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The Christian Theological Tradition

The Christian Theological Tradition

The fourth edition of The Christian Theological Tradition provides students with essential theological knowledge of key persons and events of the Bible and the Christian faith and of Christianity's multifaceted encounter with Western culture. Historically arranged the textbook addresses major theological themes such as revelation God Jesus Christ Creation salvation and the church. The textbook deals with the entire Christian tradition from an orientation that is both Catholic and ecumenical with the fourth edition including expanded coverage of modern Protestant Christianity. The Christian Theological Tradition has been thoroughly revised and updated with nine new or rewritten chapters including: A new section on the reception of the Second Vatican Council including the pontificate of Pope Francis. A new treatment of contemporary developments in liberation and environmental theology. A new examination of the relationship between science and Christianity. An entirely rewritten treatment of Islam that focuses on the ways in which the Christian tradition has historically understood and responded to Islam. A new discussion of the New Atheism with theological responses to this influential movement. New textboxes on aspects of religious life such as liturgy prayer art moral teaching and social institutions appropriate to given chapters. With the assistance of images and maps key words and recommended reading this textbook outlines the methods for Christian theology and demonstrates the relevance of the Christian theological tradition for our contemporary world. This is an ideal resource for students of theology biblical studies or religious studies and anyone wanting an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the Christian theological tradition.

GBP 105.00
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McDowell and the Hermeneutic Tradition

McDowell and the Hermeneutic Tradition

This volume explores the connections between John McDowell’s philosophy and the hermeneutic tradition. The contributions not only explore the hermeneutical aspects of McDowell’s thought but also ask how this reading of McDowell can inform the hermeneutical tradition itself. John McDowell has made important contributions to debates in epistemology metaethics and philosophy of language and his readings of Aristotle Kant Hegel and Wittgenstein have proved widely influential. While there are instances in which McDowell draws upon the work of hermeneutic thinkers the hermeneutic strand of McDowell’s philosophy has not yet been systematically explored in depth. The chapters in this volume open up a space in which to read McDowell himself as a hermeneutic thinker. They address several research questions: How can McDowell’s recourse to the hermeneutical tradition be understood in detail? Besides Gadamer does McDowell’s work implicitly convey and advance motives from other seminal figures of this tradition such as Heidegger and Dilthey? Are there aspects of McDowell’s position that can be enhanced through a juxtaposition with central hermeneutic concepts like World Tradition and Understanding? Are there further perhaps yet unexplored aspects of McDowell’s infl uences that ought to be interpreted as expressing hermeneutic ideas? McDowell and the Hermeneutic Tradition will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in American philosophy Continental philosophy hermeneutics history of philosophy philosophy of language and epistemology.

GBP 130.00
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The Contemporary Freudian Tradition Past and Present

The Contemporary Freudian Tradition Past and Present

This is the first book dedicated to the Contemporary Freudian Tradition. In its introduction and through its selection of papers it describes the development and rich diversity of this tradition over recent decades showing how theory and practice are inseparable in the psychoanalytic treatment of children adolescents and adults. The book is organized around four major concerns in the Contemporary Freudian Tradition: the nature of the Unconscious and the ways that it manifests itself; the extension of Freud’s theories of development through the work of Anna Freud and later theorists; the body and psychosexuality including the centrality of bodily experience as it is elaborated over time in the life of the individual; and aggression. It also illustrates how within the Tradition different exponents have been influenced by psychoanalytic thinking outside it whether from the Kleinian and Independent Groups or from French Freudian thinking. Throughout the book there is strong emphasis on the clinical setting in for example the value of the Tradition’s approach to the complex interrelationship of body and mind in promoting a deeper understanding of somatic symptoms and illnesses and working with them. There are four papers on the subject of dreams within the Contemporary Freudian Tradition illustrating the continuing importance accorded to dreams and dreaming in psychoanalytic treatment. This is the only book that describes in detail the family resemblances shared by those working psychoanalytically within the richly diverse Contemporary Freudian Tradition. It should appeal to anyone from student onwards who is interested in the living tradition of Freud’s work as understood by one of the three major groups within British psychoanalysis. | The Contemporary Freudian Tradition Past and Present

