Religion and beliefs

Recent tools and findings from the cognitive sciences illuminate religious thought and behaviour in ancient Israel and the Bible.

This book bridges Catholic and Protestant theologies of the eucharist using ritual practice and the act of giving thanks.

The first comprehensive survey of monasteries and monasticism in the Near East during the ''Crusader'' period.

Traces Fackenheim''s early concern with revelation and how it shifted to his later focus on the Holocaust (post-1967).

Presents Soloveitchik''s philosophy as a conceptual response to Nietzsche''s critique of religion that brings Nietzsche''s life-affirming sensibility to halakhic Judaism.

This interdisciplinary volume re-evaluates the interconnectedness of the Merovingian world with its Mediterranean surroundings.

Noakes'' revelatory analysis of Victorian scientists'' fascination with psychic phenomena connects science, the occult and religion in intriguing new ways.

Reveals how early modern religious conceptions of covenant and community were deployed for surprisingly radical political ends.

Reveals a religiously diverse pre-industrial society in the Middle East, broadening studies of global Christianity and challenging Islamic history''s exceptionalism.

A dynamic account of the sharia in Lebanon as both state law and as personal ethics.

The first major study of the relationship between liturgy and historiography in early medieval Rus.

Shah uncovers the complex interaction between constitutional law, religion and politics in three key plural societies in Asia.

A pioneering study of Greek religion and cults at a key colonial frontier, with major consequences for antiquity at large.

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

Explores the multifaceted debate on the interconnection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities.

A fresh descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion supported by comparative case studies of Greater China.

The Jewish Family examines Jewish family law in the light of new attitudes concerning the role of women.

This book examines how Gustav Radbruch, H.

Demonstrates the theological power of Pindar''s victory songs by interpreting them within their contemporary religious landscapes.

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

An innovative, scholarly introduction to the distinctive and enigmatic Christian liturgy of early medieval Iberia.

Discusses state and religion relations in Israel by applying a general theory regarding the role of religion in liberal countries.

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

Investigates papal government in the later-twelfth century, focusing on the decrees issued at papal councils, and their reception.

A new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.

Examines the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and the global Irish diaspora in the nineteenth century for the first time.

Do the gods love you?

The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

This book traces changing perceptions of Egypt''s monastic landscape through an analysis of archaeological and documentary evidence from late antiquity.

Through the eyes of northern Nigerian Qur''anic students, this book explores what it truly means to be young, poor, and Muslim.

Examines the social, legal and cultural challenges navigating the boundaries of ''normal''-''problematic''-''risky'' sexual behaviours among peers.

Explores the hidden history of unbelief in the early modern era through the lens of Momus, the Greek god of criticism and mockery.

This study shows some of the ways in which medieval Scandinavians received and re-interpreted pre-Christian religion.

Explores a central paradox in Plotinus'' work: Plotinus writes about the One, which he tells us is ineffable.

A unique collection of legal, religious, ethical, and political perspectives on debates surrounding biotechnology patents or ''patents on life''.

Examines how early German Romanticism combined post-Kantian idealism and Platonic-Christian realism to develop a new aesthetics of religion.

Updates a neglected incarnational motif with contemporary conceptual resources to propose a novel model of Christ''s presence in the Eucharist.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.

Drawing on case studies from Islamic history, Haider challenges assumptions about the nature of the sources shaping understandings of the early Muslim world.

Engages with all aspects of Averroes'' philosophy, from his thinking on Aristotle to his influence on Islamic law.

An exploration of the theology of divine providence that is both critical and constructive in its outcomes.

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.

Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.

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.

Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.

Explores the profession of singing, operatic culture, and the representation of female performers on the nineteenth century French stage.

This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women''s literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.