Religion: general

The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India was founded in 1820 by an English Baptist missionary, William Carey.

This volume examines the concept of human dignity from uniquely Asian perspectives.

Examining the emergence and development of the Farahi school of thought and its methodology, this book explores the four case studies of stoning, apostasy, hijab, and the return of Jesus.

Despite the long tradition of exploring the Tantric temple culture of Namputiri Brahmins within Tantric studies, the Sakta stream remains under-researched.

In light of the two great phenomena that define the era of the Anthropocene, globalization and climate change, what does it mean to be a human subject or person in the world today?

For many observers, the predation of Boko Haram, unsparing and venal in its manifestation, is shocking, and it seems to lack a local historical frame of reference that would help make it understandable.

Networks, Entrepreneurship and Power in Contemporary Spirituality offers an in-depth analysis of the social organisation of New Age spirituality.

This book focuses on the Pentecostal experience of African-Caribbean women in Britain, paying attention to the influence of Pentecostalism as it is expressed in everyday life.

This book serves as a scholarly work examining Karbi philosophy, oral traditions, and cultural practices through comprehensive analysis.

This volume examines the concept of human dignity from uniquely Asian perspectives.

Demonstrates the relevance of comparativism, ethnography, cognitive function, orality, and intertextuality to the elucidation of Greek prophetic practices.

Explains the justice of the cross as a rightly ordered communication and diffusion of divine friendship.

Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.

Bringing a longue durée perspective to the issue, this book traces different theories of doctrinal development from antiquity to the present day.

Recent tools and findings from the cognitive sciences illuminate religious thought and behaviour in ancient Israel and the Bible.

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples.

This interdisciplinary volume re-evaluates the interconnectedness of the Merovingian world with its Mediterranean surroundings.

Noakes'' revelatory analysis of Victorian scientists'' fascination with psychic phenomena connects science, the occult and religion in intriguing new ways.

Reveals a religiously diverse pre-industrial society in the Middle East, broadening studies of global Christianity and challenging Islamic history''s exceptionalism.

Shah uncovers the complex interaction between constitutional law, religion and politics in three key plural societies in Asia.

A pioneering study of Greek religion and cults at a key colonial frontier, with major consequences for antiquity at large.

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

A fresh descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion supported by comparative case studies of Greater China.

How 10 Church Fathers Interpreted, Taught, and Preached the Bible· Explore the lives and writings of those who shaped the practices of Christianity as we know it today· Discover a spiritual legacy that still resonates today· A unique look at shared vision and purpose amidst remarkable diversity of perspectiveBy AD 100, all the original disciples had died and a new generation of preachers, teachers, and scholars had taken on the responsibility to preach, teach, and interpret the Scriptures.

This book examines how Gustav Radbruch, H.

A Confluence Between Iqbal and Leibniz: Self and Monad explores the striking metaphysical parallels between two towering thinkers separated by centuries - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Muhammad Iqbal.

Demonstrates the theological power of Pindar''s victory songs by interpreting them within their contemporary religious landscapes.

An innovative, scholarly introduction to the distinctive and enigmatic Christian liturgy of early medieval Iberia.

Discusses state and religion relations in Israel by applying a general theory regarding the role of religion in liberal countries.

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

Investigates papal government in the later-twelfth century, focusing on the decrees issued at papal councils, and their reception.

A new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.

Examines the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and the global Irish diaspora in the nineteenth century for the first time.

Do the gods love you?

The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

This book traces changing perceptions of Egypt''s monastic landscape through an analysis of archaeological and documentary evidence from late antiquity.

Through the eyes of northern Nigerian Qur''anic students, this book explores what it truly means to be young, poor, and Muslim.

Explores the hidden history of unbelief in the early modern era through the lens of Momus, the Greek god of criticism and mockery.

Explores a central paradox in Plotinus'' work: Plotinus writes about the One, which he tells us is ineffable.

A unique collection of legal, religious, ethical, and political perspectives on debates surrounding biotechnology patents or ''patents on life''.

Examines how early German Romanticism combined post-Kantian idealism and Platonic-Christian realism to develop a new aesthetics of religion.

This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.

An exploration of the theology of divine providence that is both critical and constructive in its outcomes.

Few treatments of Catholic Social Teaching are as comprehensive as this, and none is nearly so devoted to a critical scholarly presentation and analysis of the whole corpus.

Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.

Examines Iran''s Armenian community, shedding light on Muslim-Christian relations in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

Inventing Hebrews uncovers a template of arrangement ubiquitous in antiquity as the key to the conundrum of Hebrews'' structure and purpose.

Elucidates the Scriptural moral tradition by subjecting ethically challenging biblical texts to moral philosophical analysis.