Religious Issues & Debates

Confession reached its peak attendance in the early 1950s, but by the end of the Second Vatican Council, the popularity of the sacrament plummeted....

Blind since early childhood, the Egyptian theologian and monk Didymus (ca. 313398) wielded a masterful knowledge of Scripture, philosophy, and prev...

Laudianism was both a way of being Christian and a political ideology. This definitive account establishes the theological roots and political reso...

The Catholic and Orthodox churches have been divided for nearly a thousand years. The issues that divide them are weighty matters of theology, from...

When Donald Trump was married to his first wife Ivana Ivana Zelnícková in 1977, the family minister who officiated the wedding was the preacher and...

Immigration is a key concern in British society; however, the ethical implications of the issue are often overlooked. Produced by Theos, a leading ...

Controversies over how to define the word religion have persisted for decades. It is a term of art and of academic study, but also one of governanc...

Texts after Terror offers an important new theory of rape and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible. While the Bible is filled with stories of rape, ...

The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests ...

Religious tradition such as Christianity involve religious practices such as praying, gathering, taking care of the fellow men, dealing with life a...

This book explores the complex ideas of the Trinity and God, placing particular emphasis on the Pentecostal Church. If Jesus and the Spirit are div...

Investigating the construction of gender needs to begin from the days of the hunter-gatherer and the development of agriculture, about 10,000 years...

«Hafizullah Emadi, a recognized authority on the Ismaili sect of Islam, has produced an extensively researched report on the community in Afghanist...

Dieses Buch untersucht, wie islamische Rechtsgelehrte im 20. Jahrhundert in ihren Rechtsgutachten (Fatwas) rhetorisch Autorität generieren und wie ...