Religion and Philosophy

In the cow in the elevator tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful...

The Concise Encyclopaedia of Islam [Hardcover] Glasse, Cyril

About the Book The French philosopher and theologian Nicholas Malebranche was one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period. A bold...

About the Book Let us see in detail why we should not quarrel, apart from these general principles. It can be put in a sentence: Because all the gr...

About the Book Originally published as The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies , this Companion offers the definitive guide to Hinduism and study ...

About the Book This international collaborative project on G. W. F. Hegel's philosophy includes contributions by eighteen scholars of 18th to 20th ...

About the Book Aristotle is one of the most crucial figures in the history of Western thought, and his name and ideas continue to be invoked in a w...

About the Book The Biblical World is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition ...

About the Book What kind of authority does Scripture have? How is Scripture's authority to be negotiated in relation to other sources of authority?...

About the Book The Bible is one of the world's most read and most influential books. It has provided many rules for people to live by, and has shap...

About the Book The richest, most fulfilling love of your life is yet to come! "The Authentic Heart offers practical, wise, and compassionate guida...

About the Book The Aramaic Astronomical Book describes the movement of the moon in its phases, schematic meteorology, and the movement of the stars...

The Adventures of Rama are incidents derived from the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu tale that was transmitted orally for centuries, captured into mag...

For millennia, the sages of the East have claimed that the world is maya or ‘illusion’. Drawing on theories of sensory perception from physics, psy...

About the Book For many American Muslims, the 9/11 attacks and subsequent War on Terror marked a rise in intense scrutiny of their religious lives ...

Presents struggles for liberation in the Americas from the perspectives of structural victims Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala explores the w...

About the Book Strong Religion, Zealous Media: Christian Fundamentalism and Communication in India is the first in-depth cultural and social analys...

About the Book S ren Kierkegaard was one of the most important European philosophers of the nineteenth-century and is widely regarded as the founde...

About the Book George Berkeley (1685-1753) was one of the most important and influential philosophers in the history of Western thought. He is most...

About the Book These guidelines and simple activities can help you create a private sanctuary at home. During five practice sessions keyed to the t...

About the Book Spinoza is among the most controversial and asymmetrical thinkers in the tradition and history of modern European philosophy. Since ...

Each volume in the "Philosophers of the Spirit" series provides an accessible introduction to the ideas of an influential philosopher. Spinoza was ...

About the Book On April 27, 2007, the first Speculative Realism (SR) workshop was held at Goldsmiths, University of London, featuring four young ph...

About the Book Numbers and politics are inter-related at almost every level - be it the abstract geometry of understandings of territory, the explo...

Today numbering more than twelve million people, the Vīraśaivas constitute a vibrant south-Indian community renowned for its bhakti (devotional) re...

‘McLeod has done more for Sikh history than anyone now alive. In fact, if there is a Father of Sikh History, it is Hew Mcleod.’ Rukun Advani, The H...

This book sets out to examine the gendered expressions of Shia Muslim faith. How do contemporary women construct and experience their religious liv...

Sharia is by now a term that most Americans and Europeans recognize, though few really understand what it means. Often portrayed as a medieval syst...

About the Book How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities? ...

About the Book Philosophies in several ancient traditions aimed to alleviate people's anxieties and improve their lives. In contrast to the contemp...

Explore the ancient Stoic way of thinking and the valuable lessons it holds for contemporary life This new volume contains the Enchiridion and sel...

About the Book This book aims to create a Christian theology of wisdom for the present day, in discussion with two sets of conversation-partners. T...

Secularism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to confusing and contradictory public discussions of secularism across the globe. I...

About the Book Praise for Seasons of Grace "In this beautifully written book, Alan Jones and John O'Neil deliver a timely antidote to the stressed...

About the Book Andrew Steane reconfigures the public understanding of science, by drawing on a deep knowledge of physics and by bringing in mainstr...

About the Book This book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology, social studies of s...

The Vedas are considered the oldest scriptures of mankind, the sermon by Lord Krishna is known as the Bhagvad Gita and The Upanishads are said to b...

The Vedas are considered the oldest scriptures of mankind, the sermon by Lord Krishna is known as the Bhagvad Gita and the Upanishads are said to b...

The Vedas are considered the oldest scriptures of mankind, the sermon by Lord Krishna is known as the Bhagvad Gita and The Upanishads are said to b...

About the Book Samuel stands out in many important biblical texts as the figure who facilitated ancient Israel's transition from a tribal league to...

About the Book Sacrifice has always been central to the study of religion yet attempts to understand and assess the concept have usually been contr...

About the Book A fascinating comparative account of sacred languages and their role in and beyond religion --written for a broad, interdisciplinary...

This handbook explores the diversity of religious practice in tribal cultures in India. It looks at the interactive spaces where the religious prac...

About the Book In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderlan...

About the Book This book introduces students to the complex and foreign world of Roman religion and to major trends in its study. Praised in the En...

About the Book The newly updated Right and Wrong 2nd Edition is an accessible introduction to the major traditions in western philosophical ethics,...

About the Book Record-setting ticket sales. Heated controversy. Sold-out viewings for church groups. And feuding critics. Mel Gibson's The Passion ...