History of Religion

This book is for you if: you want to reflect on the big questions of life - suffering, injustice, faith; you find the Old Testament a bit wieldy an...

Twins may be allied with the celestial or animal realms: they have sometimes been construed as 'extra-human'. This multi-disciplinary work explores...

A complete history of the Papacy - one of the most enduring and influential of all human institutions.Few human institutions have survived so long ...

The saga of Jonestown didnt end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jun...

In The Nature of the Religious Right, Neall W. Pogue examines how white conservative evangelical Christians became a political force known for host...

On 31 May 1310, at the Place de Grève in Paris, the Dominican inquisitor William of Paris read out a sentence that declared Marguerite called Poret...

This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abus...

The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a watershed event in the lives of Western Christians. For Lutherans, the anniversary ...

Isaac Newton published little but wrote hundreds of manuscripts, the bulk of them on alchemy, prophecy and theology. His writings on the Temple ...