Refiguring the Body SCIENCE / Indigenous Knowledge & PerspectivesExamines how embodiment is conceived and experienced in South Asian religions. Refiguring the Body provides a sustained interrogation of categories and models of the body grounded in the distinctive idioms of South Asian religions, particularly Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The contributors engage prevailing theories of the body in the Western academy that derive from philosophy, social theory, and feminist and gender studies. At the same time, they
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Discusses the importance of the early history of Greek mathematics to education and civic life through a study of the Parthenon and dialogues of Plato
The first of two volumes offers a taste of the insights and diverse perspectives brought to a series of conversations on global Christianity between the members of the ecclesiology study group of the WCC Commission on Faith and Order and theologians from around the world
Vallas concludes that increasing managerial control over production poses a major challenge to those who advocate labor participation in the management of American industries
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Larkin focuses on North America's three most vital waterways-the Erie
Adam Mickiewicz and Alexander Pushkin
a single volume provides a comprehensive cultural history of the Copts and their achievements
the authors address two more fundamental questions: can the various approaches to invasive species management still be considered integrated pest management
and argues for a new approach to cultural studies that incorporates a wider variety of materials
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Sāṃkhya proclaims that knowledge of world and self can lead to freedom
