The spirit of Greece in art...

This complete history of Greece documents ancient times to the present, giving specific attention to its emergence as a modern European nation after the destruction, disease, and d...

This volume provides an overview of the history of Greece, while also focusing on contemporary Greece. Coverage includes such 21st-century challenges as the economic crisis and the...

The Parthenon. Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. Homer’s epic poems. Gods and goddesses lounging around, indulging in pleasures on Mount Olympus. All of these images bring to mind th...

Daniel W. Hayter explores the concept of ‘inaugurated resurrection’ within earliest Christianity; the view that believers have experienced a present resurrection with Christ, in ad...

This chapter examines Black women's Christian performance via contemporary television and the internet to gain insights into how screen audiences are invited to experience the Holy...

Chapter 4 turns its attention to the stasis of letter versus spirit. Traditionally, this stasis has been understood as pitting the exact words of a text against the author’s intent...

This chapter looks at how Gao Xingjian, the 2000 Nobel Prize laureate in literature, has brought Zhuangzi’s spirit of absolute liberation and freedom to the highest level. A discus...

Chapter 6 shows how and why Hegel’s general project in Phenomenology leads him to develop the kind of social theory we find in Spirit. The author argues that Spirit provides an int...