is a thinker we often associate with hard attitudes and dogmatic stances.
God and Phenomenology: Thinking with Jean-Yves Lacoste provides a starting point for scholars who seek to familiarize themselves with the work of this French phenomenologist and theologian.
This book addresses one of the most urgent issues in contemporary American law-namely, the logic and limits of extending free exercise rights to corporate entities.
"e;When Thomas Paine exclaimed: 'These are the times that try men's souls,'"e; Rosenstock-Huessy noted, Paine "e;did not mean men's bodies or men's minds.
Feuerbachs "Theogonie" ist die Frucht sechsjähriger Studien, die er im Anschluss an die 1848/49 in Heidelberg gehaltenen "Vorlesungen über das Wesen der Religion" begonnen hatte.
Over the last two decades, scientific accounts of religion have received a great deal of scholarly and popular attention both because of their intrinsic interest and because they are widely seen as potentially constituting a threat to the religion they analyse.
First published in Spanish in 2006, Twenty Theses on Politics is a major statement on political philosophy from Enrique Dussel, one of Latin America's-and the world's-most important philosophers, and a founder of the philosophy of liberation.
Swami Vivekananda's inspiring personality was well known both in lndia and in America during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth.