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Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music

Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music

Dhrupad is believed to be the oldest style of classical vocal music performed today in North India. This detailed study of the genre considers the relationship between the oral tradition its transmission from generation to generation and its re-creation in performance. There is an overview of the historical development of the dhrupad tradition and its performance style from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries and of the musical lineages that carried it forward into the twentieth century followed by analyses of performance techniques processes and styles. The authors examine the relationship between the structures provided by tradition and their realization by the performer to throw light on the nature of tradition and creativity in Indian music; and the book ends with an account of the ‘revival’ movement of the late twentieth century that re-established the genre in new contexts. Augmented with an analytical transcription of a complete dhrupad performance this is the first book-length study of an Indian vocal genre to be co-authored by an Indian practitioner and a Western musicologist. | Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music

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Authority and the Liberal Tradition From Hobbes to Rorty

Authority and the Liberal Tradition From Hobbes to Rorty

Authority and the Liberal Tradition critically describes the historical foundations of modern liberalism implicitly analyzing the status and effectiveness of American democracy. Heineman examines contemporary liberal ideology which he argues undermines the normative basis of social stability that was an important element in the classical liberal tradition. He shows how American government has become hostage to ideology to the advocacy of interest-group politics. | Authority and the Liberal Tradition From Hobbes to Rorty

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The Arabic Linguistic Tradition

The Arabic Linguistic Tradition

The importance and richness of the Arabic linguistic tradition largely neglected by Western literature is amply demonstrated by this book first published in 1990. Written by three experts in the field it provides us with a comprehensive survey of the historical constitution and theoretical structure of the Arabic linguistic tradition from its beginnings in the eighth century to its mature state around the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Besides grammar the book covers such fields as rhetoric grammatical semantics and methodological issues and pays particular attention to the most representative works of the classical period. It also has the unique benefit of containing the historical background.

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Oral Tradition A Study in Historical Methodology

Oral Tradition A Study in Historical Methodology

Oral traditions are historical sources of a special nature. Their special nature derives from the fact that they are unwritten sources couched in a form suitable for oral transmission and that their preservation depends on the powers of memory of successive generations of human beings. In many parts of the world inhabited by peoples without writing oral tradition forms the main available source for a reconstruction of the past. Do the special characteristics of oral traditions u unwritten information dependent on the memory of successive generations u invalidate them as sources of historical data? If not are there means for testing their reliability? Professor Vansina shows in Oral Tradition that with knowledge of the language and of the society the anthropologist and historian can extract or deduce the historical content of oral testimonies. Based on the author's many years of fieldwork in Africa this definitive work explores the possibility of reconstructing the history of non-literate peoples from their oral traditions surveys existing literature offers a typology of oral traditions and evaluates methods of collection and interpretation. On first publication Daniel McCall in the American Anthropologist called Oral Tradition a tour de force. Indeed this may well be the most significant work written on the relation of oral tradition to history in thirty yearsafor any field worker who intends to collect oral traditions this work is indispensable. | Oral Tradition A Study in Historical Methodology

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Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy A Constructive-Engagement Account

Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy A Constructive-Engagement Account

This book presents a systematic unifying-pluralist account—a constructive-engagement account—of how cross-tradition engagement in philosophy is possible. The goal of this constructive-engagement account is by way of reflective criticism argumentation and methodological guiding principles to inquire into how distinct approaches from different philosophical traditions can talk to and learn from each other for the sake of making joint contributions to the contemporary development of philosophy. In Part I of the book Bo Mou explores a range of fundamental theoretic and methodological issues in cross-tradition philosophical engagement and philosophical interpretation. In Part II he analyzes several representative case studies that demonstrate how relevant resources in the Western and Chinese philosophical traditions can constructively engage with each other. These studies cover issues in philosophical methodology metaphysics epistemology philosophy of language and logic and ethics. The book’s theoretical and practical approaches expand the vision coverage and agenda of doing philosophy comparatively and promote worldwide joint efforts of cross-tradition philosophical inquiries. Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy will be of interest to graduate students and scholars interested in comparative philosophy and the intersection of Chinese and Western philosophy. It will also appeal to those who are interested in the ways in which cross-tradition philosophical engagement can enhance contemporary philosophical debates in metaphysics epistemology philosophy of language and logic and ethics. | Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy A Constructive-Engagement Account

