In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible.
Cet ouvrage propose un parcours socio-historique autour de la confrontation de la religion avec l'esthetique en focalisant sur l'art particulierement en phase avec le fait religieux.
In traditional societies, ancestry is an important organising principle, often determining the lives of individuals or groups from the moment that they are born.
In Mulieres suadentes - Persuasive Women, Martin Homza scrutinises the genesis of ruler ideology among the most prominent East Central and Eastern European dynasties from the early and later Middle Ages.
Este libro ofrece una mirada renovada al camino zen: una vía de práctica espiritual que, sin renunciar a su profundidad, se adapta a los retos emocionales y relacionales de nuestro tiempo.
Echoes of Britain: Stonehenge: Sun, Stone and Mystery explores the story of Britain's most famous prehistoric monument, from its earliest earthworks and cremation burials to the raising of the great sarsens, the long journey of the bluestones, the mystery of its alignments, and the many myths that have gathered around it.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated Confederacy.
In The Roman Inquisition: Centre versus Peripheries, two inquisitorial scholars, Black who has published on the institutional history of the Italian Inquisitions and Aron-Beller whose area of expertise are trials against Jews before the peripheral Modenese inquisition, jointly edit an essay collection that studies the relationship between the Sacred Congregation in Rome and its peripheral inquisitorial tribunals.
About the bookIn this book, we look at God's Book of Acts, Chapters 3,4,5,6,7, where we see God continue to build His church on earth, and also continue to establish the pattern for all local churches on earth!
This book argues that the time has come to embrace transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching and research as essential to addressing today’s complex challenges.
This book tells the story of jurema-preta, a plant which shaped the culture of Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian peoples, and withstood oppression from colonial forces to take a leading role in today's clinical research on psychedelics.
This book argues that the time has come to embrace transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching and research as essential to addressing today’s complex challenges.
Die Gründerin der Internationalen Jugendbibliothek Jella Lepman (1891-1970) gehört zu den prägenden Persönlichkeiten der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte.
This book delves into Agamben claim that the experience of language, as it is manifested in the oath, precedes, and gives rise to religion, law and politics, and therefore should be seen as a crucial element of the human process.
