ilość książek w kategorii: 85
Christians in the American Empire: Faith and Citizenship in the New World Order
ISBN: 9780195188097 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What does it mean to be a Christian citizen of the United States today? This book challenges the argument that the United States is a Christian nation, and that the American founding and the American Constitution can be linked to a Christian understanding of the state and society. Vincent Rougeau argues that the United States has become an economic empire of consumer citizens, led by elites who seek to secure American political and economic dominance around the world. Freedom and democracy for the oppressed are the public themes put forward to justify this dominance, but the driving force...
What does it mean to be a Christian citizen of the United States today? This book challenges the argument that the United States is a Christian nation...
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193,62 zł |
C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy
ISBN: 9780195374728 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. C.S. Lewis's celebrated Space Trilogy - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength - was completed over sixty years ago and has remained in print ever since. In this groundbreaking study, Sanford Schwartz offers a new reading that challenges the conventional view of these novels as portraying a clear-cut struggle between a pre-modern cosmology and the modern scientific paradigm that supplanted it. Schwartz situates Lewis's work in the context of modern intellectual, cultural, and political history. He shows that Lewis does not simply dismiss...
C.S. Lewis's celebrated Space Trilogy - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength - was completed ove...
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196,06 zł |
The Problem of Evil
ISBN: 9780198248668 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The problem of evil is one of the most discussed topics in the philosophy of religion. For some time, however, there has been a need for a collection of readings that adequately represents recent and ongoing writing on the topic. This volume fills that need, offering the most up-to-date collection of recent scholarship on the problem of evil. The distinguished contributors include J.L. Mackie, Nelson Pike, Roderick M. Chisholm, Terence Penelhum, Alvin Plantinga, William L. Rowe, Stephen J. Wykstra, John Hick, and Diogenes Allen. Including an introductory essay and a selected bibliography,...
The problem of evil is one of the most discussed topics in the philosophy of religion. For some time, however, there has been a need for a collection ...
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200,92 zł |
Charging Standards
ISBN: 9780199285136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This new text will collate the Crown Prosecution Service charging standards for the first time in a standalone volume. This highly portable text is a handy quick-reference source for the busy practitioner. The CPS Charging Standards are fully cross-referenced to Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2005, Archbold's 2005 and Wilkinson's Road Traffic Offences. In addition to the Standards this text contains a clear index, tables, the Code for Prosecutors and relevant CPS Policy documents.
This new text will collate the Crown Prosecution Service charging standards for the first time in a standalone volume. This highly portable text is a ...
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205,79 zł |
Exploring Judicial Politics
ISBN: 9780195343076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Exploring Judicial Politics presents twenty original essays by political scientists and judicial scholars on a variety of topics relative to judicial politics. These readings explore the ways in which law and politics intertwine in the United States and cover issues from the trial court level all the way to the Supreme Court, taking into account the various actors in the American legal system. In addition, they provide insights into how judicial scholars go about studying and interpreting various phenomena in the field.
Exploring Judicial Politics is an ideal resource... Exploring Judicial Politics presents twenty original essays by political scientists and judicial scholars on a variety of topics relative to ...
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215,52 zł |
Writing the Rapture: Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America
ISBN: 9780195326604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For the past twenty years, evangelical prophecy novels have been a powerful presence on American bestseller lists. Emerging from a growing conservative culture industry, the genre dramatizes events that many believers expect to occur at the end of the age - the rapture of the saved, the rise of the Antichrist, and the fearful tribulation faced by those who are "left behind."
Seeking the forces that drove the unexpected success of the Left Behind novels, Crawford Gribben traces the gradual development of the prophecy fiction genre from its eclectic roots among early... For the past twenty years, evangelical prophecy novels have been a powerful presence on American bestseller lists. Emerging from a growing conservativ...
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220,38 zł |
The History of the Buddha's Relic Shrine: A Translation of the Sinhala Thūpavaṃsa
ISBN: 9780195301397 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Buddhist chronicles have long been had a central place in the study of Buddhism. Scholars, however, have relied almost exclusively on Pali works that were composed by elites for learned audiences, to the neglect of a large number of Buddhist histories written in local languages for popular consumption. The Sinhala Th?pavamsa, composed by Parakama Pandita in thirteenth-century Sri Lanka, is an important example of a Buddhist chronicle written in the vernacular Sinhala language. Furthermore, it is among those works that inform public discussion and debate over the place of Buddhism in the Sri...
