Religious Studies
epub |eng | 2017-03-28 | Author:Mark Juergensmeyer [Juergensmeyer, Mark]

WHEN SYMBOLS BECOME DEADLY But if religious images are meant to conquer violence, one must ask the obvious but difficult question: why and how are these symbolic presentations of violence ...
( Category: Violence in Society January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Janet Jacobs

Extended Family Members: The Social Relations of Kinship and Family in Postgenocide Culture While relationships within the multigenerational family formed the core of relational ties for descendants, participants also cited ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-25 | Author:Cécile Laborde

( Category: World January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-14 | Author:Andrew Copson

Nations under Marx Theocrats want to use the state to promote and defend their religion. It wasn’t until the 20th century that atheists offered examples of the flip side of ...
( Category: Theology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Burton L. Mack [Mack, Burton L.]

FOREIGN POLICY It is not clear to culture critics that the United States has a rationalized foreign policy, if “foreign policy” still has the connotations of the kind of relations ...
( Category: Sociology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Terry Eagleton [Eagleton, Terry]

Chapter 4 EXCHANGE AND EXCESS THE TRUE MARTYR is the one who seeks no return, and there are those who would see this unilateral venturing of the self as the ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-01 | Author:Rob Boddice [Boddice, Rob]

6 EXPERIENCE, SENSES AND THE BRAIN Take five How do you feel? The question, a commonplace query if ever there was one, is actually enormously complex. That we handle it ...
( Category: Historiography January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Jacobs, Alan;

What lies at the heart of this “affinity”? “Both seek knowledge for the sake of power (in Bacon’s words, as ‘a spouse for fruit,’ not a ‘curtesan for pleasure’), both ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Funkenstein, Amos [Funkenstein, Amos]

B. “SCRIPTURE SPEAKS THE LANGUAGE OF MAN”: THE EXEGETICAL PRINCIPLE OF ACCOMMODATION 1. A Legal Principle Turns Exegetical The exegetical career of the medieval principle of accommodation (I mean its ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-23 | Author:Antony Alumkal

First, there is growing recognition that fertilization is a process that takes about a day to complete rather than being a sharply defined moment. Thus the beginning of a particular ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-08-15 | Author:Lisa H. Sideris [Sideris, Lisa H.]

SCIENCE AS ITS OWN CURE? To be sure, universe stories sometimes lament that we are leaving behind the Holocene period and moving into “the Anthropocene, an era shaped primarily not ...
( Category: Ethics January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Crosby, Donald A.; [Crosby, Donald A.;]

Speech and Speaking We are sometimes inclined to think of language as a kind of fixed and finished implement, something like a hammer or saw that can be put to ...
( Category: Philosophy January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Clayton Crockett [Crockett, Clayton]

6 Radical Theology and the Event Caputo’s Derridean Gospel In this chapter, I focus on Caputo’s interpretation of Derrida to show how his attention to the event in religious and ...
( Category: Philosophy January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-09 | Author:Yujin Nagasawa

One might claim that, contrary to what I say, the maximal God approach is not applicable to some Type-C arguments, particularly the argument from evil. The maximal God approach seems ...
( Category: Christian Theology January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Wendy Doniger [Doniger, Wendy]

6 Skepticism and Materialism in Ancient India Who Were the Lokayatikas and the Charvakas? I have argued that the Kamasutra and the Arthashastra often deviated significantly from dharma in ways ...
( Category: Karma January 19,2020 )