Religion: General

The contributions of this volume discuss the broad field of transformation processes in Muslim societies from different perspectives with various d...

The enigmatic relation between religion and science still presents a challenge to European societies and to ideas about what it means to be modern....

How could ancient astronomers accurately calculate celestial phenomena on the scale of several centuries? The Table of Kings is a simple list of ru...

How does the powerful effect that religion has on public and personal life relate to the various spheres of our culture? Is the relationship betwee...

The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies, a Toronto-based ...

This book uncovers the Jesuits mystic theological interpretation in the translation of the Book of Changes (the Yijing) in their mission in China.T...

Eine Gesamtdarstellung der vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen Kunst und Religion vom Spätmittelalter bis ins 18. Jahrhundert fehlt bisher. Das vorli...

This volume brings together scholars in religion, archaeology, philology and history to explore case studies and theoretical models of converging r...

The conflict between the natural sciences and Christian theology has been going on for centuries. Recent advances in the fields of evolutionary bio...

This volume offers unique insights into the mutually constitutive nature of social media practices and religious change. Part 1 examines how social...

Die historische Aufarbeitung von sexuellem Missbrauch und Gewalt in der Frühen Neuzeit steht noch ganz am Anfang. Auf detaillierten Archivrecherche...

The application of women's rights to the religions of the world have prompted highly contentious debates. This volume explores the many intricate i...

How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the TorahThroughout their history, ...

How and why did students at Kabul University engage in political activism or refrained from it between 1964 and 1992? Based on oral history intervi...

Ancient Mesopotamian, biblical, rabbinic, and Christian literature was created and transmitted by the intellectual elite and therefore presents the...

This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came ...