Religion: General

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Can we rely on the discoveries that scientists make about one or another part, or aspect, of the world as a basis for drawing conclusions abou the ...

How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In the global era, religion has leapt onto the world stage, often in contradictory ways. Some...

Few historical figures have been more important in modeling the ideal of impartial critical scholarship than Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469-1536). Yet ...

What historical continuity, if any, existed between the practice of crucifixion in the early Islamic polity and crucifixion as practiced by the Byz...

Justice and injustice were subjects of ongoing debate in medieval Europe. Received classical and biblical models both influenced how these qualitie...

Presenting a challenge to popular stereotypes, this book is an intimate exploration of the religiously defined roles of Amish women and how these r...

Both history and current events attest to the continued significance of religion in society. Despite the role and importance of the institution of ...

In The Coloniality of the Secular, An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and colon...

Augustines Confessions and Shakespeares King Lear are two of the most influential and enduring works of the Western canon or world literature. But ...

Progressive Atheism shows how atheism can make progress in humanitys future. It presents a new way of arguing that God doesnt exist, based on a por...

The Muslim Speaks reimagines Islam as a strategy for investigating the modern condition. Rather than imagining it as an issue external to a discret...

Central to the historicizing work of recent decades has been the concept of contingency, the realm of chance, change, and the unnecessary. Followin...

Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christ...

We live in a secular world and cinema is part of that secular edifice. There is no expectation, in modern times, that filmmakers should be believer...

This volume offers an up-to-date introduction to Eberhard Jüngel's intellectual formation, publications and influence. Jüngel is one of the most or...

The Philosophy of Death Reader presents a collection of classic readings from across the centuries and the continents. Organised around central met...

Spinoza is among the most controversial and asymmetrical thinkers in the tradition and history of modern European philosophy. Since the 17th cent...

The Cascadia bioregion British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon has long been at the forefront of cultural shifts occurring throughout North Amer...

British Columbia is at the forefront of a secularizing movement in the English-speaking world. Nearly half its residents claim no religious affilia...

In The Absolute Power Complex from Constantine to Stalin: The Collective Unconscious of Catholic and Orthodox Countries Mino Vianello advances a ne...

Religion and nationalism are two of the most powerful forces in the world. And as powerful as they are separately, humans throughout history have f...

Endorsed by WJEC, the Student Book offers high quality support you can trust. / Written by experienced teachers and authors with an in-depth unders...

In Azusa Reimagined, Keri Day explores how the Azusa Street Revival of 1906, out of which U.S. Pentecostalism emerged, directly critiqued America's...

In Azusa Reimagined, Keri Day explores how the Azusa Street Revival of 1906, out of which U.S. Pentecostalism emerged, directly critiqued America's...

Temporal and spiritual journeys were a shared characteristic of life for mendicant friars and the laity in medieval and early modern times. This bo...