Faith, activism, and aesthetics in the Menil collection

Abstract What is faith? It usually means religious belief, and sometimes diverse religions are grouped together as faiths, with reference to ‘faith leaders’ or ‘fait...

Abstract Faith in the Town explores the ways in which religious faith affected the lives of men, women, and children in the increasingly urban and industrialized con...

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Step...

In this book, author Hayat Alvi’s purpose and focus are to illustrate the legal basis for Islamic nonviolent activism, as Maulana Abul Kalam Azad promoted and exemplified. Maulana ...

Abstract Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply t...

Across the globe, people are challenging the agro-industrial food system and its exploitation of people and resources, reduction of local food varieties, and negative health conseq...

John Dewey’s discussion of faith deserves more attention than it has received in the dominant kind of academic philosophy in Europe, Australia, and North America in recent history....

Chapter 5 continues exploring alternatives to fragmented spirituality by drawing connections between historical and contemporary models of American public theology and activism. Is...