Religion and Philosophy

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

About the Book Judaic Sources and Western Thought: Jerusalem's Enduring Presence explores the significance and enduring relevance of Judaic roots a...

About the Book The word "jihad" is everywhere in the global media. It generally appears in the context of violence waged against the West by milita...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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 ...

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

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

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