This book provides a unique insider's look at the world's largest film industry, now globally known as 'Bollywood' and challenges existing notions about Indian films.
The calendar worked out by Bede remains essentially the one we still use today, yet the mathematical and scientific studies of the early medieval schools have been largely neglected in most discussions of the cultural and intellectual history of Latin Europe.
"e;Disruption"e; is a buzzword for many economists and businesses, but how do we ethically disrupt the way we do business and economics in order to lift people up?
Dissident Women, Beguines, and the Quest for Spiritual Authority focuses on the responses of a group of twenty-first-century women to the lives and writings of thirteenth-century beguine mystics, and reveals how the struggle to discover their own inner spiritual authority connects two groups of women across centuries.
Auf dem Weg zu einem umfassenderen Verständnis christlicher Mahlkultur beleuchtet die Autorin die kulturelle Bedeutung und Praxis antiker Mahlfeiern in griechischen und frühjüdischen Quellen bis zu den Entstehungsprozessen des Christentums.
Celebrating the contributions of Panayotis Pachis to the field, this book discusses the past, present, and future of the study of religion in antiquity and modernity.
Drawing on Jewish myth, ritual and tradition, as well as the author's own experiences, this original and unique book offers insights into how Jung's psychology and ideas are relevant if understood from a wider, archetypal, perspective.
A time ago, people did not doubt that philosophy first arose in Greece, or more precisely in Ionia, the Greek colony founded by the first Greek immigrants in Asia Minor.
Originally published in 1962, the title of this book is taken from Genesis and is an allusion to the establishment of a Jewish National State as the successful termination of long centuries of exile.
This book expands the known canon by presenting arguments and concepts from women philosophers, from all periods of the history of philosophy, from antiquity to the present day.
Drawing on methods from religious studies, philosophy, and cognitive science, Jack Williams develops a unique and interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious conversion.
