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Handbook of Rituals in Contemporary Studies of Religion: Exploring Ritual Creativity in the Footsteps of Anne-Christine Hornborg
This book brings together leading international scholars with the aim of exploring ritual perspectives in the study of contemporary religions. It combines significant theoretical …
Property and the German Idea of Freedom: From the End of the Thirty Years' War to the Eve of the French Revolution in Germany
This book offers a new interpretation German law and politics during the era between the Thirty Years' War and the French Revolution. Liberal ideas of freedom and equality were …
The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis
The theory of apokatastasis (restoration), most famously defended by the Alexandrian exegete, philosopher and theologian Origen, has its roots in both Greek philosophy and …
This House Is Not a Home: European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730-1830
Lisa Hellman offers the first study of European everyday life in Canton and Macao. How foreigners could live, communicate, move around - even whom they could interaction with - …
Philosophy in the Islamic World: Volume 2/1: 11th-12th Centuries: Central and Eastern Regions
Philosophy in the Islamic World is a comprehensive and unprecedented four-volume reference work devoted to the history of philosophy in the realms of Islam, from its beginnings in …
Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt: A Three Level Analysis
This book introduces new non-Western perspectives on the Arab Uprisings, decentering and decolonizing International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies. Drawing on over 10 years …
From Feudalism to Capitalism: Social and Political Change in Castile and Western Europe, 1250-1520
Carlos Astarita's From Feudalism to Capitalism: Social and Political Change in Castile and Western Europe, 1250-1520 presents for an English-speaking readership a major …
Monarchy, the Court, and the Provincial Elite in Early Modern Europe
A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and further afield. If God-derived authority legitimized a monarch's rule, it did …
The Meaning and Uses of βασιλεία In the Gospel of Matthew: Semantic Monosemy and Pragmatic Modulation
Contrary to the prevailing view that βασιλεία is a verbal noun signifying God's rule, this study demonstrates how the term's pragmatic range in Matthew's Gospel covers both five …
The Dragon and the Rainbow: Man's Oldest Story
Modernization and conversion to world religions are threatening the survival of traditional belief systems, leaving behind only mysterious traces of their existence. This book, …
Esotericism and Deviance
The concept of deviance has been central to the academic study of (Western) esotericism since its inception. This book, being the proceedings of the 6th Biennial Conference of the …
Alienation. Recuperating the Classical Discussion of Marx Et Al.
Nowadays alienation is naturally discussed as an existential condition of human beings, but in the 20th century, a strong Marxist current claimed alienation to be implied by …