Religion: general

This book examines Islam and women's everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy.

Perhaps no era in Christian history since the time of the apostles presented a greater challenge to the spread of faith than the twentieth century.

In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self, Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time, spaciousness and the phenomenology of self.

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Spirituality and Contemplative Studies provides the first authoritative overview of methodology in this growing field.

Created to counteract the spiritual imbalance that MI can cause, the Moral Injury Reconciliation (MIR) methodology is a 9-week, 3-phased spiritual care treatment, for Veteran and family transformation.

Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our desire to learn more about disaster experiences in the past.

Many of the leading figures of the Reformation and many of their most able opponents came from among the ranks of the Franciscan Order.

Suffering in Ancient Worldview investigates representative Christian, Roman Stoic and Jewish perspectives on the nature, problem and purpose of suffering.

The Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries provide compact, critical commentaries on the books of the Old Testament for the use of theological students and pastors.

Seeing the contours of Christian thought about ChristThroughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world.

At the core of this book lies a form of virtue theory based on emotions.

This book discusses relationships among religion, literature and ethnicity in Northern Ireland since 1967.

The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time.

This volume addresses an important problem in social scientific research on global religions and spirituality: How to evaluate the role of diverse religious and spiritual (R/S) beliefs and practices within the rapid evolution of spiritual globalization and diversification trends.

Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history.

The struggle for postzionism is a conflict over national memory and the control of cultural and physical space.

In fulfilling the long-awaited need for a constructive and critical rethinking of Dalit theology this book offers and explores the synoptic healing stories as a relevant biblical paradigm for Dalit theology in order to help redress the lacuna between Dalit theology and the social practice of the Indian Church.

The Liber de causis (De causis et processu universitatis a prima causa), a monotheistic reworking of Proclus' Elements of Theology, was translated from Arabic into Latin in the twelfth century, with an attribution to Aristotle.

Evangelicalism, an inter-denominational religious movement that has grown to become one of the most pervasive expressions of world Christianity in the early twenty-first century, had its origins in the religious revivals led by George Whitefield, John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards in the middle decades of the eighteenth century.

Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.

The essays collected together in Critics Not Caretakers argue that the study of religion must be rethought as an ordinary aspect of social, historical existence, a stance that makes the scholar of religion a critic of cultural and historical practices rather than a caretaker of religious tradition or a font of timeless wisdom and deep meaning.

9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have left many people baffled and concerned.

Luke 1-5 begins The MacArthur New Testament Commentary's look at the longest of the four gospels.

Islamism in the Modern World is an accessible, student-oriented introduction to the debates surrounding the historic origins of contemporary Islamism.

In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues.

Moral Leadership tells you all you need to know to lead.

This book offers a historically sensitive ethnography of the zar tumbura spirit possession cult, associated with descendants of African slaves who live mainly in the area of Greater Khartoum, Sudan.

Cultural Architecture: A Path to Creating Vitalized Congregations, by Douglas A.

The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.

In her powerful, prophetic teaching style, bestselling author Jennifer Eivaz helps readers to continually sharpen their gifting in order to minister healing, breakthrough, and a supernatural display of God's glory.

In forty-three brief essays from the life of a philosopher, Charles Taliaferro guides us toward the heart of human being in all of its absurdity and joy.

Does God sovereignly elect some individuals for salvation while passing others by?

"In 25 Jahren seelsorglicher Praxis ist mir bei vielen Menschen nur wenig Glaube begegnet, dafür aber viel Magie; wenig Gottvertrauen, dafür aber viel Angst; wenig Entwicklung, dafür aber viel Tradition", sagt Stefan Jürgens.

The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts.

This book looks at texts produced before and after 9/11 by novelists with Muslim backgrounds in Britain.

Since medieval times, pilgrimages have been a popular religious or spiritual undertaking.

As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Professor Eamon Duffy is preeminent.

This book is a practical guide for parents whose children intermarry.

What activities did the women of ancient Greece perform in the sphere of ritual, and what were the meanings of such activities for them and their culture?

The second edition of David Bentley Hart's critically acclaimed New Testament translation David Bentley Hart's translation of the New Testament, first published in 2017, was hailed as a "e;remarkable feat"e; and as a "e;strange, disconcerting, radical version of a strange, disconcerting manifesto of profoundly radical values.