Religion and Philosophy

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

Notwithstanding his contributions to religion, nonviolence, civil rights and civil disobedience, among other areas, Gandhi's most significant contr...

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This book proposes a methodological framework for an ethical reading of Old Testament narrative and demonstrates its benefits and validity by provi...

This book is a study of the shifts in historical context of ritual observances from Vedic to Puranic traditions. It looks into the representations ...

This book is a philosophical analysis of ordinary concepts like human action and consciousness, along with an exploration of their representation i...

This book is an attempt to discuss the status of Buddhism in Sārnāth on the basis of all the available sources. It is a reconstruction of different...

Religious Tradition and Culture in Eighteenth Century Northern India contends that the ‘decline’ in the political scenario of eighteenth century In...

Early one morning in Montreal, an all night party still raging at his PR company, Jack leaves to be alone. Looking down the tunnel of his future, t...

In recent times, religion-based educational disparities in India, especially between Hindus and Muslims, have been the focus of passionate debate. ...

To grow up is to grow old. With time, great love can turn into indifference. This title compares Western and Eastern - specifically Chinese - ways ...

When erosion of ethical values is a global experience, human morals are fast decaying, religious fundamentalism is prompting fratricides, the teach...

In this richly photographed tribute to MF Husain, Pradeep Chandra celebrates the life of the man behind the artist in an attempt to understand the ...

Studies in Religion and the Everyday is a collection of essays addressing the contours of religious beliefs and practices in the context of everyda...

Krishna is an anti-hero, an anarchist and a rebel extraordinaire. He fulfils all the dark desires lurking in the depths of our unconscious. He hold...

For over half a century, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri repeatedly emerged from the shadows as a vengeful ideologue hell-bent on changing histor...

Connected Places is a study in the religious geography of India. It explores ways in which people live in and understand their worlds. In the book,...

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An engaging collection of late-life reflections and quick thoughts, a book unlike any other Agamben book. What can the senses of an attentive phil...

Indira Parthasarathy's Tamil play 'Ramanujar' was awarded the Saraswati Samman by the K.K. Birla Foundation in 1999 for promoting an understanding ...

This book brings to focus one of the prominent 20th century Indian thinkers, Sri Aurobindo, by providing an overview of his philosophy on life and ...

A captivating and wide-ranging interpretation of accidental dismounting. In Pascal Quignard’s writing, philology hunts for wild game in a dark fo...

On the second Saturday of each month, on the outskirts of the ancient city of Varanasi, Shiva's own city, thousands of shudra and Dalit devotees wo...

One of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin. ...

Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy in the fir...

The first and exhaustive biography of twentieth-century leftist philosopher Andre Gorz. Recognized as one of the most lucid and innovative critics ...

Rethinking Buddhism: Text, Context, Contestation deals with textual traditions, contextualization, and contestation in Indian Buddhism. The essays ...

To have self-knowledge is to know thyself – this philosophical dictum of ultimate knowledge has prevailed in the discourses of the Upanishads and c...

The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland A...

This Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the most important questions about education that are being addressed by philosophers today. Authored by ...

This comprehensive volume combines theoretical and practical discussions of Christian Ethics and addresses key debates in the field through examini...

Beginning with the 1990s, the subject of caste has seen a profound increase in interest among scholars. What was until then approached as a fossili...

• Explains the philosophical concepts of Shri Vallabhacharya and how these were expressed in beautiful artworks • Describes the history of the Pus...

• Offers an in-depth look at Orchha painting from 1605 to 1675 • Explains the concepts of love for the divine (bhakti), and the love between Krish...

This book is an enquiry into the meaning and nature of collective responsibility. It analyses the moral culpability of collective entities implicat...

This book engages with the ethics and practices of identity formation in a world experiencing identity stress. It engages with crucial questions su...

This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. Here Indian dharma ethics is moved from its preemine...

This book presents a critical reconsideration of the Kantian cognitive and practical subject. Special attention is devoted to highlighting the comp...

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which are relativistic. In...

This book explores Muslim communities in Southeast Asia and the integration of Islamic culture with the diverse ethnic cultures of the region, offe...

This volume explores the historical trajectory of the spread of Islam in South Asia and how the engagements of the past have played a crucial role ...