Philosophy and Religion

Epistemology has traditionally been motivated by a desire to respond to skeptical challenges.

The book aims to provide a contemporary individual with an extensive but focused set of examples of kitsch in non-artistic spheres to create theoretical and practical backgrounds for conscious recognition of kitsch in fields like psychology, education, politics, law, religion, terrorism, television, or journalism.

Are we able to do everything we ought to do?

No matter your place in life, this inspiring collection of 365 devotional readings is designed to bring you daily to a special place of renewal to help you pause and gaze "e;unto the hills"e; for help and inspiration.

An edition of Hume''s profoundly influential work together with some of his other writings.

This book analyzes the historical quest of the Islamic Republic of Iran to export its revolution to the Muslim countries in the Middle East and beyond.

La obra demuestra que la Ilustración radical, lejos ser un suceso periférico, constituye una parte vital e integral del fenómeno más amplio y tuvo mayor cohesión internacionalmente que la tendencia dominante de la Ilustración.

With a combination of essay-length and short entries written by a team of leading religious experts, the two-volume Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodoxy offers the most comprehensive guide to the cultural and intellectual world of Eastern Orthodox Christianity available in English today.

First published in 1933.

In Ephesians 4:1-16, Jesus gave five specific spiritual gifts for the equipping and building up of his body to display his fullness in the world: apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teachers.

Die Liederkunde bietet hymnologisch und theologisch fundierte Kommentare zu Text und Musik von verschiedenen Liedern aus dem Evangelischen Gesangbuch.

In the light of its own history, the Catholic theology of the Eucharist, as it is generally understood today, is revealed as a splinter tradition whose deficiencies call for fundamental reformulation.

This introduction to a biblical theology of the New Testament seeks to revitalize our engagement with the Scriptures for the twenty-first century by showing not only how the assemblage of ancient writings consisting of both Old and New Testaments is intrinsically relevant, but also how we can remain faithful to Jesus Christ, the organizing principle of those writings, in the process.

This book presents the syllabus of Hu Shih's course on the History of Chinese Thought, which he taught at Harvard University from 1944 to 1945, and has been transcribed from his (more than 1500) hand-written notes.

The second volume of The History of Evil explores the philosophy of evil in the long Middle Ages.

Roman Stoicism, first published in 1911, offers an authoritative introduction to this fascinating chapter in the history of Western philosophy, which throughout the 20th century has been rediscovered and rehabilitated among philosophers, theologians and intellectual historians.

A book on teaching and learning in theological education, Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education is guided by the questions, What makes education intercultural and interreligious?

Während "das gute Leben" in der antiken Ethik noch im Zentrum des Philosophierens steht, erfolgt mit der Moralphilosophie Kants eine Abkehr der philosophischen Ethik vom Glück des Individuums – zugunsten einer reinen über-individuellen Moralität.

Focusing on the concepts of time and the life cycle, this collection of articles examines Jewish life in the Talmudic period through the lens of Jewish law and custom of the time.

While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self.

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One of the first things to strike the reader of Wittgenstein's writings is the unique power of his style.

Modern philosophy has been vexed by the question "e;Why should I be moral?

Are you fed up with being carried along by life, drifting along aimlessly?

Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time.

The revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought and practice, yet his psychiatric work still has only been studied peripherally.

Engineers designing technologies and systems produce problems when they do not account for existing biases in society.

The Kakais are a Kurdish-speaking indigenous population belonging to the Yarsan religion, originating from the Zagros Mountains in present-day Northern Iraq.

This book, originally published in 1972, offers a stimulating account of the Christian tradition of historiography as it is reflected in works of literature and history.

Here is an insightful volume on the integration of women in the modernization process of developing countries, with research studies on women and development in Guatemala, Tanzania, Indonesia, and several other countries.

A luxury, keep-sake edition of an ancient Chinese scripture This ancient text, fundamental to Taoism, has become a source of inspiration and guidance for millions in modern society.

This book provides a new perspective for examining the Native policies of the late nineteenth century.

Today the chasm between rich and poor is constantly widening.

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over-and upending-nearly every aspect of life.

The recent tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico and resultant ethical consequences for the engineering profession are introduced and discussed.

Der iconic turn verstand sich weitgehend als Antithese zu einer bildervergessenen philosophischen Tradition.

Once rarely discussed in medical circles, the relationship between spirituality and health has become an important topic in health care.

Life abundant?

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis.

Friedrich Nietzsche's intellectual autobiography Ecce Homo has always been a controversial book.

Asks and answers the hardest questions about the relationship between British Islam and English law using classical pluralist theory.

Renaissance writers habitually drew upon the idioms and images of the schoolroom in their depictions of emotional experience.

In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities throughout the world remember genocide.

One of the most significant developments within contemporary American Christianity, especially among younger evangelicals, is a groundswell of interest in the Reformed tradition.