Religion

Contemporary culture, todays capitalism - our global information society - is ever expanding, is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experie...

Contemporary culture, todays capitalism - our global information society - is ever expanding, is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experie...

This study focuses on the devices implemented in Classical Indian texts on ritual and language in order to develop a structure of rules in an econo...

This edited collection aims to examine religion across: historical media forms using a broad concept of «media» contemporary media with a focus o...

An investigation of the growth and influence of the cult of St Edmund, and how it manifested itself in medieval material culture. Longlisted for t...

The reader is taken on a global exploration of the forms and diversities of religions and their social and cultural contexts... It is up to the min...

The reader is taken on a global exploration of the forms and diversities of religions and their social and cultural contexts... It is up to the min...

The book examines deep shifts in the religious life of Russia and the post-Soviet world as a whole. The author uses combined methods of history, so...

Leading scholars from various disciplines analyze the relevance of evolutionary theory for future developments, whereby the fields of anthropology,...

Since the Reformation, Catholics in Britain have been faced with an outsider status that has often given rise to conflict between their British nat...

While Indian visual culture and Tantric images have drawn wide attention, the culture of images, particularly that of the divine images, is broadly...

Many interested reader will have put aside a work by Edith Stein due to its seeming inaccessibility, with the awareness that there was something im...

Nowhere has Western public distrust towards Islam been as strong as in the Netherlands. This book provides a thorough discussion of Dutch multicult...

An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gen...

A study of the personal religion of King John, presenting a more complex picture of his actions and attitude. King John has been perceived as one ...

This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, ...

The history of the vexed relationship between clergy and warfare is traced through a careful examination of canon law. In the first millennium the...

New essays on Chaucer's engagement with religion and the religious controversies of the fourteenth century. How do critics, religious scholars and...

The present volume, based on a related conference in Erfurt, offers interdisciplinary insights on the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church...

This is the first Polish ethnological monograph to present how biblical themes function in folk culture in the context of rituals, customs and icon...

Past philosophical ideas about arts influence contemporary artistic practices. We still use traditional Idealist concepts, such as the autonomy of ...