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As one of the first immigration studies to focus on the role of religion, this timely volume will interest scholars and students in a range of disciplines as well as anyone concerned about the future of our society....

In   The Passions of the Christ in High Medieval Thought Kevin Madigan examines the reasoning and actions behind high-medieval responses to reconciling the seemingly incongruent features of Jesus Christ's divinity and humanity....

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Plutarch's Table Talk in the Intellectual Culture of the Roman        EmpireA collection of essays on Plutarch's Table Talk, an influential Greek prose text        which is a combination of philosophical dialogue (in the style of Plato's Symposium)        and miscellany. The contributors offer a range of methodologically innovative...

Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across...