Religion and Philosophy

“What was it like living with Osho?” This is a candid and honest account of a German seeker who, for a combined total of 8 years, has lived in the ...

About the Book Presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of George Berkeley's thought and the impact of his intellectual contributions to philo...

About the Book Irish philosopher George Bishop Berkeley was one of the greatest philosophers of the early modern period. Along with David Hume and ...

About the Book Today's young women are smart, educated, career-oriented, and maybe a little bit fashion-obsessed. So where does the spiritual life ...

By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only his contemporaries but ...

About the Book Time is central to our lived experience of the world. Yet, as this book reveals, it is startlingly difficult to reconcile the way we...

About the Book Amartya Sen is one of the world's best-known voices for the poor, the destitute and the downtrodden and an inspiration for policy ma...

About the Book The alliance of critical theory between Frankfurt and Paris Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West argues that critical theo...

Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By con...

The Christian community in India emerged from an Indian rather than a foreign or an imperial context. Its internal dynamics were shaped far more by...

Antonia Pont shows us how to identify when practising is happening and explains, using the early philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, how it fosters trans...

A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Otto...

About the Book A History of Religion in America provides comprehensive coverage of the history of religion in America, with the first volume coveri...

About the Book This concise, accessible glossary of key Islamic terms is written by two of France's most eminent scholars of Islam. It offers brief...

About the Book This Companion provides an authoritative survey of the whole range of Kant's work, giving readers an idea of its immense scope, its ...

A revised edition of the internationally acclaimed biography of the prophet • Includes important additions about the prophet’s spread of Islam into...

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

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Is religion a force for war, or a force for peace? Some of the most terrible wars in history...

Thought and Knowledge applies theory and research from the learning sciences to teach students the critical thinking skills that they need to succe...

Atheism is often considered to be a negative or pessimistic belief which is characterized by a rejection of values and purpose and a fierce opposit...

David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of ...

In a world where not everyone believes in God, 'blasphemy' is surely a concept that has passed its use-by-date. And yet blasphemy (like God and rel...

In Search of the Pitcher of Nectar (F.B)

This textbook is a logic manual which includes an elementary course and an advanced course. It covers more than most introductory logic textbooks, ...

This textbook shows how people can and do transform the world through transforming their practices and the practice architectures that shape them, ...

Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical ...

Sarada Devi: Holiness, Charisma and Iconic Motherhood (P.B)

From the philosophy of Aristotle and Confucius, to Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, to the paintings of Raphael, Botticelli and many more, fascina...

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something...

With over 520 million followers, Buddhism is now the world's fourth largest religion. Over the last seventy years or so there has been a growing in...

Religion plays a central role in human experience. Billions of people around the world practice a faith and act in accordance with it. Religion sha...

Do you touch wood for luck, or avoid hotel rooms on floor thirteen? Would you cross the path of a black cat, or step under a ladder? Is breaking a ...

Socrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy; it is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whol...

French culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with politica...

Millions of non-Muslims know the name of the Muslim scripture, whether it is written as "Qur'an" or "Quran" or "Koran." But for most, that is all t...

From the mid-90s to the present, television drama with religious content has come to reflect the growing cultural divide between white middle-Ameri...

Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in Combatting environmental problem...

Over the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of the philosophy of science. Covering some of scien...

Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order...

Beginning as a renewal movement within Anglicanism in the eighteenth century, Methodism had become the largest Protestant denomination in the USA i...

Originating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of ...

In this collection of conversations that were conducted in Calcutta, at the London School of Economics, through Jewish Book Week, and on the radica...