Philosophy and Religion

Through the eyes of northern Nigerian Qur''anic students, this book explores what it truly means to be young, poor, and Muslim.

Explores many aspects of the behaviour, genetics, taxonomy and evolution of this genus and its adaptation to multiple environments.

A new analysis of John Rawls''s theory of distributive justice, focusing on the ways his ideas have both influenced and been misinterpreted by the current egalitarian literature.

Examines the social, legal and cultural challenges navigating the boundaries of ''normal''-''problematic''-''risky'' sexual behaviours among peers.

A comprehensive and novel interpretation of Spinoza''s political writings that reveals the significance of the affects for political life.

Explores the hidden history of unbelief in the early modern era through the lens of Momus, the Greek god of criticism and mockery.

This book argues that overcoming people''s inability to recognize their own wrongdoing is the most important but regrettably neglected area of the behavioral approach to law.

This study shows some of the ways in which medieval Scandinavians received and re-interpreted pre-Christian religion.

Provides the first full study of Aristotle''s notion of evil and sheds light on its content, potential, and influence.

Aesthetic philosophy and the arts offer an innovative and attractive approach to enhancing international law in support of peace.

Explores a central paradox in Plotinus'' work: Plotinus writes about the One, which he tells us is ineffable.

Explores the moral quandaries of multiple citizenship in the context of broader debates in normative political theory.

Machiavelli believes republicans must be prepared to defend strict limits on elite power even when elites are ''good''.

A unique collection of legal, religious, ethical, and political perspectives on debates surrounding biotechnology patents or ''patents on life''.

Examines how early German Romanticism combined post-Kantian idealism and Platonic-Christian realism to develop a new aesthetics of religion.

Updates a neglected incarnational motif with contemporary conceptual resources to propose a novel model of Christ''s presence in the Eucharist.

A new approach to Kant''s conception of virtue which grounds it in his innovative account of reflection and cognitive agency.

Makes Mencius'' and Xunzi''s political thought accessible to political theorists, philosophers and scientists with no expertise in classical Chinese or sinology.

Analyzes current philosophical and scientific debates about animal rights and the ethics of eating meat.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.

Explores what it was like to argue and to live as a practitioner of Pyrrhonist skepticism.

Provides new interpretations and applications of Wittgenstein''s philosophy in relation to fundamental issues in contemporary theoretical debates.

Drawing on case studies from Islamic history, Haider challenges assumptions about the nature of the sources shaping understandings of the early Muslim world.

Examines Nietzsche''s thinking on the virtues using a combination of close reading and digital analysis.

An explanation of the foundations of Kant''s philosophy of mathematics and its connection to his account of human experience.

Develops an original control theory of emotions and related affective states, providing new perspectives on the mind as a whole.

Engages with all aspects of Averroes'' philosophy, from his thinking on Aristotle to his influence on Islamic law.

An exploration of the theology of divine providence that is both critical and constructive in its outcomes.

Highlights the emergence of self-knowledge in rabbinic literature, showing how Babylonian rabbis relied on knowledge accessible only to the individual to determine the law.

Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.

Reveals the importance of Gellius'' Noctes Atticae for the history of reading, thought, and intellectual culture in the Graeco-Roman world.

Few treatments of Catholic Social Teaching are as comprehensive as this, and none is nearly so devoted to a critical scholarly presentation and analysis of the whole corpus.

Shows the importance of Wittgenstein''s philosophy in the 1930s, in its own right and for his philosophy as a whole.

Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.

Explores the profession of singing, operatic culture, and the representation of female performers on the nineteenth century French stage.

This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women''s literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.

Links democracy with the process of overcoming severe social inequality, rather than with ideal forms of political debate.

Examines Iran''s Armenian community, shedding light on Muslim-Christian relations in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

Inventing Hebrews uncovers a template of arrangement ubiquitous in antiquity as the key to the conundrum of Hebrews'' structure and purpose.

Elucidates the Scriptural moral tradition by subjecting ethically challenging biblical texts to moral philosophical analysis.

A nuanced range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of emotions in moral and political reactions to mass violence.

Examines the first theory of consciousness in Western philosophy, dispelling the dogma that consciousness studies begins with Descartes.

Analyses Solomon''s birth, rise, and temple-building within scriptural, archaeological and historical contexts.

Examines how distinctive liberalisms respond to racial, cultural, gender-based and class-based forms of diversity and difference.

Explores the aesthetic dimensions of biblical poetry, offering close readings of poems across the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

A detailed and innovative study of Kant''s engagement with the ideas and methods of previously neglected philosophical figures in eighteenth-century Germany.

Provides an accessible mathematical and philosophical account of Quine''s set theory, New Foundations.

Ground-breaking study revealing the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism.

Far from being a Judeo-Christian invention, apocalyptic thought had its roots in the ancient Near East and was expressed in its art.