Religion: general

Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation.

The classic history of healing in the Christian church from biblical times to the present.

Shedding new light on a controversial and intriguing issue, this book will reshape the debate on how the Judeo-Christian tradition views the morality of personal and national self-defense.

Jane Barter Moulaison's remarkable book engages contemporary critical understandings of Jesus Christincluding postcolonial, feminist, pluralist, ecological, and socialistto argue that the core convictions of traditional Christology remain a viable, valuable, and even indispensable witness to the gospel in an imperiled world.

For thirty years, Mark as Story has introduced readers to the rhetorical and narrative skill that makes Mark so arresting and compelling a story.

From their formulation in the sixteenth century through the present day, every generation of Lutheran leadership has grappled with the centrality and importance of the Lutheran confessional writings.

Cynthia Crysdale and Neil Ormerod here present a robust theology of God in light of supposed tensions between Christian belief and evolutionary science.

In this unique two-volume work, expert scholars and practitioners examine race and racism in public education, tackling controversial educational issues such as the school-to-prison pipeline, charter schools, school funding, affirmative action, and racialized curricula.

The late nineteenth century was a time of rapid industrialization, mass politicization, and modern philosophy.

The late nineteenth century was a time of rapid industrialization, mass politicization, and modern philosophy.

A foundational resource for readers investigating religiously motivated environmentalism, this book provides both a global overview of the subject and a detailed discussion of key figures, concepts, organizations, events, and documents.

What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously?

Since the third century BCE, when the king of Sri Lanka converted to Buddhism, the island nation off the southern coast of India has represented a central interest of Buddhist scholarship.

This unique work presents an extraordinary breadth of contemporary and historical views on Asian America and Pacific Islanders, conveyed through the voices of the men and women who lived these experiences over more than 150 years.

This unique book is an essential resource for interdisciplinary research and scholarship on the phenomenon of feeling called to a life path or vocation at the interface of science and religion.

A standout resource on the emerging field of applying neuropsychology and the latest findings in sleep and dream research to religious experience, this book investigates the proven biological links between REM dreams and religious ideas, covering past and current schools of thought in both the science of dreams and the science of religion.

This book examines the countervailing arguments in the religious exemption debate and explains why this issue continues to be so heated and controversial in modern-day America.

Provides an invaluable primer on how culturally accepted stereotypes are impacting people throughout the United States.

This fascinating work explores the meaning of death in the digital age, showing readers the new ways digital technology allows humans to approach, prepare for, and handle their ultimate destiny.

Based on the celebrated five-volume set published in 2005, this updated one-volume edition offers readers a concise yet complete understanding of the interplay between the major religions and human rights.

This reference offers reliable knowledge about women's diverse faith practices throughout history and prehistory, and across cultures.

There has always been an intricate relationship between religion and politics.

A 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThis volume offers students a broad examination of the impact of religion on the lives of women around the world, focusing on differences among women, Indigenous religions, the impact of religion in colonization, and resistance to religious oppression.

This book provides the first comprehensive, region-wide, long-term, and accessible study of Native Americans in New England.

First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject.

Moral injury is a profound violation of a human being's core moral identity through experiences of violence or trauma.

This book provides a thorough introduction to historical and contemporary issues in American religion, tackling controversial hot-button topics such as abortion, Intelligent Design, and Scientology.

From 1095 to the end of the thirteenth century, the crusades touched the lives of many thousands of British people, even those who were not crusaders themselves.

Today's public schools represent a demographic of students that are more diverse than ever before.

A resource ideal for students as well as general readers, this two-volume encyclopedia examines the diversity of the Asian American and Pacific Islander spiritual experience.

This book provides a step-by-step guide for teachers to implement an action-based curriculum, using young adult literature to engage students with contemporary issues.

Over the last few years, Orthodox Jewish private schools, also known as yeshivas, have been under fire by a group of activists known as Young Advocates for Fair Education, run by several yeshiva graduates, who have criticized them for providing an inadequate secular education.

Do you teach math to Spanish-Speaking ELLs (especially K-8)?

A shocking story of social engineering in the era of Jim CrowThe eugenics movement, in which the state claimed the right to determine who could and who could not have children, was a dark, shameful chapter in American history.

As the country recognizes the 101st birthday of former President Ronald Reagan, this memoir offers insight into a local Anglo-Protestant community in Westchester, California, that was but one grain of sand in a sea of change that led to the Reagan Revolution.

Advent-the season in which we prepare for the coming of the Savior-provokes a certain ambivalence among modern believers.

Born in Eastern Europe, educated in the West under the guidance of Martin Heidegger and the phenomenological tradition, and forced to flee during the Holocaust because of their Jewish identity, it should come as no surprise that Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt's ideas intersect in an important way.

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumJewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946 offers a new perspective on Holocaust history by presenting documentation that describes the manifestations and meanings of Nazi Germany's "e;Final Solution"e; from the Jewish perspective.

The Chinese have been one of the oldest and largest ethnic communities across the world with well over 35 million people living overseas.

Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life.

Two thousand years ago, Antioch on the Orontes River was the third most important city in the Roman Empire.

How has capitalism created or enhanced racism?

New waves of land grabbing are working to dispossess peasants in both the Global South and the Global North.

The Rhetoric of Black Mayors explores the rhetorical and practical efforts of Black mayors in building coalitions to win elections and govern cities.

Narrative Reflections presents a series of poignant personal reflections by mental health professionals, triggered by reading interviews of Holocaust survivors and their families.

What kinds of experiences do we have with the poor and the oppressed around the world?

Why is the Golden Rule so central in almost every culture and religion?

The central proposition of God's Prescription for Mental Health and Religion is that the highway to mental health of individuals and of society is God's prescription of selfless devotion and service to others.

This book provides an overview of the history of interactions between science and religion, with an emphasis on Christianity.

For the Glory of God addresses key questions regarding the connection between religion and science.