Art and Belief explores the forms and functions of contemporary interreligious dialogue by focusing on artists who are active in this field across different art forms and different religious positions
In these lively and provocative essays, philosopher, polymath and all-round intellectual heavyweight, Raymond Tallis debunks commonplace truths, exposes woolly thinking and pulls the rug from beneath
Revising his 2005 doctoral dissertation at the European University Institute, near Florence, Cattaneo analyzes how the imago mundi was imagined, represented, and systematized in the context of Venetia
The edited volume Audiovisual Media and Identity Issues in Southeastern Europe is an attempt to meet the challenges of text-based scholarship, to break medial one-dimensionality dictated by textuality
"This book is an addition to the British music culture as it traces the history, growth and environmental, social and musical conditions of the brass band movement during the Victorian era, and the in
This is the first of five volumes that form the proceedings of the conference. The 28 papers look in turn at grammar and morphology of ritual, and at ritual discourse and ritual performance in China a
"Damascus, capital of the Ottoman province in Syria and one of the most important centres of the classical Muslim World, underwent some of the same developments in the 19th century as other urban cent
Nine papers from the Prophetic Texts and Their Ancient Context session at the 2005 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, held in Philadelphia, explore the interplay between text and im
One of the first philosophers to address the implications of Darwin's work, Clifford (1845-79) delivered an address to the Metaphysical Society in April 1876, The Ethics of Belief, that has sparked di
Historians of World War I, aerial photography specialists, archaeologists, anthropologists, and others gathered at Ypres in Flanders in October 2006 for a workshop on technical, military, social, and
Bekker-Nielsen (history, University of Southern Denmark) presents a microcosm of an area of the Roman Empire, Bithynia, in what is today western Turkey. He focuses his study on the life of a second-ce
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy Volume VI includes important contributions by both established and emerging scholars working in the phenomenological tradition, toget
Macpherson reports the results of an ethnographic study she conducted of women engaged in Reiki, a spiritual healing practice rediscovered in Japan during the 1920s. Her topics include the New Age and
