History of Religion

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriag...

The historiography of death, memory, and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European r...

Belief: surely its a relic from the past, a hangover from a superstitious age that is totally out of sync with todays rational, science-led culture...

An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption an...

An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption an...

The rabbinic sages of late antiquity are known for their sophisticated and creative reading of Scripture, but rabbinic literature also includes ela...

What does an individual contribute to his or her own salvation? Does God wait on the doorsteps of our hearts, quietly hoping to be let in when we d...

For many centuries, from the birth of the religion late in the second millennium BC to its influence on the Achaemenids and later adoption in the t...

Between 1850 and 1970, around three hundred thousand children were sent to new homes through child migration programmes run by churches, charities ...

Early modernity has long been seen as a crucial period in the history of biblical scholarship, witnessing rapid advances in studies of Hebrew, Gree...

Lucidly written by leading biblical scholars Michael D. Coogan and Cynthia R. Chapman, this balanced, engaging, and up-to-date introduction to the ...

First published in 1956, God and Man in Early Israel deals with Old Testament history from Abraham to Solomon in the light of modern archaeological...

A leading Catholic intellectual explains why the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are essential to the Church's futureand the world'sThe Sec...

As Spaniards built colonies in the New World, men of the cloth saw within ancient ruins and inhabited native towns great potential for easing the c...

The period known as the fin de siecle - defined in this groundbreaking book as chiefly the period between1885 and 1901 - was a fluid and unsettling...

This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These...

Andrew Jenson undertook a lifelong quest to render the LDS historical record complete and comprehensive. As Assistant Church Historian of The Churc...

Economic diplomacy is a multifaceted tool that European countries, both individually and collectively through the EU, use to promote their economic...