The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha : A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya [EPUB ebook] 
A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

These essays emerge from different crucial and complex conflicts: from the memory of a bishop, Bartolome de las Casas, urging the pope of his time to cleanse the church of complicity with violence, o …

Since the late 1980s, growing migration from countries with a Muslim cultural background, and increasing Islamic fundamentalism related to terrorist attacks in Western Europe and the US, have created …

First published in 1992. Rush and Althoff”s An Introduction to Political Sociology was published in 1971 and has been out of print for some years. In the meantime, the scope of political sociology h …

Simone Weil – philosopher, religious thinker, mystic, social/political activist – is notoriously difficult to categorize, since her life and writings challenge traditional academic boundaries. As man …

In recent years, Islamic fundamentalist, revolutionary, and jihadist movements have overshadowed more moderate and reformist voices and trends within Islam. This compelling volume introduces the curr …

Evil perplexes us all and threatens to undermine the meaningfulness of our existence. How can we reconcile the reality of evil with the notion of a God who is perfectly good and powerful? Process the …

Michele A. Connolly”s postcolonial analysis links the Gospel of Mark – produced in the context of the Roman Empire – with contemporary Australia, established initially as a colony of the British Emp …

The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care provides a framework for reflection on pastoral care practice and identifies frontier learning from the new and challenging practical contexts which are importan …

We’ll be discovering the gifts of the Holy Spirit, what each of those gifts mean and how to recognize his promptings for proper use of these gifts. You’ll discover that we all have gifts in various p …