Religion and Philosophy

About the Book Social memory studies offer an under-utilised lens through which to approach the texts of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, the rang...

About the Book Religions in Contemporary Africa is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the three main religious traditions on the Afric...

About the Book Religion was thought to be part of the problem in Ireland and incapable of turning itself into part of the solution. Many commentato...

About the Book In recent years, there has been an astonishing revival of religious practices in China. Looking beyond numerical counts of religious...

Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam--in...

About the Book This is a one-stop resource for undergraduate students examining the many complexities of the relationship between religion and scie...

About the Book Of the many Sufi orders that have operated in South Asia, the Chishti order is the oldest and the most popular. This book examines t...

About the Book In this important new work, Professor Trigg deals with the question of the rational foundations of science. In so doing, he explains...

About the Book A detailed exploration of a stunning festival, which is of great importance to Indian culture and heritage -A comprehensive and holi...

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1833–86) was perhaps the most popularly known saint of 19th century India and an important figure in Bengali Renaissance. ...

About the Book There is widespread concern today about the "radicalization" of young muslim men, and the deprived areas of Western cities are belie...

About the Book Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan stands alongside Nehru and Gandhi as one of the most eminent Indians of his time. He served as India's amba...

About the Book Secular and spiritual prophets of doom abound in the information-rich twenty-first century - as they have for millennia. But there h...

About the Book Promise of the Soul is a spiritual workbook. Through simple, accessible exercises and reflections, Kenny offers us practical and pro...

About the Book In many of his writings, Hume talks of our "gliding and staining" natural objects, and of the mind's propensity to "spread itself" o...

About the Book This book introduces a new system for describing non-biblical ancient Jewish literature. It arises from a fresh empirical investigat...

About the Book This volume tackles the burden of judgment and the challenges of ethical disagreements, organizes the cohabitation of scientific and...

About the Book Prayers to Nourish a Womans Heart offers inspiration and practical advice through heartwarming true stories of women who have solved...

About the Book Michele gives us 'snapshots' of the struggles in our own lives, our hurts, disappointments, heartaches, and confusions. Then she hel...

This book provides the first full-scale English-language study of Pradyumna, the son of the Hindu god Krsna. Often represented as a young man in mi...

About the Book The steady increase in economic, social, environmental and political hardships experienced by many around the globe has led, in rece...

About the Book Post-War Reflections collects eight of Sartre’s essays written in his mostcreative period, just after the Second World War. Sartre...

About the Book What shape can radical politics take today in a time abandoned by the great revolutionary projects of the past? In light of recent u...

About the Book Politicizing Islam is a comparative ethnographic study of Islamic revival movements in France and India, home to the largest Muslim ...

The book also contributes to the study of Śaivism by examining the ways in which Śaiva poets have integrated the traditions of Sanskrit literature ...

About the Book We constantly disagree with each other on issues of fundamental importance. Does God exist? Should the latest scientific findings be...

Philosophy as Samvada and Svaraj discusses Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi’s respective intellectual contributions and speculates how one might...

How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This Very Short Introduction discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with....

About the Book Philosophical Writing: An Introduction , 4th Edition , features numerous updates and revisions to A. P. Martinich's best-selling tex...

About the Book Our lives are dominated by technology. We live with and through the achievements of technology. What is true of the rest of life is ...

About the Book Every day the news shows us provoking stories about what's going on in the world, about events which raise moral questions and probl...

The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India project on 2 October 1985 to generate an anthropological profile of all communitie...

About the Book Engaging with the growing popular and academic interest in the "spiritual but not religious," Andrea R. Jain explores the connection...

About the Book This book is a discursive intervention in reconceptualising and re-contextualizing the multifaceted impact of Western enlightenment....

In this book, the author brings to the reader the Goddess Parvati, the Female Principle, consort of the God Shiva, lover, mother, provider, embodim...

About the Book Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of s...

About the Book In a thoroughly updated second edition of his popular and engaging book, John D. Caputo revisits Augustine's ancient question "what ...

About the Book This volume consists of a single long essay that analyses the work ofMaurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), the leading phenomenologic...

About the Book ‘There is a crisis of the essay,’ begins Sartre as he ventures into a longanalysis of how the work of one of his contemporaries ...

About the Book Part of an ongoing series published in cooperation with the Index on Censorship that deals with religion and free expression, The Je...

About the Book To many outside India, Hinduism is envisioned as the foundation of an ideal, all-embracing society. Yet this is far from the truth. ...

About the Book During the cold-war years, Western Christians basked in a sense that they were living on the right side of the ideological divide, h...

We live in an age when most Muslims take pride in singing Saare Jahan Se Achcha, penned by Muhammad Iqbal. Many though have forgotten that the same...

About the Book These four essays of varying length bear witness to Sartre’s preoccupationwith philosophers and their work. In these pages he exam...

About the Book One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascina...