Religion and beliefs

Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended and expanded.

This is the first fully annotated, academic edition of the Book of Mormon in its 200-year history.

As of 2010, there were approximately 3-4 million Buddhists in the United States, and that figure is expected to grow significantly.

What does the battle between conservative Christians and LGBTQ+ people look like from the vantage point of those who are both?

The Religious History of the Roman Empire: The Republican Centuries is the second Oxford Readings in Classical Studies volume on the religious history of the Roman Empire, accompanying the volume on paganism, Judaism, and Christianity.

The Religious History of the Roman Empire: The Republican Centuries is the second Oxford Readings in Classical Studies volume on the religious history of the Roman Empire, accompanying the volume on paganism, Judaism, and Christianity.

An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in Mormon history since the end of polygamyOn June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were ringing nonstop.

The long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at Mountain MeadowsPublished in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows was a bombshell of a book, revealing the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history, when settlers in southwestern Utah slaughtered more than 100 members of a California-bound wagon train in 1857.

The long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at Mountain MeadowsPublished in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows was a bombshell of a book, revealing the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history, when settlers in southwestern Utah slaughtered more than 100 members of a California-bound wagon train in 1857.

The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is 'Gladstone' to modern biographers.

In 1908, Unitarian pastor Bertrand Thompson observed the momentous growth of the labor movement with alarm.

The Exorcist Effect is a fascinating historical study of the ongoing relationship between horror movies and Western religious culture, with a focus on the period from 1968 to the modern day.

The Exorcist Effect is a fascinating historical study of the ongoing relationship between horror movies and Western religious culture, with a focus on the period from 1968 to the modern day.

In diesem Buch wird der Aufschwung rechter und religiöser Bewegungen und Parteien in Israel und der Einfluss auf die Sicherheitspolitik, insbesondere zur Zweistaatenlösung im Nahostkonflikt untersucht.

In diesem Buch wird der Aufschwung rechter und religiöser Bewegungen und Parteien in Israel und der Einfluss auf die Sicherheitspolitik, insbesondere zur Zweistaatenlösung im Nahostkonflikt untersucht.

1 Kings: A 31-Day Devotional — Divided Hearts, Divided Kingdoms: When Wisdom Gives Way to Wandering is a powerful journey through wisdom, worship, compromise, judgment, and mercy.

Quand Francois Mitterrand a prononce ces mots : Je crois aux forces de l'esprit , Marcella, l'heroine, ne savait pas de quoi il s'agissait.

The life of faith is not learned in one clean line.

Some Christian virtues are too easily kept as words, admired from a safe distance while the actual day remains hurried, guarded, wounded, and unresolved.

What is received from God is never meant to stop in the hands that receive it.

When strength thins and the road does not explain itself, faith needs more than resolve.

In a world that celebrates big results, it is easy to overlook small beginnings.

Some books ask the reader to feel more.

Thanksgiving is easy to mistake for a bright feeling.

The soul cannot receive God while every inward room is ruled by noise.

There is a gladness the world cannot manufacture, because it does not depend on ease, noise, success, or the heart's ability to keep itself steady.

The Grace Window is a contemplative spiritual work that enters the sacred terrain of collective collapse, grief, and moral reckoning—not as symptoms to be escaped, but as thresholds through which remembrance and renewal become possible.

Queer Theologies: The Basics is a concise and illuminating introduction to the study of this controversial and discursive subject area.

In an age shadowed by pandemics, climate catastrophe, authoritarian resurgence, and existential technological threats, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apocalypticism and Millennialism offers a timely and indispensable exploration of how societies make sense of their Ends-and their hoped-for new beginnings.

What if the God you've doubted is real-and wants to be known?

Mapping the Gullah-Geechee diaspora across time and space Gullah-Geechee Diasporas counters romantic portrayals of Gullah-Geechee culture as a static, geographically isolated remnant of the past.

Mapping the Gullah-Geechee diaspora across time and space Gullah-Geechee Diasporas counters romantic portrayals of Gullah-Geechee culture as a static, geographically isolated remnant of the past.

At the places where faith must become more than intention, the next step can feel small, exposed, and severe.

Faith is often carried in places too quiet to explain: the first breath of grace, the ache that refuses lesser comforts, the hand slowly opening before Christ, the hidden prayer no one sees.

Faith often asks for sight before the heart has learned how to wait, how to be searched, or how to obey what has already been made plain.

Some truths can only be received when the heart has stopped trying to stand above them.

Growth in God often begins where nothing can yet be seen.

Some growth begins where nothing looks alive yet.

Some wounds become hidden because life has to keep moving.

Fear often enters quietly: through a tired body, a crowded mind, a hard hour, or the old instinct to defend the self alone.

Welcome begins long before a door opens.

John's discursive and narrative techniques are targeted in this volume by means of a fresh translation, in order to assess how streams of tradition, comparable to several Judaic literatures, may be seen to have been incorporated within characteristically Johannine cycles of presentation.

Pride promises safety, but it often leaves the soul tired from defending what it was never meant to rule.

The divided life does not need a softer language for its fractures.

The life of faith often reaches a place where control has become too heavy to keep carrying, yet letting go can feel like loss before it feels like trust.

Are you a Cancer?

What does it mean to understand something?

Kindness begins before the hand reaches outward.

Your identity is the sum of your personality  feeding seed.

What happens when a man who spends his entire life striving finally learns to trust God?