by Tor Andrae (2000)
An essential survey of the origins, tenets, and substance of Islam, this biographical classic encompasses the rich diversity of Mohammed's influence, exploring not only his impact on religion and history but also his political and social relevance. Comprehensive in scope and even-handed in perspective, this is one of the finest volumes available in English about Islam. "A book of permanent value...should be studied by every generation of students in courses on religion."--The Moslem World.
Daisaku Ikeda and Majid Tehranian
"Global Civilization is addressed to students to Buddhism, Islam and international communication but most importantly to the general reader. It is a call for tolerance, for dialogue and ultimately for peace."--Jacket.
Jason L. Powell
"Social Theory and Aging is a new work that explores both conceptual and theoretical issues that impinge on our understanding of aging in postmodern society. Jason L. Powell analyzes how knowledge formation of aging is socially constructed and positioned by powerful assumptions that are often taken for granted. He demonstrates how assumptions of aging have provided a power and knowledge base for bio-medical disciplines, the legitimacy of political economic discourses, and practices of professional experts, and questions these suppositions by introducing modernist scientific models and theories of gerontology as well as mapping out alternative postmodern deconstructions of aging."--Jacket.
Miguel de Beistegui
Martin Heidegger's involvement with National Socialism has been widely and often polemically explored. What has received remarkably little attention is Heidegger's relation to politics and his conception of the political, without which we cannot situate the extent and nature of his political involvement. Heidegger and the Political is one of the first major studies of this neglected aspect and forces us to reassess both the political in Heidegger's work and the very nature of the political itself.Engaging with key themes in Heidegger's work, Heidegger and the Political reassesses one of the key questions to confront philosophy this century.
John Anderson
Making use of newly available archive material, this text provides the first systematic and accessible overview of church state relations in the Soviet Union.