Books published by Continuum Publishing Corporation

Religion as a Conversation Starter is the first comprehensive analysis of the present state of interreligious dialogue for peacebuilding in Southeast Europe.

Focusing on its magical and apocalyptic movements and use in everyday life throughout history, this title charts Western astrology from 30,000 BCE up to the 17th century. It examines the foundations of a major feature of popular culture in the contemporary west, and explores the relationship between astrology and religion, and magic and science.

Offers an introduction to the emotions in philosophy and psychology. This book looks at the unique facets of the human psyche. It challenges the reader to examine his or her own instincts and emotions using a variety of thought experiments, mind maps, exercises and puzzles.

Articulates how theological teachings trickle down from the Vatican and influence decisions about food, marriage, sex, community celebrations, and medical care. This study of American Catholicism summarizes a widespread contemporary tendency to adapt traditional spirituality to a world of moral diversity.

Presents an introduction to the phenomenology of religion. This book describes the historical background to phenomenology by tracing its roots to developments in philosophy and the social sciences in the early twentieth century.

Never set up an office before? Worried about putting together a realistic budget for your movie? Ever had to feed a hungry film crew? How about a press kit for your movie, for the festival? This title features tips, facts, checklists, and more.

Drawing on the author's travels in South Africa and South America and her role as Director of the face2face project at Holy Rood House, this title asks how the stories of 'survivors' can begin to transform society and the Church. It offers practical steps to enable churches to be safer spaces for victims of abuse.

In seeking understanding of the human condition we need more than just a set of beliefs about it: all belief is irrational. We want to know or garner some kind of proof about the fundamental truths of human existence. This book illuminates this issue.

Predating the wheel, the ski has played an important role in our history. This book features a history that begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth.

This book presents a fresh exploration of happiness through the ideas of the ancient Greek philosophers. It introduces readers to the main currents of Greek ethical thought (Socratic living, Platonism, Aristotelianism, Epicureanism, Scepticism, Stoicism, Cynicism) and takes a close look at characters such as Socrates, Diogenes and Alexander the Great. Yet Happiness and Greek Ethical Thought is much more than just a casual stroll through ancient thinking. It attempts to show how certain common themes in Greek thought are essential for living a happy life in any age. The author maintains that, in many respects, the Greek integrative ideal, contrary to the hedonistic individualism that many pluralistic societies at least implicitly advocate, is a much richer alternative that warrants honest reconsideration today.

Often regarded as an aberrant phase in the history of late 19th and early 20th-century philosophy, British Idealism provoked a wide range of attacks and replies from all the major figures of the time, such as Sidgwick, Dewey, Broad and Russell. This work reflects the shifting intellectual boundaries of British Thought between 1860 and 1920.

The central focus is Near Eastern, and covers a range of philological, linguistic, exegetical, historical and interpretative issues.

This volume publishes the seminal 1973 dissertation of Rex Mason on inner-biblical allusion in Zechariah 9-14, accompanied by interactions with this significant work by key figures in the scholarly study of Deutero-Zechariah.

This text is about both the fear of gender reversal and its expression, in the prophet Ezekiel's reworking of the marital metaphor. The author argues that Ezekiel 16 in particular reflects the gender chaos that arises as an aftermath of social and theological crises.

This study focuses on Sennacherib's invasion of Judah in 701 BCE as an important case study on methodology in the history of Israel. The contributors to this volume examine the problem from a variety of points of view, with vigorous discussion about the correct way to evaluate the biblical text.

How do children learn, or learn about, music? How do national cultures and education systems affect children's musical learning? This book combines information, analysis and evaluation from 15 countries to answer these questions, providing a global perspective on musical education and development.

Surveys the historical stages of each world religion and analyses their major paradigms and paradigm shifts. This work attempts to understand the religions, in both text and pictures, and discusses the social, political and historical contexts of the many forms of belief.

An exploration of Radiohead's game-changing album. Rather than simply reinforcing Kid A's canonical status, it situates the album in the temporal, examining it from various philosophical and cultural interpretations of time in order to arrive at its political and social stakes.

Community ministry can enliven pastoral care, provide opportunities for people to express their discipleship and help us to understand persistent injustices. This book explains and demonstrates how community ministry unites practical social responsibility and active Christian mission.

Music''s place in the National Curriculum in England and Wales is now firmly established. This book is a guide to help all primary teachers, and those with a co-ordinating role who support them, develop music in their classrooms. it looks at children''s learning in music, in the context of current thinking on primary education and the developments of primary music since 1991. There are well-researched chapters on promoting children''s musical composition and the ways in which music can be related to the whole primary curriculum. With a wealth of straightforward, practical ideas, a revised chapter on assesment and a new chapter on the role of the music co-ordinator, this new edition of Teachin Music in the Primary School will be indispensable reading for all primary teachers, primary music co-ordinators and those running music courses in teacher education at undergraduate, postgraduate or INSET levels.The editors are both at Bath Spa University College, where Joanna Glover is a Senior Lecturer in Music Education and Stephen Ward is Head of Department of Primary Education in the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences.

What is ethics all about? In this book Herbert McCabe suggests that it is about loving, obeying laws and talking to people. In doing so, he offers an introduction to ethical thinking for anyone with a serious interest in moral philosophy. He does so as someone who writes with a Christian audience in mind. Most of his arguments, however, do not presuppose a believing Christian readership.

Provides guidance in establishing a career path in the tour guide industry. With real-life case studies drawn from the different areas of the industry, this title tells you which jobs are most suited to your skills, how to develop those skills further, where to look for jobs and training and how to further your career once you've begun work.