Dealing with Deities Xiaomeng LiuExplores the practice of taking ritual vows in South Asia, a lay tradition prevalent in the region's religions. Drawing on original field research, Dealing with Deities explores the practice of taking ritual vows in the lives of ordinary religious practitioners in South Asia. The cornerstone of lay religious activity, vow rituals are adopted by Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs who wish to commit themselves to ritually enacted
" and his observations can be valuable to us quite independent of our commitment to his metaphysics
in-depth look at the feminist philosophy and practice of the renowned Argentinian-born scholar-activist María Lugones
religion and music have been regarded as "universals
This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences
Albert Borgmann
Marwan Abdelmoneim
Kerala's Mappilas have produced an intellectual renaissance and renewed their ancient status as a model of social harmony
community involvement both here and in Japan
their struggles and pleasures and their views of where they lived and the wider world
This follows an account of Chrysippus' life and reputation in antiquity and a description of modern assessments of Chrysippus' position in the Stoa
It also discusses different theoretical models of the halo’s structure as well as models and techniques in reaction theory that have allowed us to study the halo
Singapore’s state supported agri-food tech ecosystem
