七頭推介： 這本書企圖論說台灣四大山頭─慈濟功德會、佛光山、法鼓山與行天宮在現代化與建立公民社會的過程中，如何調適台灣在傳統到現代的道德價值不適；同時，佛教與道教，如何在解嚴以後的台灣與活躍的公民社會同步滋長，並傳統宗教的現代化，甚至成為台灣主體建構與身份認同的重要一環。作者亦致力駁斥儒教傳統有碍民主發展的迷思。惟個人覺得在佛教義理與民主的契合方面，作者的分析有欠深度，只停留在社會現象的表層分析。但作為了解現代宗教及台灣社會的讀物，這書值得一看。 This book explores the remarkable religious renaissance that has reformed, revitalized, and renewed the practices of Buddhism and Daoism in Taiwan. Democr...(展开全部)

By closely examining the sources, movements, and persons of the Renaissance and the Reformation, Voegelin reveals the roots of today's political ideologies in this fourth volume of his History of Political Ideas. This insightful study lays the groundwork for Voegelin's critique of the modern period and is essential to an understanding of his later analysis. Voegelin identifies ...(展开全部)

Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in terms of the progress of the exact sciences of mathematics and astronomy, to the neglect of the broader intellectual context o...(展开全部)

Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in terms of the progress of the exact sciences of mathematics and astronomy, to the neglect of the broader intellectual context o...(展开全部)

"Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art "spans the period from the 10th to the 15th century, including discussion of the Carolingian renaissance and the 12th century proto-renaissance. Erwin Panofsky posits that there were "reanscences" prior to the widely known Renaissance that began in Italy in the 14th century. Whereas earlier renascences can be classified as revivals, t...(展开全部)

Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their person...(展开全部)

For modern people, ghost stories are no more than thrilling entertainment. For those living in antiquity, ghosts were far more serious beings, as they could affect the life and death of people and cause endless fear and anxiety. How did ancient societies imagine what ghosts looked like, what they could do, and how people could deal with them? From the vantage point of modernity...(展开全部)

海因里希·沃尔夫林（Heinrich Wolfflin，1864-1945年），瑞士著名美术史家，著名学者雅各布·布克哈特的高足，被认为是继温克尔曼、布克哈特之后第三位伟大的艺术史家。沃尔夫林的艺术史研究关注普遍的风格特征，而不是对单独艺术家的分析，他把作品形式分析、心理学和文化史结合起来，力图创建一部“无名的艺术史“。主要著作有：《文艺复兴与巴洛克》（1888年）、《古典艺术》（1899年）、《艺术史的基本原理》（又译《艺术风格学：美术史的基本概念》，1915年）和《意大利和德国的形式知觉》（1931年）等。

This is an ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and the 'conservative' Republic of China (Taiwan) in the years following the communist victory against the nationalists on the Chinese mainland in 1949.Julia C. Strauss argues that accounting for these two variants of the Chinese state solely in terms of their diverg...(展开全部)