Comparative religion

A unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society.

A unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society.

Waiting in Hope gives women an uplifting, accessible resource to comfort, guide, and strengthen them through the journey of infertility.

This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States.

 This book addresses issues central to today's Catholic Church, focusing on the relationship between various religions in different contexts and regions across the world.

Disruptive Feminisms provides a revolutionary new approach to feminism as a disruptive force.

This book presents the work of leading hermeneutical theorists alongside emerging thinkers, examining the current state of hermeneutics within the Pentecostal tradition.

This book investigates women's ritual authority and the common boundaries between religion and notions of gender, ethnicity, and identity.

This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks.

This volume identifies a myriad of obstacles standing in the way of dialogue both within churches and between churches and then move on to discuss how these obstacles might be dissolved or circumvented.

Writing from a variety of contexts, the contributors to this volume describe the ways that conflict and their efforts to engage it constructively shape their work in classrooms and communities.

This volume explores how Pagans negotiate local and global tensions as they craft their identities, both as members of local communities and as cosmopolitan "e;citizens of the world.

 This volume explores how religious leaders can contribute to cultures of peace around the world.

This book examines the myriad identities and portrayals of Edith Cavell, as they have been constructed and handed down by propagandists, biographers and artists.

Ectogenesis refers to the artificial gestation of a fetus outside the womb.

Where does theory come from in educational research and how is it operationalized in diverse, interdisciplinary contexts and professional settings?

This volume contributes towards to developments in the study of religion that illuminate the plural nature of religious change in modern Britain.

This volume is the first English-language anthology to engage with the fascinating phenomena of recent surges in New Age and alternative spiritualties in Israel.

This book offers a paradigm shift and fresh interpretation of Rumi's message.

The Black Church Studies Reader addresses the depth and breadth of Black theological studies, from Biblical studies and ethics to homiletics and pastoral care.

As advanced by astronomer-cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomy, biology, astrobiology, astrophysics, and cosmology converge agreeably with natural theology.

Migration has become a defining feature of the contemporary age.

This book brings Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars from different fields of knowledge and many places across the globe to introduce/expand the dialogue between the field of liturgy and postcolonial/decolonial thinking.

Without question, inter-religious relations are crucial in the contemporary age.

 This book brings the Cappadocian Fathers to life and explores their contributions to subsequent Christian thought.

This book examines the long-term effects of violence on the everyday cultural and religious practices of a younger generation of Ahmadis and Sikhs in Frankfurt, Germany and Toronto, Canada.

 This book critically examines three distinct interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, those of George Lindbeck, David Tracy, and David Burrell, while paying special attention to the topic of interreligious disagreement.

This book discusses how civilized oppression (the oppression that involves neither violence nor the law) can be overcome by re-examining our participation in it.

Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora explores African derived religions in a globalized world.

Bringing together a range of authors from the multidisciplinary field of disability studies, this book uses disability and the experiences of disabled people living in the United States and Canada to explore and analyze dynamic sites of human interaction in both historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with new ways of envisioning home, care, and family.

This volume offers a sample of reflections from scholars and practitioners on the theme of death and dying from scholars and practitioners, ranging from the Christian tradition to Hinduism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, while also touching on the themes of the afterlife and near-death experiences.

 This book argues that Christians have a stake in the sustainability and success of core cultural values of the West in general and America in particular.

 This book argues that Christians have a stake in the sustainability and success of core cultural values of the West in general and America in particular.

As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions and networks.

This invaluable volume gathers together the cumulative insight of more than fifty years of Leonard Swidler's work on dialogue.

Hinduism has become a vital 'other' for Judaism over the past decades.

Jews often consider Hinduism to be Avoda Zara, idolatry, due to its worship of images and multiple gods.

With an original introduction by Luce Irigaray, and original texts from her students and collaborators, this book imagines the outlines of a more just, ecologically attuned world that flourishes on the basis of sexuate difference.

This book develops creative imagining of traditional doctrines.

This book proposes that the drive for religiosity and experiences of the sacred are far from lost in contemporary western societies.

What is the nature of Hell?

This book examines the competing regimes of law and religion an offers a multidisciplinary approach to demonstrate the global scope of their influence.

Responding to the targeted destruction of women, Fields argues for establishing Gender as a protected class under the Genocide Convention.

A collection of essays in which the possibilities of a deeper dialogue, by means of the contemplative traditions of the Abrahamic Faiths is explored.

This concise introduction to science and religion focuses on Christianity and modern Western science (the epicenter of issues in science and religion in the West) with a concluding chapter on Muslim and Jewish Science and Religion.

India and the Occult explores the reception of Indian spirituality among Western occultists through case studies.

Humanity's long history of intermittent conflicts and contemporary violence undermines Christian's (and their Jewish and Muslim fellow believers) religious confidence in and moral commitment to world peace.

In this unique collection, theologians born and formed during the Cold War offer their insights and perspectives on theological relationships with such musical artists and groups as Joy Division, U2, Nick Cave, and John Coltrane.

This book uses ethnography as theological practice, yielding a theology constructed at the intersection of church, academy and everyday life.

Issues relating to sexuality, eroticism and gender are often connected to religious beliefs and practices, but also to prejudices against and fear of religious groups that adopt alternative approaches to sexuality.