Philosophy of religion

Hindu thought has undergone a major reconfiguration in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, in response to its encounter with the forces of modernity.

This book is an interdisciplinary study of Romanticism which focuses on the reception of the Biblical canon in poetry, art and theory.

The book describes the challenge of modernity faced by Muslims and Christians and the issue of religious pluralism.

Existentialism was one of the most important influences on twentieth-century thought, especially in the period between the 1920s and early 1960s.

The Unification Church (popularly known as the 'Moonies') has been viewed as an eccentric and somewhat sinister 'cult', best known for the 'mass wedding' ceremonies conducted by its leader Sun Myung Moon.

In response to some of the current explanations of mystic phenomena, this book proposes an interpretive framework for understanding mysticism.

A collection of essays which explores the significance of Wittgenstein for the Philosophy of Religion.

This chronological survey explores Pascal's (162362) achievement as mathematician, physicist and religious thinker; it also has a chapter on his life.

This book is a thorough analysis and discussion of the nature of time and eternity, focusing on the timelessness of God.

Zen is not a religion of God.

This book provides an organizational perspective on the local congregations of Christianity and Judaism Churches and Synagogues.

'In a book of such varied contents, it is certain that eveyone will find something which will challenge and inform - and indeed, on occasion, inspire.

This book is a philosophical examination of the relationship between religion and social justice.

Sociological and related studies of systems of religion tend to be fragmented.

This book examines a selection of major types of theory explaining religion: religious, philosophical, sociological, socio-economic and psychological.

Since the post-Enlightenment, Jews have fragmented into a variety of sub-groups, each with their own religious ideology.

Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion expounds and analyses the argument of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough .

A new and groundbreaking investigation which takes full account of the finding of the social and historical sciences whilst offering a religious interpretation of the religions as different culturally conditioned responses to a transcendent Divine Reality.

Can religious belief survive in a scientific era?

This is the first systematic study of Mohandas Gandhi's conception of religion and of his personal religious practices to be based on the ninety volumes of his Collected Works.

This pioneering study is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between Judaism and the world's religions.

The book compares modern Jewish and Hindu thought through discussing selected writers with reference to common issues treated by them, issues which are still relevant today.

A fascinating collection of essays by leading scholars in the field engage with the idea of religious pluralism mooted by John Hick to offer incisive insights on religious pluralism and related themes and to address practical aspects such as interreligious spirituality and worship in a multi-faith context.

A Frightening Love radically rethinks God and evil.

Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories.

Lisa Bellantoni argues that contemporary bioethics divides into two logically incommensurable positions: a cult of rights, which identifies the worth of human life with our autonomy, and a cult of life, which identifies human worth with the possession of a soul, and thereby, of human dignity.

A rare academic study on what John Rawls, Peter Singer and Derek Parfit acknowledge as the finest book in ethics - The Methods of Ethics.

Cattoi and McDaniel present a selection of articles on the role of the body and the spiritual senses - our transfigured channels of sensory perceptions - in the context of spiritual practice.

Moses Pava explores new and alternative ways of relating to Jewish texts and concepts.

This edited collection of essays examines how religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness.

This collection of essays examines how diverse religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness.

Randall Heskett uses both historical criticism and a form-critical approach to analyze and assess Lamentation and Restoration of Destroyed Cities as oral traditions of ancient Israelite prophetic genres.

This book offers the first complete overview of the intellectual history of one of the most significant contemporary cultural trends - the apocalyptic expectations of European and American evangelicals - in an account that guides readers into the origins, its evolution, and its revolutionary potential in the modern world.

The first book-length study of metaphysical nihilism: an analytical treatment of one of the most intriguing and fundamental questions in contemporary analytic metaphysics: Could there have been nothing at all?

Law and Transcendence examines and develops the philosophy of British Philosopher Gillian Rose.

Visible Islam in Modern Turkey presents a rich panorama of Islamic practices in today's Turkey.

This book is an analysis of the whole frontier between religion and the environment.

This is a collection of John Hick's essays on the understanding of the world's religions as different human responses to the same ultimate transcendent reality.

When first published, Evil and the God of Love instantly became recognized as a modern theological classic, widely viewed as the most important work on the problem of evil to appear in English for more than a generation.

This is the first major response to the challenge of neuroscience to religion.

This short book is a lively dialogue between a religious believer and a skeptic.

The author examines how social change and philosophical crisis in the 1980s created the conditions for the return of religion to contemporary French intellectual life.

This exciting new study examines Coleridge's understanding of the Pantheism Controversy - the crisis of reason in German philosophy - revealing the context informing Coleridge's understanding of German thinkers.

This book is an exploration of contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations in the United States and the distinct ways in which these two communities interact with one another in the American context.

Do we all possess a soul?

Speaking of Gods analyzes the figurative-narrative creation of gods, their heavenly abodes, and behaviors, reaching back to the beginning of history in Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, Persia and Greece, and continuing through the figures and narratives of a biblical tradition that includes the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur'an.

This book explores 'A Common Word Between Us and You', a high-level ongoing Christian-Muslim dialogue process.

Melanie L.

After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible.

In spite of the growth of secularization, technology, and science, statistics tell us that religious conversions are on the rise, and the number of people who take religion and divine revelation seriously is at an all-time high.