History of Religion

Whilst religion and the secular have been continually debated contexts for literature of the Romantic era, the dominant scholarly focus has been on...

The philosophical and theological study of aesthetics has a long and rich history, stretching back to Plato's identification of ultimate goodness a...

Warren Felt Evans (1817–1889) converted to Methodism while at Dartmouth College, became a minister, and spent his Methodist years as a spiritual se...

Children of Lucifer explores the historical origins of Satanism, the "anti-religion" that adopts Satan, the Judeo-Christian representative of evil,...

Historians have debated how the clergy's support for political resistance during the American Revolution should be understood, often looking to inf...

This book provides a new account of a distinctive, important, but forgotten moment in early modern religious and intellectual history. In the late ...

For many centuries Jews have been renowned for the efforts they put into their children's welfare and education. Eventually, prioritizing children ...

In Melville's Wisdom: Religion, Skepticism, Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, Damien B. Schlarb explores the manner in which Herman Melvill...

Don’t sacrifice readability for portability with this KJV Giant Print Thinline Bible. The extra-large Bible text features Thomas Nelson’s exclusive...

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 Br...

Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Early Christian thinkers developed diverse defini...

The story of how Brazilian Catholics and Protestants confronted one of the greatest shocks to the Latin American religious system in its 500-year h...

Praise for the exhibition ***** The Times ***** The Telegraph ***** The Guardian ***** Evening Standard Praise for the book 'If you cannot make...

This pioneering volume, the first in a series, presents a plurality of voices, methods and concerns in Qur'anic interpretation ranging from the 8th...

Demonstrates the vital role Sunday schools played in forming and sustaining faith before, during, and after the First World War for British populat...

This book provides a comprehensive literary and theological analysis of Gregory of Nyssa's theology of union with God, culminating in a fresh readi...

A "brisk and entertaining" (Wall Street Journal) journey into the mystery behind why the forbidden fruit became an apple, upending an explanation t...

This book explores the way in which different ethnic, religious and linguistic communities co-existed and conflicted in the Roman Near East in the ...

This study of English Benedictine nuns is based upon a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instruct...

In the late eighteenth century, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement by new colonists, among the...

Finalist, 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, presented by the Jewish Book Council Winner, 2019 Jordan Schnit...

Accessible and comprehensive, Contemporary Theology: An Introduction by professor and author Kirk R. MacGregor provides a chronological survey of t...

Newman and Justification examines John Henry Newman's via media 'doctrine of the justifying presence' in his Lectures on Justification. T. L. Holtz...

Offers an analysis of Soviet Jewish society after the death of Joseph Stalin At the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in the Russ...

This refreshing re-evaluation of the so-called autobiography of Ignatius Loyola (c. 1491–1556) situates Ignatius’s Acts against the backgrounds of ...

An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures While women have made gains in equality over the past two centuries, equality f...

An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures While women have made gains in equality over the past two centuries, equality f...

Moves the discussion of American civil religion into the twenty-first century Civil Religion, a term made popular by sociologist Robert Bellah a l...

A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world Buddhist t...

**FINALIST, 2022 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies** An innovative exploration of religion's influence on communication networks When...

An updated introduction to the religions developed in the Caribbean region Creole Religions of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive introduction to...

Uncovers the often overlooked participation of African Americans and Native Americans in early Protestant churches Phillis Wheatley was stolen from...

**FINALIST, 2022 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies** An innovative exploration of religion's influence on communication networks When...

Shows how American forms of religion and empire developed in tandem, shaping and reshaping each other over the course of American history The Unite...

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

A rich analysis of the mindset of Puritans and of their theology which justified military action and acts of killing. This book recounts Puritan s...