Religion and Philosophy

Allah is the most common and contested name in the Islamic tradition - but who is he? This book introduces a broad range of perspectives, practices...

About the Book Idiots burn books for the same reason philosophers write them - they matter. But why exactly do political philosophy books matter, n...

About the Book What are scientists working on today? What do they worry about? What do they think about the working of the brain, climate change, a...

About the Book This book is inspired by a single powerful question. What is it to be great as a philosopher? No single grand answer is presumed to ...

About the Book According to an ancient and still popular view -- sometimes known as 'eudaimonism' -- a person's well-being, or quality of life, is ...

This book is an engaging introduction to the complex religious tradition of Hinduism. Central to its focus is demonstrating the fundamental diversi...

About the Book Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Epistemologists seek to understand knowledge's nature and availability. What i...

About the Book What does it mean for the people to actually rule? Formal democracy is an empty and cynical shell, while the nationalist Right claim...

About the Book The definitive compendium of Cavadini's essays on Augustine Visioning Augustine offers readers an expertly selected collection of es...

About the Book The political potential of millenarian religion has long exercised the interests of scholars of western history and religion. The re...

This volume shows the diversity of approaches to violence in Islamic thought between the 19th century and the present day, avoiding the limiting ch...

About the Book ‘Venice speaks to us; this false witness’ voice, shrill at times, whisperingat others, broken by silences.’ In these three mov...

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism is a pluralism according to whi...

About the Book This textbook presents the classical treatment of the problems of heat transfer in an exhaustive manner with due emphasis on underst...

From its inception in the early 1900s, The United Church of Canada set out to become the national church of Canada. This book recounts and analyzes...

About the Book Most texts on religion and science rightly focus on the effect of modern cosmology and biology on views about God and on the place o...

About the Book Nietzsche's critiques of traditional modes of thinking, valuing and living, as well as his radical proposals for new alternatives, h...

About the Book The ways in which religious communities interact with one another is an increasing focus of scholarly research and teaching. Issues ...

About the Book How are causal judgements such as 'The ice on the road caused the traffic accident' connected with counterfactual judgements such as...

The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective...

This book describes the temple culture of Ujjain. Of the thousands of temples in the city, the book describes the history, The mythology, the infra...

This book studies the concepts and philosophies governing globalized faiths. Transnational Religious Movements is a convincing narrative of how glo...

About the Book Torture is not as universally condemned as it once was. From Guant namo and Abu Ghraib prisons to the death of Giulio Regeni, countl...

About the Book Marco Altamirano critiques the modern concept of nature to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. He goes on to deploy...

About the Book Thomas Aquinas is widely recognized as one of history's most significant Christian theologians and one of the most powerful philosop...

About the Book Graham Ward argues that the study of theology and religion, as a single academic discipline, plays a vital role in helping us to und...

About the Book In the wake of the economic crisis, few questions are more pressing than those around the ethics of finance and economics. Theology ...

About the Book Theology after Postmodernity is a ground-breaking study that has the capacity to transform the relationship between psychoanalytic t...

About the Book Here, for the first time, contemporary Continental thought comes into conversation with analytic philosophy on all the principal top...

About the Book - An insightful handbook on spiritual thoughts for all, be an atheist, agnostic or a devout - An analytical comparative study of the...

About the Book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism combines outstanding contributions covering Buddhism as it developed ...

About the Book This introduction to the life of William James shows how his work in psychology and philosophy has contributed to our understanding ...

About the Book Takes the reader directly to the depths of Emerson's uniquely American approach to the personal issues of human nature.

About the Book The Virgin Mary - a Jewish mother - is central to Christianity, a revered woman in Islam, and a person of persistent fascination for...

About the Book This book was inspired by God for me to write while recovering from a surgical procedure. It provides understanding, direction and r...

About the Book The author proposes an ontology which encompasses not only Deleuze but also the contributions of Bergson, Kant, Guattari, Derrida, L...

About the Book The Unexplored Kingdom takes the reader on a journey through the cultural and ethnic heritage of Bhutan, reflected through the autho...

About the Book The idea that there is a truth within the person linked to the discovery of a deeper, more fundamental, more authentic self has been...

About the Book Throughout modernity there has been a clear divide between art and commerce. Objects could either be consumed as commerce or contemp...

About the Book Reinhold Niebuhr remains at the center of a national conversation about America's role in the world, and commentators with divergent...

Memories, sensory experiences, expectations and intentions, as well thoughts, fears, and hopes: all share a fundamental trait, the fact that our co...

The State of Islam Saadia Toor

About the Book Tracing the religious history of Siler City, North Carolina, Chad E. Seales argues that southern whites cultivated their own regiona...

About the Book Philosophers, legal scholars, criminologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists have long asked important questions about punishment:...

About the Book In an era which many now recognise as ‘post-secular’, the role that religions play in shaping gender identities and relationship...

About the Book The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, challenges, past and present...

About the Book Like an ecosystem, cities develop, change, thrive, adapt, expand, and contract through the interaction of myriad components. Religio...