Religious Issues & Debates

Sociology of Religion is an increasingly popular component of courses in religious studies at undergraduate level. While most textbooks on the Soci...

Fifty new prayers from young and old and from folk around the globe - from Glasgow to Cincinnati, from Malawi to Alaska, including well-known Ion...

The country is bankrupt, the gap between rich and poor is widening, the church has retreated from the inner cities, and even in the more affluent s...

We live in a sacred yet unfinished world in crisis and this reality is relatively new; our evolutionary worldview only came to the forefront in the...

This critical review of the Roman Catholic Church since the pivotal changes initiated in the 1960s by Vatican II paints a disturbing picture of dec...

This book introduces the reader into some of the authors thoughts pertaining to Scripture. Such subjects explored include the Flood in the time of ...

Since the 1973 publication of Gustavo Gutiérrezs groundbreaking work A Theology of Liberation, liberation theology's central premise of the prefere...

Sloppy talk about the Christian religion has become an acceptable prejudice, especially on the part of people who pride themselves as being unpreju...

American life, law and politics are inextricably influenced by both science and religious faith. Often the two are in conflict, with tradition reli...

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...

A transformative exploration of queer theology and the debate around same-sex marriage within the Church. Clare Herbert draws on her experience as ...

At first sight the lives of hermits, living in solitude and committed to a life of prayer and contemplation seems to be a world apart of the active...

Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how...

This ground-breaking book contains contributions from 12 different religious traditions: Hinduism, African Traditional Religion, Judaism, Jainism, ...

Young people are doing faith differently. They are redefining community, ministry and ritual for a new era. In the face of planetary crisis, the n...

In modern multi-faith societies, religious diversity not only affects religious organisations and communities, but indeed every aspect of life. Fro...

In a world where not everyone believes in God, 'blasphemy' is surely a concept that has passed its use-by-date. And yet blasphemy (like God and rel...

People of all ages are fascinated by dinosaurs. And they have a lot of questions about them too: When and where did dinosaurs live? Are they mentio...

From one of the most revered scholars of religion, an incisive explanation of how the word God functions in the worlds great faiths  Hart marshals ...