Religion and Philosophy

This handbook explores the diversity of religious practice in tribal cultures in India. It looks at the interactive spaces where the religious prac...

About the Book In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderlan...

About the Book This book introduces students to the complex and foreign world of Roman religion and to major trends in its study. Praised in the En...

About the Book Social memory studies offer an under-utilised lens through which to approach the texts of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, the rang...

About the Book Religion was thought to be part of the problem in Ireland and incapable of turning itself into part of the solution. Many commentato...

Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam--in...

About the Book Of the many Sufi orders that have operated in South Asia, the Chishti order is the oldest and the most popular. This book examines t...

About the Book A detailed exploration of a stunning festival, which is of great importance to Indian culture and heritage -A comprehensive and holi...

About the Book Promise of the Soul is a spiritual workbook. Through simple, accessible exercises and reflections, Kenny offers us practical and pro...

About the Book In many of his writings, Hume talks of our "gliding and staining" natural objects, and of the mind's propensity to "spread itself" o...

About the Book This book introduces a new system for describing non-biblical ancient Jewish literature. It arises from a fresh empirical investigat...

About the Book This volume tackles the burden of judgment and the challenges of ethical disagreements, organizes the cohabitation of scientific and...

This book provides the first full-scale English-language study of Pradyumna, the son of the Hindu god Krsna. Often represented as a young man in mi...

About the Book Politicizing Islam is a comparative ethnographic study of Islamic revival movements in France and India, home to the largest Muslim ...

The book also contributes to the study of Śaivism by examining the ways in which Śaiva poets have integrated the traditions of Sanskrit literature ...

Philosophy as Samvada and Svaraj discusses Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi’s respective intellectual contributions and speculates how one might...

About the Book Every day the news shows us provoking stories about what's going on in the world, about events which raise moral questions and probl...

The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India project on 2 October 1985 to generate an anthropological profile of all communitie...

About the Book Engaging with the growing popular and academic interest in the "spiritual but not religious," Andrea R. Jain explores the connection...

In this book, the author brings to the reader the Goddess Parvati, the Female Principle, consort of the God Shiva, lover, mother, provider, embodim...

About the Book Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of s...

About the Book Part of an ongoing series published in cooperation with the Index on Censorship that deals with religion and free expression, The Je...

About the Book To many outside India, Hinduism is envisioned as the foundation of an ideal, all-embracing society. Yet this is far from the truth. ...

About the Book During the cold-war years, Western Christians basked in a sense that they were living on the right side of the ideological divide, h...

About the Book This volume contains a series of Jacobean newsletters written by Catholic priests. They shed light on the strife among different Cat...

About the Book New Essays on Singular Thought presents ten new, specially written essays on an issue central to philosophy of mind, language, and p...

About the Book Neoliberalism's war against democracy and how to resist it How do we explain the strange survival of the forces responsible for the ...

About the Book Karl Barth was well-known for his criticism of German nationalism as a corrupting influence on the German protestant churches in the...

About the Book Mutating Goddesses traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi―- from the fifte...

About the Book How do we learn to be religious? To make sense of this process should we emphasise the habitual reinforcement of bodily rituals? Or ...

About the Book With the ending of the strategic certainties of the Cold War, the need for moral clarity over when, where and how to start, conduct ...

About the Book Chinese Buddhists have never remained stationary. They have always been on the move. In Monks in Motion, Jack Meng-Tat Chia explores...

About the Book Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously ac...

About the Book Jane Heal argues that central to our ability to arrive at views about others' thoughts is not knowledge of some theory of the mind b...

About the Book This is the first full-length study of the doctrine of the Trinity from the standpoint of analytic philosophical theology. William H...

About the Book Meditations for Misfits offers a new look at familiar passages of the Bible; each of the insightful weekly readings uses Scripture, ...

Provides an ethnographically rich study of local politics and gender in rural India. It is based on her extensive fieldwork in Janta, a village nea...

About the Book Maoism and Grassroots Religion explores grassroots religious life under and after Mao in Rui'an County, Wenzhou of southeast China, ...

About the Book Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? Making AI Intelligible shows that philosophical work on the ...

About the Book Taking its title from Karl Marx's description of religion as the world's 'logic in a popular form', this book explores the hidden lo...

About the Book Written in a clear, precise and user-friendly style, Logic as a Tool: A Guide to Formal Logical Reasoning is intended for undergradu...

About the Book This work is in the form of letters written by an old philosopher, at the end of his career and life, to a young student. The letter...

About the Book Ludwig Wittgenstein's interest in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, is recognized among scholars worldwide though little has been...

Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity

The first full-length narration of the extraordinary life, immense literary output and manifold philosophical perspectives of Kumarajiva, the great...