Continuum imprint: 595 books
Native Religions and Cultures of North America
Anthropology of the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2003
This volume contains insightful essays on significant spiritual moments in eight different Native American cultures: Absaroke/Crow, Creek/Muskogee, Lakota, Mescalero Apache Navajo, Tlingit, Yup'ik, and Yurok.
by Professor Ian Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Ian Taylor examines Sub-Saharan Africa's relations with states such as the US, India, China, the EU, and Britain as well as with non-state actors.
Just Love
A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
This long-awaited book by one of American Christianity's foremost ethicists proposes a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and relationships. It begins with historical and cross-cultural explorations, then addresses...
by Professor Simon Wortham
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
The Derrida Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Jacques Derrida, the founder of deconstruction and one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers...
On Modern Poetry
From Theory to Total Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
All
too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a
tale of two sides. While 'Lit crit' pored over the author's every line,
'Theory' stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the metaphysical mists.
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Drawing
on the key insights of both Lit crit and Theory,...
by Dr Mark A. Ralkowski
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Heidegger's Platonism challenges Heidegger's 1940 interpretation of Plato as the philosopher who initiated the West's ontological decline into contemporary nihilism. Mark A. Ralkowski argues that, in his earlier lecture course, On the Essence of Truth, in which he appropriates Plato in a positive...
Disputed Truth
Memoirs Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Hans Küng has been a major influence on post-war Christianity by any reckoning. a peritus for the second Vatican council, he then went on to publish a number of controversial books, including Infallible? An Enquiry (1971), which enraged the Vatican and caused him to lose the ecclesiastical approval...
Mapping the Present
Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
In a late interview, Foucault, suggested that Heidegger was for him the "essential philosopher." Taking this claim seriously, Mapping the Present assesses the relationship between these two thinkers, particularly on the issue of space and history. It suggests that space and history need...
How to Think Politically
Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2019
'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' – Steven Pinker
What is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities. This book goes beyond the surface headlines, the fake news and the hysteria to explore the timeless...
In the Grip of Light
The Dark and Bright Journey of Christian Contemplation
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
What is it like in practice to come close to the presence of God? Are there words which can, in some way, explain the nature of that experience? In this compelling study, Paul Murray draws attention to both the wisdom and lived experience of those men and women who knew, at first hand, of the light...
by Dr Graham Haydon
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
?What are the fundamental aims and values underlying education?
?What values should education try to promote in a world of value pluralism?
?What is morality, and should schools teach it?
?In a secular society, how should schools treat the links between morality and religion?
?How...
by Professor Hans Küng
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Hans Kung is one of the most celebrated theologians of the present day. His audience, which is strong within his own Roman Catholic Church, is equally solid among Christians of other denominations, among those outside the churches and indeed among those at the frontiers of organised religion.
From...
by James R. Otteson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) was as a pioneer of political economy. In fact, his economic thought became the foundation of classical economics and his key work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, is considered to be the first modern work in economics....
The Human Security Agenda
How Middle Power Leadership Defied U.S. Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Middle power states, such as Canada or Denmark, are often thought of as "followers" of great powers rather than significant actors in global security. Challenging this view, this book highlights how middle powers have in fact showed great leadership by developing a "human security"...