Religious Issues & Debates

The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet Jalal al-Din Rumi (12071273) is a popular spiritual icon. His legacy is sustained within the mystical...

Since antiquity, theology has frequently gone hand in hand with the study of the heavens. Speculation regarding the plurality of worlds, and the po...

The values of liberalism, pluralism, and democratic governance are under sustained attack from right-wing Christian fundamentalists, white ethnonat...

In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, ...

Protestant orientations to work and economics have shaped wider American culture for several centuries. But not all strands of American Protestanti...

From the closing decades of the eighteenth century, German theology has been a major intellectual force within modern western thought, closely conn...

Widely regarded as the definitive reference, this volume comprehensively examines the psychological processes associated with religion and spiritua...

Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those who have are some...

In Heideggers Being: The Shimmering Unfolding, the eminent Heidegger scholar Richard Capobianco draws on many new texts and sources to highlight in...

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

In Early Christian Apologetics, D.H. Williams offers a comprehensive presentation of Christian apologetic literature from the second to the fifth c...

After decades of steady progress in terms of gender and sexual rights, several parts of Europe are facing new waves of resistance to a so-called ge...

In this study of new atheism and religious fundamentalism, this book advances two provocative - and surprising - arguments. Liam Jerrold Fraser arg...

Strengthening local humanitarian engagement demands not only rethinking dominant understandings of religion, but also revisiting the principles and...

What are the humanities for? The question has perhaps never seemed more urgent. While student numbers have grown in higher education, universities ...

In this book, John M. Rist offers an account of the concept of 'person' as it has developed in the West, and how it has become alien in a post-Chri...

This book 'hunts and gathers' across different historical epochs and situations, juxtaposing biblical materials and hip-hop, Christian colonialism ...

There are currently no books on Catholic higher education that offer a theological foundation for academic freedom. This book presents a theologica...

This book presents a study of the rise of American neoliberalism in the aftermath of the modern Civil Rights movement, paying particular attention ...

Visionary of the Word brings together the latest scholarship on Herman Melvilles treatment of religion across his long career as a writer of fictio...

A counterbalance to the predominant study of Islam's role in social and political struggles, this book examines life in Ede, south-west Nigeria, of...

In White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education, White Jesus is conceived as a socially constructed apparatusa mythology that...

Researchers, activists, and educators draw inspiration from the radical thought of Lorenzo Milani to invite readers to explore the intricacies, log...

This volume assesses contemporary church responses to multicultural diversity and resisted categories of social difference, with a central focus on...