Product Description: Hobbes famously stated that life before civilization was nasty, brutish and short. Rousseau countered that civilization has only brought violence and war to what was once a state of natural grace. While in the intervening centuries these opposing positions have served as framing paradigms, contemporary social theorists have increasingly argued for a more nuanced relationship between violence and civilization: one that is fundamentally social and cultural...read more

Product Description: At an international level, Anglicanism has almost no mandating or juridical power. Stresses and threats of division over issues such as human sexuality have resulted in moves to enhance the Communion's central structures and instruments...read more