Buddhist chronicles have long been had a central place in the study of Buddhism. Scholars, however, have relied almost exclusively on Pali works that ...
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220,38 zł |
The Normative Web: An Argument for Moral Realism
ISBN: 9780199581382 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Antirealist views about morality claim that moral facts or truths do not exist. Does this imply that other types of normative facts, such as epistemic facts, do not exist? The Normative Web develops a positive answer to this question. Terence Cuneo argues that moral and epistemic facts are sufficiently similar so that, if moral facts do not exist, then epistemic facts do not exist. But epistemic facts do exist: to deny their existence would commit us to an extreme version of epistemological scepticism. Therefore, Cuneo concludes, moral facts do exist. And if moral facts exist, then moral...
Antirealist views about morality claim that moral facts or truths do not exist. Does this imply that other types of normative facts, such as epistemic...
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220,38 zł |
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man. Duncan Wu
ISBN: 9780199549580 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Duncan Wu's portrait of William Hazlitt - covering Hazlitt's entire life - reveals one of the greatest journalists in the language, and the principal spokesman of the Romantic age, interacting with every major writer and many other movers and shakers of the era.
Duncan Wu's portrait of William Hazlitt - covering Hazlitt's entire life - reveals one of the greatest journalists in the language, and the principal ...
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230,12 zł |
The Creative Suffering of the Triune God: An Evolutionary Theology
ISBN: 9780195329124 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The global reality of suffering and death has always demanded an authentic theological response and impelled debate concerning Gods relationship to suffering, as well as the conceivability of the suffering of God. The scope and impact of this suffering in the last century have driven this debate to an acute pitch, demanding to know how one can speak rightly of God in view of the suffering that is inherent and inflicted in the cosmos. While in former ages, some looked to an omnipotent and impassible deus ex machina in answer to this question, many contemporary theologians have revised their...
The global reality of suffering and death has always demanded an authentic theological response and impelled debate concerning Gods relationship to su...
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230,12 zł |
Hope in a Democratic Age: Philosophy, Religion, and Political Theory
ISBN: 9780199297153 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. How and why should hope play a key role in a twenty-first century democratic politics? Alan Mittleman offers a philosophical exploration of the theme, contending that a modern construction of hope as an emotion is deficient. He revives the medieval understanding of hope as a virtue, reconstructing this in a contemporary philosophical idiom. In this framework, hope is less a spontaneous reaction than it is a choice against despair; a decision to live with confidence and expectation, based on a rational assessment of possibility and a faith in the underlying goodness of life. In cultures shaped...
How and why should hope play a key role in a twenty-first century democratic politics? Alan Mittleman offers a philosophical exploration of the theme,...
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234,99 zł |
God and Grace of Body: Sacrament in Ordinary
ISBN: 9780199231829 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. David Brown explores the ways in which the symbolic associations of the body and what we do with it have helped shape religious experience and continue to do so. A Church narrowly focused on Christ's body wracked in pain needs to be reminded that the body as beautiful and sexual has also played a crucial role not only in other religions but also in the history of Christianity itself. Dance was one way in which the connection was expressed. The irony is not that such a connection has gone but that it now exists almost wholly outside the Church. Much the same could be said about music more...
David Brown explores the ways in which the symbolic associations of the body and what we do with it have helped shape religious experience and continu...
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242,29 zł |
Self-Knowing Agents
ISBN: 9780199261482 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Lucy O'Brien argues that a satisfactory account of first-person reference and self-knowledge needs to concentrate on our nature as agents. She considers two main questions. First, what account of first-person reference can we give that respects the guaranteed nature of such reference? Second, what account can we give of our knowledge of our mental and physical actions? Clearly written, with rigorous discussion of rival views, this book will be of interest to anyone working in the philosophy of mind and action.
Lucy O'Brien argues that a satisfactory account of first-person reference and self-knowledge needs to concentrate on our nature as agents. She conside...
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244,72 zł |
A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries: Volume 1: 1567-1784
ISBN: 9780199557097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first volume in a complete history of the documentation of English cant and slang from 1567 to the present. It gives unparalleled insights into the early history of slang, the people who used it, and how and why it was recorded.
