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Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and main...

Each year, 200 million of us embark on a pilgrimage of some kind. We have been making ritual journeys for millennia, ever since our ancient ancesto...

Pagan and Native Faith movements have sprung up across Europe in recent decades, yet little has been published about them compared with their Br...

The issues special report looks at religion and freedom of expression as well as religious offence. When is the right to religious freedom suppress...

How do young African Americans approach their faith in God when continued violence and police brutality batters the news each day? In The Spiritual...

Ridiculously enjoyable Tom Holland A Book of the Year for The Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History Magazine The Mermaid of Morwenstow excommunic...

This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abus...

There has been a revolution. The God who ruled over us for five hundred years has been overthrown. The soul of England has been transformed, almost...

From Justin Bieber, to Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, to the controversial documentary Jesus Camp (2006), the New Apostolic Reformation's inf...

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

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

If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other....

Egypt's lack of a common national identity is the basis for much of its internal conflict--Coptic Christians have been particularly affected. On...

Often considered to be in opposition, American popular culture and popular religion are connected, forming and informing new ways of thinking, w...

Saints Observed: Studies of Mormon Village Life, 18502005 serves as a comprehensive introduction to this second volume, which makes available four ...

Silver Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Religion Category Before he began his recent travels, it seemed to Phil Zuckerm...

This volume covers the origins, historical development, and ideas of one of the largest and most influential Islamic movements in the world, the Gü...

Exploring Religious Beliefs and Practices from around the World sets out to identify the languages that the Catholic Church uses for its religious ...

An incendiary examination of burnout - what got us here, the pressures that sustain it and the need for drastic changeAre you tired, stressed and t...

'Subtle and compelling.' Observer'One of the best books of 2021.' The TimesAre we in the middle of a generational war? Are Millennials really entit...