Other non-Christian Religions

This title was first published in 2003. Can a text be used either to validate or to invalidate contemporary understandings? Texts may be deemed 'sa...

This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other ...

Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, called for a report on the religious practi...

Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible looks at some of the Bibles most hostile and violent anti-foreigner texts and raises critical quest...

jvikism was once ranked one of the most important religions in India between the 4th and 2nd centuries BCE, after Buddhism, Brahmanism and before J...

By studying the history and sources of the Thomas Christians of India, a community of pre-colonial Christian heritage, this book revisits the assum...

The Bundahisn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology. Compiled someti...

This oracle is an ode to the Wise Woman within every woman. Through storytelling from myth, folklore and contemporary tales about wise and knowledg...

Dating all the way back to the 5th century B.C., Chinese horoscopes contain a wealth of interesting stories and facts. From the twelve famous zodia...

This book draws on ethnographic studies in Southeast Asia to provide new insights into humanenvironmental relationships and ecologies, together wit...

The Sikh World is an outstanding guide to the Sikh faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. Written by a distinguished t...

This pioneering monograph examines how culture informs popular understandings and experiences of mental health in East Asia, as well as providing r...

Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion demonstrates that the concept of metamorphism was central to ancient Chinese religious beli...

In Walking to Magdalena, Seth Schermerhorn explores a question that is central to the interface of religious studies and Native American and Indige...

This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion. It examines religious expression from a cross-cu...

While the atonement is a central component of Christianity, there is little agreement in the tradition about how it should be understood. This book...

While the atonement is a central component of Christianity, there is little agreement in the tradition about how it should be understood. This book...

This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological sources that contributed to the formation of the sacred picture ...

The Biblical World is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition is updated with...

This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvrthdhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text ...

Growing older is inevitable, but aging can be prevented, even reversedbut only when you upgrade your brain, using both ancient and modern science, ...

This volume provides a reconstruction of the history of Judea and its neighboring regions from 334 BCE, when Alexander's eastward conquests brought...

This volume elucidates how processions, from antiquity to the present, contribute to creating consensus with regards to both political power and co...

In 1724, Sylvester, a native of the island of Cyprus, was elected Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East. For more than...