Religion: General

Peter Forrest argues that Essential Catholicism is the one and only religion to which reasonable humanists could commit. Drawing on Immanuel Kants ...

What does it mean to read the Bible 'literally'? Recent debates on the Protestant reformers have focused on whether they were stridently literal in...

#UsToo: How Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities examines the relationship between sexual harassment, gender, and multiple r...

Focused on Amad Ibn Ajba an eighteenth-century Moroccan Sufi scholar renowned for his contribution to Sufi Qurnic exegesis this book engages crit...

Sufism in Ottoman Damascus analyzes thaumaturgical beliefs and practices prevalent among Muslims in eighteenth-century Ottoman Syria. The study foc...

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for ec...

Written by Libby Ahluwalia - an experienced teacher and examiner, and a trusted author - this new textbook fully supports Component 2 of the Eduqas...

This collection is published in the Crusades Subsidia series in honour of Professor Adrian J. Boas, an archaeologist, historian and scholar who has...

This book explores female faith practices, drawing on qualitative research to consider how women navigate and create spiritual and religious practi...

Religious freedom is a fundamental and relatively uncontested right in both the United States and Europe. But other values like equality, justice, ...

Using contemporary theories drawn from health humanities, this volume analyses the nature and effects of disability, medicine, and health discourse...

Employing frameworks of lived religion and materiality, this book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Gree...

While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public ...

This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly vi...

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. Th...

This book offers a fresh social scientific analysis of how theologically conservative male clergy respond to the ordination of women to the priesth...

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.No country is ...

One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s Anglosphere to counter the r...

Kim and Zoh bring together a team of contributors to analyse the role of heritage studies across Asia, and its impact on Asia and its constituent c...

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the on...

This book explores a number of closely related logical and metaphysical questions relating to the identity of Jesus Christ. In particular it consid...

Religious freedom has become increasingly important across the global spectrum over the past decades but has remained a contested concept. This boo...

In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self, Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time, spaciousnes...

This book explores and expounds upon questions of paradox and contradiction in theology with an emphasis on recent contributions from analytic phil...