Hume’s Reflection on Religion
Hume’s Reflection on Religion

Author: Miguel A. Badía Cabrera

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001-08-31

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780792370246

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Considering the Scotsman David Hume (1711-76) to be the most important, influential, and studied philosopher to have written in English, Badia Cabrera (philosophy, U. of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras) could not resist the temptation to translate his 1966 Le reflexion de David Hume en torno a la religion from the Spanish into English. He offers a significantly different view of his work on religion and natural theology than has appeared in the anglophone tradition. Among the aspects he examines are the historical setting of his investigation of religion, the ethical depreciation of religion, and the rejection of miracles. c. Book News Inc.

America Through European Eyes
America Through European Eyes

Author: Aurelian Cr_iu_u

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0271033908

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"A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.

Empire in Asia: A New Global History
Empire in Asia: A New Global History

Author: Brian P. Farrell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1472596064

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Asia was the principle focus of empire-builders from Alexander and Akbar to Chinggis Khan and Qianlong and yet, until now, there has been no attempt to provide a comprehensive history of empire in the region. Empire in Asia addresses the need for a thorough survey of the topic. This volume covers the long 19th century, commonly seen in terms of 'high imperialism' and the global projection of Western power. This volume explores the dynamic, volatile and often contested processes by which, by the early years of the 20th century, Asian states, space and peoples became deeply integrated into the wider dynamics of global reordering. Drawing on case studies from across Asia, the contributors discuss key themes including ideology, concepts of identity, religion and politics, state building and state formation, the relationships between space, people, and sovereignty, the movements of goods, money, people and ideas, and the influence and impact of conflict and military power. The two volumes of Empire in Asia offer a significant contribution to the theory and practice of empire when considered globally and comparatively and are essential reading for all students and scholars of global, imperial and Asian history.

Narration, Navigation, and Colonialism
Narration, Navigation, and Colonialism

Author: Jamal Eddine Benhayoun

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9789052019581

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The texts collected in this book are all produced and located within the converging fields of navigation and displacement. The connection between navigation and narration becomes clear when we realise that most of the authors and heroes of the accounts discussed by the author were, in one way or another, involved in shipping and navigation and that their accounts were produced within fluid and floating spaces and in the course of intriguing voyages and long cruises. In all cases, these narratives start with the narrators on board ships and end with them once again taking charge of their ships and sailing back home. In this book, the author argues that the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English narratives of adventure and captivity were not produced within clearly demarcated territories and on dry land, but within spaces of indeterminacy, struggle, and transition.

Christologies and Cultures
Christologies and Cultures

Author: George Rupp

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-05-20

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 3110879670

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Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

The Cambridge History of World Music
The Cambridge History of World Music

Author: Philip V. Bohlman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-12-12

Total Pages: 943

ISBN-13: 1316025667

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Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments – in Europe, Oceania, China, India, the Muslim world, North and South America – in search of the connections provided by a truly world music. Historically, world music emerged from ritual and religion, labor and life-cycles, which occupy chapters on Native American musicians, religious practices in India and Indonesia, and nationalism in Argentina and Portugal. The contributors critically examine music in cultural encounter and conflict, and as the critical core of scientific theories from the Arabic Middle Ages through the Enlightenment to postmodernism. Overall, the book contains the histories of the music of diverse cultures, which increasingly become the folk, popular and classical music of our own era.