Laozi’s “Daodejing”: A New Translation With Environmentalist Commentary offers a new translation and fresh interpretation of the eighty-one-verse Daodejing, one of the central texts of Eastern philosophy. Likely written during the late Zhou Dynasty between 600–400 BCE, this foundational work is generally attributed ...

From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their ...

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Cooperatives are traditionally recognized as marginal players in the economic sector, but their role in policymaking and in social arenas has garnered even less attention. Over the past two decades, an extensive body of literature in management science and economics has arisen, designating non-capitalistic enterpris...

How do Christians bridge the divide between our lives inside and outside the church? Abraham Kuyper believed that a healthy view of Jesus's kingship was essential to closing that gap. In this first volume of Pro Rege, Kuyper discusses how Satan's kingdom opposes, undermines, and obscures Christ's kingship. He then l...

Marx and the Politics of Need challenges one of the most pervasive habits in contemporary political theory and practice: treating needs as moral facts that sit outside of our politics, and which can be used to judge it. Against this depoliticising impulse, George Boss offers a provocative re-reading of Marx’s writin...

This seven-session Bible study on Romans 8 to 16 explores how to live life in response to God's mercy, by the power of his Spirit. Keller's trademark gifts of making the complex clear and the difficult joyful mean Christians will love studying the Bible using this resource, and will be inspired to apply it to their ...

Plusieurs des problèmes cruciaux de l’institution scolaire sont pour une part irréductible des problèmes philosophiques. C’est la thèse de ce livre, qui veut attirer l’attention sur cette dimension oubliée, systématiquement méconnue dans les débats qui entourent l’école, que ce soit en France ou dans d’autres pays. ...

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompa...

Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb Keane undertakes a rich ethnographic study of the century-long encounter, from the colonial Dutch East Indies to post-...

The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in Southeast Asia examines how global and domestic forces of autocratization affect regional and local politics. It analyzes how the interactions of international and domestic factors affect actors and institutions in both democracies and autocracies in the region. Bringing ...

Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001) est l’une des grandes philosophes britanniques du XXe siècle. Influencée par Aristote et la scolastique médiévale, mais surtout par son maître Ludwig Wittgenstein, elle a renouvelé les débats en philosophie de l’action et en philosophie morale. L’action est un sujet de perplexité pour ...

John Dewey s’attache à reconstruire radicalement l’idée selon laquelle l’esthétique n’est pas une propriété ésotérique de l’expérience, mais ce par quoi toute expérience humaine tend à s’unifier. Cela implique pour lui de ne plus séparer l’esthétique et l’artistique, la contemplation et la pratique, la réception et ...

Die Autorin untersucht die Predigten Johannes Taulers in Bezug auf konzeptionelle Mündlichkeit und unter Berücksichtigung der handschriftlichen Überlieferungen seit dem 14. bis zu den Drucken aus dem frühen 17. Jahrhundert. Ihre Ergebnisse zeigen, dass konzeptionelle Schriftlichkeit das Ergebnis prozesshaften Wandel...

The immediate reward of honey is its sweet taste. But honey also has incredible health benefits. Similarly, God’s Word has both instant and lasting advantages. The wisdom found within its pages requires time spent searching and meditating. True understanding happens through prayer and an intimate relationship with G...

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