Religion: general

A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story.

This text introduces the most important Jewish philosophers of contemporary times from the point of view of their original approach to both Judaism and philosophy and include: Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenweig, Martin Buber, Leo Strauss, Emmanuel Levinas.

In his enthronement sermon as archbishop of Canterbury in 1942 William Temple famously declared the ecumenical movement to be "e;the great new fact of our era.

Hamanns anthropological thinking examines the tensions between freedom and dependence.

What must a person believe to be a Christian?

Tracing a path through Kierkegaard's writings, this book brings the reader into close contact with the texts and purposes of this remarkable 19th century Danish writer and thinker.

The roots of conservative Christian skepticism of international politics run deep.

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Witch cult and ritual have not yet, as far as I am aware, been subjected to a searching scientific investigation from the anthropological side.

Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil.

The discovery in the 1920s of a huge cache of fossils in the Gobi Desert fuelled a mania for dinosaurs that continues to the present.

Exploring Religious Diversity analyzes the philosophical questions raised by the fact that many religions in the world often appear to contradict each other in doctrine and practice.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book examines the extent and causes of contemporary religious persecution and conflict.

National Parks - 'America's Best Idea' - were from the first seen as sacred sites embodying the God-given specialness of American people and American land, and from the first they were also marked as tourist attractions.

This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Advaita Vedanta is one of the most important and widely studied schools of thought in Hindu religion and the Vivekacudamani is one of the most important texts in the Advaita tradition and the most popular philosophical work ascribed to the great Indian philosopher, Sankara.

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This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism.

Uses textual analysis and various types of material evidence to gain insight into the role of animal sacrifice in Islam.

A groundbreaking account of how the Book of Exodus shaped fundamental aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and IslamThe Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told.

Originally published in 1956, this survey of the interpretations of sex by the major figures in Christian thought and in psychoanalysis made an important contribution to the re-thinking of our sexual morality at the time.

A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and futureWhat is the purpose of Jews in the world?

This broadly adopted textbook weds literary and historical approaches to focus on the New Testaments structure and meaning.

George Berkeley was considered "e;the most engaging and useful man in Ireland in the eighteenth century"e;.

Live full of faith through hard timesDo you ever feel like you can't take one more thing?

This title was first published in 2002.

Addressing a topic of growing and vital concern, this book asks us to reconsider how we think about the natural world and our place in it.

Miton and Early Modern Devotional Culture analyses the representation of public and private prayer in John Milton's poetry and prose, paying particular attention to the ways seventeenth-century prayer is imagined as embodied in sounds, gestures, postures, and emotional responses.

Between the later middle ages and the eighteenth century, religious orders were in the vanguard of reform movements within the Christian church.

Still in its infancy because of the overly conservative views and methods assumed by the majority of scholars working in it since the mid-19th century, the field of early Islamic and quranic studies is one in which the very basic questions must nowadays be addressed with decision.

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Revelation claims to tell the story of 'what must soon take place', and yet, despite centuries of scholarly research, the order and content of this story has remained one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

Gain insight into the importance of advocacy for the disabled within various religious and secular organizationsYou shall love your neighbor as yourself.

In this volume, Niels Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh present an anthology of seminal studies by Mario Liverani, a foremost scholar of the Ancient Near East.

Although there has been a massive increase in the volume of pilgrimage research and publications, traditional Anglophone scholarship has been dominated by research in Western Europe and North America.

The assortment of political views held by Baptists was as diverse as any other denomination in the early United States, but they were bound together by a fundamental belief in the inviolability of the individual conscience in matters of faith.

This book prepares the way for the practice of kenarchy: a humanity-loving, world-embracing, inclusive approach to life and politics.

Beginning with the apostles themselves, Christians have practiced the art of telling their stories to bring others to faith.

We once believed that as a majority culture in North America everyone knew all there was to know about a church and its surroundings.

Walter Abendroth ist der Frage nachgegangen, was Reinkarnation in der Anthroposophie Rudolf Steiners bedeutet.

The first systematic and comprehensive attempt to identify and analyze the role of Isaianic language and imagery in literature, art, and music Using reception history as its basis for study, Isaiah Through the Centuries is an unprecedented exploration of the afterlife of the Book of Isaiah, specifically in art, literature, and music.