In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, Anders Winroth contends that rather than acting as passive recipients, Scandinavians conver...(展开全部)

From Library Journal Students and teachers worldwide will applaud this collection of Freccero's articles, destined to prove of lasting importance. In an arrangement based on the structure of the Commedia , the articles enable the contemporary reader to approach the astonishing poetic coherence of Dante's poems without sacrifice of the poem's rich historicity and detail. It is a...(展开全部)

From Library Journal Students and teachers worldwide will applaud this collection of Freccero's articles, destined to prove of lasting importance. In an arrangement based on the structure of the Commedia , the articles enable the contemporary reader to approach the astonishing poetic coherence of Dante's poems without sacrifice of the poem's rich historicity and detail. It is a...(展开全部)

The Parmenides is arguably the pivotal text for understanding the Platonic corpus as a whole. Miller offers a new reading that takes as its key the closely constructed dramatic context and mimetic irony of the dialogue. "Miller's work is a splendid achievement-- original, thorough, clear, deep and exciting. He blends literary sensitivity with analytical precision in a way that ...(展开全部)

The Parmenides is arguably the pivotal text for understanding the Platonic corpus as a whole. Miller offers a new reading that takes as its key the closely constructed dramatic context and mimetic irony of the dialogue. "Miller's work is a splendid achievement-- original, thorough, clear, deep and exciting. He blends literary sensitivity with analytical precision in a way that ...(展开全部)

From the schism of Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T'ang Dynasty and to the birth of Muhammad, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of medieval kings, generals and the people they ruled.

This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's eighth-century conversion, sources of dispute within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the continuing revelation of the teaching in both doctrine and myth.

To listen to David M. Schneider is to hear the voice of American anthropology. To listen at length is to hear much of the discipline's history, from the realities of postwar practice and theory to Schneider's own influence on the development of symbolic and interpretive anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s. "Schneider on Schneider" offers readers this rare opportunity, and with ...(展开全部)

作者刘易斯·兰博（Lewis R. Rambo）于1971年获取耶鲁大学宗教学硕士，1973年获取芝加哥大学心理学硕士，1975年获取芝加哥大学心理学博士。兰博教授曾在美国数所高校担任心理学和宗教学教职和研究职务，于2010年退休以前在旧金山联合神学研究院担任讲座教授（Faye French Tully Professor of Pastoral Psychology）。自1984年以来，刘易斯·兰博一直担任权威性国际期刊《教牧心理学》Pastoral Psychology的编辑。兰博著述甚丰，主攻宗教皈信研究，是国际学术界公认的该领域顶级专家。 译者陈纳。陈纳于1978年考入北京大学西方语言文学系学习，先后获取北京大学英语语言文学学士，北京大学比较文学硕士，美国宾夕法尼亚大学传播学硕士，美国天普大学社会学硕士和博士。陈纳先后执教于北京大学、上海师范...(展开全部)

Discusses the dynamics of religious conversion, presenting it as a process of change with personal, cultural, social and religious implications. The text draws on insights from psychology, anthropology, theology, missiology and interviews with converts from disparate backgrounds.