Religion and Philosophy

About the Book Offers an introduction to the basic beliefs, practices, and major deities of Greek and Roman religions A volume in the Blackwell Anc...

About the Book The melodious recitation of the Quran is a fundamental aesthetic experience for Muslims, and the start of a compelling journey of id...

About the Book Genius is the name we give to a quality of work that transcends fashion, celebrity, fame, and reputation. Somehow, genius abolishes ...

About the Book -Presents some glimpses from Gandhi's life: how he adopted non-violence as a potent tool in his quest for the 'truth force' and led ...

About the Book What impact does our relentless fixation on the gadget have on the struggle for new kinds of solidarity, political articulation, and...

G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual career was unus...

About the Book The world is changing so fast that it's hard to know how to think about what we ought to do. We barely have time to reflect on how s...

About the Book The Tamil text Nīlakeci , dated around the 5th century CE (debated), is an unusual literary creation. It retrieves a violent, vengef...

About the Book Serious problems and risks can be observed in European freight transportation development. However, the transport and logistics sect...

Food Ethics: The Basics is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the ethical dimensions of the production and consumption of food. It offers ...

About the Book Since the end of the Cold War, religion has become an ever more explicit and systematic focus of US foreign policy across multiple d...

About the Book ​Examines Feferman's work in mathematical as well as specific methodological and philosophical issues Critically examines Feferman's...

Innumerable references to the foot and to foot worship in Indian culture convey the impression that the foot is considered one, if not the most, im...

About the Book The father-daughter dyad features in the Hebrew Bible in all of narratives, laws, myths and metaphors. In previous explorations of t...

About the Book In real life-especially off the Florida coast-things can have fatal consequences. Fatal Treasure is a truly compelling read.-Aphrodi...

About the Book Teresa Forcades, Spanish Benedictine nun, theologian, physician and political activist, is one of Europe's leading radical thinkers....

This book examines the regional culture of nineteenth century Bengal, subjected to acute interpretative stress throughout this period. This is done...

About the Book Originally published in 1966. This volume analyzes the general structure of scientific theories, their relation to experience and to...

About the Book Evangelicalism has rapidly become one of the most significant religious movements in the modern world.An umbrella term that encompas...

About the Book Many of the most controversial moral decisions we face hinge upon competing descriptions of life, and never is this truer than at th...

About the Book Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction introduces the issues and controversies of contemporary moral philosophy. It gets students to st...

About the Book Simon Evnine examines various epistemic aspects of what it is to be a person. Persons are defined as finite beings that have beliefs...

About the Book The cult of Elvis Presley has, since his death, become ever more pervasive in American culture. From Graceland to Las Vegas, from fa...

Elements of Tibetan Buddhism [Paperback] Farkas

About the Book Thorough and wide-ranging examination of the science of morals, reviving and defending the tradition of a scientific approach to eth...

About the Book In Doing , Jean-Luc Nancy, one of the most prominent and lucid articulators of contemporary French theory and philosophy, examines t...

About the Book The revised second edition of the accessible guide to contemporary ethical issues that are at the intersection of religion and moral...

About the Book According to the doctrine of the Trinity, the Father, Son, and Spirit are supposed to be distinct from each other, and yet be one an...

About the Book The claim that the Bible was "the Christian's only rule of faith and practice" has been fundamental to Protestant dissent. Dissenter...

About the Book Combining a student-centred approach with the reliability of a familiar and proven text, Discovering The Universe invites students t...

About the Book Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013), an American legal philosopher, jurist, and scholar, was a stalwart advocate of human rights and dignity ...

About the Book This dictionary is a rapid reference to those men and women who have, over the last two millennia, contributed to the life, history ...

David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more import...

About the Book Devotions for Leaders is written for Christians who are leaders-- or aspire to become leaders-- and want to bring their spiritual li...

devotional sovereignty: kingship and religion in India investigates the shifting conceptualization of sovereignty in the South Indian kingdom of My...

Devi: Mother of My Mind is a creative interaction with India’s Yoga, Shakta, and Tantra traditions. This book uses the epic literary genre to imagi...

About the Book In Desire and Liberation Vaddera Chandidas creates a new metaphysical system. He bases this new system on earlier Indian traditions ...

About the Book Deleuze and the Social is the first book to focus on the implications of Gilles Deleuze and F�lix Guattari's thinking on the socia...

About the Book How have cinema and popular religion shaped each other? Is the display of devotion in the cinema hall the same as devotion in a temp...

About the Book Contemporary liberal societies are marked by a certain degree of diversity indicated by coexistence of multiple ideas, doctrines, be...

About the Book Russell Hardin presents a new explication of David Hume's moral and political theory. With Hume, he holds that our normative views c...

About the Book What role does religion play in contemporary political discourse? Holding a mirror up to English politics in particular, James Cross...

We are frequently confronted with arguments. Arguments are attempts to persuade us – to influence our beliefs and actions – by giving us reasons to...

About the Book Continuum Glossary of Religious Terms provides a comprehensive glossary of terms from seven major religions: Judaism, Christianity, ...

About the Book Nathan Salmon presents a selection of his essays from the early 1980s to 2006, on a set of closely connected topics central to analy...

About the Book A rigorous, authoritative new anthology which brings together some of the most significant contemporary scholarship on the theory of...