Alternative belief systems

In the early twenty-first century it had become a cliche that there was a 'God Gap' between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe.

In the early twenty-first century it had become a cliche that there was a 'God Gap' between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe.

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas.

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas.

Anthropologists have invariably engaged in their discipline as a form of redemption, whether to escape from social restriction, nourish their souls, reform their home polities, or vindicate "e;the natives.

Anthropologists have invariably engaged in their discipline as a form of redemption, whether to escape from social restriction, nourish their souls, reform their home polities, or vindicate "e;the natives.

A Supernatural War reveals the surprising stories of extraordinary people in a world caught up with the promise of occult powers.

A Supernatural War reveals the surprising stories of extraordinary people in a world caught up with the promise of occult powers.

Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature investigates the meaning of purity, purification, defilement, and disgust for Christian writers, readers, and listeners from the first to third centuries.

Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature investigates the meaning of purity, purification, defilement, and disgust for Christian writers, readers, and listeners from the first to third centuries.

Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight.

Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight.

Why do the innocent suffer in a world created by a loving God?

Why do the innocent suffer in a world created by a loving God?

America Bewitched is the first major history of witchcraft in America - from the Salem witch trials of 1692 to the present day.

America Bewitched is the first major history of witchcraft in America - from the Salem witch trials of 1692 to the present day.

Defining 'magic' is a maddening task.

Defining 'magic' is a maddening task.

'The profoundest book there is, born from the innermost richness of truth, an inexhaustible well into which no bucket descends without coming up with gold and goodness.

Ronald Hutton is known for his colourful and provocative writings on original subjects.

Caught in the grip of savage religious war, fear of sorcery and the devil, and a deepening crisis of epistemological uncertainty, the intellectual climate of late Renaissance France (c.

What is agnosticism?

Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile.

Heralded as the exponents of a 'new atheism', critics of religion are highly visible in today's media, and include the household names of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris.

Spectres of False Divinity presents a historical and critical interpretation of Hume's rejection of the existence of a deity with moral attributes.

What is agnosticism?

Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile.

Witchcraft is a subject that fascinates us all, and everyone knows what a witch is - or do they?

Since the Second Vatican Council (1962-5), the Catholic Church has formally declared the possibility of salvation for atheists: 'those who, without fault, have not yet arrived at an express recognition of God' (Lumen Gentium 16).

'Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist.

Spectres of False Divinity presents a historical and critical interpretation of Hume's rejection of the existence of a deity with moral attributes.

Witchcraft is a subject that fascinates us all, and everyone knows what a witch is - or do they?

Heralded as the exponents of a 'new atheism', critics of religion are highly visible in today's media, and include the household names of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris.

This volume, the first in a major new series which will provide authoritative texts of key non-canonical gospel writings, comprises a critical edition, with full translations, of all the extant manuscripts of the Gospel of Mary.

What is a grimoire?

Ronald Hutton is known for his colourful and provocative writings on original subjects.

Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages investigates the common medieval belief that magic could cause impotence, focusing particularly on the period 1150-1450.

Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another?

'Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist.

What is a grimoire?

Heidegger's Eschatology is a ground-breaking account of Heidegger's early engagement with theology, from his beginnings as an anti-Modernist Catholic to his turn towards an undogmatic Protestantism and finally to a resolutely a-theistic philosophical method.

Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson's Religion in Secular Society (1966) remains a seminal work.

Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson's Religion in Secular Society (1966) remains a seminal work.

Analytic theology can flourish in the secular academy, and flourish as authentically Christian theology.

Analytic theology can flourish in the secular academy, and flourish as authentically Christian theology.

This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards.

This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards.

This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards.

This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards.

This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards.