Blessings upon the land of my love

The baby blessings performed by Mormon church elders were among the very first rituals adopted by the church. While Joseph Smith revealed no explicit details of this ritual beyond ...

The topic of this chapter is liturgical enactments as manifestations of love. A distinction is drawn between two forms of love that Jesus enjoined: neighbor love, and Christ-like f...

Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of love—often unrequited or impossible love—to comment on the changing cultural, social, and political po...

While situating and contextualizing land-grabbing in Kashmir within the global land-grabbing debate, this chapter provides a detailed and critical account of the dominant assumptio...

The concept of “land community” (or “biotic community”) that features centrally in Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic has typically been equated with the concept of “ecosystem.” The author ...

Given what we know about love, what ought we to do about it? ‘Utopia’ looks to the future and discusses the potential for ‘love’ in the human race. Will the neuroscience of love re...

How are art, love, and politics related to each other in Romeo and Juliet? Building on Adorno’s cautious linking of the lyric poem to society, and on Badiou’s inclusion of love (al...

Abstract The Yoga of Love explores the Rāsa Līlā, a divine love story from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa that centers on the spiritual union of Krishna and the Gopīs, or cowh...