Comparative religion

City Women is a major new study of the lives of ordinary women in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London.

'What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

As historians have gradually come to recognize, the involvement of women was central to the anti-slavery cause in both Britain and the United States.

Believing in Belonging draws on empirical research exploring mainstream religious belief and identity in Euro-American countries.

'What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

What is agnosticism?

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?

In religious terms Pentecostalism was probably the most vibrant and rapidly-growing religious movement of the 20th century.

This timely book aims to change the way we think about religion by putting emotion back onto the agenda.

How should religion and ethics be studied if we want to understand what people believe and why they act the way they do?

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).

In most countries around the world, women continue to lag behind men in an array of political orientations and activities.

Theology after Postmodernity is a ground-breaking study that has the capacity to transform the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and Christian theology.

The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology is the first collection to consider the full breadth of natural theology from both historical and contemporary perspectives and to bring together leading scholars to offer accessible high-level accounts of the major themes.

The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology is the first collection to consider the full breadth of natural theology from both historical and contemporary perspectives and to bring together leading scholars to offer accessible high-level accounts of the major themes.

When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of religious vocation and society's standards of `proper' womanly behaviour.

Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style.

'As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house.

In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'.

Series Blurb: Oxford Readings in Feminism provide accessible, one-volume guides to the very best in contemporary feminist thinking, assessing its impact and importance in key areas of study.

Existentialism was one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century.

The Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their origins and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since.

The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide and is one of the largest religions in the world.

How much have women's lives really changed?

Christianity is commonly held to have introduced an entirely new and better morality into the ancient world, a new morality that was decidedly universal, in contrast to the ethics of the philosophical schools which were only concerned with the intellectual few.

This timely book aims to change the way we think about religion by putting emotion back onto the agenda.

The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago.

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

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.

Rae Langton here draws together her ground-breaking work on pornography and objectification.

'As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house.

This book explores the poetics of literary defences of women written by men in late-medieval and early-modern France.

There are over 3,000 runic inscriptions on stone made in Scandinavia in the late Viking Age.

From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and political systems.

In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology.

Who is Israel?

The evil of the holocaust demands a radical rethink of the traditional Christian understanding of Judaism.

The Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their origins and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since.

The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide and is one of the largest religions in the world.

How much have women's lives really changed?

Existentialism was one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century.

The ways in which religious communities interact with one another is an increasing focus of scholarly research and teaching.

The ways in which religious communities interact with one another is an increasing focus of scholarly research and teaching.

In the past decade, a sense of feminist 'success' has developed within the United Nations and international law, recognized in the Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, the increased jurisprudence on gender based crimes in armed conflict from the ICTR/Y and the ICC, the creation of UN Women, and Security Council sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence in armed conflict.

In the past decade, a sense of feminist 'success' has developed within the United Nations and international law, recognized in the Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, the increased jurisprudence on gender based crimes in armed conflict from the ICTR/Y and the ICC, the creation of UN Women, and Security Council sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence in armed conflict.

This book highlights the extent to which women were positioned as historical subjects in the process of constructing political, social, and cultural history in Yugoslavia, while simultaneously facing the politics of institutional exclusion and academic ignorance of progressive ideas and emancipatory struggles.

"e;This book brings together feminist histories in education with an innovative approach to epistolary narrative analytics.

The idea that there is a truth within the person linked to the discovery of a deeper, more fundamental, more authentic self, has been a common theme in many religions throughout history and an idea that is still with us today.