Philosophy and Religion

The Punta del Este Declaration, and this book dedicated to elaborating upon it, is devoted to exploring the ways that human dignity for everyone everywhere can be a useful tool in helping to address the challenges and strains facing human rights in the world today.

Christian communities in the state Andhra Pradesh of south India and the Telugu Christians in diaspora have passed their stories from one generation to the next by oral traditions as well as in scattered texts.

This book presents four bridges connecting work in virtue epistemology and work in philosophy of science (broadly construed) that may serve as catalysts for the further development of naturalized virtue epistemology.

During the last twenty years, public interest in Islam and how Muslims express their religious identity in Western societies has grown exponentially.

Jeremiah in History and Tradition examines aspects of the Book of Jeremiah from a variety of perspectives including historical, textual, redaction, and feminist criticism, as well as the history of its reception.

This toolkit of intentional and compassionate strategies takes an encouraging, incremental approach to help even small groups get started quickly.

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Federal Democracies examines the evolution of the relationship between federalism and democracy.

Before military action, and even before mobilization, the decision on whether to go to war is debated by politicians, pundits, and the public.

The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to elucidate what religious experience is, in its own terms, and how its practitioners understand it.

Fifty years after Camus's untimely death, his work still has a tremendous impact on literature.

Leben und Wirken der Jüngerinnen Christi.

Von Unternehmen und ihrer Verantwortung ist in der Öffentlichkeit viel die Rede.

Designed to empower preachers as they lead their congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary.

New Era - New Religions examines new forms of religion in Brazil.

After Christmas is a powerful book for unbelievers who need an introduction to the birth of Christ and its implications, and believers who need further tutoring on the same points.

This groundbreaking book examines the ways in which questions of culture and diversity impact on the values and ethics of social work.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFind hope and grace when you are feeling cynical about the church and faith.

A 2011 study of how the image of the Virgin Mary was transformed during the Reformation.

Thomas Kuhn's celebrated work, 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' revolutionized thinking in the philosophy of science and to a large extent his 'paradigm shift' view has replaced logical positivism and the philosophy of Karl Popper.

"e;Walter Brueggemann is the master of finding fresh and compelling dimensions of meaning in texts so familiar they barely scratch the surface of our consciousness.

Using in-depth examples of 'magical' practice such as exorcisms, love rites, alchemy and the transformation of humans into divine beings, this lively volume demonstrates that the word 'magic' was used widely in late antique texts as part of polemics against enemies and sometimes merely as a term for other people's rituals.

In the Gospel of John, the character of Jesus repeatedly comes into conflict with a group pejoratively designated as 'the Jews'.

In der Reformationszeit spielt die Auseinandersetzung über den Zins und den Wucher eine bedeutsame Rolle.

In this compact, fluently written survey of logical fallacies, Adam Murrell provides myriad examples of ways we go about being illogical--how we deceive ourselves and others, how we think and argue in ways that are uncritical, disorganized, or irrelevant.

This book examines what we can gain from a critical reading of Marx's final manuscript and his conclusion of the "e;systematic presentation"e; of his critique, which was the basis for Engels's construction of the third volume of his infamous 'Capital'.

First published in 1998, this volume gives an account of personal identity derived from the Butler-Reid position, arguing that from the first person point of view one necessary condition of personal identity is the survival of the Self.

The Bible calls Jesus the friend of sinners, but it's hard to imagine what friendship with Jesus really looks like.

This book aims to understand God's interactions with Abraham in relation to God's command that Abraham "e;be a blessing"e; (Gen 12:2d), which is directly tied to God's goal that "e;in you all the families of the earth will be blessed"e; (Gen 12:3b).

Understanding Zionism is a detailed introduction to the background and development of the Zionist movement, its various streams, and its impact on government and society in Israel.

A stimulating account of the wide range of approaches towards conceptualising emotions in classical Indian philosophical-religious traditions, such as those of the Upanishads, Vaishnava Tantrism, Bhakti movement, Jainism, Buddhism, Yoga, Shaivism, and aesthetics, this volume analyses the definition and validity of emotions in the construction of

A Theology of the Sublime is the first major response to the influential and controversial Radical Orthodoxy movement.

Hope is a central topic in spiritual care.

Religiöse wie nicht religiöse Zeitgenossen setzen den biblischen Schöpfungsglauben mit einer Aussage über die Entstehung der Welt gleich.

Paul Rée (1849-1901), an interdisciplinary traveller and admirer of the French moralistes, but also of Schopenhauer and Darwin, was for a time one of the closest friends of Lou Andreas-Salomé and Friedrich Nietzsche.

This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd.

For science to remain a legitimate and trustworthy source of knowledge, society will have to engage in the collective processes of knowledge co-production, which not only includes science, but also other types of knowledge.

This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than national and global reformation.

How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do?

This book examines how issues of nationalism, national identity and belonging played out in a multi-religious setting during the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

Billy Graham's ministry is often described as a quintessentially American success story.

This volume, first published in 1988, analyses the process of stabilisation amongst the Arab states, a process that has contradicted all predictions of impending disintegration and impending collapse.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties.