Religion: General

This book discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies drawing on textual and visual materials, from the Aga Khan Documentation Center a...

True theodicy is partly a theoretical corrective to evangelistic impatience: discounting the distortions arising from over-eager salesmanship. And ...

Religious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological developments during the Marwnid period (64/684--132/750), focusing on religious ...

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

Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries forges a new conversation about the diversity of Christianities in the medieval...

On 29 December, 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his own cathedral. News of the event was rapidly disseminat...

This volume can not be regarded as a history of the doctrine of Atonement, nor yet as a study of the Scriptural witness to it. It is rather an exam...

Phenomenology was one of the twentieth centurys major philosophical movements, and it continues to be a vibrant and widely studied subject today wi...

As with Muslims today, Catholics were once suspected of being antidemocratic, oppressive of women, and supportive of extremist political violence. ...

Church History reveals that Christianity has its roots in Palestine during the first century and was spread throughout the Mediterranean countries ...

What tensions arise between philosophy of religion and theology? What strengths and weaknesses of analytical methods emerge in relation to strongly...

As the fragile window of personal witness to the events of the Holocaust closes, Moment of Witness provides the script for a powerful commemoration...

In this fresh and fascinating chronicle of Christianity in the contemporary South, historian and minister James Hudnut-Beumler draws on extensive i...

In this fresh and fascinating chronicle of Christianity in the contemporary South, historian and minister James Hudnut-Beumler draws on extensive i...

Explores how heritage discourses and local publics interact at Catholic mission sites in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and the S...

Explores how heritage discourses and local publics interact at Catholic mission sites in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and the S...

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of the Hajj in countries of Africa, the Near East, and Southeast Asia. States must organize the mobili...

Biblical studies is increasingly interdisciplinary and frequently focuses on how the Bible is read, received, and represented in the contemporary w...

John Salmon's fourteenth-century register brings to life the day-to-day world of a medieval bishop. John Salmon's register is the earliest to sur...

Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection explores two of the most important facets of life within the med...

Presenting cutting edge research on how religion can confront and obscure social inequalities in everyday life, Religion, Equalities and Inequaliti...

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