“…Religions of foreign origin have shaped Chinese cultural history much stronger than generally assumed and continue to have impact on Chinese society in varying regional degrees. The essays collected in the present volume put a special emphasis on these "foreign" and less familiar aspects of Chinese religion. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD RESEARCH: SEARCH AGAIN; INTRODUCTION AND RELATED ESSAYS; INTRODUCTION: NETWORKING IS BOTH AN ART AND A SCIENCE!…”

“…Presentación del editor: "What importance is to be attributed to beauty in the life of a Christian? What role should it play in the life of those who have been redeemed? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Grillo ; Chapter 47 : Megaliths in Madagascar Mike Parker Pearson ; Chapter 48 : Megaliths of Nigeria: the footprints of ancient civilization Abu Solomon Edet, Abubakar Sule Sani ; Chapter 49 : Megaliths from Senegal and The Gambia in their regional context Luc Laporte, Hamady Bocoum, Adrien Delvoye, Jean-Paul Cros, Selim Djouad, Matar Ndiaye, Aziz Ballouche, Pierre Lamotte, Mathilde Stern, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Laurent Quesnel ; Earthern architectures and megalithism: the Soto monument (Senegal) Adrien Delvoye, Khady Thiaw, Marylise Onfray, Matar Ndiaye, Philippe Gouézin, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Vivien Mathé, Tioro Ba, Christian Camerlynck, Sire Ndiaye, Adrien Camus, Philippe Boulinguiez, Leonor Rocha, Pierre Lamotte, Aziz Ballouche, Hamady Bocoum, Luc Laporte ; Chapter 50 : Types of monumentalism and burial rites of the central and eastern Sahara Alain Gallay (†) ; Chapter 51 : Neolithic monuments with standing stones in the northwestern Sahara Robert Vernet ; Chapter 52 : The megalithic necropolises of the eastern Maghreb Joan Sanmartí ; PART VIII: EUROPEAN MEGALITHS ; Introduction Chris Scarre ; Chapter 53 : Larger than life: monumentality of the landscape and non-human imagery at Lepenski (Serbia) Dušan Borić ; Chapter 54 : On the Atlantic shores. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Preface: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor, Friend: Essays in Honour of Martha Macintyre -- Prologue: Pragmatism, Prescience and Principle -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Townsend -- Introduction to Essays toward a steady-state economy / Herman E. Daly -- I. …”

Sumario

“…Including twenty-two especially-commissioned essays, written by an international team of scholars, it examines a range of topics related to the historical and religious contexts in which the contents of the Christian canon emerged. …”

“…"Steve Walton collects several of his key essays into an expansive and coherent perspective, focusing on the theological perspective of Acts while considering the book's nature and focus, its portrait of the early Christian communities and their mission in the culturally varied first-century world, and its major theological themes"--…”

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“…He plumbs the depths of fundamental moral theology in these essays, where he treats Thomistic method and the renewal of moral theology, beatitude and Christian anthropology, moral agency, and passions and virtues, as well as law and grace. …”

“…Examining traditional attitudes toward nature, and the degree to which these attitudes enable us to cope with modern ecological problems, Robin Attfield looks particularly at the Judeo-Christian heritage of belief in humankind's dominion, the tradition of stewardship, and the more recent belief in progress to determine the extent to which these attitudes underlie ecological problems and how far they embody resources adequate for combating such problems. …”