Oxford University Press

This monograph on Descartes'  Meditations shows that it is as much about pedagogy as it is about truth. Every single claim of the  Meditations is advanced from the first-person point-of-view of Descartes' meditator, who is not a Cartesian at the start of inquiry. Cunning's reading shows that The Meditations is the transcript of his cognitive...

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Recent years have seen an explosion in the scholarship on the religious experiences of women. The contributors to this volume believe that more sophisticated studies at higher levels of theoretical analysis are now needed. Their essays involve the close reading of situations in which women are given or denied authority in ritual and interpretive...

For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people        of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded        Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an        unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of...

Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British IndiaPeter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities....