Religious Issues & Debates

This book champions vocation and calling as key elements of undergraduate education. It offers a historical and theoretical account of vocational r...

In 1962, Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council with the prophecy that 'a new day is dawning on the Church, bathing her in radiant splen...

In this work of qualitative sociology, Anna Strhan offers an in-depth study of the everyday lives of members of a conservative evangelical Anglican...

For decades, Mark Juergensmeyer has been studying the rise of religious violence around the world, including groups like ISIS and Christian militia...

The comparative method is an integral part of religious studies. All the technical terms that scholars of religion use on a daily basis, such as ri...

The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, heightened over the course of the nineteenth cent...

Oliver Cromwell stands at the gateway of modern history; his resolute Puritanism formative to concepts of political and religious liberty, the deve...

Religious violence is on the rise globally. Hardly a day passes without news of a vicious attack being carried out in the name of religion. Religio...

All religions describe spiritual experience as pleasant, and the goal of the religious pursuit as profoundly joyful. But many religions also condem...

How can a supposedly all-powerful and all-loving God permit evil and suffering on a grand scale?The question has assailed people across cultures at...

What happens to people's sense of belonging when globalisation meets with proclaimed regional identities resting heavily on conceptions of religion...

In the twenty-five years since his death, Karl Rahner moved from being the most celebrated Roman Catholic theologian of the twentieth century to am...

A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels In the early years of Christianity, several groups produced 'hidden' or 'apocryph...

In this volume, Mark Douglas offers a new vision of the history of Christian pacifism within the context of a warming world. He narrates this story...

Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives o...

This book presents topical research in the study of the beliefs, theories and societal effects of religion. Topics discussed from authors across th...

In 1947, the Supreme Court embraced the concept of church-state separation as shorthand for the meaning of the Establishment Clause of the First Am...

The cohabitation of different cultures and the rise of new cultural and social clashes in more or less wide contexts (nation-states, macro- areas, ...

A riveting discussion on the implications of same-sex marriage, this book analyzes the same-sex marriage debate in Canada by examining the intersec...

In Gilded Age America, rampant inequality gave rise to a new form of Christianity, one that sought to ease the sufferings of the poor not simply by...

Martyrdom is not only a sharply contested term and act, but it has a long history of provoking controversy. One person's 'martyr' is another's 'ter...

Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern's pioneering account of religio...

In a remarkable experiment lasting over a decade, a group of 88 independent campuses, ranging from comprehensive universities to intimate colleges,...