Atf Australia Ltd imprint: 62 books

Asia as a continent accounts for half the world’s population. Within its boundaries, there is an incomparable diversity of cultures, socio-economic standards and political structures. And all the world’s major religions—Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Christianity—have their origins...

The Yearbook of Chinas Cultural Industries is a large comprehensive, authoritative and informative annual which accurately records and reflects the annual development of cultural industries in China. It is also a large reference book with abundant information on cultural industries in China and a...

With variety and breadth, these essays says celebrate the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the Dominican Order as well as the richness in Catholic thought and praxis during the past hundred years around the world. Their themes range from Yves Congar’s view of the hierarchy to Jacques Loew’s...

The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which introduces the performance and evolution process of marriage customs of different nationalities in China by telling vivid historical allusions, legends and folktales. The author would like to draw a whole picture of the culture of Chinese traditional marriage with the sequences of traditional marriage customs.

In these Gasson Lectures, Frank Brennan addresses various contested contemporary issues such as church-state relations, physician assisted suicide and national border protection. He writes, 'I hope that these lectures can help persons of all faiths and none maintain what Pope John Paul II, when addressing...

Das Tre!en der bischö"ichen Synode im Oktober 2104 nahm die moderne Familie aus dem pastoralen Blickwinkel unter die Lupe und hat sich besonders mit denjenigen Situationen befasst, bei welchen es dem Schein nach Kon"ikte zwischen der kirchlichen Glaubenslehre

The Catholic Church lives on two lungs—Word and Sacrament. They reach their clearest expression and celebration for the Church’s life in the Eucharist—the ‘source and summit of the Church’s life’ as Vatican 2 puts it. Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience...

Pope Francis has call La Civiltà Cattolica “one of a kind.” As a magazine of general reference, articles in La Civiltà Cattolica are written and edited in a way that has the educated though non-specialist reader in mind. Discussions in the periodical are rigorous and...

The 'cover-up' of child sexual abuse by the Catholic Church has been occurring under the pontificate of six popes since 1922.   For 1500 years, the Catholic Church accepted that clergy who sexually abused children deserved to be stripped of their status as priests and then imprisoned....

The question of hermeneutics now dominates all disciplines of human knowledge and its construction. It has moved from a concentration on how to apply the results of research knowledge to considerations of the frameworks by which we conduct research as a meaningful exercise. The study of the Bible...

We live in an evolving and increasingly complex global community and with this complexity comes a broad range of ethical issues. The Ethics: Contemporary Perspectives brings together scholars from across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, including disciplines as diverse as philosophy,...

To mark the long history of Dominican involvement in defence of human rights, in the year celebrating the 800th anniversary of the con rmation of the Order of Preachers, two hundred Dominican brothers, sisters and laity met in Salamanca, Spain, to discuss the contribution of the Dominican Order, in...