'Public theology' involves the application of biblical and theological principles outside the confines of the church and assesses their implications for wider society. It examines both the theoretical
If Protestants had saints, Dietrich Bonhoeffermartyred under Hitler on April 9, 1945 just days before the Allies reached his concentration campwould be one of the first canonised. Not just his unsough
Conventional wisdom tells us that jihad is an element of Islamic fundamentalism or radicalism and is the root of Islamic terrorism. Sofjan (political science, Universitas Padjadjaran) argues that conv
From 1996 to 2003, archeologists, paleoclimatologists, geologists, and other specialists applied state-of-the-art climate models (from ice core and pollen data) for Europe to the question of what led
Humanity has found a use for each and every part of the elder: leaf, bark, wood or branch, flower and, finally, berry or fruit. Some of these functions are grounded in superstition: that the elder enc
The Black Sea region was a demarcation area between Greek and "barbarian" societies. But this borderland saw tentative settlements of Greeks as well as trade between the cultures. Bilde and Petersen,
This volume of 13 essays critically investigates the connection between artistic practices, aesthetic theory, culture, and computer interface design. They explore a broad notion of interface that refe
The occasional essays which form the present volume document the author's sense that what he initially thought of as separate intellectual and existential compartments in his life, in which his profes
The anthology emerged from a 2008 international conference in Denmark of the Medical Anthropology At Home association, the members of which conduct research in their own culture and society. Seven pap
This book presents new ways of thinking about the historical, epistemological and institutional role of literature. It aims at providing a theoretically well-founded basis for what might otherwise be
In spite of the steadily expanding concept of art in the Western world, art made in twentieth-century totalitarian regimes u notably Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and the communist East Bloc countries u
The seven texts edited in this volume give new insights into the Prajnaparamita literature in Old Uyghur, an important corpus of Old Uyghur Buddhist texts. The volume presents each text with a transcr
This is the first volume of a two-volume project whose aim is to publish all the known Middle English manuscript translations of the French Somme le mi, a thirteenth-century manual of religious instru
Honoring Paul Crossley (Courtauld Institute of Art, UK) on the occasion of his retirement, this volume is one of two representing his diverse interests and his extraordinary impact on the discipline.
Honoring architectural historian Paul Crossley (Courtauld Institute of Art, UK), this volume comprises 25 contributions on topics pertaining to his interests. A sampling: speech and writing in the Gos
Well-known as a key theological work opposing the teaching of Wyclif and the Lollards, Netter's massive treatise receives new consideration in this study. Assessing the work on its own terms, Alban (B
Concepts of scale are used often in ecology, geography, sociology, and other fields, but rarely by historians and archaeologists, who are the authors of the nine papers contained in this collection. T
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is Portugals most celebrated poet of the twentieth century, who wrote under the guise of dozens of literary personalities, or heteronyms. As well as his poetry, however, hi
