Books in the American University Studies series

Establishes that a relevant Christian practice of puberty will help Sinhalese Christians enjoy the Christian faith that reflects their cultural roots, values, and identity, affirms their relationship with God, and offers a missional witness of their faith that responds to the hearts and lives of the people around them.

Forging the Methodology that Enlightened Modern Civilization

Gives an account of the nature of the relationship between faith and reason through a study of Soren Kierkegaard's "Philosophical Fragments", which was published under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus.

Socialist Literature studies the relationship between the development of socialist literary theory and the process of cultural transformation in modern society by tracing the outline of the theory in the works of Marx, Lenin, and Mao, and examining its reflection in actual works of literature.

How can we best cope with traumatic events in nature, society, and the home? This title contributes to the field of Nordic cultural history, it is a suitable for those who may find themselves confronting threats and preparing for catastrophes in the twenty-first century.

Religion, Law, and the Present Water Crisis documents current and impending global water shortages and opposes policies of commodification and privatization of water ownership by multinational water corporations. On the basis of the religions of the world, Richard A. Hughes appeals to pure, running water as a symbol of the sacred.

The term person has been important in the development of the doctrine of the Trinity. This book analyzes and evaluates the Trinitarian theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg and the importance that he attributes to the term person. It provides an overview of key themes in the systematic expression of his theology in general.

Examines the roles of Scripture and hymnody in a Christian community in the twenty-first century, an era marked by a growing awareness of complex issues and migrating contexts. This book seeks to employ qualitative research methods in studying a Korean-Canadian diasporic congregation and a Korean feminist Christian group.

Rome and Judea in Transition is the first English-language book to study exclusively the first century and a half of Roman-Judean political relations (164-37 B.C.). It presents a comprehensive reassessment of the Late Republic's involvement in the Levant, the motives of Hasmonean diplomacy, and the development of the Jewish high priesthood.

Maritain, Religion, and Education: A Theocentric Humanism Approach offers a comprehensive study of Jacques Maritain's philosophy of education as applied to the specific field of religious education.

The Imago Dei as the Imago Trinitatis: Jurgen Moltmann's Doctrine of the Image of God examines the doctrine of the Image of God in the interpretation of contemporary theologian Jurgen Moltmann.

Man Soo (Abraham) Mok insightfully uses anthropological issues to examine folk beliefs, customs, and commitment. In addition, the author analyzes Korean culture to help readers grasp how the gospel took root in Korea - as it might have happened in any other culture.

Drawing on her experience as a sex crimes prosecutor and a review of relevant research, this book exposes five powerful social and psychological techniques used successfully within both the dark side by criminals and on the positive side of interpersonal influence by those with selfless motives seeking to benefit others that capitalize on the power of attraction.

The Causal Exclusion Problem, which relentlessly motivates the vexing causal exclusion problem and exhaustively surveys its metaphysical assumptions and contemporary responses, is ideal for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course in the philosophy of mind.

Ryan Noel Fraser's cutting-edge research uncovers the distinctive re-authoring process of Christian adoptive parents' faith narratives resulting from the experience of receiving a child through adoption. Ideal for courses in family studies, marriage and the family, adoption studies, pastoral theology, pastoral counseling, Christian counseling, theological anthropology, and practical theology.

Examines the transformative experience of art in James' fiction. By highlighting and analyzing his representations of aesthetic consciousness in four novels at specific moments, this book explores the idea that for James art represents every conscious human activity".

Mountain of Paradise challenges conventional taxonomies of world civilizations by introducing a new and formidable candidate: the civilization of Greater California presently incubating as the evolution of California into a veritable "nation-state" or "world commonwealth" according to contemporary commentators and scholars.

Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim's (an energetic and charismatic politician) life story is told in a factual, impartial way, and his one-on-one interviews with this book's author add a personal component. This volume is essential reading for scholars and students interested in Islamic politics and South East Asian studies.

Evaluates the role of exclusionary practices, namely outlawry, in law and governance in England from the tenth through the thirteenth centuries.

Philosophic Thoughts: Essays on Logic and Philosophy comprises a collection of essays on logic and philosophy. Topics included in the four sections are informal logic, formal dialogue logic and its applications in computer science, epistemology and philosophy of science, ethical issues, teaching philosophy, free will, and postmodern philosophy.

Thoughts on Francis of Assisi illustrates with historical details the Franciscan Order's makeover devised by the Catholic Church after Francis's death. The Franciscan Order was never what Francis had created. Thoughts on Francis of Assisi is essential reading for graduate course in History, Religious Studies, and Italian Studies.

Finding God in Solitude explores the devotional piety of one of America's most important religious figures, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) of Massachusetts. In this book, Edwards' personal spirituality is evaluated, particularly in terms of its impact upon his pastoral ministry.

Dialogic Materialism: Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art argues for the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of dialogism as a means of examining the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary moving image art forms.

This book is a study of the twentieth century "Ordinary Language" philosopher, O. K. Bouwsma. An avid reader of Kierkegaard, Bouwsma found in him a clue to understanding the language of religious belief. He wrote essays on religious themes and aesthetics aimed at understanding philosophical language about poetry and music.

The Most Precious Possession: The Ring of Polycrates in Ancient Religious Narratives examines variations on this ring motif as they appear in ancient religious texts, including the Gospel of Matthew, Jewish Midrash and Talmud, and Augustine's City of God.

Religion: An Anthropological Perspective provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science, rationality, and religion; altered states of consciousness, entheogens and religious experience; religion and the paranormal; magic and divination; religion and ecology; fundamentalism; and religion and violence.

This revolutionary interdisciplinary study argues that Monet's artistic practices and choices were the direct result of his political stance as a nineteenth-century libre penseur, a position characterized by radical republicanism, a progressive social agenda, and fierce anticlericalism.

An analysis of Immanuel Kant's aesthetics in his Critique of Judgment. It explains why Kant fails to provide a convincing basis for his desired necessity and universality of our aesthetic judgments about beauty. It uses examples from the history of art, including paintings by Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Constable, to support the author's views.

Selected Short Works by Klaus Mann makes available for the first time a number of pieces by the author of Mephisto and The Turning Point. The final four works in this collection make a rich contribution to twentieth-century American letters.

This book surveys the breadth of mankind's post-modern malaise, which is achieved through a discussion of the major challenges, social and psychological, which every individual faces in the effort to live fully in the twenty-first century.