Religion: General

In 142 CE, the divine Lord Lao descended to Mount Cranecall (Sichuan province) to establish a new covenant with humanity through a man named Zhang ...

During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of mor...

The Virgin Mary embodied power rather than maternal tenderness in the Byzantine world. Known as the Mother of God, she became a guarantor of milita...

The articles in the present collection deal with the religious dimension of the problem of free will. All of the papers also have implications for ...

Joseph Smith, founding prophet and martyr of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, personally wrote, dictated, or commissioned thousands...

In 1099, the soldiers of the First Crusade, summoned by the Pope and gathered from throughout Christendom, took Jerusalem. As the news of this vict...

In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years l...

The relationship between Islam and feminism is complex. There are many Muslim scholars who fervently promote women's equality. At the same time, th...

In 1758, a Quaker tailor and sometime shopkeeper and school teacher stood up in a Quaker meeting and declared that the time had come for Friends to...

This book is the first of two volumes collecting together Michael C. Rea's most substantial work in analytic theology. This volume considers the na...

The history of religious life in the Catholic Church has been filled with change: periods of membership growth and decline, shifts in the types of ...

This much-needed anthology contains historically informed insights and analysis about Christian just war thinking and its application to contempora...