Revival? Rebirth? Renaissance?

Rebirth

This essay was awarded the Patient's Millennium Gowers prize of 1999 by the council of the British Branch of the International League Against Epilepsy.

Bryant Creel. The Voice of the Phoenix: Metaphors of Death and Rebirth in Classics of the Iberian Renaissance. Tempe: Arizona

Rebirth of JCHIMP

T his is the third and final issue of volume 3 of JCHIMP. It is 3 months later than planned. This is not as serious as with paper journals (except, perhaps, to the waiting authors). Some Internet open-access journals publish individual articles as they are accepted. When we organized JCHIMP in 2010, we made the decision to publish quarterly because of editorial preferences and input from other ...

Renaissance Art and Architecture, painting, sculpture, architecture, and allied arts produced in Europe in the historical period called the Renaissance

Renaissance Art and Architecture, painting, sculpture, architecture, and allied arts produced in Europe in the historical period called the Renaissance. Broadly considered, the period covers the 200 years between 1400 and 1600, although specialists disagree on exact dates. The word renaissance literally means "rebirth" and is the French translation of the Italian rinascita. The two principal co...

Karma and Rebirth

The Hindu and Buddhist concepts of karma are quite similar, although Hinduism makes a further distinction between different types of karma, such as present karma, latent karma, and future karma. In the understanding of both thought systems, the law of karma describes the connection between actions and the resulting forces, as follows: wholesome actions lead to wholesome states while unwholesome...