Comparative religion

Women and the Counter-Reformation in Early Modern Munster examines how women from different social backgrounds encountered the Counter-Reformation.

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.

Despite some pioneering work by scholars, historians still find it hard to listen to the voices of women in the Holocaust.

Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship.

Scholars have long been divided on the question of whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed.

Gender, Family, and Politics is the first full-length, gender-inclusive study of the Howard family, one of the pre-eminent families of early-modern Britain.

Gender, Family, and Politics is the first full-length, gender-inclusive study of the Howard family, one of the pre-eminent families of early-modern Britain.

This innovative study analyses the presence of Ovid in contemporary women's writing through a series of insightful case studies of prominent female authors, from Ali Smith, Marina Warner, and Marie Darrieussecq, to Alice Oswald, Saviana Stanescu, and Yoko Tawada.

Over the last few decades, our knowledge of how the human mind and brain works increased dramatically.

Over the last few decades, our knowledge of how the human mind and brain works increased dramatically.

Islam and its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an brings together scholars from various disciplines and fields to consider Islamic revelation, with particular focus on the Qur'an.

Silent Partners restores women to their place in the story of England's Financial Revolution.

Silent Partners restores women to their place in the story of England's Financial Revolution.

Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze examines a series of twentieth and twenty-first century fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the catabasis, the heroic journey to the underworld.

From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family types, or simply good companions, female fantasies about men tell us a great deal about the history of women.

From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family types, or simply good companions, female fantasies about men tell us a great deal about the history of women.

Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again.

Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again.

Embodying Punishment offers a theoretical and empirical exploration of women's lived experiences of imprisonment in England.

Embodying Punishment offers a theoretical and empirical exploration of women's lived experiences of imprisonment in England.

Islam and its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an brings together scholars from various disciplines and fields to consider Islamic revelation, with particular focus on the Qur'an.

The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions includes authoritative yet accessible studies on a wide variety of topics dealing comparatively with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as with the interactions between the adherents of these religions throughout history.

The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions includes authoritative yet accessible studies on a wide variety of topics dealing comparatively with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as with the interactions between the adherents of these religions throughout history.

Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches' energies are really about gender.

Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches' energies are really about gender.

Against Marriage argues that marriage violates both equality and liberty and should not be recognized by the state.

Against Marriage argues that marriage violates both equality and liberty and should not be recognized by the state.

Many Latino and Chinese women who immigrated to New York City over the past several decades found work in the garment industry-an industry well known for both hiring immigrants and its harsh working conditions.

This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity.

This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity.

In recent years, the extent to which contemporary societies are secular has come under scrutiny.

Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy.

Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy.

The nineteenth century is a key period in the history of the interpretation of the Greek gods.

Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon--a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off.

Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon--a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off.

The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion.

The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion.

Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship.

Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt addresses the extraordinary rise and inner life of the Egyptian pietist movement in the first half of the thirteenth century.

Democratic equality entails a principle that everyone whose basic interests are affected by policies should be included in the process of making them.

To many people the idea that 'the body' has its own history might sound faintly ridiculous.

To many people the idea that 'the body' has its own history might sound faintly ridiculous.

Science and religious faith are two of the most important and influential forces in human life, yet there is widespread confusion about how, or indeed whether, they link together.

Science and religious faith are two of the most important and influential forces in human life, yet there is widespread confusion about how, or indeed whether, they link together.

Integrating patristics and early Jewish mysticism, this book examines Gregory of Nyssa's tabernacle imagery, as found in Life of Moses 2.

Many philosophers believe that God has been put to rest.

Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election.

Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election.

This book is an examination of natural law doctrine, rooted in the classical writings of our respective three traditions: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic.