Philosophy and Religion

Borden reveals the ways in which many mainstream Protestants worked to maintain preferential treatment for Christians in common law, state constitutions, and federal practices, even attempting through interpretation and amendment to alter the meaning of the U.

Gary R.

This book considers what it means to die.

Hate Speech, Political Correctness, and Cancel Culture critically examines the challenges posed by modern discourse in democratic societies.

This stimulating book critically examines a wide range of physicalistic conceptions of mind in the works of Jerry A.

This book is a translation and study of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra and an examination of its broad implications for the development of East Asian Buddhism.

Volume III in the series Studies in Social Psychology in World War II.

Frederick G.

This book is the first complete survey and critical appraisal of the large body of research that has appeared during approximately the last decade concerning the analysis of knowing.

A noted Russian sinologue, Iulian Shchutskii tried to find out how the I China was put together and what the terms meant when they were written.

Tracing the development of French political thought in the seventeenth century, Nannerl Keohane explores a quite different emphasis on the indivisibility of sovereignty and the expression of interests rather than rights.

The concluding volume of a critical English edition of the monumental Indian epicThe seventh and final book of the monumental Ramayana of Valmiki, the Uttarakanda, brings the epic saga to a close with an account of the dramatic events of King Rama's millennia-long reign.

Essays by Rudolf Bernoulli, Martin Buber, C.

Essays by Ernst Benz, Henry Corbin, Jean Danielou, Mircea Eliade, G.

Miller's study demonstrates the value of integrating hermeneutic reading and conceptual analysis.

A photograph, map, or diagram illustrates the text for every site described in this pilgrimage to Palestine, beginning with places connected with John the Baptist and proceeding to Bethlehem and Nazareth, Samaria and Galilee, Jerash, Caesarea, Jericho, the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, and Emmaus.

Theatre activities ask adolescents to empathize with those who are different from themselves.

The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosopher's work.

A Comprehensive Theological Guide to the Practice and Power of PrayerIn Understanding Prayer, author, pastor, and scholar Sam Storms unpacks the meaning and power of prayer through a close reading of Scripture with special focus on the life and ministry of Jesus, the apostle Paul, and James.

This inaugural volume in the Munich Lectures in Ethics series presents lectures by noted philosopher Philip Kitcher.

This inaugural volume in the Munich Lectures in Ethics series presents lectures by noted philosopher Philip Kitcher.

Presented here in a lucid, simple style is an extended defense of a behavioral and direct-realist theory of sense perception.

When Buddhism was introduced into China at about the beginning of the Christian era, the Chinese were captivated at first by its overpowering world view.

Offered here for the first time in English translation, Hasidism as Mysticism is a classic in its field.

Unamuno's long essay on Christianity as a state of agony is followed by nine essays including "e;Nicodemus the Pharisee,"e; "e;Faith,"e; and "e;What is Truth?

This book-length treatment of Gyorgy Lukacs' major achievement, his Marxist aesthetic theories.

Throughout India's history, religion has been the most powerful single factor in the development of her civilization.

Kierkegaard, in his late and confirmedly Christian period, discusses the sharp separation of "e;Christianity"e; from "e;Christendom,"e; as seen in the official church.

Essays by Henry Corbin, Mircea Eliade, C.

At its zenith, the Islamic State was one of the most developed and powerful of the various militant organisations that have emerged within the Middle East in recent decades.

The edition includes "e;Christian Discourses,"e; "e;The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air"e; and "e;Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays.

Offering the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of what Christian nationalism in America is and isn't, and how it became the political religion of Donald Trump's MAGA movement, the chapters in this book describe the way Christian nationalism has embedded itself in American politics.

This book is intended as an equivalent to or substitute for that "e;more reflective reading"e; which Rousseau considered essential to an understanding of his ideas.

Kierkegaard's pseudonymous authorship has baffled readers, his apparent capriciousness making it difficult to determine his position at a given point and to understand his work as an organic whole.

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A Theology of Matthew's Gospel develops the perspective that Matthew wrote his Gospel to identify, defend and proclaim Jesus Immanuel, "e;God with us,"e; as the Davidic Messiah who fulfilled the OT expectations of humanity's redemption.

This collection by the distinguished Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) reflects the theme of its key essay, The Task of Cultural History,"e; throughout its pages.

Stanford Lehmberg, a noted authority on the Tudor period, examines the impact of the Reformation on the cathedrals of England and Wales.

In this book van der Leeuw discusses the horizontal path to God and the vertical paths descending from God and ascending to Him.

In this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), author of over a hundred works on theology, logic, medicine, and mathematics.

In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars ('ulama) to the colonial dominance of the British and the collapse of Muslim political power.

The first detailed study of Islamic theodicy, the book points out distinctively Islamic formulations and solutions of the problem of the best of all possible worlds"e; and shows where they coincide with Western versions, such as that of Leibniz.

Important trends in contemporary intellectual life celebrate difference, divisiveness, and distinction.

This volume is a "e;state-of-the-art"e; assessment of comparative philosophy written by some of the leading practitioners of the field.

This book explores a much-neglected area of moral philosophy--the typology of immorality.

Allan Christelow examines the Muslim courts of Algeria from 1854, when the French first intervened in Islamic legal matters, through the gradual subordination of the courts and judges that went on until World War I.

This book explores the transformations in religion in conjunction with political change.

This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem.

Hsiin Yiieh's Shen-chien (Extended Reflections) is one of the four major philosophical works that have survived from the later Han dynasty (A.