Author(s): edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker & John Grim
Originally published: Harvard Dissertations in Religion 9.Missoula: Scholars Press, 1976
Author(s): Stephen J. Davis
My first book investigates the devotional practices, social institutions, and material artifacts connected with a
popular, but controversial, female saint in early Christianity. Marshalling literary, artistic, archaeological,
papyrological, and epigraphic evidence from Asia Minor and Egypt, I...
Author(s): K.C. Das, translated by Phyllis Granoff
K. C. Das is deservedly one of the most celebrated writers in India today. He writes primarily in Oriya, the language of his native state of Orissa, where he was born in 1924. A civil servant by profession, Das pursued a second career as a writer of stories, poems, and essays.The stories in this...
Looking through the history of art, a reader might conclude that Jews could not create art—and such an assumption, historically incorrect, would be no accident. As we see with disturbing clarity in this book, the discipline of art history—even the first scholarly studies of Jewish works of art—...
Author(s): Co-edited by Sally Promey & David Morgan
Contemporary artists have often clashed with conservative American evangelicals in recent years, giving the impression that art and religion are fundamentally at odds. Yet historically, artistic images have played a profound role in American religious life. This superb collection of essays, with...
Author(s): Clifford N. Matthews, Mary Evelyn Tucker, & Philip Hefner
This collection of essays by prominent scientists, theologians, philosophers, and other academics explores the important dialogue between science and religion. Contributors address current ideas on the evolution of matter, life, and mind; language and the brain; consciousness and creativity; and...
Apostasie und Toleranz im Islam. Die Entwicklung zu al-Gazalis Urteil gegen die Philosophie und die Reaktionen der Philosophen (Apostasy and Tolerance in Islam. The development that led to al-Ghazali’s condemnation of philosophy and the reactions from the side of the philosophers)
The...
Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural: America three hundred years ago - and today. Here are Britain's mainland American colonies after 1680, in the process of becoming the first modern society - a society the earliest colonists...
Originally Published: Leiden: E. J. Brill. 1996This volume deals with Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts and movements from the second century BCE through the fourth century CE. It focuses on two major themes, cosmology and eschatology; that is, views of structure of the universe including its...
