Philosophy and Religion

FEATURING:Judith ButlerLia ChavezKatherine James D.

On June 30, 2017 rap artist Jay-Z, released his new album 4:44 where he indirectly ';Comes Clean' about his infidelity.

A Story of YHWH investigates the ancient Israelite expression of their deity, and tracks why variation occurred in that expression, from the early Iron Age to the Persian period.

The author of Christ at the Checkpoint analyzes the appeal of Pentecostalism, from the belief in miracles to tongue-talking to the prosperity gospel.

Embodying Wittgenstein's own aphorism of "e;you'd be surprised,"e; this collection of original essays by both artists and academics explores the significance of Wittgenstein's writings across a diverse field of performance practices, including poetics and choreography, theatre, and psychotherapy, as well as reflections on political thought and ChatGPT.

In seinem Essay widmet sich Tobias Endres der theoretischen Philosophie Friedrich Nietzsches, welcher nach wie vor der Ruf einer, wenn auch affirmierten Selbstwidersprüchlichkeit vorauseilt.

This book is all you need to grasp Reform Judaism, thoughts from the first woman to play a major role in its development, Lily H.

In the fifth and sixth centuries before Christ, people in Greece begin to think in a new way about the origins and primal causes of the world.

If you think you know all about angels, think again!

Religiöser Pluralismus ist in nahezu allen westlichen, aber auch in vielen sich entwickelnden Gesellschaften zu einer zentralen sozialen und politischen Herausforderung avanciert.

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This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernity-and examines the question of whether he was the "e;first secular Jew.

Die Studie zeichnet ein überraschend neues Bild der griechisch-römischen Lesekultur.

Head hits cause brain damage - but not always.

The "e;Great Whore"e; of the Book of Revelationthe hostile symbolization used to illustrate the authors critique of empirehas attracted considerable attention in Revelation scholarship.

Challenging accepted theories about what makes for terrific sex, The Erotic Mind is a breakthrough exploration of the least understood dimensions of human sexualitythe psychology of desire, arousal, and fulfillment.

In this book, Wilson gives a thoroughly biblical foundation for gospel movements.

There is a great debate going on in the church today.

Reconstructs ancient rituals in their day/night/season combining them with relevant mythology and astronomical observations to understand the ritual''s cosmological links.

First published in 1972 Death in the Secular City grapples with questions like is resurrection and immortality a meaningful concept in the age of lunar expedition, what are the appropriate symbols for renewed belief in heaven etc.

In this timely and provocative work, Walter Brueggemann applies his experience and skills in the area of biblical interpretation to the theme of evangelism.

Reading Hebrew Bible Narratives introduces readers to narrative traditions of the Old Testament and to methods of interpreting them.

Most consumers of mental health services assume that psychology developed as a bias-free social science, with research data driving theory and practice.

In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe's historical development.

In 'The Solipsism of Modern Fiction', Harold Kaplan deals with the problem of action and its adequate motive in the modern novel.

Although Teresa of Avila lived and wrote four centuries ago, her superbly inspiring classic on the practice of prayer is as fresh today as it was when she first wrote it.

In diesem Buch wird versucht, Leserinnen und Lesern eine Hilfe anzubieten, mit Hilfe des kontemplativen Betens den christlichen Glauben zu verinnerlichen und dem Ziel näher zu kommen, das JESUS CHRISTUS folgendermaßen formuliert hat: "Ich habe die Herrlichkeit, die du mir gegeben hast, ihnen gegeben, damit sie eins seien, gleichwie wir eins sind.

The enduring importance of his book The Golden Bough keeps J.

Widely heard and read throughout the middle ages, romance literature has persisted for centuries and has lately re-emerged in the form of speculative fiction, inviting readers to step out of the actual world and experience the intriguing pleasure of possibility.

This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph Agassi.

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory.

US Marshal Madison James may not be sure who shot her three months ago, but she does know one thing--it's time to get back out into the field.

Cultivating Empire charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

Exhausting Modernity is a bold new work on the exhaustion of our resources, both natural and human.

In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "e;self-consciousness is desire itself"e; and that it attains its "e;satisfaction"e; only in another self-consciousness.

This book is a historical and theological look into the deliverance and exorcism ministry of John Wesley.

This volume explores the relationship between Kant''s aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology.

This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbis' new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self.

Toward a Postmodern Ethic of Radical Freedom is one of the first, if not the first, to bring Cornel West and Michel Foucault together in a meaningful dialogue to formulate "e;a postmodern ethic of radical freedom.

Right from the beginning of humankind, God has never deprived a people of his grace and revelation.

Generically, theologically, and concerning content, Mark and Joseph and Aseneth are quite different.

This title was first published in 2001.

Discusses the speeches in which the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reflected most explicitly on law, justice, democracy, and reason.

Explores the emergence of African Methodism within the black Atlantic and how it struggled to sustain its liberationist identity.

Hinduism is, in many respects a unique phenomenon in the History of World Religions.

David Simon's The Wire lays out before us a city in which people struggle under the weight of poverty, political corruption, economic despair, educational collapse, and the drug trade.