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A reading of the Anglo-Dutch physician and thinker's philosophical project from the hitherto neglected perspective of his lifelong interest in the theme of honour.

This compilation explores the significance of religion for the controversies stirred up by populist politics in European and American contexts, engaging Jewish, Christian, and Islamic political thought. Moving beyond essentialist definitions of religion, the contributions offer critical interpretations and constructive interventions for political theology today.

This book presents studies, editions, and English translations of the shorter Arabic and Persian works of Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī (1145-1234), who is a major figure in Islamic history and the eponym of a living Sufi order.

This volume offers a range of essays that demonstrate the cross-cultural appeal of the legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages, bringing together innovative trends that cross disciplinary boundaries.

In Ilias Latina. Text, Interpretation, and Reception, the contributors approach this short poem, whose appeal and importance have not been sufficiently appreciated, from a multitude of scholarly perspectives, and offers a challenging synthesis of the different issues.

Mia Mochizuki draws upon masterpieces and material culture from around the world to show how the pre-suppression Society of Jesus (1540-1773) pioneered structural innovations in the history of the image.

Based on intellectual openness and an interest in transdisciplinary perspectives, this edited volume introduces scholars of African Peace and Security to innovative methodological and conceptual approaches, offering new insights into the inner life of APSA.

Written by people selected for their personalized knowledge of the Rwandan genocide, Rwanda Revisited: Genocide, Civil War, and the Transformation of International Law provides a unique level of insight, detail and first-hand knowledge about the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath.

This volume investigates the development of systematics as a discipline through the lens of the life and work of the naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858), the first director of 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie (National Museum of Natural History) in Leiden, the Netherlands.

In Fannie Lou Hamer's Revolutionary Practical Theology Crozier presents the civil and human rights life and legacy of Hamer through the lens of practical theology.

Tools and Processes in Mathematics Teacher Education describes and analyze various promising tools and processes, from different perspectives, aimed at facilitating mathematics teacher learning/development. It provides insights of how mathematics teacher educators think about and approach their work with teachers.

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History, volume 8 (CMR 8) is a history of everything that was written on relations in the period 1600-1700 in Northern and Eastern Europe. Its detailed entries contain descriptions, assessments and comprehensive bibliographical details about individual works.

In this paradigm changing study of art and thought from antiquity to the Italian Renaissance Clare Lapraik Guest re-evaluates the central role and theoretical dignity of ornament in pre-modern art and literature.

In Josephus, the Emperors, and the City of Rome William den Hollander explores the social circumstances in which Josephus spent the years of his life following his first encounter with Rome, considering particularly his place within the Roman army camp and, later, the imperial capital.

"This book offers a thorough analysis of demons in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the wider context of the ancient Near East and the Greek world. Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates continuities and changes in the representation of divine powers in Hellenistic Judaism, thereby revealing the role of the Greek translation of the Bible in shaping ancient demonology, angelology, and pneumatology. Combining philological and semantic analyses with a historical approach and anthropological insights, the author both develops a new method for analyzing religious categories within biblical traditions and sheds new light on the importance of the Septuagint for the history of ancient Judaism"--

The Sound Traditions: Studies in Ismaili Texts and Thought is a collection of Ismail K. Poonawala's articles that examine the origins and development of Ismaili thought.

New Approaches in the Study of Esotericism offers a roadmap to the field's expanding horizon. The volume critically rethinks established approaches in the field, introducing interdisciplinary perspectives on aspects such as global entanglements, secrecy, gender, and race, beyond "the West."

For the international cast of contributors to this volume being "in fashion" is about self-presentation; defining how fashion is presented in the visual, written, and performing arts; and about design, craft manufacturing, packaging, marketing, and archives.

In Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading, Professor Kin Bunkyō surveys the 'vernacular reading' technologies used to read Literary Sinitic through a wide variety of vernacular languages across diverse premodern literary cultures in East Asia.

In Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age André van der Braak uses Charles Taylor's A Secular Age to describe the encounter between Japanese Zen Buddhism and Western modernity. He proposes how Dōgen's thought offers resources for a reimagining of Zen.

The book discusses the history and the archaeology of Jerusalem-Aelia Capitolina in the Roman period (70-400 CE) following a chronological order. The Tenth Legion's campsite, the urban layout, the fortifications, the necropoleis and the rural hinterland are discussed.

Long ghettoized within British and Irish studies, Catholicism and Recusancy in Britain and Ireland demonstrates that, despite many challenges and differences among them, English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish Catholics formed strong bonds and actively participated in the life of their nations and their Church.

Usable Pasts unpicks the mythic and material afterlives of the New Deal in American cultural politics in order to write a new history of social practice art in the United States.

This text portrays two exceptional personalities who, under different circumstances, remained faithful to the true calls of their selves. The main heroes depict how to brave difficulties and be ready to sacrifice comfort for human dignity and integrity.

Intention in Talmudic Law: Between Thought and Deed offers a comprehensive history of intention in rabbinic classical law, tracing developments in legal thought, and demonstrating how intention became a nuanced, differentially applied concept across a wide array of legal realms.

By taking stock of the implementation of the EU's Global Strategy and the five principles that are guiding EU-Russia relations, this volume contributes to a better understanding of the current EU-Russia relationship and the prospects for overcoming the existing deadlock.

In Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape Elizabeth A. Cecil presents a spatial and material history of the Pāśupata tradition and examines the formation of a Śaiva religious landscape in Early Medieval India.