Religion: General

This updated, revised version of the important 1988 first edition (must reading for anyone seriously probing religious pluralism in our society-...

Humans have been chasing immortality since the beginning of history, seeking answers to sickness and aging, death and the afterlife, and questio...

Often considered to be in opposition, American popular culture and popular religion are connected, forming and informing new ways of thinking, w...

Recent philosophical reexaminations of sacred texts have focused almost exclusively on the Christian New Testament, and Paul in particular. The Boo...

Mark Noll wrote in his 1994 book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind that ''The scandal of the Evangelical mind is that there is not much of an eva...

The Druids and the Arthurian legends are all most of us know about early Britain, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (4500 BC-AD 43). Drawing on...

How has unbelief come to dominate so many Western societies? The usual account invokes the advance of science and rational knowledge. Ryries altern...

Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring st...

Using a critical feminist lens, this text explores the roles and interactions of women within major world faiths. For each tradition, the text exam...

Perhaps the clearest and most influential statement of the principles driving the early Protestant reformers, Martin Luther's On the Freedom of a C...

Convent Autobiography reveals how English Catholic women wrote about themselves, their families, and their lives in a period where it was illegal t...

'Compelling, insightful, often sombrely beautiful Sunday Telegraph Moving beyond travelogue, V. S. Naipauls The Masque of Africa considers the effe...

In this international bestseller Pope Francis explores the idea of happiness and shows how we can bring more meaning and purpose to our lives. For ...