Product Description: I conceive that the origin, the growth, the decline, and the fall of those speculations respecting the existence, the powers, and the dispositions of beings analogous to men, but more or less devoid of corporeal qualities, which may be broadly included under the head of theology, are phenomena the study of which legitimately falls within the province of the anthropologist...read more

Product Description: Despite the many well-documented similarities — genetic, cognitive, behavioral, social — between our human selves and our evolutionary forebears, a significant gulf remains between us and them. Why is that? How did it come about? And how did we come to be the way we are?             In this book fourteen distinguished scholars — including humanist, atheist, and theist voices — address such questions as they explore how and when human personhood emerged...read more

Product Description: Large international corporations and accountants representing international interests require the most up-to-date information regarding tax issues in countries around the world. International Tax Summaries provides in one volume vital information on the tax systems of 124 countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A guide for writers of fiction includes a cross-referenced Alphabet for Writers that deals with such writing concerns as anti-heroes, dialogue, sex, and style. Reprint. AB. NYT.

Product Description: In Structures of GraceKevin Ahern profiles several Catholic organizations and Christian socialmovements that embody the gospel as they seek to confront and overcome thesinful structures dividing the human family today.  In many places, Christian movements are at the forefront ofefforts for social change, human rights, economic justice, and sustainabledevelopment...read more

Product Description: DSM-six is a parody of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) series of manuals produced by the American Psychiatric Association. While it is written from a humorous perspective, the subject matter is quite serious...read more

Product Description: Is there such a thing as “Christian Forgiveness”? Christians speak as though there is. But what would it be? How would it differ from forgiveness as a basic human enactment? And if there is a distinctive Christian forgiveness, what might it have to say to our world today?  To answer these questions, the present work traverses three distinctive intellectual landscapes—continental philosophy, Anglo-American moral philosophy, and psychology—to establish a phenomenology of forgiving before turning to contemporary Christian literature...read more

Product Description: Many interested reader will have put aside a work by Edith Stein due to its seeming inaccessibility, with the awareness that there was something important there for a future occasion. This collection of essays attempts to provide an idea of what this important something might be and give a key to the reading of Stein’s various works...read more

Product Description: Freedom, one of the most potent ideals of the post-Enlightenment era, came to remarkable prominence in ecclesiology through the emergence of liberation theologies in the twentieth century. At the same time, Joseph Ratzinger - a German university professor - was appointed a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...read more

Product Description: A timely resource for the many institutions in the Catholic Church facing diminishment or seeking rebirth and renewal.Arbuckle develops a cultural-anthropological model of change based on the assumption that individual and collective grief, if not expressed in mourning rituals, suffocates creativity...read more

Product Description: There lies the dearest freshness deep down things."An astonishing revelation of the beauty, might, subtlety, simplicity, and love that infuses everything, from a trillion bacteria around us we cannot see to uncountable stars abouve us to billions of living things at the bottom of the sea to a singular bird on our windowsill...read more

The average American watches 5 hours of TV every day.Collectively, we spend roughly $30 billion on movies each year. Simply put, we’re entertainment junkies. But can we learn something from our insatiable addiction to stories? Mike Cosper thinks so. From horror flicks to rom-coms, the tales we tell and the myths we weave inevitably echo the narrative underlying all of history: the story of humanity’s tragic sin and God’s triumphant salvation. This entertaining book connects the dots between the stories we tell and the one great Story—helping us better understand the longings of the human heart and thoughtfully engage with the movies and TV shows that capture our imaginations.

Product Description: Based on an ethnographic study of rural Poland, this book investigates the challenges of maintaining pluralism in a religiously homogenous society. By examining a multireligious and multiethnic community, Pasieka reveals paradoxes inscribed into the practice and discourse of pluralism...read more

Product Description: La réciprocité est habituellement conçue comme une structure d'échange où ce que l'on rend est de valeur à peu près équivalente à ce que l'on reçoit. Il en est ainsi de la traditionnelle règle d'or, «Ne fais pas à autrui ce que tu ne voudrais pas qu'il te fasse», et de la loi du Talion, «Œil pour œil, dent pour dent»...read more