Religion and Philosophy

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 This book examines the issue of rational cooperation, especially cooperation between people with conflicting moral commitments. Can ...

About the Book C.S. Lewis's celebrated Space Trilogy - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength - was completed over sixty y...

About the Book Since the rise of critical biblical study in the nineteenth century there has been a revolution in the way that we interpret the Bib...

About the Book This is the second volume of three volume collection which collates the most important published papers of James Barr (1924-2006). T...

About the Book Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despit...

About the Book Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "the country's best social scientists" by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as...

About the Book Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great presents three interconnected arguments. The first argument concerns sch...

Along Deep Lonely Alleys:: Baul-Fakir-Dervish Of Bengal

About the Book This book focuses on methods that relate, in one form or another, to the "small-gain theorem". It is aimed at readers who are intere...

A Practical Vedic Dictionary

A detailed overview of how migration of Christians from the South enriches the North A Moving Faith captures the dynamic shift of Christianity to t...

About the Book A Gift of Grace simplifies Guru Nanak's core spiritual message for the modern reader All meditations are presented as transliterated...

About the Book "Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in th...

For distinguished philosopher hans blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by kári driscoll, collects thirty-two of blumenb...

Essays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time. In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikingly demonstrates the inte...

The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources f...

Visions of the Buddha offers a ground-breaking approach to the nature of the early discourses of the Buddha, the most foundational scriptures of Bu...

The Buddha and Aristotle offer competing visions of the best possible life to which human beings can aspire. In this volume, Seth Zuihō Segall comp...

Set in the theoretical perspective of religious conversion in general, and that of tribal identity of Christians in particular, this volume brings ...

A deluxe, high-quality edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s seminal work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the final books by German philosopher Friedrich...

Religions in South Asia have tended to be studied in blocks, whether in the various monolithic traditions in which they are now regarded—hindu, Mus...

American Millennials-the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s-have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers. For a long time, the...

The churches of India takes the reader on a fascinating journey through India to discover the history and architecture of the country Christian chu...

Logical empiricism is a philosophical movement that flourished in the 1920s and 30s in Central Europe and in the 1940s and 50s in the United States...

The list of subjects that Giorgio Agamben has tackled in his career is dizzying from the dangers of our current political moment to the traces of t...

The Portuguese encounter with the peoples of South Asia and Brazil set foundational precedents for European imperialism. Jesuit missionaries were k...

Modernity, which emphasizes the relegation of religion firmly to an individual’s private life, is a challenging idea for any culture. In India it f...

In 1909, while still in South Africa, Gandhi publicly decried the caste system for its inequalities. Shortly after his return to India though, he s...

Present-day militaries are often microcosms of the societies that maintain them. Unsurprising then that the armed forces have to come to terms with...