Religious Issues & Debates

In Jesus and Women, Niamh Middleton combines insights from evolutionary biology, feminism and the #MeToo movement to highlight the revolutionary at...

This book teaches the basics of the Christian faith, looking first at what Jesus himself taught, and then at what his apostles had to say. It is fo...

In a world where natural disasters are increasingly impacting our lives, this insightful book brings together a variety of voices to discuss how we...

Today's religious violence challenges our understanding of religion. Do we need special notions such as 'cult' and 'fundamentalism' to come to term...

God, Pope Francis affirms, is present in nature, and he wants us to share that perspective, because he believes that it can generate in us a sense ...

When a four-year-old California girl died on March 9, 1984, the state charged her mother with involuntary man-slaughter because she failed to provi...

In early modern Germany, religious conversion was a profoundly social and political phenomenon rather than purely an act of private conscience. Bec...

Genesis, the first book of the Bible, tells of the creation of the world and our dominion over it. But is this the whole story? The planet on which...

From Rosemarys Baby (1968) to The Witch (2015), horror films use religious entities to both inspire and combat fear and to call into question or af...

An impressive collection of essays that adds great depth and breadth to our understanding of Jewish-Muslim relations in the modern period. --Jeffre...

In Sensational Devotion, Jill Stevenson examines a range of evangelical performances, including contemporary Passion plays, biblical theme parks, H...

You can only find out the rights and wrongs by Reasoning never by being rude about your opponents psychology. For C. S. Lewis, reason and logic ar...

Life is at once wonderful and appalling, beautiful and horrific. Although we can all give meaning to our lives by trying to live well, is there s...

A graphic novel that explores the evolution vs creation debate and calls for an end to the teaching of creationism in schools. It pans out to consi...

The Red Brigades were a far-left terrorist group in Italy formed in 1970 and active all through the 1980s. Infamous around the world for a campaign...

In much of the Muslim world, religion is the central foundation upon which family, community, morality, and identity are built. The inextricable em...

First published edition of documents and letters from a highly-significant incident within the nineteenth-century Catholic church. The row between...

Dirt, Mess and Danger celebrates the One who came to earth to live a fully human life, who as a baby suckled at his mother's breast, and as a man s...

The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that inclu...

With globalization helping those who assert incompatible differences between their respective faiths, clashes of faith are increasingly common in d...

With globalization helping those who assert incompatible differences between their respective faiths, clashes of faith are increasingly common in d...

In the mid-1960s, the charismatic César Chávez led members of California's La Causa movement in boycotting the grape harvest, and melon pickers in ...

In Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Equality, Motti Inbari undertakes a study of the culture and leadership ...

This book identifies the distinguishing features of fundamental theology, as distinct from philosophical theology, natural theology, apologetics, a...

In this interfaith book Lucinda Mosher investigates different understandings of destiny, loss, death, and remembrance in America's many religions. ...

Using a critical feminist lens, this text explores the roles and interactions of women within major world faiths. For each tradition, the text exam...

Voltaire''s most scathingly anti-Christian text, the Sermon des cinquante , of which he consistently denied authorship, develops the arguments he ...