Religion: General

Religion evokes strong emotions and raises hard questions. This volume addresses many of the contentious elements that religion provokes and challe...

Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places. Focusing on several important shared and contes...

Religious violence is on the rise globally. Hardly a day passes without news of a vicious attack being carried out in the name of religion. Religio...

All religions describe spiritual experience as pleasant, and the goal of the religious pursuit as profoundly joyful. But many religions also condem...

Slavoj ieks critical engagement with Christian theology goes much further than his seminal The Fragile Absolute (2000), or his The Puppet and the D...

The Symbolism of Medieval Churches: An Introduction explores the ways in which the medieval church building and key features of it were used as sym...

An essential single-volume companion to the critical interpretation of Islamic scriptureThis book provides detailed and multidisciplinary coverage ...

A provocative examination of how religious practices of forgetting drive white Christian nationalism.   The dual traumas of colonialism and slaver...

This is an original and historically informed account of Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans, and one of the most venerated figures in Ch...

The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often se...

We live in an increasingly pluralized world. This sociological reality has become the irreversible destiny of humankind. Even once religiously homo...

The second edition of Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions, compares Judaism, Christianity, and Islam us...

In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence ...

This insightful text challenges popular belief that faith-based Islamic schools isolate Muslim learners, impose dogmatic religious views, and disre...

In its most general sense, the term Spiritual but Not Religious denotes those who, on the one hand, are disillusioned with traditional institutiona...

How can a supposedly all-powerful and all-loving God permit evil and suffering on a grand scale?The question has assailed people across cultures at...

How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state t...

Parish churches have been at the heart of communities for more than a thousand years. But now, fewer than two in one hundred people regularly atten...

Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations explores the changing contribution of religion to public life today. Bringing together a diverse ...