Philosophy and Religion

A meditation on holiness and beauty through the study of Saint Mary of Egypt.

The subject of gay and lesbian sexuality is perhaps the most vexed issue in the contemporary Christian Church.

Argues that satisfactory theories of objectivity must include the robust account of experience found in classical pragmatism.

Were the most serious philosophers of the millennium 200 A.

Exploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists, and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region.

There are two tragedies in life: to live life believing God exists, and finding this to be an illusion, and to live life believing God does not exist, but finding that God does exist.

Many of the key problems and concepts of ethics go back to the time of the Vedas and the origins of Vedic Philosophy.

A Metaphysics for Freedom argues that agency itself-and not merely the special, distinctively human variety of it-is incompatible with determinism.

This bibliography aims to cover the most important source-editions of and literature concerning early Christian worship, which cast light directly on the medieval Latin liturgy.

Meggie was a weird teenager.

From the perspective of a number of different social science disciplines, this book explores the ways in which the election of politicians can be made more fair and credible by adopting a human rights approach to elections.

To enact the book's central theme of automation and human agency, the author designed a Bot trained on her book to support dialogue with the content and facilitate discussions.

Encyclopaedia Of Gods And Goddesses Is A Vast Collection And Compilation Of Authoritative Information On Gods And Goddesses Worshipped In All Religions Of The World.

A black social gospel movement arose after the Civil War to mitigate the broken promises of reparations and the reestablishment of white supremacy.

This book examines how civil society actors operate under authoritarian constraints, and examines how this is linked to regime change.

Unfreezing Music Education argues that discussing the conflicting meanings of music should occupy a more central role in formal music education and music teacher preparation programs than is currently the case.

This varied and vast collection captures more than 160 sermons developed and delivered by John Coburn - prominent church leader, educator, and rector at St.

Ethics is Nicolai Hartmann's magnum opus on moral philosophy.

This book demonstrates the importance and potential role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in foreseeing and curbing future global pandemics.

For many cultures throughout history, honor and shame have been foundational concepts for understanding and evaluating reality.

In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods.

Exploring the diverse factors that persuaded Christopher Columbus that he could reach the fabled "e;East"e; by sailing west, Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition considers, first, the impact of Dante's Divine Comedy and the apocalyptic prophetic tradition that it reflects, on Columbus's perception both of the cosmos and the eschatological meaning of his journey to what he called an 'other world.

Chance ordained that Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was not only a philosopher, playwright and writer, but also a salonnier.

Introducing Existential Health unfolds this evolving concept and places it in the context of common understandings of health.

Imagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century.

A textbook, with exercises, on modal logic for readers already acquainted with the elements of formal logic.

Inspired by Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, this book tells a story about epochal change in the modern world.

From the writers of the No.

Essays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth-century hagiography.

Since 1988, hundreds of thousands of evangelical Christians have migrated to the United States of America from former Soviet Union countries, establishing many Russian-speaking immigrant congregations across the country.

The relationship between a father and a son is like none other.

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.

An introduction reviews previous scholarship, and concludes that the cultic aspects of Judges 17-18 have not been examined in any depth.

First published in 1950, this is a late work by Charles Baudouin, world-famous French psychologist, and takes its title from the opening chapter which examines the transformation of the myth of Progress, characteristic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, into the myth of Modernity, characteristic of the time of writing.

Religious Education in Malawi and Ghana contributes to the literature on opportunities and complexities of inclusive approaches to Religious Education (RE).

For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge.

Hosting the Stranger features ten powerful meditations on the theme of interreligious hospitality by eminent scholars and practitioners from the five different wisdom traditions: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic.

The contributions in this volume enter the debate about the way in which the provision of poor relief can be influenced by its national confessional context.

This book, an essential tool for anyone studying the state of feminist thought in particular or ethical theory in general, shows the outlines of an ethic of care in the distinctive practices of African American communities and considers how the values of care and justice can be reformulated.

It was not until the emergence of the ideologies of Zionism and Socialism at the end of the last century that the Jewish communities of the Diaspora were perceived by historians as having a genuine political life.

Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims?

Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories of concepts, and the inputs of the budding neuropsychology of concepts.

A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.