Presents Soloveitchik''s philosophy as a conceptual response to Nietzsche''s critique of religion that brings Nietzsche''s life-affirming sensibility to halakhic Judaism.
Noakes'' revelatory analysis of Victorian scientists'' fascination with psychic phenomena connects science, the occult and religion in intriguing new ways.
Reveals a religiously diverse pre-industrial society in the Middle East, broadening studies of global Christianity and challenging Islamic history''s exceptionalism.
Explores the multifaceted debate on the interconnection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities.
Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.
This book traces changing perceptions of Egypt''s monastic landscape through an analysis of archaeological and documentary evidence from late antiquity.
Drawing on case studies from Islamic history, Haider challenges assumptions about the nature of the sources shaping understandings of the early Muslim world.
Highlights the emergence of self-knowledge in rabbinic literature, showing how Babylonian rabbis relied on knowledge accessible only to the individual to determine the law.
Few treatments of Catholic Social Teaching are as comprehensive as this, and none is nearly so devoted to a critical scholarly presentation and analysis of the whole corpus.