Religion and Philosophy

About the Book These concise alphabetic guides introduce the central concepts of the various branches of philosophy. Written by established philoso...

About the Book Few facts are known about Catholic recusant Jane Owen. The title page of this, her only work, tells us that in 1634 when this volume...

About the Book Examining the production and assimilation of Jews as "the nation" in the modern state of Israel, this book shows how identity is con...

About the Book The past thirty years have witnessed the rise of political parties and other formal groups in the Middle East and elsewhere with Isl...

Does history matter? This book argues not that history matters, but that Islamic history does. This Very Short Introduction introduces the story of...

Islamic Extremism : Causes, Diversity, & Challenges is a deeply informed book which examines the threat that Islamic extremists pose to America...

About the Book Islam, South Asia & The Cold War is a collection of articles written by A. G. Noorani over the last twenty-five years, and publi...

About the Book This book focuses on the way Muslims and mainstream societies in the West, especially in America, Australia, and Europe, perceive ea...

Islam in Historical Perspective is a general introduction to Islam and the history of Muslim societies. Richly illustrated by quotations and images...

About the Book Islam, Ethnicity, and Power Politics explores how the central state apparatus, social forces, ethnic groups, political elites, and r...

The doctrine of 'Islamic economics' entered Islamic discourses in the mid-twentieth century. Since then it has pursued the goal of restructuring ec...

About the Book Islamist political parties have enjoyed unprecedented election victories in recent times. The Islamic Revolution in Iran, the electi...

About the Book That is full. This is full. From the full comes the full. Remove the full from the full and what remains? The full. This first line...

About the Book We call many things sacred, from cows, churches and paintings to flags and burial grounds. Is it still meaningful to talk of things ...

About the Book Technology has extended its reach to the humanbody, not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants andtechnological subs...

About the Book Over the past three decades, through rises and falls in power, regime repression and exclusion, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has ...

About the Book Indira Bai, born in an orthodox Saraswat Brahmin family in the small town of Kamalapura, is married and widowed as a child. The brig...

India has a long, rich, and diverse tradition of philosophical thought, spanning some two and a half millennia and encompassing several major relig...

A memoir which talks about author's childhood, her marriage to a progressive civil servant, and from the 1930s, her deep involvement with women's i...

The book’s central concern lies in conceptualizing a specically contemporary and artistic history of the urban festival. In keeping with its title,...

About the Book In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl.1651-71), who translated five narrative p...

About the Book Over the past decade, renewables-based technology and sustainability assessment methods have grown tremendously. Renewable energy an...

About the Book The essays in this volume take off from themes in the work of eminent philosopher and political scientist Joshua Cohen. Cohen is a d...

No one is a Hindu and no one a Muslim with these radical words Guru Nanak (1469–1539) founded the Sikh religion, calling for the recognition of one...

About the Book Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. However, cultural, political, or a...

Historical Gurdwaras of Delhi by M.K. Pal, a noted Art Historian and a distinguished Scholar in Arts, Crafts and Socio-cultural Studies, is the res...

This book weaves the past with the present to trace and analyze the distinctive but reiterative evocations of Hindutva ideology in the modern-colon...

About the Book True Hinduism has a power and beauty that no one acquainted with it can regard with anything but the deepest respect. You have to ap...

A major contribution toward the ongoing debates on the nature and history of Hinduism in India Hinduism in India: The Early Period ;covers the ma...

A major contribution toward the ongoing debates on the nature and history of Hinduism in India Is Hinduism coherent, or should it be viewed as a ...

About the Book These translated extracts from all forms of Hindu literature, from the ancient scriptures to modern political writings, are accompan...

Western intellectual history has benefited from a rich and sophisticated conversation between theology and Science, leaving us with centuries of sc...

An attempt to simplify the tenets of an age-old religion and demystify it for today’s reader. Religion and ritual come together to bring the concep...

About the Book A 12th-century German mystic and philosopher, Hildegard is being rediscovered as a musical composer and as a prophet of the environm...

About the Book Heidegger's Eschatology is a ground-breaking account of Heidegger's early engagement with theology, from his beginnings as an anti-M...

Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, and...

About the Book The written word holds sacred value to Jewish people and this means that books have always played a central role in the development ...

About the Book Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a ground-breaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentie...

Hearing Islam introduces the global religious tradition of Islam through its rich history of sounds and music. The book explores how the centralit...

About the Book A prominent rabbi shows how to apply the wisdom of the Psalms in our daily lives Traditionally attributed to King David, among othe...

About the Book W. E. B. Du Bois has described the African American at the end of the nineteenth century as “two souls in one dark body, whose dog...

About the Book Hammer of Thor - Norse Mythology and Legends contains more than two dozen bold and exciting myths and legends from Norse mythology, ...

About the Book Guilty Males and Proud Females is the first complete study on the Bengali gajan festival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village god in th...

Every year, The Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkin sees its population of 20, 000 swell by two million visitors. Since the 1970s, Pushkar, which is ...

About the Book Under what conditions is a group of scientists rational? How would rational scientists collectively agree to make their group more e...

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...