Bücher der Reihe American University Studies

In this theoretical investigation, Panikkar's remark on the unknown Christ of Christians is reevaluated and deepened in order to deploy it for rethinking Panikkar's ideas on the Church and its understanding of Christ.

Suitable for courses in theology, religious education, and social philosophy, and for all interested in promoting the common good, this book focuses on how support for individuals and social groups in Nigeria can foster the building of their communities through the practice of social justice.

Socialist Literature studies the relationship between the development of socialist literary theory and the process of cultural transformation in modern society by tracing the outline of the theory in the works of Marx, Lenin, and Mao, and examining its reflection in actual works of literature.

This book addresses the impact of Mannerist architecture and art theory in sixteenth century European architecture and culture.

This biography will help people to learn both about K. H. Ting and the fundamentals of Chinese Christianity.

This volume engages in in conceptual analysis and evaluation of theoretical contributions in the field of international justice with concrete applications.

Adapting Shahrazad's Odyssey: The Female Wanderer and Storyteller in Victorian and Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature focuses on a comparative study of the figure of the female traveller and storyteller in nineteenth-century Victorian literature and contemporary Anglophone Middle Eastern writing.

Violent Disruptions examines two authors who have powerfully predicted the formation of racial identities and its surrounding discourse in the United States today: William Faulkner (1897-1962) and Richard Wright (1908-1960).

The Country of the Blind challenges the reigning conception of Ibsen as social critic.

In this book Yoram Lubling and Eric Evans offer a Deweyan reconstruction of our philosophical understanding of well-being. The authors use Dewey's theories of inquiry, ethics, value and art to establish the naturalistic conditions under which such pervasive quality enters into a situation as either settled or unsettled, in other words, as peace in motion.

La primera introduccion completa y sistematica en lengua espanola a Evagrio Pontico, "el monje mas culto del siglo IV", esta obra se concentra sobre todo en el tratamiento de la acedia.

Remembering the Germans in Ghana examines the oral history of the Volta Region of Ghana, scrutinizes its sources and presentation, contextualizes it historically, and uses it to make larger arguments about memory and identity in Ghana.

The book is a collection of essays written by professors and learning specialists (educational support personnel) at Beacon College, which is an accredited four-year institution for students with learning disabilities, ADHD, and other learning differences.

The book Old Paths and New Ways is a case study of the negotiation between tradition and the quest for relevance in liturgy.

This massive book is an intensive inquest into the fate of the human subject as it passes through the primitive, despotic, passional and capitalist regimes found in Deleuze and Guattari.

In this work, Xavier Lakshmanan argues for a textual linguistic approach to Christian theology. The book takes its shape in conversation with Paul Ricoeur's philosophical thought, demonstrating how Ricoeur's hermeneutic philosophy can inform the way Christians interpret and appropriate biblical narratives without delimiting the potential of the text or eroding the distinctiveness of its language.

This book surveys the breadth of mankind's post-modern malaise, which is achieved through a discussion of the major challenges, social and psychological, which every individual faces in the effort to live fully in the twenty-first century.

This book traces a recovery of iconographic religious experience and theology in the nineteenth century. In contrast to a logocentric religious focus, which privileges texts and their analysis, an iconographic focus emphasizes the visual and narrative attributes of religion.

Prelude to Disaster is the most comprehensive account of the fateful decision to tax American colonists.

At the center of this book are the World War II letters (Feldpostbriefe) of a German artist and art teacher to his wife. While these letters address many of the topics usually found in war letters, they are unusual in two respects. Each letter is lovingly decorated with a drawing and the letters make few references to the war itself.

Division, Diversity, and Unity argues that the theology of ecclesial charisms can account for legitimately diverse specialized vocational movements in the Church but cannot account for a legitimate diversity of separated churches.

Religion: An Anthropological Perspective provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science, rationality, and religion; altered states of consciousness, entheogens and religious experience; religion and the paranormal; magic and divination; religion and ecology; fundamentalism; and religion and violence.

Measuring Change provides voluminous data substantiating the claim that students can and do experience personal formation in the context of Christian higher education.

The Antwerp Testament was written by Evelyn Grill and translated by Jean M. Snook.

This book provides a new and provocative revisionist history of Methodism and the Church of England in the eighteenth century.

The first part of this book analyzes Conrad's first novel, Almayer's Folly, and four of his greatest works: Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. The second part of the book looks at two autobiographical works: A Personal Record and "A Familiar Preface."