History of Religion

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...