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The Sámi Narrative Tradition Cosmopolitans on the Arctic Tundra

The Sámi Narrative Tradition Cosmopolitans on the Arctic Tundra

This book sets out to document and analyse the Sámi narrative tradition. It considers the worldviews inherent in the narratives and links them to traditional cosmology and other cultural expressions (such as joik and duodji). The chapters address a variety of issues including care for children the perception of nature disputes over land and natural resources local justice the spiritual world of everyday life and Læstadianism. Sketching Sámi history and the cultural context of storytelling Nergård also considers the modern challenge for the narrative tradition. Drawing on long-term fieldwork and research the volume is valuable reading for Indigenous studies and disciplines such as anthropology. | The Sámi Narrative Tradition Cosmopolitans on the Arctic Tundra

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The History and Tradition of Accounting in Italy

The History and Tradition of Accounting in Italy

Italian accounting has a long and honourable tradition of theoretical and applied analysis of the accounting and reporting function perceived and defined much more broadly than in the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The high point of this perhaps is the creation of what is known as Economia Aziendale (EA). The antecedents genesis and later developments are presented here in detail by highly knowledgeable specialists in the field. EA takes as a prerequisite the necessity of the business (entity/azienda) to ensure its own long-run survival. This requires that the necessary resources are retained and preserved so operating capital maintenance by definition future-oriented is essential. It requires a focus on the particular business organization entity-specific and consistent with today's notion of the business model. Entity-specific information relevant to current and future cash flows is a necessary pre-requisite for ensuring long-run survival which historical cost accounting or fair value (being market-specific not entity-specific) satisfactorily achieve. Flexibility of valuation and of reporting always relevant to the specific asset at the specific time in the specific place is a necessary condition for effective management. This is exactly the focus of EA and its analysis and tradition. Scholars and advanced students of international regulation and accounting as well as accounting history will find this an invaluable guide to a vibrant scholarly tradition of great practical relevance today. | The History and Tradition of Accounting in Italy

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The Italian Legal Tradition

The Italian Legal Tradition

First published in 1997 this volume provides the reader from a common law background with an introduction to the Legal System and basic private law institutions of contemporary Italy. It aims to afford a basic understanding rather than a detailed presentation of Italian law through an appreciation of its historical development within the civil law tradition and its place in that family of legal systems descended from Roman law. Having described Italy’s place in European legal history and identified the main features of civil law systems generally it examines the structure of the modern Italian State its legislative process. Constitution legal professions and systems of civil criminal and administrative justice. The last third is devoted to private law in particular the law relating to the family property contracts and civil wrongs particular attention being paid to differences between the civil and common law approaches to these subjects. It is a readable lucid and systematic account of its subject. | The Italian Legal Tradition

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Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition Shakespeare Donne Herbert and Milton

Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition Shakespeare Donne Herbert and Milton

This volume adds a new dimension to authorship studies by linking the editorial tradition to the transformative reception of early modern authors and their works across time. Aleida Auld argues that the editorial tradition provides privileged access to the reception of early modern literature informing our understanding of certain reconfigurations and sometimes helping to produce them between their time and our own. At stake are reconfigurations of oeuvre and authorship the relationship between the author and work the relationship between authors and the author’s own role in establishing an editorial tradition. Ultimately this study recognizes that the editorial tradition is a stabilizing force while asserting that it may also be a source of strange and provocative reconceptions of early modern authors and their works in the present day. Scholars and students of early modern literature will benefit from this approach to editing as a form of reception that encompasses all the editorial decisions that are necessary to ‘put forth’ a text. | Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition Shakespeare Donne Herbert and Milton

GBP 130.00
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Mysticism in the French Tradition Eruptions from France

