History of Religion

In this single volume you will find nearly three-and-a-half thousand terms and names from the history, teachings, and liturgy of the church. Terms ...

Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the long nineteenth century...

What was distinctive about the founding principles and practices of Quakerism? In George Fox and Early Quaker Culture, Hilary Hinds explores how th...

During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus -...

Fresh investigations into heresy after 1300, demonstrating its continuing importance and influence. From the Gregorian reforms to the Protestant R...

Several world cities are held in reverence by some or all three monotheistic faiths, but no world region has allure to all three on a level matched...

This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance ...

God's Marshall Plan tells the story of the American Protestants who sought to transform Germany into a new Christian and democratic nation in the h...

Housing the powers? What powers? Soul powers -- powers that shape the lives of human souls. They may be housed, and exercised, by those souls or by...

A revealing look at the identity and mission of the Black church What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose...

Who Are My People? explores the complex relationship between identity, violence, and Christianity in Africa. In Who Are My People?, Emmanuel Katong...

Debates concerning the relationship between Tridentine Catholicism and Catholicism after Vatican II dominate theological conversation today, partic...

This volume is concerned with diplomacy between England and the papal curia during the first phase of the Anglo-French conflict known as the Hundre...

Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its national form of Islam, "Moroccan Islam." This path-breaking study, however, reveals that Mo...

Seeking to understand the doctrine of justification by way of biblical hermeneutics, this book uncovers the differences between Martin Luther and t...

Catholics and Treason takes the narratives generated by the contemporary law of treason as it applied to Roman Catholics, during and after the Refo...

This much-needed anthology contains historically informed insights and analysis about Christian just war thinking and its application to contempora...

Late antiquity was a perilous time for children, who were often the first victims of economic crisis, war, and disease. They had a one in three cha...

Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop successively of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury and Winchester, was the most controversial English churchman of the eighteenth ...

In Demonic Desires, Ishay Rosen-Zvi examines the concept of yetzer hara, or evil inclination, and its evolution in biblical and rabbinic literature...

A meditation on holiness and beauty through the study of Saint Mary of Egypt.   Saint Mary of Egypt has fascinated theologians, poets, and artists ...

An Anxious Inheritance reveals the tensions between the early framers of Islam and the ever-expandable category of non-Muslims. Examining the encou...

This book shows how early economic ideas structured Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such power in the We...

This volume reframes the narrative that has too often dominated the field of historical study of religion and politics: the culture wars. Influence...

What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread? In this bold new book, award-winning author Robin Derricourt take...

Early modern private prayer is skilled at narrative and drama. In manuals and sermons on how to pray, collections of model prayers, scholarly treat...

John Wesley and George Whitefield are remembered as founders of Methodism, one of the most influential movements in the history of modern Christian...

Southeast Asia is home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the world today. The region has also produced a cohort of reformers who have cri...

Religious texts are not stable objects, passed down unchanged through generations. The way in which religious communities receive their scriptures ...

The text edited and translated in this volume recounts the first century of the history of the Augustinian priory of Llanthony in Monmouthshire, fr...

An impressively learned and beautifully illustrated review of medieval ideas about Paradise Did Adam and Eve need to eat in Eden in order to live? ...

How did people learn their Bibles in the Middle Ages? Did church murals, biblical manuscripts, sermons or liturgical processions transmit the Bible...

The Idea of Semitic Monotheism examines some major aspects of the scholarly study of religion in the long nineteenth century--from the Enlightenmen...