Textual Intimacy

Wesley A Kort

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• Given its affinity with questions of identity, autobiography offers a way into the interior space between author and reader, especially when writers d... Lees meer

Taking Responsibility

Winston Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• Responsibility has become the "queen of modern virtues," Winston Davis argues, even if there is no consensus as to what responsibility means. This ill... Lees meer

Vigilant Faith

Daniel Boscaljon

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• In Vigilant Faith: Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World, Daniel Boscaljon takes up the contemporary challenges to faith by skepticism and secular... Lees meer

John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption

David M Craig

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• The first book on the Victorian critic and public intellectual John Ruskin by a scholar of religion and ethics, this work recovers both Ruskin's engag... Lees meer

Freud and Augustine in Dialogue

William B Parsons

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• "It is arguably the case," writes William Parsons, "that no two figures have had more influence on the course of Western introspective thought than Fr... Lees meer

Religion and Violence in a Secular World

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• How are we to think about religion and violence in the contemporary world, especially in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001? In this collect... Lees meer

Spirit Deep

Tisha M Brooks

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spiri... Lees meer

Doing Justice to Mercy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• It is often assumed that the law and religion address different spheres of human life. Religion and ethics articulate complex systems of moral reasoni... Lees meer

Pontius Pilate

Roger Caillois

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• If you thought you knew all there is to know about Pontius Pilate and Jesus, this little book has some surprises for you. In this "greatest story neve... Lees meer

When the Sun Danced

Jeffrey S Bennett

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• Between May and October of 1917, three young shepherds were reportedly visited six times by an apparition of the Virgin Mary near the town of Fátima i... Lees meer

Kierkegaard

Roger Poole

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• This book is a study of the much debated problem of Soren Kierkegaard's "indirect communication." It approaches the problem, however, in quite a new w... Lees meer

Freud and Augustine in Dialogue

William B Parsons

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• "It is arguably the case," writes William Parsons, "that no two figures have had more influence on the course of Western introspective thought than Fr... Lees meer

Meditation and the Martial Arts

Michael L Raposa

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• The relationship between meditation and the martial arts is a multifaceted one: meditation is one of the practices in which martial artists engage in ... Lees meer

The Value of Solitude

John D Barbour

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• Most people feel ambivalent about solitude, both loving and fearing it depending on how they experience being alone at certain points in their lives. ... Lees meer

Precarious Balance

Bardwell L Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• Since the third century BCE, when the king of Sri Lanka converted to Buddhism, the island nation off the southern coast of India has represented a cen... Lees meer

Exhibiting Religion

John P Burris

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• World's fairs contributed mightily to defining a relationship between religion and the wider world of human culture. Even at the base level of popular... Lees meer

Sacred Claims

Greg Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 provides a legal framework within which Native Americans can seek the repa... Lees meer

Myth and Method

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• In the wake of the elegant master theories of Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Georges Dumezil, and Claude Levi-Strauss, how are mythology and the comp... Lees meer

Creationism on Trial

Langdon Gilkey

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• Creationism on Trial is Gilkey's blow-by-blow account of his experiences as a witness for the ACLU at the 1981 creationist trial in Little Rock, AR. Lees meer

Savage Systems

David Chidester

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• Savage Systems examines the emergence of the concepts of "religion"and "religions" on colonial frontiers. The book offers a detailed analysis of the w... Lees meer

Encountering the Secular

J Heath Atchley

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• In Encountering the Secular, J. Heath Atchley proposes an alternative to the understanding of the secular as that which opposes the religious, and he ... Lees meer

Spirit Deep

Tisha M Brooks

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spiri... Lees meer

Desire and the Ascetic Ideal

Edward Upton

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• The Hindu words "Shantih shantih shantih" provide the closing of The Waste Land , perhaps the most famous poem of the twentieth century. This is just ... Lees meer

The Pragmatist Turn

Giles Gunn

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Religion and Culture
• In The Pragmatist Turn , renowned scholar of American literature and thought Giles Gunn offers a new critical history of the way seventeenth-century r... Lees meer