Publications
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Prosperity Gospel Redefined
(2024)
This book provides an in-depth discussion of the cultural and missional implications of the explosion of charismatic Christianity on mainline denominations in Africa. The book proposes that the charismatization of mainline ...
A Short History of Christianity beyond the West
(2024)
Today, the majority of the world's Christian population lives in the Global South. Knowledge of their history is therefore indispensable. This textbook offers a compact and vivid overview of the history of Christianity in ...
Complexity and Simplicity
(2024)
This book is the outcome of an original and interdisciplinary undertaking by the Academy of Young Scholars and Artists based in Wrocław, Poland. One of the fundamental objectives of the Academy is to improve and foster ...
Le Labyrinthe littéraire de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
(2024)
Depuis ses débuts avec la nouvelle « La Cale » en 2014, les textes de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr connaissent un succès qui ne se dément pas. Terre ceinte en 2015, Silence du chœur en 2017 et De purs hommes en 2018 ont remporté ...
Eschatologisches Denken und politisches Handeln in der Karolingerzeit
(2025)
In the Carolingian period, the prospect of individual death, the universal end times and the Last Judgement gave rise to a sense of taking a critical view of current conditions and governing in a reform-oriented manner. ...
Qahal und Ekklesia
(2024)
Politics begins with people assembling. An inquiry into types and functions of assemblies is therefore an inquiry into one of the most fundamental questions of political theory. In the present volume, that question is ...
Involving Readers
(2024)
This volume explores how and by whom early modern Dutch Bibles were used. Through a detailed analysis of paratextual features and readers’ traces in over 180 surviving Bible copies, Renske Hoff shows how individuals ...
Mimetic Posthumanism
(2024)
It is tempting to affirm that on and about November 2022 (post)human character changed. The revolution in A.I. simulations certainly calls for an update of the ancient realization that humans are imitative animals, or homo ...
Ratnakūṭa Studies, Volume I
(2024)
Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions produced hundreds of scriptures and treatises, only a small number of which have received serious scholarly attention. The present volume inaugurates the Buddhist Open Philology Project ...
Aristotle reads Hippocrates
(2024)
Despite Aristotle's family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on Aristotle's philosophy is controversial and far from universally acknowledged. The aim of this volume ...
Modal Pragmatics
(2024)
Modal Pragmatics analyzes and systematizes differences among our uses of modal expressions in ordinary language which have not been adequately explained elsewhere. We say such things as: “By necessity, John Tylor was not ...
Verse and Transmutation
(2013-11-01)
Identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry ...
Islamic Reformism and Christianity
(2009-01-01)
Drawing on newly-discovered archival materials, the study offers a comprehensive and critical reading of the polemics of Sheikh Rashīd Riḍā and his associates on Christianity in al-Manār, and their fascinating encounters ...
Hariwaṅśa
(1950)
Indonesia
Tang Junyi
(2017-02-15)
Both inside and outside of China, there have been heated debates about Confucian democracy, Confucian values and ethics, and Confucian alternatives to Western models of modernization. In many respects, however, the discussions ...
China: Promise or Threat?
(2017-03-30)
In China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. For China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while behaviour in public relating to ...
China
(2017)
In China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. For China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while behaviour in public relating to ...
Islam in a Post-Secular Society
(2016-12-31)
Islam in the Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith critically examines the unique challenges facing Muslims in Europe and North America. From the philosophical perspective of ...
The Earliest History of the Christian Gathering
(2010-01-01)
Using recent insights into the nature of early Christian communities as religious associations, this book offers a new reconstruction of the origins and development of the weekly Christian gathering and its constitutive ...
Marmaduke Pickthall
(2016)
This new volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of Marmaduke Pickthall. His various roles as translator of the Qurʾan, traveller to the Near East, political journalist writing on behalf of Muslim Turkey, and ...