Religion and Philosophy

This Introduction introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy: authority, democracy, freedom and its limits, justice, feminism, mult...

Schopenhauer is considered to be the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, conce...

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is one of the most famous and important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this account of his life and work A....

Rousseau was both a central figure of the European Enlightenment and its most formidable critic. This study of his works, across a range of discipl...

Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the ...

René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endu...

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosop...

The essays in this volume chart the course of subaltarn history from an early concentration on peasant revolts and popular insurgency.

This is an outstanding survey of some key differences and lessons, within India, concerning some crucial components of human development and self-e...

This is a book about the invention of Western philosophy, and the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin...

How did hand the ape join the League of Batman and Superman as Hanuman? You have to read this humorous retelling of the Ramayana to find out!.

The Way of the Cross for Children 978-0-89942-497-2 The Way of the Cross is an ideal gift for a child's First Holy Communion. The St. Joseph Pictu...

Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gender...

A comprehensive collection of texts from the most influential and iconic figure of Italian second-wave feminism. Recently rediscovered in Italy a...

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...

Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kōlam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the...

In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol for humanity’s ...

The role of experts and their expertise, in our personal and social lives, has taken centre stage in the debates about our post-COVID-19 world. Sci...

Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyaya-sutra is one of classical India's most important philosophical works. This Guide offers both a map and interpr...

As a cutting-edge overview of the diverse range of religious traditions and their complex interaction with science, this book primes undergraduate ...

The first of its kind, this anthology in the burgeoning field of technology ethics offers students and other interested readers 32 chapters, each w...

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...

The new and updated edition of The Archaeology of Religion explores how archaeology interprets past religions, offering insights into how archaeolo...