Oxford University Press

An Essay on Color OntologyThe Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles        about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Jonathan Cohen draws        on color science, psychology, phenomenology, semantics, and ontology in arguing that        colors are identical to certain functional roles...

Only recently have theologians begun to think and write about the ecological crisis in a focused manner. It is clear, however, that people of faith must come to grips with that crisis and find a way of thinking about it in the context of their beliefs. In this book, Willis Jenkins offers an introduction to Christian environemntal ethics. Following...

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In this study, based on both historical evidence and ethnographic data, Paula Arai shows that nuns were central agents in the foundation of Buddhism in Japan in the sixth century. They were active participants in the Soto Zen sect, and have continued to contribute to the advancement of the sect to the present day. Drawing on her fieldwork among the...

In this book, George Yancey explores the racial climate on Protestant campuses, examining the reasons why these institutions succeed or fail to attract a diverse student body, and why students of color who do attend such institutions either succeed or fail to graduate....