Religious Issues & Debates

This book explores what becomes of faiths when seen as social capital. In the grip of the current debt crisis, where the social and capital seem in...

To varying degrees, classic religions are associated with critique of materialistic values. Onto this opposition of the market and the temple other...

Fábos and Isotalo address the issue of forced migration and mobility in the Muslim world. Their work explores the tensions between Muslim religious...

Clergy have historically been represented as figures of authority, wielding great influence over our society. During certain periods of American hi...

Can religions help us tackle the ecological crisis we are now facing? Can we redefine our relationship with the Earth, giving spiritual depth to ec...

Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism offers compelling and intersectional religious critiques of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is the normative ra...

Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of voices investigat...

The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice. But why have efforts to change the world by Christians ...

The first book to look at the connections between religion, policy and education and offer a concrete framework for religious literacy work, arguin...

Many Jewish groups of late antiquity assumed that they were obligated to observe the Divine Law. This book attempts to study the various rationales...

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagi...

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagi...

Steve Bruce explores Scotland's transformation from the largely devout Presbyterian country of 1900, with the church as a major social force, to th...

The relationship between religious belief and sexuality as personal attributes exhibits some provocative comparisons. Despite the nonestablishment ...

A rigorous study of the problem of evil in Islamic theology Like their Jewish and Christian co-religionists, Muslims have grappled with how God, wh...

Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Tradition is a two-volume collection of sermons from those who preach within the B...

Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Tradition is a two-volume collection of sermons from those who preach within the B...

Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Tradition is a two-volume collection of sermons from those who preach within the B...

The famous French sociologist Émile Durkheim is universally recognised as one of the founding fathers of sociology as an academic discipline. He wr...

In contemporary philosophy of religion, there has been heated debate about whether the diversity of mutually exclusive religious beliefs is a good ...

In 2013, when the state of Oklahoma erected a statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol, a group calling themselves The Sa...

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe offers a detailed overview of religious ideas, structures, and institutions in the making of Europe. It ...

Of those raised Catholic, just 13% still attend Mass weekly, and 37% say they have 'no religion'. But is this all the fault of Vatican II, and its ...

This is the first reader to gather primary sources from influential theorists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in one place, presenting th...

Travellers today face many challenges from risk and safety issues. Focusing in particular on risk and safety issues faced by visitors to holy sites...

In this book, faith leaders, scholars and activists from around the globe provide their perspective on faith and abortion. They reflect on examples...

Thematically focused on the theology of redemption or what is called in theology soteriology, each of the two sections of The Redemption addresses ...

This publication presents a wide compendium of approaches to Jewish-Arab dialogue and conflict resolution from an interdisciplinary perspective bas...

Although the language of vocation was born in a religious context, the contributors in this volume demonstrate that it has now moved well beyond th...

Jürgen Moltmanns Doctrine of the Image of God examines the doctrine of the Image of God in the interpretation of contemporary theologian Jürgen Mol...

Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Emeritus, is one of the most prolific catholic theologians of the contemporary era. He became Professor of theology at t...

Analyses Muslim-Muslim divisions within northern Nigeria, which are as important for understanding the violence in the region as those between Musl...

Modern Christian theology has been problematic with the schism between the Bible and theology, and between biblical studies and systematic theology...

In this anthology, prominent scholars in the field examine the relationship between religion and communication. Essays discuss the topic from vario...

The Holy Spirit and Salvation in African Christian Theology challenges the dominant understanding of the Holy Spirit in African Christian salvific ...