▪ Abstract I first argue that religion partakes of the symbolic order of the nation-state and that
contemporary nationalisms are suffused with the religious. I then suggest that religious …

1. Philosophy being nothing else but the study of wisdom and truth', it may with reason be
expected that those who have spent most time and pains in it should enjoy a greater calm …

Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and
nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing …

What does imagination do for our perception of the world? Why should reality be broken off
from our imagining of it? It was not always thus, and in these essays, Tim Ingold sets out to …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

This book examines test validity in the behavioral, social, and educational sciences by
exploring three fundamental problems: measurement, causation and meaning …

Re nais sance Eu rope, so the story goes, po liti cal thought was fundamentally Christian, an
exercise in applied theology. To ask what form our po liti cal lives should take was, during …

Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to
be human in the 21st century? This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides the first …

This is a concise but wide-ranging account of all aspects of the Scientific Revolution from
astronomy to zoology. The third edition has been thoroughly updated, and some sections …

In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening religious fundamentalism, and
moribund liberalism, the remarkable and historically unprecedented rise of religious …