This book employs a biographical approach to comprehensively study a set of Tang era-tomb guardian figurines, known as the Four Gods (Sishen), comprising a pair of warriors (Dangkuang and Dangye) and a pair of hybrid beasts (Zuming and Dizhou).
This book employs a biographical approach to comprehensively study a set of Tang era-tomb guardian figurines, known as the Four Gods (Sishen), comprising a pair of warriors (Dangkuang and Dangye) and a pair of hybrid beasts (Zuming and Dizhou).
In these pages, you will witness the deep and abiding love of a God who meets us right where we are, no matter how broken, discouraged, or lost we feel.
Neben der philosophischen Anthropologie, der der erste Band der Sämtlichen Schriften gewidmet ist, stellt die kritische Revision neuzeitlicher Geschichtsphilosophie einen zweiten herausragenden Themenkreis dar, dem Karl Löwith seine lebenslange Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet hat.
Der dritte Band der Sämtlichen Schriften des Philosophen Karl Löwith faßt die Arbeiten aus vier Jahrzehnten zusammen, in denen er sich mit dem christlichen Offenbarungsdenken und der protestantischen Theologie auseinandergesetzt hat.
Although East Asian religion is commonly characterized as "e;syncretic,"e; the historical interaction of Buddhist, Confucian, and other traditions is often neglected by scholars of mainstream religious thought.
From the moment that Prussia entered the world of the crusade movement and the zone of Western European external expansion in the thirteenth century, and was quickly dominated by the Teutonic Order, the new Prussian land created by the Order became a transitional area and a frontier country.
Demonstrates the relevance of comparativism, ethnography, cognitive function, orality, and intertextuality to the elucidation of Greek prophetic practices.
Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.
Noakes'' revelatory analysis of Victorian scientists'' fascination with psychic phenomena connects science, the occult and religion in intriguing new ways.
Reveals a religiously diverse pre-industrial society in the Middle East, broadening studies of global Christianity and challenging Islamic history''s exceptionalism.
This book traces changing perceptions of Egypt''s monastic landscape through an analysis of archaeological and documentary evidence from late antiquity.