Religion and Philosophy

Culture and Circulation takes an innovative approach to early modern Indian literature. The authors foreground the complex hybridity of literary ge...

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...

The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aris...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

The Oxford history of Hinduism: modern Hinduism focuses on developments resulting from movements within the tradition as well as contact between In...

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...

For scholars of ancient Indian religions, the wandering mendicants who left home and family for a celibate life and the search for liberation repre...

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...

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...

Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires peo...

In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the c...

Gayatri chakravorty spivak’s ethics and politics in Tagore, Coetzee and certain scenes of teaching attempts to track the ‘literary’ in the producti...

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...

INFINITE PATHS TO INFINITE REALITY

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

This volume is an adda of great minds, spanning generations and multiple nationalities. While one discusses creativity and aesthetics through India...

Infinity is an intriguing topic, with connections to religion, philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and physics as well as mathematics. Its history goes...

Utilitarianism may well be the most influential secular ethical theory in the world today. It is also one of the most controversial. It clashes, or...

How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully 'objective'? What, really, can be de...

An expanded and revised edition of the 1997 study on the rise of the BJP and the need to re-evaluate the claims made about the virtues of Indian se...

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...

This book encompasses wide-ranging yet fundamental questions that have played a pivotal role in introducing, defining, structuring, and institution...

Ajmer Sharif, the heart of homage for thousands of all faiths, welcomes a tidal wave of humanity for the saint known as Gharib Nawaz (Benefactor of...