Comparative category: 2220 books
Religion and the Specter of the West
Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the...
Homa Variations
The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Durée
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric homa...
None of the Above
How the Unaffiliated are Redefining Religion and Keeping Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The notion of redefining religion’s role in our lives is not an academic exercise. It is an urgent modern imperative. This book confronts all religious dogma. It challenges the idea and practice of the need for a middle man between man and God. It invites the reader to consider the modern rise of the...
Welcoming Flowers from across the Cleansed Threshold of Hope
An Answer to Pope John Paul II's Criticism of Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Welcoming Flowers is a pointed critique of the Buddhism chapter of Pope John Paul II’s 1994 best seller, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, written by the highly respected Buddhist teacher Thinley Norbu. In responding to the false charges of Buddhists’ indifference to the world and rejection of reality,...
by Ghulam Haider Aasi, Asma Afsaruddin, Osman Bakar
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportunity for Christians and Muslims to come together and discuss pertinent issues such as pluralism, governance, preaching, Christian missionary efforts, and...
The Constitution of the Russian Federation
A Contextual Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
This book provides a critical and contextual understanding of the current Russian Constitution. It comprises seven chapters: an introduction followed by substantive chapters covering specific aspects of Russia's constitutional history, structure and practice: the history and nature of the constitution;...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The increase in the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty since the end of the Second World War shows a steady trend towards worldwide abolition of capital punishment. This book focuses on the political and legal issues raised by the death penalty in "countries in transition",...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
The empirical study of law, legal systems and legal institutions is widely viewed as one of the most exciting and important intellectual developments in the modern history of legal research. Motivated by a conviction that legal phenomena can and should be understood not only in normative terms but...
World Religions and Cults Volume 2
Moralistic, Mythical and Mysticism Religions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Recognize and refute the Far East false religions
What do these religions teach and why?
How can a Christian be an effective witness for Jesus Christ when presented with ideas that are so different from a biblical perspective?
How can these religions be refuted and biblical authority be...
A Study on Globalizing Cities
Theoretical Frameworks and China's Modes
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
A Study on Globalizing Cities is the latest masterpiece by Zhou Zhenhua, a famous Chinese economist, who closely tracks the theoretical study of global cities and is actively engaged in the strategic research of Shanghai's development.
With rich empirical data and an in-depth analysis, this...
Confronting the Human Rights Act 1998
Contemporary themes and perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This book critically examines the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and evaluates its impact from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book includes both a domestic and international analysis of the effectiveness of the HRA, and also considers possible future developments in policy and practise as well...
Christianity on Trial
A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Who is God in light of astronomical and subatomic science?
How could divine inspiration of Scripture or Christs bodily resurrection be possible?
How should we see the nature of reality, free will and choice, ethics, morality and the idea of heaven and afterlife?
Christianity on Trial
Unconscionability in European Private Financial Transactions
Protecting the Vulnerable
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Given the unprecedented recent turmoil on financial markets we now face radically challenged, 'post-Lehmann' assumptions on protecting the vulnerable in financial transactions. This collection of essays explores conceptions of, and responses to, unconscionability and similar notions across Europe...
by Dean Symeon C. Symeonides
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Choice of Law provides an in-depth sophisticated coverage of the choice-of-law part Conflicts Law (or Private International Law) in torts, products liability, contracts, forum-selection and arbitration clauses, insurance, statutes of limitation, domestic relations, property, marital property, and...