Linguists and scholars of particular languages in Europe and the Middle East reflect on their research through the lens of high and low relationships of varieties in the language community, of differe
The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is one of the most influential intellectuals of the past century. His work is invoked by philosophers, film critics and feminist theorists, but religious scholar
Jensen (religions, U. of Aarhus, Denmark) has drawn together articles about myths by some of the biggest names in literature, psychology, philosophy, and religion. Among them are Ernst Cassirer on the
The central doctrine of the Bahai' religion, founded by Iranian prophet Husayn-Ali Nuri (1817-92) is that the human race is one and the world should be unified. Researchers in religion and politics fr
The life and work of John Henry Newman were dominated by questions concerning the nature of Christian faith and the way in which it comes to expression in history. In this collection of essays, eight
Nawotka analyzes all kinds of documents that came into being in the ancient Greek city Miletus in the Near East and its colonies around the Black Sea in correlation with the council and assembly. By t
Jean-Paul Sartre: Mind and Body, Word and Deed celebrates Sartre's polyvalence with an examination of Sartrean philosophy, literature, and politics. In four distinct yet related sections, twelve schol
This volume explores the ways in which Taiwan is imaged and imagined and how this relates to identity politics. Seven essays are presented by editors Chang (School of Oriental and African Studies, U.
"Most scholars know that the great universities were the institutional setting of Scholastic philosophical and theological activity in the later Middle Ages. Fewer realize, however, that perhaps far m
This is the second volume on the monastic site of Kom el-Nana at Tell el-Amarna and brings up-to-date the excavations carried out there. The first volume contained mainly unstratified pottery and no g
