“…Which plants could be found in a ninth-century monastery garden, and what is the symbolic significance of plants in secular and religious literature? The Green Middle Ages addresses these and other issues, including the earliest herbarium collections, with a leading role for the palaeography and beautiful illuminations from numerous medieval manuscripts kept in Dutch and other Western libraries and museums…”

“…It de-centres cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and studied since 2011. …”

“…Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality, and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kinship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of secular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time and space. …”

“…Shiraz Thobani explores the role played by national and local policies and pedagogic practices in the production of school-based Islam in a secular, liberal context and makes an important contribution to the sociology of the curriculum and the study of religious education…”

“…Which plants could be found in a ninth-century monastery garden, and what is the symbolic significance of plants in secular and religious literature? The Green Middle Ages addresses these and other issues, including the earliest herbarium collections, with a leading role for the palaeography and beautiful illuminations from numerous medieval manuscripts kept in Dutch and other Western libraries and museums…”

“…This special issue explores the nexus of Jewish religion, ethnicity, and culture in the EmigrEs' life and scholarship. Mostly secular, often paying little attention to their own Jewishness, the EmigrEs display in full the complex relationship between Judaism and Jewish identity. …”

“…La cuestión de la mujer y de lo femenino vuelve a escena, tanto en el mundo secular como en el eclesial. ¿Será porque las mujeres están asumiendo papeles destacados en un mundo convulso, violento y movedizo? …”

“…En este libro presenta una serie de observaciones sobre el estado de la Iglesia y su futuro mas probable en una sociedad cada día más secular. Argumenta con vigor sobre la fuerza civilizadora de la iglesia en el ámbito cultural, y cómo esta constituye el único baluarte con capacidad de hacer frente al creciente totalitarismo cultural que se apodera de Occidene. …”

“…The story of Queen Esther's shrewd triumph is a secular entertainment that mixes farce with sly sexual comedy. …”

“…In response to this sceptical challenge, Luke Russell shows that concept of evil has a legitimate place within contemporary secular moral thought. In this book he addresses questions concerning the nature of evil action, such as whether evil actions must be incomprehensible, whether evil actions can be banal, and whether there is a psychological hallmark that distinguishes evils from other wrongs. …”

“…In countries that experienced the Protestant Reformation, such as England, many artists turned to portraiture and other secular subjects. This second volume in the Art through the Centuries series is divided into three sections that discuss the important people, concepts, and artistic centers of this innovative period. …”
Sumario

“…The manuscripts featured in this book range in date from the 7th to the 17th century, embrace both devotional and secular material, and span a geographical area bounded by the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the east and the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria in the north-west. …”

“…In this lucid and vigorous new book, Craig Paterson discusses assisted suicide and euthanasia from a fully fledged but non-dogmatic secular natural law perspective. He rehabilitates and revitalises the natural law approach to moral reasoning by developing a pluralistic account of just why we are required by practical rationality to respect and not violate key demands generated by the primary goods of persons, especially human life. …”

“…The latter was previously characterized by the idea that modernization manifests itself above all3.... in a further consolidation of secularity and neutrality as well as an increasing desacralization. …”

“…Following the expulsion in the year 1290 until 1656, although there was no real Jewish community in England, the molders of public opinion kept a shadowy image of the Jew alive through sermons and religious tracts, travelogues, folklore, religious and secular drama. In his analysis, Dr. Glassman shows that despite their theological differences, Anglican, Puritan, and Catholic clergymen concurred in the negative images of Jews presented to their congregations. …”