Religious Issues & Debates

A groundbreaking exploration of the transformative power of silence The Silent God and the Silenced: Mysticism and Contemplation amid Suffering ex...

A groundbreaking exploration of the transformative power of silence The Silent God and the Silenced: Mysticism and Contemplation amid Suffering ex...

The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State Volume I: Theoretical Perspective deals with the relationship between Religion and its long history tha...

Throughout the ages, many societies lost their sanity, suffered from identity crises, and descended into chaos. Empires and grand civilizations hav...

The suburbs are home to the majority of Americans, including millions of evangelical Christians and thousands of evangelical congregations and orga...

John Milbank's theology has shaped much modern political thinking both within and without the Church. In Before and Beyond the 'Big Society', Josep...

The application of women's rights to the religions of the world have prompted highly contentious debates. This volume explores the many intricate i...

This volume offers unique insights into the mutually constitutive nature of social media practices and religious change. Part 1 examines how social...

The application of women's rights to the religions of the world have prompted highly contentious debates. This volume explores the many intricate i...

Why have Western societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? Looking to the feelings and faith of ordinary pe...

This book brings together academics, legal practitioners and activists with a wide range of pro-choice, pro-life and other views to explore the pos...

The Idea of a Moral Economy is the first modern edition and English translation of three questions disputed at the University of Paris in 1330 by t...

Religion has always played an important, if often contested, role in the public domain. This book focuses on how faith-based organisations (FBOs) i...

The doctrinal and structural revolution currently underway in the Roman Catholic Church is alarming for several reasons, not least because of the a...

With contributions from some of the most prominent voices writing on gender, law and religion today, this book illuminates some of the conflicts at...

Confession reached its peak attendance in the early 1950s, but by the end of the Second Vatican Council, the popularity of the sacrament plummeted....

Blind since early childhood, the Egyptian theologian and monk Didymus (ca. 313398) wielded a masterful knowledge of Scripture, philosophy, and prev...

Laudianism was both a way of being Christian and a political ideology. This definitive account establishes the theological roots and political reso...

The Catholic and Orthodox churches have been divided for nearly a thousand years. The issues that divide them are weighty matters of theology, from...

When Donald Trump was married to his first wife Ivana Ivana Zelnícková in 1977, the family minister who officiated the wedding was the preacher and...

Immigration is a key concern in British society; however, the ethical implications of the issue are often overlooked. Produced by Theos, a leading ...

Controversies over how to define the word religion have persisted for decades. It is a term of art and of academic study, but also one of governanc...

Texts after Terror offers an important new theory of rape and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible. While the Bible is filled with stories of rape, ...

The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests ...

Religious tradition such as Christianity involve religious practices such as praying, gathering, taking care of the fellow men, dealing with life a...

This book explores the complex ideas of the Trinity and God, placing particular emphasis on the Pentecostal Church. If Jesus and the Spirit are div...

Investigating the construction of gender needs to begin from the days of the hunter-gatherer and the development of agriculture, about 10,000 years...

«Hafizullah Emadi, a recognized authority on the Ismaili sect of Islam, has produced an extensively researched report on the community in Afghanist...

Dieses Buch untersucht, wie islamische Rechtsgelehrte im 20. Jahrhundert in ihren Rechtsgutachten (Fatwas) rhetorisch Autorität generieren und wie ...