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 ...