The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculture alism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is also a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has shaped the study of religion and infiltrated ordinary language. In this ambitious study, Tomoko Masuzawa examines the emergence of "worl...(展开全部)

刘易斯·M.霍普费（1935—1992），1956年毕业于美国贝勒大学，取得历史学和宗教研究的学士学位；1960年，从美国西南浸信会神学院取得神学硕士学位；1965年，从波士顿大学取得旧约圣经研究的博士学位。此后于肯德尔学院担任神学教员。在教学初期，霍普费博士意识到学 生们缺乏一本学习世界宗教的指导课本。为学生们提供一本简明适当、可读性强的课本成为他的目标。基于此，第一版《世界宗教》于1979年出版。霍普费博士是一位“作家、教师、牧师、考古学家、院长、举重运动员，以及学生、同事和教区居民的精神导师”，他通过文字和语言深入诠释了这些角色。《世界宗教》是他留给学术界的遗赠。 马克·R. 伍德沃德，亚利桑那州立大学宗教研究领域的副教授，加札马达大学（印度尼西亚）宗教与跨文化研究中心比较宗教学客座教授。他从伊利诺伊大学取得文化人类学博士学位，并曾在芝加哥神学...(展开全部)

In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani ('Gypsies'), from the 12th through 15th centuries, she shows how racial thinking, racial law, racial practice...(展开全部)

Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and Pharaohs were so determined to possess them that they dispatched emissaries to the edges of earth to bring them back. When Mark Antony wanted to impress Cleopatra, he knew that gold and priceless jewels would mean nothing to her. So, what...(展开全部)

What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms. The Clash of Empires ...(展开全部)

A revolutionary account of the origins of language from one of the world's best known and most influential linguists In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? What is it? And what is it for? Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that language originated...(展开全部)

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Inspired by Bioy Casares's fas...(展开全部)

"The World Atlas of Language Structures" is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each...(展开全部)

In a sweeping reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of modern societies. During the 1980s, religious traditions around the world, from Islamic fundamentalism to Catholic liberation theology, began making their way, often forcefully, out of the private sphere and into public l...(展开全部)