Bücher von Gabriel R. Ricci

Faith, War, and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God, and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic spiritualism

Part of the "Transaction" series, this work heeds Petrarch's advice that literature not only orients us to life's developmental stages, it can provide us with a more complete understanding of the human character while artfully advancing morals.

Explores the physical ways in which we are intimately linked to the land and the intellectual and aesthetic connections human consciousness has with the landscape. This work also assesses the issue of global warming in the context of a public and ecumenical theology and sets the tone for this normative assessment of our relationship with nature.

This latest volume in the Culture & Civilization seriesgathers interdisciplinary voices to present a collection of essays on travel and travel narratives

The latest volume of Culture and Civilization gathers contemporary exponents of critical theory, specifically those based in the Frankfurt School of social thinking. Collectively, this volume demonstrates the continuing intellectual viability of critical theory, which challenges the limits of positivism and materialism.

This new volume examines the relationship between religion and politics from a historical perspective

Travel, Tourism and Identity addresses the psychological and social adjustments that occur when people make contact with others outside their social, cultural, or linguistic groups