Philosophy of religion (233)

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book, steeped in the traditions of both postcolonial theory and Continental philosophy, addresses fundamental questions about God and theology in the postcolonial world. Namely, Y.T. Vinayaraj asks whether Continental philosophies of God and the...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:This book explores the Islamic roots of the Western values of tolerance and religious pluralism, and considers Dante from the perspective of the Arab-Islamic philosophical tradition. It examines the relations between Islamic and Western thought, the ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Too often Buddhism has been subjected to the Procrustean box of western thought, whereby it is stretched to fit fixed categories or had essential aspects lopped off to accommodate vastly different cultural norms and aims. After several generations of...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking explores the relationship among geopolitics, religion, and social theory. It argues that during the postcolonial and post-Holocaust era, Jewish thinkers in different parts of the world were ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:The first book in the new Postcolonialism and Religions series offers a preview of the series focus on multireligious, indigenous, and transnational scholarly voices. In this book, the once arch enemies of Religious studies and Postcolonial theory be...

publisher: Springer
year: 2008
description:This anthology contains some of the more important Marxist thinkers now working on dialectics. As a whole the book is an unusual 'Introduction to Dialectics', a systematic restatement of what it is and how to use it, a survey of most of the main deba...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:This is a collection of John Hick's essays on the understanding of the world's religions as different human responses to the same ultimate transcendent reality. He is in dialogue with contemporary philosophers (some of whom contribute new responses);...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed – was waren das für Persönlichkeiten? Wie haben Sie gelebt und was haben sie gelehrt? Und wie können wir überhaupt etwas über sie wissen? Dieses Buch geht auf anschauliche Weise allen Aspekten des Lebens und Wirkens der drei g...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:This collection of essays examines how diverse religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness. Contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, histori...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:This edited collection of essays examines how religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness. Contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historic...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:The primary aim of this volume is to synthesize the two fields of disability studies and biblical studies. It illustrates how academic or critical biblical scholarship has shown that many texts involving disability in the Bible is much more nuanced t...

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:This study in the relationship between religion and the comic focuses on the ways in which the latter fulfils a central function in the sacred understanding of reality of pre-modern cultures and the spiritual life of religious traditions. The central...