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What do Christians mean when they call Jesus "son of God"? In this study of the phrase "son of God" as applied to Jesus of Nazareth, Christopher Bryan examines the testimony of various New Testament witnesses who used this expression to speak of him, and asks where they got it from, what they meant by it, and how it might have been understood.

The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy is the first multi-authored work to cover, in detail and depth, the entire span of this philosophical tradition, from ancient times to the present. It introduces and examines the most important topics, figures, schools, and texts from the history of philosophical thinking in premodern and modern Japan. Each chapter, written by a leading scholar in the field, clearly elucidates and critically engages with its topicin a manner that demonstrates its contemporary philosophical relevance.

This volume presents essays on Descartes by pre-eminent Italian historian of philosophy Emanuela Scribano. Originally written and published in French and Italian, these essays are translated into English for the first time. The essays focus on some pivotal theses in Cartesian philosophy: proofs of God's existence, free creation of eternal truths, error, animals as machines, occasionalism, examining them in light of the philosophical context and of classical writerssuch as Galen, scholastic authors such as Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Suárez, authors contemporary to Descartes, such as Campanella and Silhon, and philosophers who referred to Cartesian philosophy, such as La Forge and Malebranche.

Violence against children is one of the most significant, widespread, and preventable threats to human development in our world today. Children are the future of our society and understanding and addressing violence against children is critical to building cultures and systems that promote a just and sustainable peace. This edited volume aims to provide an integrative review of psychological research on violence against children from a global perspective. Drawingfrom frameworks in both psychology and peace studies, contributors focus on the psychological research across global settings to illustrate the nature and effects of violence against children in various settings and examine recommendations for prevention, practice, and policy.

Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism considers religious reading through a study of the Pushtimarg, a Hindu community whose devotional practices and community identity have developed in close relationship to a genre of prose hagiography written during the 17th century. Combining ethnographic fieldwork and close readings of Indian language texts, each chapter of the book showcases various ways in which devotees have performatively readand interpreted these hagiographies in ways that help them navigate between their roles as devotional caretakers of the Hindu deity Krishna and their social and familial obligations in the modern world.

Metastatic cancer and costly precision medicines generate extremely complex problems of health care justice that previous theories of justice cannot address adequately. Fleck argues that what we need is a political conception of health care justice, following Rawls, and a fair and inclusive process of rational democratic deliberation governed by public reason.While ideally just outcomes are a moral and political impossibility, "wicked" ethical problems can metastasize if rationing decisions are made in ways effectively hidden from those affected by those decisions. As Fleck demonstrates, a fair and inclusive process of democratic deliberation makes these "wicked" problems visible to public reason.

Creative self-expression is an essential part of mental health and well-being just as physical exercise and nutritious food are essential to the body. In The Expressive Instinct, Girija Kaimal highlights how creativity is a defining feature of the human species. The desire to express ourselves is an innate need that serves as a safety valve for health and well-being especially during times of adversity. As humans we seek to share what we know to maximize oursurvival and invite a belonging of our unique selves in a welcoming community. This book offers a synthesis of research studies in jargon free language along with tips to integrate creative self-expression into our lives.

A Lasting Vision is dedicated to the Mirror of Literature, a Sanskrit treatise on poetics composed by Dandin in south India (c. 700 CE) and to its remarkable transcontinental career. The Mirror was adapted and translated into many Asian languages and became a classical text and a source of constant engagement and innovation, often well into the modern era.

In Ravana's Kingdom, Justin W. Henry delves into the historical literary reception of the Ramayana in Sri Lanka, charting how the demon-king antagonist, Ravana, has become an unlikely cultural hero among Sinhala Buddhists over the past decade.

People of the Screen traces the history of Bible software app development, showing the unique and powerful role evangelical entrepreneurs and coders have played in shaping its functionality and how their choices in turn shape the reading habits of millions of people around the world.

This book is an investigation on the prehistoric origins and early historic development of Chinese writing, with a focus on archaeological material.

In Practicing Peace, Aarie Glas offers a comparative regional perspective on conflict management and diplomacy in the Global South. Drawing on novel research methods and detailed interviews with regional practitioners, the book challenges existing scholarly claims of peace in Southeast Asia and South America. Instead, Glas argues that officials successfully manage pervasive conflict short of war in both regions. He provides an in-depth look into howdiplomacy unfolds and peace is practiced within diplomatic communities, from government actors to organizational officials, as they attempt to respond to and resolve territorial disputes.

As environmental destruction becomes more extreme around the planet, the way humans experience the natural world is changing, giving rise to more frequent and intense experiences of eco-anxiety. Not simply personal or social, eco-anxiety is distributed across the relationships that humans have with the life, land, air, and water of Earth. This anthology presents international and interdisciplinary perspectives on eco-anxiety, with attention to two of the mostprominent sources of eco-anxiety today: pandemics, specifically with regards to COVID-19, and the climate crisis. The book examines how these phenomena are causing unprecedented forms of psychological distress, including anxiety and related emotional or affective states like grief, anger, guilt, anddepression.

In Making Audiences, author Hideaki Fujiki offers a social history of a century of Japanese cinema and considers the relationships between audience, collectivity, and belonging.

In Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson, John Ó Maoilearca examines the seemingly very different but nonetheless complementary ideas of philosopher Henri Bergson and his occultist sister, Mina Bergson (aka Moina Mathers), to tackle contemporary themes in current materialist philosophy, memory studies, and the relationship between mysticism and philosophy.

In He Will Save You From the Deadly Pestilence, acclaimed religious scholar Philip Jenkins illustrates how the evolving uses of Psalm 91 allow us to map developing ideas about religion and the supernatural, theology and politics, medicine and mysticism.

Children's Health and the Peril of Climate Change exposes the twin threats of climate change and air pollution on children's health and plans a roadmap to a brighter future with tangible solutions for governments, businesses, and individuals today.

The book is both an introduction to a thinker, Gilles Deleuze, whose current influence on multiple sectors of the humanities and social sciences arguably exceeds that of any other, and a book-length demonstration of the ramifications of Deleuzian thought for critical biblical scholarship.

Armed with up-to-date theory, narrative examples, and detailed instructions from writing assignments used in public health classrooms across disciplines and genres, Teaching Public Health Writing offers public health instructors the skills needed to refresh or redesign in-course writing instruction and assignments, ensuring the next generation of professionals have the tools they need to communicate confidently and effectively.