Religion and beliefs

For most of Christian history, theology has been written primarily by men.

A Michael Eigen Companion offers 150 essential quotes, carefully selected from Michael Eigen's books, alongside explorative commentary.

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This edited book examines the cultural construction of the “public child” and its impact on children’s rights in Australia.

This book explores what G.

The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India was founded in 1820 by an English Baptist missionary, William Carey.

The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India was founded in 1820 by an English Baptist missionary, William Carey.

In Live & Die Laughing, comedian/singer Mark Lowry pulls his wild-and-wacky train of thought into the station with musings about everything from God's character to church potlucks.

In Live & Die Laughing, comedian/singer Mark Lowry pulls his wild-and-wacky train of thought into the station with musings about everything from God's character to church potlucks.

Demonstrates the relevance of comparativism, ethnography, cognitive function, orality, and intertextuality to the elucidation of Greek prophetic practices.

Explains the justice of the cross as a rightly ordered communication and diffusion of divine friendship.

An original examination of the writings of reformist Muslim thinker, Ahmad Qābel, whose work sought to rationalise and modernise Islamic law.

Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.

Bringing a longue durée perspective to the issue, this book traces different theories of doctrinal development from antiquity to the present day.

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.