Religion: General

Atheism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to belief in the non-existence of deities. Atheism has long fascinated people but debate...

Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule sh...

The practice of walking to a sacred space for personal and spiritual transformation has long held a place in the British imagination. Art and the S...

The twentieth century was a period of rapid change for religion. Secularisation resulted in a dramatic fall in church attendance in the West, and t...

With the Second Vatican Council (1962@65), the Roman Catholic Church for the first time took a positive stance on modernity. Its impact on the thou...

Arguably no modern ideology has diffused as fast as Socialism. From the mid-nineteenth century to the last quarter of the twentieth socialist ideal...

Exploring the relationship between poverty and religion in William Wordsworths poetry, Heidi J. Snow challenges the traditional view that the poets...

The resurgence of religiosity in post-communist Europe has been widely noted, but the full spectrum of religious practice in the diverse countries ...

Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and their afterlives ...

A moving exploration of the place of hope in the world today, drawing on agrarian principles   In this series of meditations, Norman Wirzba recasts...

Place shapes human identity and community. Arguing that theologies are shaped by place so no theology can be universal, Out of Place assesses the w...

Urban theology affirms the importance of context - notably the place of the city - in theological reflection. However, it has often been confined...

This ground-breaking book provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between sports (and leisure), religion and disability. In the shadow...

Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500, focuses on the unique ways that natural materials carry the spiri...

This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining the cultural, socio-econo...

Teaching the Historical Jesus in his Jewish context to students of varied religious backgrounds presents instructors with not only challenges, but ...

Godwired offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age. It considers how virtual experiences, like stories, games and rit...

The conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek pe...

The 20th and 21st Centuries have been characterized by theologians and philosophers rethinking theology and revitalizing the tradition. This unique...

Can the different pictures of Jesus in the New Testament be reconciled? Or are they simply simulations, the products of a virtual Gospel? Simulatin...

From William Langland's Piers Plowman, through the highly polemicized literary culture of fifteenth-century Lollardy, to major Reformation writers ...