2015 | ISBN: 0199324859, 0199324867 | English | 336 Pages | PDF | 8 MB Dogen and Soto Zen builds upon and further refines a continuing wave of enthusiastic popular interest and scholarly developments in Western appropriations of Zen. In the last few decades, research in English and...

2012 | ISBN: 0199826862 | English | 288 Pages | PDF | 1 MB Economic Morality and Jewish Law compares the way in which welfare economics and Jewish law determine the propriety of an economic action, whether by a private citizen or the government. Espousing what philosophers would...

2017 | ISBN: 0198797443 | English | 384 Pages | PDF | 2 MB Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 offers a radical reassessment of the history of early modern papacy, constructed through the first major analytical treatment of papal elections in English. Papal elections, with...

2017 | ISBN: 0190239670, 0190239689 | English | 200 Pages | PDF | 1 MB Why do people go to church? What about a congregation attracts new members? What is it that draws women and men differently into diverse types of congregations? Getting to Church assesses the deeply...

2017 | ISBN: 0190654929 | English | 200 Pages | PDF | 4 MB Today, there are more than two million Hindus in America. But before the twentieth century, Hinduism was unknown in the United States. But while Americans did not write about “Hinduism,” they speculated at length...

2010 | ISBN-10: 0760337780 | 320 Pages | EPUB | 10 MB And at the heart of the evil of Nazism was Hitler’s “witch doctor,” Heinrich Himmler, and his peculiar and deadly organization with the mundane name Schutzstaffel, literally “protective squadron.” Undoubtedly you know them better as the...

2015 | ISBN: 0190225327, 0190225319 | English | 304 Pages | PDF | 3 MB Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or...

English | November 1st, 2012 | ISBN: 0300186525 | 108 Pages | PDF | 4.01 MB A colorfully decorated Christmas tree, lit with twinkling lights, provokes awe and delight. We understand the lighted tree as a central symbol of the Christmas season, but what are the roots of...

English | ISBN: 0199682143 | 2013 | 288 Pages | PDF | 7 MB The Reformed Church historian and orientalist Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620-1667) is a key figure in the history of Arabic and Islamic studies in early modern Europe. His life and his work have been almost...