Philosophy and Religion

The Suharto (1966-98) government of Indonesia and the Mahathir (1981-2003) government of Malaysia both launched Islamisation programmes, upgrading and creating religious institutions.

Gregory of Tours was a bishop of late antiquity who was famously devoted to promoting the efficacy of saintly powers.

This multidisciplinary collective volume advances the scholarly discussion on the origins of Islam.

With a foreword from Jan Jaap de Ruiter.

Scholarship has come to value the uncertainties haunting early modern knowledge cultures; indeed, awareness of the fragility and plurality of knowledge is now offered as a key element for understanding early modern science as a whole.

Modernity is surrounded by an almost magic aura that casts a spell over people all over the world.

Mahasu is the joint name of four gods whose influence is widespread throughout the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

The book provides information and analysis about a Turkish student community in different locations in Europe, especially in Vienna and Sarajevo.

Antisthenes (c.

When Paul III was elected in 1534, hopes arose across Christendom that this pope would at last reform and reunite the Church.

Is Islam compatible with democracy?

Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory.

Increasing doubts over the narratives that traditionally served to legitimize the tasks and possibilities of societal institutions - such as science - have also called into question the significance of philosophy to educational thinking.

This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its own fragility, as well as the living transience of those who make and encounter it.

Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers.

Diese Predigt ist das bekannteste Werk von Jonathan Edwards, jenem herausragenden Prediger.

The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World is a cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian, Mongolian, and Tibetan sources concerning events and processes in the Central Asian Buddhist world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Wicked Philosophy.

Scholarship has come to value the uncertainties haunting early modern knowledge cultures; indeed, awareness of the fragility and plurality of knowledge is now offered as a key element for understanding early modern science as a whole.

You know something is wrong.

Mahasu is the joint name of four gods whose influence is widespread throughout the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Typically, scholars approach migrants' religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin.

Pathways to Contemporary Islam: New Trends in Critical Engagement highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity.

The volume collects a series of contributions that help reconstruct the recent history of the Nath tradition, highlighting important moments of self reinterpretation in the sampradaya's interaction with different social milieus.

The Indonesian province of Timor-Leste made international news when it decided to break away from Indonesia in 1999.

The Dutch Republic around 1600 was a laboratory of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.

Pathways to Contemporary Islam: New Trends in Critical Engagement highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity.

In Late Antiquity, people commonly sought to acquire hidden knowledge about the past, the present, and the future, using a variety of methods.

Typically, scholars approach migrants' religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin.

Few fields of academic research are surrounded by so many misunderstandings and misconceptions as the study of Western esotericism.

Die Kloster werden immer leerer - und doch wachst die Sehnsucht nach ihrer Ruhe und spirituellen Tiefe.

This collection of essays investigates signs of toleration, recognition, respect and other positive forms of interaction between and within religious groups of late antiquity.

This volume presents a batch of incisive new essays on the relationship between Roman imperial power and ideology and Christian and Jewish life and thought within the empire.

Gregory of Tours was a bishop of late antiquity who was famously devoted to promoting the efficacy of saintly powers.

Few fields of academic research are surrounded by so many misunderstandings and misconceptions as the study of Western esotericism.

With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city.

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This multidisciplinary collective volume advances the scholarly discussion on the origins of Islam.

Soo se tasi e fia iloa pe faaauau le olaga pe a mavae le oti e mafai ona faitau i ai.

The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World is a cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian, Mongolian, and Tibetan sources concerning events and processes in the Central Asian Buddhist world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Lao People's Democratic Republic is nearly fifty years old, and one of the few surviving one-party socialist states.

Justice and injustice were subjects of ongoing debate in medieval Europe.

When Paul III was elected in 1534, hopes arose across Christendom that this pope would at last reform and reunite the Church.

In Late Antiquity, people commonly sought to acquire hidden knowledge about the past, the present, and the future, using a variety of methods.

This book brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements (NRMs) and established religions.

Digital media is changing the ways in which religion is practiced, understood, proselytised and countered.

This is a beautiful translation by John Farndon (with Olga Nakston) of the late Ravil Bukharaev's literary existential novel memoir in which he explains to his wife how his Muslim faith and ideals influenced both his love for her and his understanding of life and self, particularly his quest for truth and 'authenticity'.

Walter Benjamin is today regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century.

Modernity is surrounded by an almost magic aura that casts a spell over people all over the world.

The Lao People's Democratic Republic is nearly fifty years old, and one of the few surviving one-party socialist states.