Alternative Belief Systems

The contemporary world is witness to an intense controversy about secularism. This controversy has intensified due to the presence of fundamentalis...

This book offers a conversant and comprehensive overview of the themes and concepts in spiritual tourism and Millennial tourists. Providing interdi...

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political sign...

A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain—named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial T...

This volume offers the most comprehensive survey available of the philosophical background to the works of early Christian writers and the developm...

Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval reli...

This book explores the inter-relationship between religious groups and wider society and examines the way religious groups change in relation to so...

This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebo...

Infidel feminism is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women’s rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It loo...

John Stuart Mill observed in his Autobiography that he was a rare case in nineteenth-century Britain because he had not lost his religion but never...

The Church of Scientology is one of the most recognizable American-born new religions, but perhaps the least understood. With academic and popular ...

Paganism and libertarianism might seem like odd choices to bring together in a single book. One is a broad set of nature-centric religious and spir...

For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and Americans listened. While serving as a curator at the American Museum of Natura...

A Supernatural War reveals the surprising stories of extraordinary people in a world caught up with the promise of occult powers. It was a commonl...

“In this bold, analytical, and readable book, Miles names names and dismantles the fallacy of progressive Christianity.”—ERIC METAXAS, #1 New York ...

Spirituality is in the spotlight. While levels of religious belief and observance are declining in much of the Western world, the number of people ...

Islam in France is often regarded as a political ‘issue’ and much of the scholarly and public debates about Islam in contemporary France over the l...

*****PERFECT FOR FANS OF 'THE COMING STORM'ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A chilling overview of a movement that should arguably have no...

Embrace your shadow self on this spiritual journey of self-discoveryWe all have a "dark" side: hidden aspects of our personalities that influence o...

The History of the Devil (1900) is a philosophical study by Paul Carus. A lifelong Monist, Carus sought to apply a scientific analysis to the princ...

While humanist sensibilities have played a formative role in the advancement of our species, critical attention to humanism as a field of study is ...

A new edition of Steve Taylor's bestselling classic, in which the author provides an Afterword, including research developments that have occurred ...

It has been observed that the traditions, philosophies and beliefs that enjoy historical longevity are not those that remain static and unchanging,...