Sumario

“…Great books of the Western World…”

“…More than just a way of writing, the alphabet is a powerful concept that has shaped Western civilization and our daily lives. In The Letter and the Cosmos, Laurence de Looze probes that influence, showing how the alphabet has served as a lens through which we conceptualize the world and how the world, and sometimes the whole cosmos, has been perceived as a kind of alphabet itself. …”

“…Cultural and Contact in Western and Northern Europe…”

“…The focus in this varied collection of studies by key scholars in the field is on cuisine and foodways in the Mediterranean and north-western Europe during Medieval and Post-Medieval times (ca. 6th- 20th c.). …”

“…Sachedina -- Approaches to limits on war in Western just war discourse / Stephen E. Lammers -- Al-Farabi's statecraft : war and the well-ordered regime / Charles E. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…'Even the hippies were only very slowly going secular' : Dechristianization and the culture of individualism in North America and Western Europe / Gender, Christianity, and rise of no religion : the heritage of the sixties in Britain / Mother and daughters : negotiating the discourse on the 'good woman' in 1950s and 1960s Britain / Women, religion, and the turn to feminism : experiences of women's liberation activists in Britain in the seventies / Saving marriage : a comparison of religion and marriage promotion in the United States and Britain / Religious-right activism in Canada and the United States : are we headed in the same direction? …”