Bücher der Reihe Religion and Public Life

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.

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.

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

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

In 1749 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, surprised leading Enlightenment thinkers who had enthusiastically upheld the positive benefits of humanity's technological advance