This volume contains a collection of studies describing and analyzing stereotypes of women in the religions of Ancient Israel and Mesopotamia, and in Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Medieval Christianity, Is
Scholars from a range of humanities probe more deeply than previously into the connection between the two traditions, now that constraints on the study of both have relaxed somewhat. Their topics incl
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the belief structure and historical background of the New Age Movement. "New Age Religion" emerges as a thoroughly secularized form of western-esoteric trad
In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artef
Though it supplements the New Pauly reference, this volume is a stand-alone reference, containing tables detailing the dates and names of dynasties and other ruling bodies in Eurasia in ancient times.
In an effort to explain the position of the UN on how states will take the necessary measures to achieve the fulfillment of social security rights in accordance with the child's national law. This is
This is a one-volume edition of the two-volume reference published in 2005. European scholars (mostly) and some North American and Australian scholars survey historical currents and personalities tha