Well over a hundred glossaries of cant and slang were published between 1567 and 1784. The cant lists reveal the secret language allegedly used by thieves and beggars to conceal their illicit conspiracies: Dr Coleman investigates where and how they were produced and the relationship between such lists and canting literature. She considers why this... This is the first volume in a complete history of the documentation of English cant and slang from 1567 to the present. It gives unparalleled insights...
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247,16 zł |
Faith and the Presidency from George Washington to George W. Bush
ISBN: 9780195300604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the wake of the 2004 election, pundits were shocked at exit polling that showed that 22% of voters thought 'moral values' was the most important issue at stake. People on both sides of the political divide believed this was the key to victory for George W. Bush, who professes a deep and abiding faith in God. While some fervent Bush supporters see him as a man chosen by God for the White House, opponents see his overt commitment to Christianity as a dangerous and unprecedented bridging of the gap between church and state. In fact, Gary Scott Smith shows, none of this is new. Religion...
In the wake of the 2004 election, pundits were shocked at exit polling that showed that 22% of voters thought 'moral values' was the most important is...
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264,24 zł |
Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa
ISBN: 9780195174779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In recent decades, Christianity has acquired millions of new adherents in Africa, the region with the world's fastest-expanding population. What role has this development of evangelical Christianity played in Africa's democratic history? To what extent do its churches affect its politics? By taking a historical view and focusing specifically on the events of the past few years, Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa seeks to explore these questions, offering individual case studies of six countries: Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, and Mozambique. Unlike most...
In recent decades, Christianity has acquired millions of new adherents in Africa, the region with the world's fastest-expanding population. What role ...
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283,71 zł |
Religion and Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
ISBN: 9780195327656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the pre-industrial societies of early modern Europe, religion was a vessel of fundamental importance in making sense of personal and collective social, cultural and spiritual exercises. Developments from this era had immediate impact on these societies, much of which resonates to the present day. Published in German seven years ago, Kaspar von Greyerz important overview and interpretation of the religions and cultures of Early Modern Europe now appears in the English language for the first time. He approaches his subject matter with the concerns of a social anthropologist, rejecting the...
In the pre-industrial societies of early modern Europe, religion was a vessel of fundamental importance in making sense of personal and collective soc...
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283,71 zł |
A Dictionary of Hinduism
ISBN: 9780198610250 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This new authoritative dictionary covers all aspects of Hinduism, including practices, festivals, beliefs, gods, sacred sites, languages, and religious texts. Almost 2,800 entries cover everything from Tantra to temples, from bhakti to Divali. The most wide-ranging dictionary of its kind, this brand new AZ also contains biographical entries for key thinkers, teachers, and scholars. All entries are clear, concise, up to date, and fully cross-referenced. Detailed appendices include maps, pronunciation guide, a chronology, principal sources and further reading, and useful websites that will be...
This new authoritative dictionary covers all aspects of Hinduism, including practices, festivals, beliefs, gods, sacred sites, languages, and religiou...
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288,57 zł |
Genetically Modified Planet: Environmental Impacts of Genetically Engineered Plants
ISBN: 9780195157451 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Genetically modified plants are currently causing controversy worldwide; a great deal has been written about their supposed environmental effects. However, the newspaper headlines and public debates often provide a level of reasoning akin to "this is your brain on genetically modified corn," which is to say, they exclude or exaggerate the actual scientific research on the impacts of these plants. Genetically Modified Planet goes beyond the rhetoric to investigate for concerned consumers the actual state of scientific research on genetically modified plants. Stewart argues that while...
Genetically modified plants are currently causing controversy worldwide; a great deal has been written about their supposed environmental effects. How...
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298,31 zł |
Shotoku: Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition
ISBN: 9780195188615 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Prince Shotoku (573?-622?), the purported founder of Japanese Buddhism, is widely referred to as Japan's first national hero. The cult that grew up around his memory is recognized as one of the most important phenomena in early Japanese religion. This book examines the creation and evolution of the Shotoku cult over the roughly 200 years following his deatha period that saw a series of revolutionary developments in the history of Japanese religion. Michael Como highlights the activities of a cluster of kinship groups who claimed descent from ancestors from the Korean kingdom of Silla. He...
Prince Shotoku (573?-622?), the purported founder of Japanese Buddhism, is widely referred to as Japan's first national hero. The cult that grew up ar...
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298,31 zł |