Violence of Interpretation

Reducere. The Bible frequently depicts God as angry and violent, and also sometimes depicts human violence as positive or even as commanded by God. This form...

Addresses the issues about increased violence in the developing countries with two common perspectives. The first is the liberal interpretation, an...

Reducere. About his intention in writing The New Man, Dr Maurice Nicoll said: "The intention is to indicate that all teaching such as that contained in the G...

Reducere. Drawing on new methods and theories, Edward Gonz lez-Tennant uncovers important elements of the forgotten history of Rosewood. He uses a mix of tec...

Reducere. In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world's most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation o...

Reducere. DescriptionCited by Mahatma Gandhi as one of the most important influences in his life, Tolstoy's magnum opus The Kingdom of God... is a culminatio...

Reducere. In this introductory textbook, some of the most widely respected scholars in the field introduce students to the methods, issues, and theoretical f...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book provides new insight into the creation of the Chinese empire by examining the changing forms of permitted violence--warfare, h...

Reducere. A landmark work in biblical interpretation explores the relation between two competing "religions"the religion of "creation" and the religion of "e...

Reducere. This book builds upon my previous work, A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (MacDonald 1994/2002; hereafter P...

DescriptionBased on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a ...

Reducere. This book looks to Thomas Merton as a "classic" theologian of the Christian tradition from East to West and offers an interpretation of his mature ...

Reducere. Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the e...

Reducere. DescriptionTales of Gor brings you into a striking world of science-fantasy roleplaying. Born from the Gorean Cycle (34 books) by John Norman, Tale...

Shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber PrizeIn Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a nove...

Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ra...

IIn a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women's geog...

DescriptionA lost treasure for large segments of the modern world, the book of Deuteronomy powerfully repays contemporary readers' attention. It re...

Reducere. Description "The words I was there', intoned repeatedly by the characters in HIT THE WALL, give Ike Holter's play about the 1969 Stonewall riots th...

Tracing the story of anger from the Buddha to Twitter, Rosenwein provides a much-needed account of our changing and contradictory understandings of...

Reducere. How can literary critics write about poetry and poets in critical terms without betraying them? This question is probably the most difficult of mod...

Reducere. DescriptionThe challenge of a seemingly genocidal God who commands ruthless warfare has bewildered Bible readers for generations. The theme of divi...