Mysticism in the French Tradition Eruptions from France

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries secular French scholars started re-engaging with religious ideas particularly mystical ones. Mysticism in the French Tradition introduces key philosophical undercurrents and trajectories in French thought that underpin and arise from this engagement as well as considering earlier French contributions to the development of mysticism. Filling a gap in the literature the book offers critical reflections on French scholarship in terms of its engagement with its mystical and apophatic dimensions. A multiplicity of factors converge to shape these encounters with mystical theology: feminist devotional and philosophical treatments as well as literary historical and artistic approaches. The essays draw these into conversation. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary range of contributions from both new and established scholars this book provides access to the melting pot out of which the mystical tradition in France erupted in the twenty-first century and from which it continues to challenge theology today. | Mysticism in the French Tradition Eruptions from France

GBP 39.99
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Chinese Demon Tales Meanings and Parallels in Oral Tradition

Chinese Demon Tales Meanings and Parallels in Oral Tradition

This book first published in 1990 is a thematic analysis of five tales of early vernacular Chinese literature. Interest in vernacular stories is increasing in the study of Chinese literature as their importance is being recognised as a key part of the oral traditional narrative. From the analysis of the five Chinese tales in light of literary historical philological sources and folkloristic methodologies we may see to what extent tales of an intrinsically religious nature can offer meanings in the oral tradition. | Chinese Demon Tales Meanings and Parallels in Oral Tradition

GBP 27.99
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Writing for the Masses Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition

Writing for the Masses Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition

In Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition Dr. Christine A. Colón explores how Sayers carefully negotiates the complexities of early twentieth century literary culture by embracing a specifically Victorian literary tradition of writing to engage a wide audience. Using a variety of examples from Sayers’s detective fiction essays and religious drama Dr. Colón charts Sayers’s development as a writer whose intense desire to connect with her audience eventually compels her to embrace the role of a Victorian sage for her own age. Ultimately the Victorian literary tradition not only provides her with an empowering model for her own work as she struggles as a writer of detective fiction to balance her integrity as an artist with her desire to reach a mass audience but also facilitates her growth as a public intellectual as she strives to help her nation recover from the devastation of World War II. | Writing for the Masses Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition

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Mystical Theology and Contemporary Spiritual Practice Renewing the Contemplative Tradition

Mystical Theology and Contemporary Spiritual Practice Renewing the Contemplative Tradition

In Mystical Theology and Contemporary Spiritual Practice several leading scholars explore key themes within the Christian mystical tradition contemporary and historical. The overall aim of the book is to demonstrate the relevance of mystical theology to contemporary spiritual practice. Attention is given to the works of Baron von Hugel Vladimir Lossky Margery Kempe Ludwig Wittgenstein Thomas Merton and Francisco de Osuna as well as to a wide range of spiritual practices including pilgrimage spiritual direction contemplative prayer and the quotidian spirituality of the New Monasticism. Christian mystical theology is shown to be a living tradition which has vibrant and creative new expressions in contemporary spiritual practice. It is argued that mystical theology affirms something both ordinary and extraordinary which is fundamental to the Christian experience of prayer. | Mystical Theology and Contemporary Spiritual Practice Renewing the Contemplative Tradition

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The French Revolution and the Russian Anti-Democratic Tradition A Case of False Consciousness

The French Revolution and the Russian Anti-Democratic Tradition A Case of False Consciousness

The political uncertainty following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rejection of the revolutionary model has brought Russian political thought full circle as democratic forces contend with authoritarian nationalism. This volume is essential to understanding the antidemocratic tradition in Russia and the persistent danger of totalitarianism. | The French Revolution and the Russian Anti-Democratic Tradition A Case of False Consciousness

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Ideas of Europe Time Space and Tradition

Ideas of Europe Time Space and Tradition

Ideas of Europe is a critical essay reassessing the founding myths of Europe and the making of a European identity from antiquity to the present age. Antonelli argues that the intrinsic fragility and precarious nature of the perceived geographical entity of Europe has been compensated by the creation of a strong and wide European cultural identity which has embraced Latin tradition as interpreted and appropriated by Germanic Romance Slavonic as well as Greek and Byzantine cultures to form the European cultural space as we know it today. The development of a creative relationship between antiquity and modernity and the birth of a European Literature have created a ‘time’ of and for Europe. The method used throughout the book is rigorously historical-philological on the one hand while on the other it is enriched through critical dialogue with the great authors of the European tradition – from the classical Greek-Latin figures to the literati and philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This critical history of the cultural representations of Europe is a vital text for readers from across the humanities and social sciences who are interested in cultural history and in the values of Europe. | Ideas of Europe Time Space and Tradition

