 The Discrimination Myth
"Sharp, humorous, recognizable! Highly recommended." Simon Rozendaal, Science editor Elsevier Weekly ---- Egalitarianism is stronger than ever with quotas for female executives, gender neutral toilets, and courses against prejudice. A teasing joke can suffice to be labelled a racist, sexist or fascist. Educators and politicians also... |  |  Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion
What is love's real aim? Why is it so ruthlessly selective in its choice of loved ones? Why do we love at all?
In addressing these questions, Simon May develops a radically new understanding of love as the emotion we feel towards whomever or whatever we experience as grounding our life--as offering us a possibility of ... |  |  Religious Responses to Modernity
The dawn of the modern age posed challenges to all of the world's religions and since then, religions have countered with challenges to modernity. In Religious Responses to Modernity, seven leading scholars from Germany and Israel explore specific instances of the face-off between religious thought and modernity, in Christianity,... |