History of Religion

The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods ...

This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates how Muslims thought about and practised at s...

Nahua and Maya Catholicisms examines ecclesiastical texts written in Nahuatl and Yucatec Maya to illustrate the role of these texts in conveying an...

For most Americans the powerful ties between religion and nationalism in the Middle East are utterly foreign forces, profoundly tied to the regiona...

It has long seemed very desirable that a brief, comprehensive, and readable narrative of the origin of Christianity, and of its struggles and trium...

In the tradition of The Return of Martin Guerre and The Great Cat Massacre, Miracles at the Jesus Oak is a rich, evocative journey into the past an...

First published edition of documents and letters from a highly-significant incident within the nineteenth-century Catholic church. The row between...

A richly documented investigation of a well-known figure in Swiss history who crossed diverse social and cultural boundaries in pre-modern Europe. ...

Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its relevance, The Book That Made Your World will transform your perception of its infl...

This fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plauts classic second volume on the history of the Jewish Reform Movement is a sourcebook of the or...

As an educated gentleman and naval officer, Richard Brothers dramatically altered eighteenth-century expectations and perceptions of what prophets ...

This book examines the afterlife of the lollard movement, demonstrating how it was shaped and used by evangelicals and seventeenth-century Protesta...

Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c. 1350-1560 examines lay religious culture in Scottish towns between the Black Death and the P...

Beacon Lights of History is a 14-volume set first published in 1902. This collection of John Lords lectures spans 6,000 years of European and Ameri...

The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain is planned as one work to be published in three interlinking volumes (titles/publication dates detailed below...