Religious life and practice

After an extremely successful debut in hardback, Housewives and citizens is now available in paperback for the first time.

This enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities - and vice versa - through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of 'ministry' and artistic response.

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

Through a rich variety of case studies, this book provides insight into the patient's needs and the chaplain's perspective, as well as discussions of spiritual assessments and spiritual care interventions.

Focusing on how someone in need can best be helped, the author identifies the skills and honesty of the person who wants to help as key to how effective this can be.

This new edited collection explores the intersection of spiritual direction and counselling/psychotherapy, and the relationship between the two.

Conventional coping strategies can be pushed to their limits when people find themselves in situations of suffering, illness, and dying.

Making the case for the relevance of pastoral care today, this book explores the role of pastoral care through the prism of music.

Across the world, grassroots movements for change are growing in number, skill, and impact on society.

As the global marketplace grows and becomes more complex, increasing stress is placed upon employees.

A guidebook to walking the Via Podiensis (GR65) pilgrimage route, the major French variant of the Camino de Santiago or Way of St James.

A guidebook to walking the 3200km Via Francigena pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome.

A guidebook to walking the 2000km Via Francigena pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome.

A guidebook to walking the Camino dos Faros, the Way of the Lighthouses, between Malpica and Fisterra.

A guidebook to walking the Camino Frances through northern Spain, the most popular version of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage or Way of St James.

A guidebook to cycling the Camino de Santiago (Camino Francs or Way of St James) pilgrim route from St Jean-Pied-de-Port in southern France to Santiago de Compostela.

A guidebook to walking the Camino del Norte and Camino Primitivo through northern Spain, popular variants of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage or Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela.

A guidebook to walking the Camino Ingls and Ruta do Mar pilgrimage routes through northern Spain.

A guidebook to walking Japans UNESCO-listed Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trails, covering the Nakahechi, Choishimichi/Koyasan and Kohechi routes, as well as a Hongu loop and highlights of the Iseji route.

The Borders Abbeys Way links four of Britain's grandest ruined medieval abbeys in the central Scottish Borders.

This guidebook to cycling the Ruta Via de la Plata through western Spain describes the 930km route from Seville to the coastal city of Gijn in around 2 weeks (14 stages).

A guidebook to walking the Camino Portugues (Portuguese Way), 620km from Lisbon in Portugal to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

A guidebook to walking the Pilgrims Way, a 230 km (138 mile) historic pilgrimage route to Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, home of the shrine of the martyred archbishop, St Thomas Becket.

A guidebook to walking the Westweg (Westway) between Pfozheim in Germany to Basel in Switzerland.

This guidebook describes the Way of St Francis a 550km month-long pilgrimage trail from Florence through Assisi to Rome.

Unlocking gay sexuality and authentic faith.

Les Miserables meets the Gospels: Let God change you to change the world through 42 daily readings for Lent/anytime.

A step-by-step guide to raising kundalini and embodying the dynamic, sexual force, that is the Power of Sekhem.

An imaginative, creative and enjoyable Lent course that will lead us to new life at Easter (Bishop of Salisbury)
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The Scarlet Cord: Conversations With God?

Children are the focus of marriage in African cultures.

A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives.

Full of anecdotes and amusing stories, but the Church is still a dangerous place for a gay priest.

Whether exploring the thorny issues of wives' sexual duties, divorce, homosexuality, or sex outside marriage, discussions of sexual ethics and Islam often spark heated conflict rather than reasoned argument.

While many in the West regard feminism and Islam as a contradiction in terms, many Muslims in the East have perceived Western feminist forces in their midst as an assault upon their culture.

Can morality exist separately from a belief in God?

A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric.

Homosexuality is anathema to Islam or so the majority of both believers and non-believers suppose.

'By far the best introduction to Buddhism available.

This book is about women directors in China and India.

This detailed study of female entrepreneurship in Asia examines the high economic growth that is increasingly driven by market-oriented economic reforms favouring entrepreneurship.

Eve on Top takes an in-depth look at the position of women in senior positions in the public sector using a case-study approach, based on ten 'successful' women and their background, upbringing, career progression, successes and failures, challenges and experiences.

During the last decade gender equality in business life has become a hot topic.

This volume of the Advances in Ecopolitics examines the impact of the recent global increase in migration from poor and conflict ridden states to more affluent peaceful regions of the world.

In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history?