Religion and beliefs

This study investigates the history of the traditions that coalesced around the name Philip in the New Testament and other early Christian literature.

This book is the winner of the 2020 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies.

Between the Ideal and the Real describes why Iraq state-building and democratic transformation failed by offering a very new, and unusual, perspective, away from the usual blame assigned to the US that has become part of the "e;conventional wisdom"e; about Iraq and the Middle East.

In The Gospels in First Century Judaea experts of Greco-Roman Judaism employ their expertise to offer fresh and innovative interpretations of gospel texts.

For decades, Professor Michael Freeman has without doubt been one of the world's most infuential scholars in international children's rights.

Space and Conversion in Global Perspective examines experiences of conversion as they intersect with physical location, mobility, and interiority.

The Piety of Learning testifies to the strong links between religious and secular scholarship in Islam, and reaffirms the role of philology for understanding Muslim societies both past and present.

In Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia Allen Frank examines the relationship of Tatars and Bashkirs with the city of Bukhara during the Russian Imperial era.

In Jethro and the Jews, Beatrice J.

In Come Hell or High Water: Feminism and the Legacy of Armed Conflict in Central America, Tine Destrooper analyzes the political projects of feminist activists in light of their experience as former revolutionaries.

A pastor walks out of the church and into the woods, in pursuit of the God he's lost.

A contest is afoot in Muslim discourses around the world in the twenty-first century.

Timely and necessary.

Many of the world's first written records have been found in the area of the Ancient Near East, in what is today known as the Middle East.

Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, Austria, Italy and Israel: "e;Vergangenheitsbewaltigung"e; as a Historical Quest offers an account on post-war coming-to-terms with the Holocaust tragedy in some European countries, such as Germany, Austria, and Italy.

Christian Hebraism came to its full fruition in the seventeenth century.

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This publication by Muto Kazuo is a significant Christian contribution to the predominantly Buddhist "e;Kyoto School of Philosophy.

This volume pulls together thirteen essays written by the author since the late 1970's which give a distinctive, coherent reading of Luke-Acts.

The connection between Christian ethics and liturgy has been on the research agenda for some decades now.

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Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry: Informing a Dialogue on Gender, Church, and Ministry, co-edited by Margaret English de Alminana and Lois E.

Religion has always been an object of philosophical analysis, as well as a platform for political practice.

This book highlights the famous 'Athenian tribe': a group of humanist scholars in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Elizabeth I, who resolved many difficult problems concerning the Tudor succession, diplomacy, and the English Church.

'Delivery from slavery': these words, taken from a Dutch labour movement song, perfectly map onto the Bible's central concern.

In Countering Contemporary Antisemitism in Britain, Sarah Cardaun presents a thorough scholarly analysis of responses to present-day antisemitism in the UK.

In Religious Fundamentalism in the Middle East, Moaddel and Karabenick analyze fundamentalist beliefs and attitudes across nations (Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia), faith (Christianity and Islam), and ethnicity (Azari-Turks, Kurds, and Persians among Iranians), using comparative survey data.

Max Weber's writings in The Sociology of Religion are today acknowledged as a classic of the social sciences in the twentieth century.

The story of Hong Kong's New Asia College, from its 1949 establishment through its 1963 incorporation into The Chinese University of Hong Kong, reveals the efforts of a group of self-exiled intellectuals in establishing a Confucian-oriented higher education on the Chinese periphery.

This comprehensive, textual treatment of the Kaifeng Passover Rite is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion of the community's origins in particular and to comparative Jewish liturgy in general.

This is the first scholarly volume on Chinese Christian Pentecostal and charismatic movements around the globe.

This volume reimagines the first-century reception of the Gospel of Mark within a reconstructed (yet hypothetical) performance event.

Throughout the history of mankind religion has been a creative and innovative factor of great strength, able to change societies, create new cultures, and shape strong identities.

Chinese people have been instrumental in indigenizing Christianity.

In Religious Education in Thirteenth-Century England, Andrew Reeves examines how laypeople in a largely illiterate and oral culture learned the basic doctrines of the Christian religion.

This historical study argues that the Mandaean religion originated under Sasanid rule in the fifth century, not earlier as has been widely accepted.

"e;Shakerism teaches God's immanence through the common life shared in Christ's mystical body.

An edition of the scholarly letters of the English Lady E.

Functioning as both a dense manual, a detailed roadmap, and an edifying tale of spiritual maturity, this third installment in Wang Yun's best-selling series brings you rare and authentic Daoism, straight from the culture that gave birth to it.

Theology of ministry has always been a controversial issue in the relation between churches, especially with its juridical approach that concentrated on authority.

Johannine Writings and Apocalyptic provides a wide-ranging and thorough annotated bibliography for John's Gospel, the Johannine letters, Revelation, and apocalyptic writings pertinent to these books.

A proper assessment of the manifold relationships that obtain between "e;wisdom"e; and "e;Torah"e; in the Second Temple Period has fascinated generations of interpreters.

Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity in large numbers and usually under duress in late medieval Spain.

This volume offers an outline of developments in the intellectual debate on religious liberty, religious toleration and religious concord in the eighteenth-century Netherlands.

Avi Sagi is Professor of Philosophy at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel.

The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter examines the role of Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland and shows how the process of colonization entails a process of subjectification where the identity of indigenous population is transformed.

According to legend, the Mandylion was an image of Christ's face imprinted on a towel, kept in Edessa.

Travel Israelpast and presentto learn about its people and its God with Harvard-trained biblical archaeologist, whimsical storyteller, and sunscreen advocate Amanda Hope Haley.

God Cares More About How You Eat than What You Eat Christians should have their heads on straight about foodbut too often our eating is complicated by burdens and rules, by diets and dependencies.

How well do you understand prayer?