Religion: general

Mahasu is the joint name of four gods whose influence is widespread throughout the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

The book provides information and analysis about a Turkish student community in different locations in Europe, especially in Vienna and Sarajevo.

When Paul III was elected in 1534, hopes arose across Christendom that this pope would at last reform and reunite the Church.

Is Islam compatible with democracy?

The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World is a cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian, Mongolian, and Tibetan sources concerning events and processes in the Central Asian Buddhist world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Scholarship has come to value the uncertainties haunting early modern knowledge cultures; indeed, awareness of the fragility and plurality of knowledge is now offered as a key element for understanding early modern science as a whole.

Mahasu is the joint name of four gods whose influence is widespread throughout the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Typically, scholars approach migrants' religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin.

Pathways to Contemporary Islam: New Trends in Critical Engagement highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity.

The volume collects a series of contributions that help reconstruct the recent history of the Nath tradition, highlighting important moments of self reinterpretation in the sampradaya's interaction with different social milieus.

Pathways to Contemporary Islam: New Trends in Critical Engagement highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity.

In Late Antiquity, people commonly sought to acquire hidden knowledge about the past, the present, and the future, using a variety of methods.

Typically, scholars approach migrants' religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin.

Few fields of academic research are surrounded by so many misunderstandings and misconceptions as the study of Western esotericism.

This collection of essays investigates signs of toleration, recognition, respect and other positive forms of interaction between and within religious groups of late antiquity.

This volume presents a batch of incisive new essays on the relationship between Roman imperial power and ideology and Christian and Jewish life and thought within the empire.

Gregory of Tours was a bishop of late antiquity who was famously devoted to promoting the efficacy of saintly powers.

Few fields of academic research are surrounded by so many misunderstandings and misconceptions as the study of Western esotericism.

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This multidisciplinary collective volume advances the scholarly discussion on the origins of Islam.

The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World is a cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian, Mongolian, and Tibetan sources concerning events and processes in the Central Asian Buddhist world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Justice and injustice were subjects of ongoing debate in medieval Europe.

When Paul III was elected in 1534, hopes arose across Christendom that this pope would at last reform and reunite the Church.

In Late Antiquity, people commonly sought to acquire hidden knowledge about the past, the present, and the future, using a variety of methods.

This book brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements (NRMs) and established religions.

Digital media is changing the ways in which religion is practiced, understood, proselytised and countered.

This is a beautiful translation by John Farndon (with Olga Nakston) of the late Ravil Bukharaev's literary existential novel memoir in which he explains to his wife how his Muslim faith and ideals influenced both his love for her and his understanding of life and self, particularly his quest for truth and 'authenticity'.

Modernity is surrounded by an almost magic aura that casts a spell over people all over the world.

The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally ended up being sanctified themselves.

After the Communist victory in China's civil war, Taiwan, then governed by the KMT (or Nationalist Party), became a focal point for both Buddhist and Christian activity in the Chinese world.

This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written around 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, whose most renowned congregant was Baruch Spinoza.

Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility.

For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an important part of Hindu and Buddhist ritual practice throughout South Asia and among the global Diaspora.

Hermes in the Academy commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (GHF) at the University of Amsterdam.

The book provides information and analysis about a Turkish student community in different locations in Europe, especially in Vienna and Sarajevo.

The Suharto (1966-98) government of Indonesia and the Mahathir (1981-2003) government of Malaysia both launched Islamisation programmes, upgrading and creating religious institutions.

Iraqi Shiism is undergoing profound changes, leading to new elaborations of the relationship between clerics and democratic principles in an Islamic state.

The varied career of Adam Easton (c.

This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written around 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, whose most renowned congregant was Baruch Spinoza.

This book is a study of Dutch mosque designs, objects of heated public debate.

Is Islam compatible with democracy?

Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility.

Isidore of Seville (560-636) was a crucial figure in the preservation and sharing of classical and early Christian knowledge.

The varied career of Adam Easton (c.

This book examines the social and political mobilisation of religious communities towards forced displacement in relation to tolerance and transitory environments.

Buddhist Revitalization and Chinese Religions in Malaysia tells the story of how a minority community comes to grips with the challenges of modernity, history, globalization, and cultural assertion in an ever-changing Malaysia.

This is the first monograph on the subject to be published in English.

Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period.

Justice and injustice were subjects of ongoing debate in medieval Europe.

The overtly secular state of Singapore has unapologetically maintained an interventionist approach to governance in the realm of religion.