Religion: General

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

Islam as a religion and a way of life guides millions of people around the world and has a significant impact on worldly affairs. To many Muslims, ...

This book explores how media and religion combine to play a role in promoting peace and inciting violence. It analyses a wide range of media - from...

Structured directly around the specification of the OCR, this is the definitive textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level cour...

What happens to people's sense of belonging when globalisation meets with proclaimed regional identities resting heavily on conceptions of religion...

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could comma...

An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman worldWhat did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Roman...

The Book of Job raises stark questions about the nature and meaning of innocent suffering and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it i...

In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad ...

Literature and theology have long been conversation partners. The great themes of human existence form the subject matter of their shared discussio...

the Jesuits have always defined themselves, not by any particular place or specific ministry, but by a universal outreach. they were ready to go wh...

A study of women who left their nunneries: their motives and actions, and the consequences for them. To make a vow is a matter of the will, to ful...

In the twenty-five years since his death, Karl Rahner moved from being the most celebrated Roman Catholic theologian of the twentieth century to am...

In The Norns: Weavers of Fate and Magick, we meet the ones who weave, measure, and cut at the base of the World Tree. With Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld...

Despite religion being a core theme of many contemporary debates, a solid and settled definition of the concept has not yet been reached. Neverthel...

On the 500th anniversary of Luthers rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern w...

This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that...

Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Ka...