Other non-Christian Religions

With the dark, mythical magic of the Winternight trilogy, and the slow-burn romance of Spinning Silver, NORTH IS THE NIGHT is a feminist fantasy ad...

The book explores the reception of the German theologian Jürgen Moltmann’s theology within the general framework of a budding Chinese academic theo...

During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular...

Ninian Smart came to public prominence as the founding Professor of the first British university Department of Religious Studies in the late 1960s....

This title was first published in 2001: Reason, Community and Religious Tradition examines key questions about the relationship of rationality to i...

In the Punjab, a culture of migration and mobility had already emerged in the nineteenth century. Imperial policies produced a category of hypermob...

Originally published in 1958 and authored by one of the foremost liberal Catholic theologians of the 20th Century, this book recognizes the need fo...

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 Bible’s most hostile and violent anti-foreigner texts and raises critical ques...

Ājīvikism was once ranked one of the most important religions in India between the 4th and 2nd centuries BCE, after Buddhism, ‘Brahmanism’ and befo...

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

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 human–environmental relationships and ecologies, together wi...

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...

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

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

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 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...

This book comprehensively introduces Cognitive Linguistics and applies its tools to religious language. Drawing on authentic samples from a range o...

Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its inst...

It is widely believed that the practice of ancient Egyptian religion ceased with the end of pharaonic culture and the rise of Christianity. However...

There are many different ways in which minority religions and counselling may interact. In some cases there can be antagonism between counselling s...

In analyzing the parallels between myths glorifying the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, and those glorifying the Sun, Sūrya, found in the Mārkaṇḍeya P...

The dual foci for this collection of the author's most important writings are Swaminarayan Hinduism and South Asian immigrants in the United States...

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

Many Peoples, Many Faiths places the world’s religions in historical context, illustrating the complex dynamic of each religion over time, while al...

Exploring the relations between the concepts of peace and violence with aesthetics, nature, the body, and environmental issues, The Poesis of Peace...