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Philosophical Theology in Islam explores the later history of the Ashʿarī school of theology through in-depth studies on its thought, sources, scholarly networks and contexts.

In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world in al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms(10th century C.E.) and unravels how the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium.

How can human vulnerability be a platform for community and a potential for political agency? A Political Theology of Vulnerability explores how religious, and in particular Christian, resources may inspire a radical precarious politics.

The 'future of teaching' represents a technological disruption of moral traditions of teaching and what teaching might become and is a serious concern for the current generation of philosophers in both China and the West.

The 'future of teaching' represents a technological disruption of moral traditions of teaching and what teaching might become and is a serious concern for the current generation of philosophers in both China and the West.

This book offers important insights into the legal, theoretical and ethical frameworks actualized when the core principles of the CRC such as 'the best interests of the child' and 'the child's right to be heard' are to be realized.

The Ass of the Gods rereads Apuleius' Golden Ass and the Lucianic Onos through the patterns of ancient metamorphosis narratives to explore the relationship between these works, their origins, the nature of their endings, and the meanings of their titles.

This book critically re-examines the scientific understanding of learning and presents novel concepts and emerging theories, ground-breaking research, pioneering investigations, and state-of-the-art projects. The chapters in this book portray theoretical frameworks, thought-provoking ideas, and promising efforts in framing new science of learning.

This cross-disciplinary volume of essays offers the first comprehensive set of studies to examine the nexus of music and religious education and to illustrate the ways music served as a means of religious teaching and learning in early modern Europe.

In Willing and Understanding, prominent scholars elucidate a variety of issues in and approaches to debating the interplay of the will and the intellect in the late Middle Ages.

In this volume of Capital, Race and Space, Richard Saull offers a distinct and original international historical sociology of the European far-right from its origins in 1848 to fascism, through the prism of uneven and combined development.

The Soviet dissolution had significant repercussions on Chinese politics, foreign policy, and other aspects. The book examines what Chinese scholars learned from the lessons of the Soviet demise and how they used that knowledge to legitimize communist one-party rule in China after the end of the Cold War.

Volume 5 of the fully revised Commentaries on World Trade Law offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, article by article analysis of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) - the WTO's multilateral agreement on trade in services.

The catechisms of Peter Canisius highlight the struggle within the Catholic Church to reframe Christian identity after the Protestant Reformation. In contrast to the defensive catechesis of Rome, Canisius's catechisms proposed to achieve orthodoxy by encouraging Christian piety.

THB 3D brings together for the first time information on the science and technologies that increasingly impact and influence not only the decipherment, study, and conservation of ancient manuscripts of all types, but also the textual criticism of biblical texts itself. It discusses issues of manuscript conservation, analytical tools, and (virtual) manuscript enhancement as well as electronic databases of biblical texts or digital online repositories of biblical manuscripts and much, much more.

How does a modern society that venerates soldiers write about ancient wars? This book explores how the intellectual environment of the German Empire left lasting militaristic traces on the way we write the history of warfare in ancient Greece.

Volume three 'Companion to Textual Criticism' addresses the history of research of textual criticism from antiquity until today; history of research and editorial history, papyrology, codicology, and paleography, the third volume of THB will therefore engage also extensively with the sciences, hermeneutics, philosophy and translation technique. Table of contents of THB 3: Volume 3A The History of Research by Armin Lange and Russell E. Fuller: surveys the history of research on the textual criticism and textual history of the Hebrew Bible and its versions in both Judaism and Christianity from its ancient beginnings until today for all of its important versions. Volume 3B Modern Editions of the Text of the Bible in Hebrew and the Ancient Versions by Richard D. Weis (d. 2020) Volume 3C Theory and Practice of Textual Criticism by Mika Pajunen Volume 3D Science and Technology by Marilyn Lundberg

The authors strive to illuminate every aspect of Erasmus' life, work, and legacy while providing an expert synthesis of the most inspiring research in the field. There is no volume to compare or to compete with this compendium of all Erasmian knowledge.

Space Law in a Networked World charts how space law has been affected by the opportunities and challenges presented by digital networks and technologies.

Science and Society in the Sanskrit World contains seventeen essays that cover a kaleidoscopic array of classical Sanskrit scientific disciplines, such as the astral sciences, grammar, jurisprudence, theology, and hermeneutics.

Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses how being situated in a specific cultural and historical context informs the meanings that pilgrims attribute to their experiences in Mecca. The book provides unique insights in Islam's rich and evolving tradition of hajj storytelling.

Jesuit libraries, which date from the foundation of the order, helped build a global culture as part their evangelization. Although few ties to the original libraries remain today, Jesuit librarianship left an intellectual legacy which still informs library science today.