New Age and holistic beliefs and practices - sometimes called the "new spirituality" - are widely distributed across modern global society. The fluid and popular nature of new age makes these movement
New Age and holistic beliefs and practices - sometimes called the "new spirituality" - are widely distributed across modern global society. The fluid and popular nature of new age makes these movement
Ancient ceramics play a significant role in monitoring change, adaption and interaction in ancient cultures. This collection of essays concerns pottery from the homeland sites of Beirut and Tyre, and
This is the first publication to emerge from the research project "Text, Action and Space: Performative language and topographical patterns as converging area in modern drama, prose fiction and film."
Musician and composer Irgens-Moller presents this close study of the musical traditions of Nuristan, a mountainous region of Afghanistan, via the accounts and field recordings of Lennart Edelberg and
This series provides short, accessible and lively introduction to the major schools, movements and traditions in philosophy and the history of ideas since the beginning of the Enlightenment. All books
Munro (liturgy and theology, Charles Sturt U.) works through theories of Julia Kristeva and others to develop a poststructuralist and postmodernist approach that allows for the reality of a multiplici
The study of the ideas and practices associated with occultism is a rapidly growing branch of contemporary scholarship. However, most research has focused on English and French speaking areas and has
Cursor Mundi is a publication series of inter and multidisciplinary studies of the medieval and early modern world, viewed broadly as the period between late antiquity and the Enlightenment. Like its
A volume of the series appears every other year, presenting results of Danish archaeological field work in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean, and studies by Danish and foreign scholars working with
New Testament and Christian origins scholarship have historically been influenced by their political and social context. 'Jesus in an Age of Terror' applies the work of critical and media theorists to
Historians, an agricultural economist, and a geographer describe the research and how it has been organized, what it is investigating, the findings, and the debates. The research extends from the Midd
The first such conference was held in 1999, and the second was convened in the same spirit of international collaboration and open discussion on Arctic and North Atlantic archaeological research. Amon
Most overviews of Hindu belief and practice follow a history from the ancient Vedas to today. Such approaches privilege Brahmanical traditions and create a sense of Hinduism as a homogenous system and
Most overviews of Hindu belief and practice follow a history from the ancient Vedas to today. Such approaches privilege Brahmanical traditions and create a sense of Hinduism as a homogenous system and
Latinists of various stripes and related scholars present 14 papers, mostly on specific Latin texts or authors of the Middle Ages. Their topics include ethnogenesis and ethnic identity in Roman and ea
It seems that the fantastic has new places to go with the introduction of technologies and access; Europe, in particular, appears to have benefited and has already found exciting new things and places
The study of food in the Hebrew Bible and Syro-Palestinian archaeology has tended to focus on kosher dietary laws, the sacrificial system, and feasting in elite contexts. More everyday ritual and prac
If biotechnology can be used to "upgrade" humans physically and mentally, should it be done? And if so, to what extent? How will biotechnology affect societal cohesion, and can the development be cont
Race is so highly charged and loaded a concept it often hampers critical thinking about racial practice and policy. A philosophical approach allows us to isolate and analyse the key questions: What is
New and established scholars of English literature look at the novels and short stories by US writer Chopin (1851-1904) from the perspectives of culture, religion, race, class, gender, and issues of p
Williams collects 22 essays written and published during some 20 years on Jewish inhabitants of the Graeco-Roman world between the first century BCE and the early sixth century CE. The texts and bibli
This amusing book satirizes Beatlemania by providing a "guide" to disliking the group and identifying typical Beatles fans--such as the Musician and the American--and how to deal with them. He also di
Students and scholars of Italian art will welcome this detailed volume on the history of the marble pulpits carved by the Pisano father and son in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. Moskowitz (ar
A specialist in urban history of the Middle Ages, Haemers (Ghent U.) looks at political ebbs and flows in Medieval Flanders. He begins with the state and the marriage of Mary and Maximilian, the war a
Kings and gods adorn the walls of Egyptian temples in face-to-face meetings, and for two millennia these depictions have united the king and the divine. The king, the son of the god, presents his ance
The existence and nature of the divine is a universal and pervasive question - from the origin of the universe to the source of moral goodness, we find God at the heart of so many philosophical and po
John Gower wrote at the same time as Chaucer, whom he knew, and on many of the same subjects. Although well known and respected in his time and after, he has often been relegated to a paragraph in Cha
A lexicon of the Septuagint and the Pentateuch includes such data as synonms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, combinations with prepositions, and noun cases.
"Spinoza's Radical Theology" explains the mechanics and meaning of Spinoza's ideas and how they can inform the questions with which we still struggle today.
"Spinoza's Radical Theology" explains the mechanics and meaning of Spinoza's ideas and how they can inform the questions with which we still struggle today.
Bremmer (history and science of religion, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) and Veenstra (history of philosophy, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) present 12 papers by an international group of academics from d
Anthropologists and psychologists present the results of five interdisciplinary research projects that also involved cognitive scientists. They explore the theory of mind and connected problems of the
This collection of articles is intended for scholars and students of ethnology, folkloristics, religious studies, anthropology, area studies, theology and cultural research. It argues that greater und
This important volume for Reformation Studies presents manifold and rather novel aspects of John Calvin's life and work. The contributions analyse - among other themes - Calvin's eucharistic theology,
Eighteen essays, presented by Herzogenrath (U. of Frankfurt, Germany), draw connections between ecological thinking and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Among the subjects addresse
Pachoumi examines the manifold concepts of the divine in the Greek magical papyri by uncovering the underlying religious, philosophical, and mystical parallelisms with and influences on the texts.
Gabbay presents a general study of prayers written in the Emesalregister of Sumerian and their religious context using new textualreconstructions and related materials published during the past 20year
Such as freedom, action, power, judgment, evil, forgiveness and the social. Bringing together an international team of contributors, the essays provide ucid accounts of Arendt's fundamental themes and
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