Religion: general

Explores the aesthetic dimensions of biblical poetry, offering close readings of poems across the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

Examines the idea that new atheism and Protestant fundamentalism have the same historical origin, and share a range of surprising beliefs.

Challenges the divide between political and literary history, in an analysis of a major polemical text from mid-ninth century Europe.

Examines the entrenchment of Salafism in Lebanese society while also highlighting the movement''s transnational links to the Persian Gulf.

Original research that explains how religious conflict is played out on social media.

God''s simplicity and perfection shapes both God''s distinctive relation to creation and how theologians properly acknowledge this distinctiveness in thought.

Provides insightful discussions of the exegetic and discursive process begun by the open letter A Common Word Between Us and You.

Applies cutting-edge research and in-depth critical analysis to Aquinas'' most influential work, engaging with ethics, metaphysics, theology, and law.

Examines the performative aspects of prayer and how they were represented in literature in early modern England.

This book shows how Paul''s tight link between resurrection and salvation both raised problems for and profoundly shaped Early Christian theology.

Explores the interplay between law and religion in the area of hate speech, whether religion is the target or source.

Time in the Babylonian Talmud explores how rabbinic jurists'' language, reasoning, and storytelling reveal their assumptions about what we call time.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

A study of William James'' philosophy of democracy and pluralism, and its relevance to modern debates.

This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England.

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

It is a comprehensive and critical study of the normative status of human nature in biotechnology from a Christian perspective.

A comprehensive global study of the political ideology of Christian Democracy, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

A philosophical exploration of the relationships between spirituality, well-being, religion, and philosophy, examining specific spiritual practices and spiritually informed virtues.

First full-length study of the mouth''s centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual ''good'' in Middle English literature.

Develops an approach to contemporary religious, moral, and political conflicts in which conflict may be constructively reframed and creatively engaged toward productive democratic practice.

Through a comparative study of Morocco and Tunisia, Feuer proposes a compelling theory accounting for complexities in religion-state relations across the Arab world.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

The first book-length study of the outsider designations that early Christians used and what they reveal about the movement''s identity, self-understanding and character.

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

This book challenges our assumptions about morality by explaining how industrialized philanthropy and universalized goodness came to dominate Chinese religious engagement.

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

This is study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany.

This book applies and explores Catholic social thought, focusing on the relevance of the encyclical Laudato Si'' in an era of climate crises.

Examines how law regulates religion and explores the influence of world religions on the legal systems in Asia.

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

A theory of religious freedom for the modern era that uses natural law from ancient Greek, Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources.

Argues that laywomen''s interactions with gendered theology, Catholic rituals, and church institutions significantly shaped colonial Mexico''s religious culture.

Martin Luther was the subject of a religious controversy that never really came to an end.

This book provides a solution to one of the Bible''s notorious cruxes, the identity of the speaking ''I'' of Romans 7.

The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.

Marshalling previously untapped Christian materials, Bar-Asher Siegal offers radically new insights into Talmudic stories about Scriptural debates with Christian heretics.

Explores gender and identity in fourth-century Cappadocia, where bishops used a rhetoric of contest to align with classical Greek masculinity.

The first full-length study to uncover the profound impact of early modern musical culture on George Herbert''s religious verse.

Argues that Greek thinkers engaged with linguistic concepts developed by Mesopotamian scribes in a process leading to new discoveries.

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

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

Where Conviction Meets Clarity: Exploring the Intersection of Belief and EvidenceWhat happens when deeply held faith meets rigorous reason?

From the moment that Prussia entered the world of the crusade movement and the zone of Western European external expansion in the thirteenth century, and was quickly dominated by the Teutonic Order, the new Prussian land created by the Order became a transitional area and a frontier country.

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

Divine epithets serve a variety of purposes, with the most frequent being those related to the locations and functions of the gods.

This nonfiction book addresses the question of what relevance religiosity still holds today and where psychologists set up warning signs.