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Animated by the belief that public health programs in Botswana, or other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, would be more effective if those who designed and implemented them possessed a better understanding of existing ethno-medical as well as religious beliefs and cultural practices, Parallel Discourses provides a revised topology of religious identity in Botswana and then shows why it is important to disaggregate or otherwise distinguish between diverse faith-based communities - from traditional African religions and African Independent Churches to mainline Christian denominations and Muslim...

Although he is best known as a mentor to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Howard Thurman was an exceptional philosopher and public intellectual in his own right. In this book, Kipton Jensen provides new ways of understanding Thurman's role in and broad influence on the civil rights movement and argues that he is one its unsung heroes.

This manuscript provides a revisionist reading of Hegel's 1802 essay, Faith and Knowledge, in which he critiques the various reconciliations of faith and reason proposed by his immediate predecessors and contemporary faith philosophers - namely, Kant, Jacobi, Schleiermacher and Fichte. Hegel's agonistic interpretation of these reflective philosophers of subjectivity, who he reads as settling for a form of reason that is no longer worthy of the name and a version of faith that no longer seems worth the bother, not only demonstrates his growing facility with the dialectical method for which he...