Philosophy and Religion

This innovative edited collection brings together leading international academics to explore the use of various non-prescription and prescription substances for the purpose of perceived body image enhancement.

A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling landscape of the Roman religion.

The study of Galatians has had a massive impact on Christianity throughout the ages, especially in the Reformation and modern eras.

A detailed study of pollution and impurity in Roman religion, offering new theories on a previously neglected, yet vital, subject.

This volume examines the limitations of mathematical logic and proposes a new approach to logic intended to overcome them.

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts.

The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics-the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's rigorous social science.

The starting point for this book is a particular answer to a question that grips many of us: what kind of thing are we?

Over the last two decades foundationalism has been severely criticized.

Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus provides the first full study of Thomas Gallus (d.

Conflicts and controversies at home and abroad have led Americans to focus on Islam more than ever before.

This book explores the politics of conservative Christian churches and social movements in Russia and the United States, focusing on their similar concerns but very different modes of political engagement.

The topic of certitude is much debated today.

The death of feminism is regularly proclaimed in the West.

This volume of the Connections Worship Companion series offers complete liturgies--from the call to worship to the closing charge, with prayers and litanies for every need in between--for all worshiping occasions between Advent and Pentecost of Year C.

A captivating look at the history of the pure females of Islamic paradise known as the houri The fascination with the houri, the pure female of Islamic paradise, began long before September 11, 2001.

Wenn sich die ganze Aufmerksamkeit auf den Sterbenden richtet, ist der Blick oft nicht frei für die Bedürfnisse der helfenden Angehörigen.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focused closely on democratic change, election events, and institution building.

The HIV pandemic has caused serious challenges for the Church as well as for theology.

This book offers a new way of approaching Schopenhauer by investigating the links between his philosophical practice and his aesthetics.

Voici une réflexion savante et novatrice sur des aspects constitutifs de l’Eucharistie, sacrement qui – institué par Jésus-Christ pendant la dernière Cène avec ses disciples – possède une dimension, non seulement sacrificielle, mais aussi conviviale, de repas.

John Hall Snow was professor of pastoral theology at the Episcopal Divinity School and considered preacher-in-residence at Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for over eighteen years.

Although abstract principles alone cannot guide action, they can be combined to shape good practical judgement and change the world.

In this fresh commentary, Deanna A.

A new wave of thinkers from across different disciplines within the analytical tradition in philosophy has recently focused on critical, societal challenges, such as the silencing and questioning of the credibility of oppressed groups, the political polarization that threatens the good functioning of democratic societies across the globe, or the moral and political significance of gender, race, or sexual orientation.

The crown of a mother is found in her faithfulness and character as it's reflected in her children.

Two trends in the early twenty-first-century intersect to give this volume immediate relevance: 1) The emerging postmodern ethos in North America is calling into question many things we have taken for granted, including the purposes of the church; and 2) our time is increasingly fractious as groups with distinct worldviews become polarized and often antagonistic.

My First Introduction to the New Testament is for young readers of middle school age who may cherish the presentation Bibles given to them when they were younger but wonder just how to engage with biblical literature.

Do we have positive duties to help others in need or are our moral duties only negative, focused on not harming them?

With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "e;truth"e; in politics has become a game of interpretations.

"e;Reformation Roots"e; studies the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in European Christianity, including theological and political undercurrents of the Reformation.

This volume looks at how accumulation in postcolonial capitalism blurs the boundaries of space, institutions, forms, financial regimes, labour processes, and economic segments on one hand, and creates zones and corridors on the other.

Luther’s transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation.

Several years ago I came across a marvelous little paper in which Hector-Neri Castaneda shows that standard versions of act utilitarian- l ism are formally incoherent.

Unsolved mysteries surround the remarkable men known as the Templars.

This book examines Jewish life in Vienna just after the Nazi-takeover in 1938.

This edition includes a substantial new preface by the author, in which he discusses repression, determinism, transference, and practical rationality, and offers a comparison of Aristotle and Lacan on the concept of desire.

Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language.

Illuminating these profound profiles will be eye opening for any reader.

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Pope Francis has said, Discernment is a choice of courage.

How to step into an inherited leadership role and guide your team through a polished transition process.

This book combines insights from the humanities and modern neuroscience to explore the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in case studies from animation, video games, and virtual worlds.