Religion: General

Contemporary culture, todays capitalism - our global information society - is ever expanding, is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experie...

Contemporary culture, todays capitalism - our global information society - is ever expanding, is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experie...

This edited collection aims to examine religion across: historical media forms using a broad concept of «media» contemporary media with a focus o...

Jürgen Moltmanns Doctrine of the Image of God examines the doctrine of the Image of God in the interpretation of contemporary theologian Jürgen Mol...

The reader is taken on a global exploration of the forms and diversities of religions and their social and cultural contexts... It is up to the min...

The reader is taken on a global exploration of the forms and diversities of religions and their social and cultural contexts... It is up to the min...

The book examines deep shifts in the religious life of Russia and the post-Soviet world as a whole. The author uses combined methods of history, so...

Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Emeritus, is one of the most prolific catholic theologians of the contemporary era. He became Professor of theology at t...

Since the Reformation, Catholics in Britain have been faced with an outsider status that has often given rise to conflict between their British nat...

Many interested reader will have put aside a work by Edith Stein due to its seeming inaccessibility, with the awareness that there was something im...

An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gen...

Using the case of early-sixteenth-century Antwerp, argues that practices of religious toleration in the Christian West first emerged not as the out...

Analyses Muslim-Muslim divisions within northern Nigeria, which are as important for understanding the violence in the region as those between Musl...

A window into the mental and cultural worlds of the Stuart period, capturing the existing religious, social and political tensions on the eve of th...

Modern Christian theology has been problematic with the schism between the Bible and theology, and between biblical studies and systematic theology...

The history of the vexed relationship between clergy and warfare is traced through a careful examination of canon law. In the first millennium the...

The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through w...

In God and Human Freedom: A Kierkegaardian Perspective Tony Kim discusses Søren Kierkegaards concept of historical unity between the divine and hum...

Provides for a selection of texts, together with scholarly introductions, from one of the world's great private libraries, covering a period from E...

Groundbreaking reassessment of the role played by armour, weapons and heraldry in medieval warfare, showing their cultural as well as military sign...

The present volume, based on a related conference in Erfurt, offers interdisciplinary insights on the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church...

Stephen Strehle is a leading scholar of church/state issues. In this volume, he focuses his rigorous historical analysis and philosophical acumen u...