Religion: General

Belief: surely its a relic from the past, a hangover from a superstitious age that is totally out of sync with todays rational, science-led culture...

An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption an...

An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption an...

This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was unthinkable in ancient Greece, de...

For too long, scholars interested in panentheism have focused almost exclusively on Western approaches to the issue. This book offers the first in-...

What is a contract in Islam? Is it an aspect of Muslim religion or of secular life? How much has it changed over the centuries? Undertaking a searc...

The rabbinic sages of late antiquity are known for their sophisticated and creative reading of Scripture, but rabbinic literature also includes ela...

The Reading Augustine series presents short, engaging books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo's contributions to western philoso...

What does an individual contribute to his or her own salvation? Does God wait on the doorsteps of our hearts, quietly hoping to be let in when we d...

Science has now demonstrated without a doubt that we live in an unfinished universe. Discoveries in geology, biology, cosmology and other fields of...

Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in contemporary thinking? Why, after a long period when Hegel and his dialectics of histor...

For many centuries, from the birth of the religion late in the second millennium BC to its influence on the Achaemenids and later adoption in the t...

Between 1850 and 1970, around three hundred thousand children were sent to new homes through child migration programmes run by churches, charities ...

Dieses Open-Access-Buch rückt die Bedeutung von Religion(en) für die Praxis und die Theorie der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe in den Mittelpunkt und frag...

This volume addresses philosophical questions raised by the possibility of alien life and extraterrestrial intelligence. The different philosophica...

This volume addresses philosophical questions raised by the possibility of alien life and extraterrestrial intelligence. The different philosophica...

A collection of essays that outline the recent work on ecology, political theology, religion, and philosophy by one of the leading theologians of o...

A collection of essays that outline the recent work on ecology, political theology, religion, and philosophy by one of the leading theologians of o...

Early modernity has long been seen as a crucial period in the history of biblical scholarship, witnessing rapid advances in studies of Hebrew, Gree...

The suburbs are home to the majority of Americans, including millions of evangelical Christians and thousands of evangelical congregations and orga...

First published in 1935, Religious Thought in France in the Nineteenth Century discusses various religious thoughts prevalent in France during the ...

Lucidly written by leading biblical scholars Michael D. Coogan and Cynthia R. Chapman, this balanced, engaging, and up-to-date introduction to the ...

First published in 1956, God and Man in Early Israel deals with Old Testament history from Abraham to Solomon in the light of modern archaeological...

Can belief in God be rational? David A. Pailin identifies the reasons behind this questioning of theistic faith in his book God and the Processes o...

Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception examines how the scriptures came to be written and how ...

Noted Kierkegaard scholar Edward Mooney guides the reader through the major themes of the Danish philosopher's life and thought. Each chapter frame...

Opening with a Foreword by James Alison, this volume is the first in-depth treatment of Alisons theological method. John P. Edwards shows that Alis...

In Explaining Evil four prominent philosophers, two theists and two non-theists, present their arguments for why evil exists. Taking a position and...

Evil: A Guide for the Perplexed is a lively examination of the philosophical and theological problems raised by the existence of widespread evil. I...