GBP 48.99
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Tradition Change Creativity Repercussions of the New Diaspora on aspects of British Psychoanalysis

Tradition Change Creativity Repercussions of the New Diaspora on aspects of British Psychoanalysis

A companion volume to It is a New Kind of Diaspora. Taking up where that book leaves off it traces some of the consequences of the emigration of German and Austrian psychoanalysts to London particularly in the context of the British Psycho-Analytical Society's Controversial Discussions. The first part of the book Tradition and Change traces | Tradition Change Creativity Repercussions of the New Diaspora on aspects of British Psychoanalysis

GBP 130.00
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Classical Recording A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition

Classical Recording A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition

Classical Recording: A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition is the authoritative guide to all aspects of recording acoustic classical music. Offering detailed descriptions diagrams and photographs of fundamental recording techniques such as the Decca tree this book offers a comprehensive overview of the essential skills involved in successfully producing a classical recording. Written by engineers with years of experience working for Decca and Abbey Road Studios and as freelancers Classical Recording equips the student the interested amateur and the practising professional with the required knowledge and confidence to tackle everything from solo piano to opera. | Classical Recording A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition

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The Brahma Kumaris as a ‘Reflexive Tradition’ Responding to Late Modernity

The Brahma Kumaris as a ‘Reflexive Tradition’ Responding to Late Modernity

This title was first published in 2002. Drawing on primary research on the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University a millenarian New Religious Movement of Indian origin this book examines the status of tradition in the contemporary world through a critical engagement with the recent social theory of Anthony Giddens on the emergence of a post-traditional society. Wallis examines both the ways in which forms of tradition not only persist but also flourish in the contemporary world and also the manner in which such traditions are drawn on and (re)created by individuals in their ongoing construction of self-identity. Illuminating some of the difficulties encountered when social theory is applied to 'the real world' this book also offers a way of theorising about the status of contemporary religiosity that does not refer directly to the notion of secularisation. | The Brahma Kumaris as a ‘Reflexive Tradition’ Responding to Late Modernity

GBP 31.99
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Ancient African Christianity An Introduction to a Unique Context and Tradition

Ancient African Christianity An Introduction to a Unique Context and Tradition

Christianity spread across North Africa early and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated. While this African form of Christianity largely shared the Latin language and Roman culture of the wider empire it also represented a unique tradition that was shaped by its context. Ancient African Christianity attempts to tell the story of Christianity in Africa from its inception to its eventual disappearance. Well-known writers such as Tertullian Cyprian and Augustine are studied in light of their African identity and this tradition is explored in all its various expressions. This book is ideal for all students of African Christianity and also a key introduction for anyone wanting to know more about the history religion and philosophy of these early influential Christians whose impact has extended far beyond the African landscape. | Ancient African Christianity An Introduction to a Unique Context and Tradition

GBP 42.99
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The Female Tradition in Physical Education Women First reconsidered

The Female Tradition in Physical Education Women First reconsidered

The Female Tradition in Physical Education re-examines a key question in the history of modern education: why did the remarkably successful leaders of female physical education who pioneered the development of the subject in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England Canada Australia and New Zealand lose control in the years following the Second World War? Despite the later resurgence of second wave feminism they never regained a voice with the result that male leadership was able to shift the curriculum in ways that neglected the needs and interests of girls and young women. Drawing on new sources and a range of historiographical approaches and touching on related fields such as therapeutic exercise and dance the book examines the development of physical education for girls in a number of countries to offer an alternative explanation to the dominant narrative of the ‘demise’ of the female tradition. Providing an important contextualization for the state of contemporary female physical education this is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the development of sport and physical education women’s and gender history and physical culture more generally. | The Female Tradition in Physical Education Women First reconsidered

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