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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The term ‘Middle-Income Trap’ refers to countries which stagnate economically after reaching a certain level of per capita income on the basis of labour- and capital-intensive growth, and are struggling to transition towards more skill-intensive and technology-driven development. It has resonance...
by John R. Mabry
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
From December 2013 through March 2014, Christian pastor John Mabry went on a most amazing pilgrimage -- to visit the most significant sites of the Buddha's life and to reflect deeply on what he saw, in conversation with his own faith. From there, his journey took him to Nepal, Thailand, Taiwan, and...
Christian and Islamic Theology of Religions
A Critical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Theologians have had to increasingly engage with beliefs and practises outside of their own traditions. The resultant "theology of religions" is, however, often formulated in isolation from the religions they are describing. This book provides a comparison of the development of theology...
Ecologies of Participation
Agents, Shamans, Mystics, and Diviners
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In this daring debut, Zayin Cabot challenges the wise homebodies of academia. A profoundly interdisciplinary approach to comparative scholarship, Ecologies of Participation offers a methodology whereby we can face our shared planetary predicament. It is grounded in process philosophy, and asserts...
The Anthropology of Western Religions
Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
The world’s “great” religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their...
Tastes of the Divine
Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
The intensity and meaningfulness of aesthetic experience have often been described in theological terms. By designating basic human emotions as rasa, a word that connotes taste, flavor, or essence, Indian aesthetic theory conceptualizes emotional states as something to be savored. At their core, emotions...
Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars
Critical Explorations in the History of Religions
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion—historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understanding of religions themselves, especially when their...
The Role of Domestic Courts in Treaty Enforcement
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
This book examines the application of treaties by domestic courts in twelve countries. The central question is whether domestic courts actually provide remedies to private parties who are harmed by a violation of their treaty-based rights. The analysis shows that domestic courts in eight of the twelve...
Irreverence and the Sacred
Critical Studies in the History of Religions
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Irreverence and the Sacred brings together some of the most cutting edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today in order to debate key issues in the critical and comparative study of religion. The project is inspired in large part by the work of Bruce Lincoln, whose influential...
The Essential Rene Guenon
Metaphysical Principles, Traditional Doctrines, and the Crisis of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
A prolific writer and author of over 24 books, Rene Guenon was the founder of the Perennialist/Traditionalist school of comparative religious thought. Known for his discourses on the intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of the modern world, symbolism, tradition, and the inner or spiritual dimension...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
The recent financial crisis has questioned whether existing contracts may be adapted, terminated or renegotiated as a result of unexpected circumstances. The question is not a new one. In medieval times the notion of clausula rebus sic stantibus was developed to cope with such situations, and Germany...
Balancing Constitutional Rights
The Origins and Meanings of Postwar Legal Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The language of balancing is pervasive in constitutional rights jurisprudence around the world. In this book, Jacco Bomhoff offers a comparative and historical account of the origins and meanings of this talismanic form of language, and of the legal discourse to which it is central. Contemporary discussion...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law is an advanced level reference work which surveys the current state of constitutional law. Featuring new, specially commissioned papers by a range of leading scholars from around the world, it offers a comprehensive overview of the field as well as identifying...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
In the years since 9/11, counter-terrorism law and policy has proliferated across the world. This handbook comprehensively surveys how the law has been deployed in all aspects of counter-terrorism. It provides an authoritative and critical analysis of counter-terrorism laws in domestic jurisdictions,...