PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION The Concept of Hell Edited by Benjamin McCraw, University of South Carolina Upstate, USA, Robert Arp, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA What is the nature of Hell? What role(s) may Hell play in religious, political, or ethical thought? Can Hell be justified? This edited volume addresses these questions and others; drawing philosophers from many approaches and traditions to analyze and examine Hell. Contents: Introduction * Benjamin W. McCraw and Robert Arp * PART I: THE NATURE OF HELL * 1. Choosing Hell; Randall M. Jensen * 2. Hell is Others and Paradise is Others: Hell in the Existential Paris of Sartre and Berdyaev; James M. McLachlan * 3. A New Defense of the Strong View of Hell; Andrew Rogers and Nathan Conroy * 4. The Temporality of Damnation: Examining Linear and Non-Linear Responses to the Puzzle of Eternal Experience; Frank Scalambrino * PART II: JUSTIFYING HELL? * 5. Hell and Punishment: Pitfalls for the Pit; Galen A. Foresman * 6. Leibniz’s Stoic and Spinozistic Justification for Eternal Damnation; Charles Joshua Horn * 7. Morality and the Necessity of Hell; James Edwin Mahon * 8. Hell is For Children? Or The Violence of Inculcating Hell; Jeffrey E. Stephenson and Jerry Piven * PART III: HELL AND OTHERS * 9. Damnation as Marginalization; Nicolas Michaud * 10. Whom We Resist: Subjectivity and Resistance at the Infernal Periphery; Jonathon O’Donnell * 11. Eternal Damnation as Exploitation’s Last Defense: Marx, Religion, and the Concept of Hell; Jeffrey Ewing * 12. [All] Politics [are] From the Devil: Taking Agamben to Hell (and Back?); Kristof K. P. Vanhoutte August 2015 UK August 2015 US 252pp Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137455703
Islam and the Path to Human and Economic Development
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This book briefly surveys the evolution of the Western concept of development, recognizing the wider dimensions of human and economic development and the role of institutions and rules, which has moved toward the vision and the path of development envisaged in Islam. Contents: Table of Contents * Dedication * Preface * Acknowledgments * 1. The Evolution of the Western Concept of Development * 2. Development as Human Wellbeing * 3. The Foundational Elements of Development in Islam * 4. The Dimensions of Development in Islam * 5. The Institutional Structure of Development in Islam * 6. Conclusion * Glossary of Arabic Terms * Bibliography * Index
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Michael Sudduth, San Francisco State University, USA Sudduth provides a critical exploration of classical empirical arguments for survival—arguments that purport to show that data collected from ostensibly paranormal phenomena constitute good evidence for the survival of the self after death. Utilizing the conceptual tools of formal epistemology, he argues that classical arguments are unsuccessful. Contents: 1 Introduction: The Classical Empirical Survival Debate * 2 Exploring the Hypothesis of Personal Survival * 3 Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences * 4 Mediumistic Communications * 5 Cases of the Reincarnation Type * 6 Classical Explanatory Arguments for Survival * 7 Bayesian Explanatory Arguments * 8 Bayesian Defenses of the Survival Hypothesis * 9 The Problem of Auxiliary Assumptions * 10 Exotic Counter-Explanations * 11 Conclusion: The Classical Arguments Defeated
Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion October 2015 UK October 2015 US 336pp Hardback £63.00 / $100.00 / CN$115.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137440938
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Intuitive Knowing as Spiritual Experience Now available in paperback
Abbas Mirakhor, INCEIF - Global University of Islamic Finance, Malaysia, Hossein Askari, George Washington University, USA ‘[This book] represents a path-breaking attempt at conceptualizing a genuine Islamic paradigm for developing societies [that] combines a vast knowledge of the subject with a coherent intellectual vision and a deeply felt passion. The book is destined to be the standard work in the area for years to come.’ - Robert Looney, Distinguished Professor, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
August 2015 UK August 2015 US 242pp Paperback £21.00 / $34.00 / CN$38.99 Canadian Rights www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137543875
A Philosophical Critique of Empirical Arguments for Postmortem Survival
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Phillip H. Wiebe, Trinity Western University ,Canada 'This is a thoughtful and engaging volume that makes a significant contribution not only to the philosophy of religion but to epistemology.' William Sweet, St Francis Xavier University, Canada This book is Wiebe's defense of the claim that a significant form of spiritual experience is found in 'knowing something we have no right to know'. He selects forty-five first-hand accounts from a data-base at the University of Wales to make his case, and, in solidarity with those people, recounts something of his own experience. Contents: Introduction * 1: Spirits * 2: The Experience of God * 3: Values * 4: Christian Experience * 5: Intuitive Knowing in Spiritual Life * Notes * Bibliography * Index September 2015 UK September 2015 US 240pp 1 b/w illustration Hardback £60.00 / $100.00 / CN$115.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137549488
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