In this broad-ranging inquiry into ritual and its relation to place, Jonathan Z. Smith prepares the way for a new approach to the comparative study ...
Continue Reading โIn the Dialoghi, Judah has adopted certain trajectories of medieval cosmology and psychology, combined them with Renaissance notions of beauty, and thereby created a full-blown ...
Continue Reading โThe philosophical work of Jean-Luc Marion has opened new ways of speaking about religious convictions and experiences. In this exploration of Marion’s philosophy and theology, ...
Continue Reading โBrilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calassoโs lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By ...
Continue Reading โWith this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religionโa ...
Continue Reading โThe aesthetic and cultural intersections of Christian and Islamic art The overlap between art and religion represents one of humanityโs most fundamental driving forces: a ...
Continue Reading โIn The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane, or secular, they still at times ...
Continue Reading โJacob Boehme, the seventeenth-century German speculative mystic, influenced the philosophers Hegel and Schelling and both English and German Romantics alike with his visionary thought. Gnostic ...
Continue Reading โDavid Hume’s Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, first published in 1779, is one of the most influential works in the philosophy of religion and the most ...
Continue Reading โย Presents in the English language, and in convenient-size soft cover volumes, a selection of the most indispensable Christian treatises written before the end of ...
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