Heaven Is Empty

Heaven Is EmptyOffers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires. Heaven Is Empty offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China's early empires (221 BCE9 CE) and shows how the unification of the Central States was possible without a unitary and universalistic conception of religion. The cohesive function of the ancient Mediterranean cult of the divinized ruler was

The chapter offers indications of future trends in research in this area

Finalist for the 2016 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion

distant cousin of our domestic dog

Coloring outside the Lines critically looks at mentoring from the perspective of women who have been historically marginalized in school leadership

As Pierre’s ambitions lead him to not only disinherit the Macquarts

explained why men of science belonged at the heart of modern life

This book addresses policy topics of importance to Hawai'i and other communities facing rapid growth

this edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is both modern and readable

Conservation Agriculture

This volume studies Hyperechios’s Exhortation to better understand the moral and spiritual values in a fourth to fifth-century Christian monastic community

though darker tones are discernible

In Encounter with Enlightenment