I imprint: 1291 books
The Power of Tantra
Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalise and shock. For European colonisers, Orientalist scholars and Christian missionaries of the Victorian era, Tantra was generally seen as the most degenerate and depraved...
Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations
Embodied Film Theory and Cinematic Reception
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
What happens to us when we 'see' a film? For the experience of what we see on screen draws as much upon the non-visual senses as it does on sight. In the first full-length analysis of the concept of embodied film theory, Paul Elliott charts the development of a 'cinema of sensations' - examining how...
Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed
Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Botanical gardens brought together in a single space the great diversity of the earth's flora. They displaced nature from forest and foothill and re-arranged it to reveal something of the scientific principles underpinning the apparent chaos of the wild. Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed shows how...
The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media
Producing Shared Memory and National Identity in the Global Television Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The television industry has metamorphosised from a national and largely-monopolized sector to a commercial and global enterprise. This has profoundly altered the way 'historical truth' and shared memory are constructed and conveyed. Despite the tremendous impact of this development, it has yet to...
Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law
Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds made remarkable discoveries and unlocked previously hidden secrets about this greatest of Florentine poets. A fundamental...
Compassionate Light in Asia
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
"Life is a drama of encounters", writes Daisaku Ikeda at the beginning of this dialogue: "Beautiful encounters. Momentary encounters. Each person's drama is unique." This particular encounter, between a celebrated Chinese novelist and prominent Japanese religious leader, illustrates...
Reflections on the Global Civilization
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Globalization has brought different civilizations and peoples into new and closer contact. But this novel intimacy has not always led to greater understanding. There is an urgent need to work towards a global civilization based on principles of peace, mutual respect and tolerance. It is precisely...
Creating the Culture of Peace
A Clarion Call for Individual and Collective Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2019
A culture of peace and non-violence is essential to human existence and development. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the first ten years of the 21st century the 'International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World'. Governments, NGOs and...
The Wisdom of Tolerance
A Philosophy of Generosity and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
What do Buddhism and Islam have in common? And what positive characteristics might Buddhist Japan and Muslim Indonesia be able to offer one another? In this thoughtful and wide-ranging discussion which draws on creative artists and thinkers as diverse as Beethoven, Goethe, Tolstoy, Thomas Jefferson...
Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Austregésilo de Athayde, President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters for 34 years until his death in September 1993, is perhaps best remembered as one of the most prominent and effective champions of human rights in South America. As Brazilian representative to the third General Assembly of the...
by Hamid Enayat
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2005
The revival and power of religious feelings among Muslims since the Iranian revolution presents a complicated and often perplexing picture of the politics of the Islamic world in the modern era. What are the ideas which have influenced the direction of these trends? In this book, which since its original...
The Politics and Economics of Decolonization in Africa
The Failed Experiment of the Central African Federation
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The slow collapse of the European colonial empires after 1945 provides one of the great turning points of twentieth century history. With the loss of India however, the British under Harold Macmillan attempted to enforce a 'second' colonial occupation - supporting the efforts of Sir Andrew Cohen of...
The New Orientalists
Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
The west's Orientalism, its construction of an Arabic and Islamic 'Other', has been exposed, examined and expurgated under the critical theory microscope. At the same time postmodern thinkers from Nietzsche onwards have employed the motifs and symbols of the Islamic Orient within an ongoing critique...
The 'Fifth Veda' of Hinduism
Poetry, Philosophy and Devotion in the Bhagavata Purana
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important, central and popular scriptures of Hinduism. A medieval Sanskrit text, its influence as a religious book has been comparable only to that of the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Ithamar Theodor here offers the first analysis for...