Religious Issues & Debates

At first sight the lives of hermits, living in solitude and committed to a life of prayer and contemplation seems to be a world apart of the active...

Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how...

This ground-breaking book contains contributions from 12 different religious traditions: Hinduism, African Traditional Religion, Judaism, Jainism, ...

Young people are doing faith differently. They are redefining community, ministry and ritual for a new era. In the face of planetary crisis, the n...

In modern multi-faith societies, religious diversity not only affects religious organisations and communities, but indeed every aspect of life. Fro...

In a world where not everyone believes in God, 'blasphemy' is surely a concept that has passed its use-by-date. And yet blasphemy (like God and rel...

People of all ages are fascinated by dinosaurs. And they have a lot of questions about them too: When and where did dinosaurs live? Are they mentio...

From one of the most revered scholars of religion, an incisive explanation of how the word God functions in the worlds great faiths  Hart marshals ...

From Jamestown to Jefferson sheds new light on the contexts surrounding Thomas Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom--and on the emergence of t...

  Evie and Lottie are twin sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Evie's sharp and funny. Lottie's a day-dreamer...

Anchorhold is a unique collection of letters concerning Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, addressed to the writer herself. Through th...

Louise Omer was a Pentecostal preacher and faithful wife. But when her marriage crumbled, so did her beliefs. Haunted by questions about what it me...

The Holy Spirit has become an object of greater attention in Trinitarian theology, and indeed in the broader life of the Church, since the rise of ...

How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organiz...