The Religious Traditions of Asia

Religion, History, and Culture

Edited by Joseph Kitagawa

This essential student textbook consists of seventeen sections, all written by leading scholars in their different fields. They cover all the religious traditions of Southwest...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1762-0 (Routledge)

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Augustine and his Critics

Edited by Robert Dodaro, George Lawless

Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430) is arguably the most controversial Christian thinker in history. His positions on philosophical and theological concerns have been the subjects...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-20063-9 (Routledge)

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The Invention of Saintliness

Edited by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

This volume discusses, from an historical and literary angle, the ways in which sanctification and the inscription of saintliness take place. Going beyond the traditional...

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-26759-5 (Routledge)

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Genealogy of Nihilism

By Conor Cunningham

This text re-reads Western history in the light of nihilistic logic, which pervades two millennia of Western thought. From Parmenides to Alain Badiou, via Plotinus,...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27694-8 (Routledge)

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Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature

BLACKENED BY THEIR SINS: Early Christian Ethno-Political Rhetorics about Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks and Blackness

By Gay Byron

How were early Christians influenced by contemporary assumptions about ethnic and colour differences?
Why were early Christian writers so attracted to the subject of Blacks, Egyptians,...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24369-8 (Routledge)

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Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist

By D.T. Suzuki

If the Western world knows anything about Zen Buddhism, it is down to the efforts of one remarkable man, D.T. Suzuki. The twenty-seven year-old Japanese...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28586-5 (Routledge)

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Racializing Jesus

Race, Ideology and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship

By Shawn Kelley

Shawn Kelley's groundbreaking study shows how the major intellectual movements of the modern world, such as Orientalism and romantic nationalism, become infused with the category...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28373-1 (Routledge)

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Suffering Religion

Edited by Robert Gibbs, Elliot R. Wolfson

In a diverse and innovative selection of new essays by cutting-edge theologians and philosophers, Suffering Religion examines one of the most primitive but challenging questions...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26612-3 (Routledge)

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Letter to a Priest

By Simone Weil

Letter to a Priest encapsulates the sharp wit and questioning nature of Simone Weil. Regarded by Susan Sontag as 'one of the most uncompromising and...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26767-0 (Routledge)

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A Christian Faith for Today

By Prof W Montgomery Watt, W. Montgomery Watt

Written by one of the world's foremost religious authorities, A Christian Faith for Today provides both Christians and sceptics with a much-needed response to modernity's...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27703-7 (Routledge)

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