Religious Issues & Debates

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 ...

Often Christian interfaith engagement has been viewed through the lense of theology of religions where the primary questions are often about the sa...

Drawing on a wide range of methodologies, this book documents a diverse portfolio of religious responses to HIV and AIDS at the local and global le...

This compiled and edited collection engages with a theme which is increasingly attracting scholarly attention, namely, religion and LGBTQ sexuality...

This textbook untangles the complicated ethical dilemmas that arise during the day-to-day work of healthcare chaplaincy, and offers a sturdy but fl...

In the face of the current environmental crisiswhich clearly has moral and spiritual dimensionsmembers of all the worlds faiths have come to recogn...

Recent discussion of the European Enlightenment has tended to highlight its radical, atheist currents of thought and their relation to modernity, b...

How Jews use media to connect with one another has profound consequences for Jewish identity, community, and culture. This volume explores how the ...

This collection interrogates and engages the biblical text, colonial and postcolonial subjectivities and cultural assumptions, as well as lived exp...

The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide. However,events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after S...

This revealing, disturbing, and thoroughly researched book exposes a dark side of faith that most Americans do not know exists or have ignored for ...

This revealing, disturbing, and thoroughly researched book exposes a dark side of faith that most Americans do not know exists or have ignored for ...