Richard Antoun documents and exemplifies the single most important institution for the propagation of Islam, the Friday congregational sermon delivered in the mosque by the Muslim preacher.
In the first comprehensive commentary on Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript the eminent Kierkegaard specialist Niels Thulstrup clarifies the book's intricate allusions to the thought and literature of its own and past ages.
A physician and spokesman for the French Ideologues, Pierre-JeanGeorges Cabanis (1757-1808) stands at the crossroads of several influential developments in modern culture--Enlightenment optimism about human perfectibility, the clinical method in medicine, and the formation and adaptation of liberal social ideals in the French Revolution.
The work of twenty-two scholars is brought together in this comparative study of the emerging relationships between religion and politics in India, Pakistan, and Ceylon.
Albert approaches critical rationalism as an alternative to other philosophical standpoints dominant in Germany: the conceptions of the Frankfurt School, hermeneutical thinking as represented by Gadamer, analytic philosophy, and logical empiricism.
Ever since the eighteenth century, when Kant opened the floodgates of subjectivism in aesthetics, common men and philosophers alike have despaired of finding a basis for judgments about beauty.
If What God Placed on Me Makes You Uncomfortable is a bold, faith-filled testimony about purpose, obedience, resilience, and becoming who God called you to be.
Worship even more than theology may be the key to a true understanding of the Church's history, for through it people express their interpretation of theology and religion.
At the heart of the current debate over abortion is the question of what is at stake: for the liberal feminist group it is the woman's autonomy over her own body; for the conservative/ pro-life"e; group it is the life of the fetus itself.
This is the first English translation of Santob do Carrion's Proverbios morales (Moral Proverbs) and also the first book-length study of that monumental work.
This beautifully expressed and carefully developed approach to religious belief, has been called, "e;an invaluable contribution to the treasury of Christian thought"e; (Living Church), and "e;the finest rational approach to religious belief I have ever read.
The Lord JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth, just before concluding HIS earthly ministry and service, made a startling announcement to HIS chosen servants and disciples as recorded in the Gospel of St.
Asim Roy argues that Islam in Bengal was not a corruption of the "e;real"e; Middle Eastern Islam, as nineteenth-century reformers claimed, but a valid historical religion developed in an area totally different from the Middle East.
Anthropologist David Jordan and Daniel Overmyer, a historian of religions, present a joint analysis of the most important group of sectarian religious societies in contemporary Taiwan: those that engage in automatic writing seances, or worship by means of the phoenix"e; writing implement.
Moving beyond earlier explanations of why the Protestant church opposed the Weimar Republic, David Diephouse emphasizes the social role of the church rather than its direct political activity.
Claudia Brodsky skillfully combines close readings of narrative works by Goethe, Austen, Balzac, Stendhal, Melville, and Proust with a detailed analysis of the relation between Kant's critical epistemology and narrative theory.
When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal procedure--an association that begins with Aristotle.
The two studies, "e;Indivisible Magnitudes,"e; and "e;Aristotle and Epicurus on Voluntary Action,"e; explain two doctrines in the philosophy of Epicurus, first by a detailed examination of the ancient Greek and Latin texts which describe them, and second by showing how earlier Greek philosophy gave rise to the problems Epicurus tackled.
Philosophers have often bluntly said, and more often tacitly assumed that careful and reasonable men will confine themselves to two very rigid ways of talking.
The contributors to this volume range over 2,000 years of history as they show how Confucian values spread throughout the region in premodern times and how these values were transformed in an age of modernization.
In her study of medieval Chinese lay practices and beliefs, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments underlay religious changes in the Southern Song.
Building on concepts developed in his previously published New Theory of Beauty, Guy Sircello constructs a bold and provocative theory of love in which the objects of love are the qualities that "e;bear"e; beauty and the pleasure of all love is "e;erotic,"e; without being "e;sexual.
CÓMO ENTENDER HOY UNA FILOSOFÍA MILENARIA, JUSTA, COMPRENSIVA Y ALENTADORATomando como punto de partida el género latino de la consolatio, Antonio Cascón Dorado nos propone acercarnos al estoicismo romano y, en concreto, a la forma de afrontar la muerte y la pérdida de un ser querido.
A candid look at the methodology behind Descorchados: since 1998, blind tasting has been central to separating genuine quality from the charm of the moment.
