Religion and beliefs

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.

Examines Iran''s Armenian community, shedding light on Muslim-Christian relations in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

Inventing Hebrews uncovers a template of arrangement ubiquitous in antiquity as the key to the conundrum of Hebrews'' structure and purpose.

Elucidates the Scriptural moral tradition by subjecting ethically challenging biblical texts to moral philosophical analysis.

Examines the first theory of consciousness in Western philosophy, dispelling the dogma that consciousness studies begins with Descartes.

Analyses Solomon''s birth, rise, and temple-building within scriptural, archaeological and historical contexts.

Explores the aesthetic dimensions of biblical poetry, offering close readings of poems across the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

Far from being a Judeo-Christian invention, apocalyptic thought had its roots in the ancient Near East and was expressed in its art.

Examines the idea that new atheism and Protestant fundamentalism have the same historical origin, and share a range of surprising beliefs.

Explains how weakly institutionalized and male-dominant parties undermine descriptive representation in Brazil''s OLPR legislative elections.

Challenges the divide between political and literary history, in an analysis of a major polemical text from mid-ninth century Europe.

Examines the entrenchment of Salafism in Lebanese society while also highlighting the movement''s transnational links to the Persian Gulf.

Original research that explains how religious conflict is played out on social media.

God''s simplicity and perfection shapes both God''s distinctive relation to creation and how theologians properly acknowledge this distinctiveness in thought.

Provides insightful discussions of the exegetic and discursive process begun by the open letter A Common Word Between Us and You.

With a focus on the political elite, Sadeghi-Boroujerdi analysis the intellectual and political trajectory of post-revolutionary Iranian reformism.

Are You Leading on Empty?

Applies cutting-edge research and in-depth critical analysis to Aquinas'' most influential work, engaging with ethics, metaphysics, theology, and law.

Examines the performative aspects of prayer and how they were represented in literature in early modern England.

This book shows how Paul''s tight link between resurrection and salvation both raised problems for and profoundly shaped Early Christian theology.

John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible.

The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.

Explores the interplay between law and religion in the area of hate speech, whether religion is the target or source.

A collection of studies in bioethics and society that goes beyond conventional medical ethics and suggests political, socio-legal, and empirical analysis.

Time in the Babylonian Talmud explores how rabbinic jurists'' language, reasoning, and storytelling reveal their assumptions about what we call time.

This book offers new perspectives on animals and animality from the vantage point of the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud.

Take your place in God's plan for the finale of the agesNow updated and expanded, with several brand-new chapters and reflection questions following every chapter, this landmark text offers the most important and practical guidance Derek Prince imparted to believers in his last years: how to prepare for and take their places in the ultimate, ongoing spiritual battle.

A history of Egypt''s first teacher-training school, exploring 130 years of tension over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modernized public spheres.

This unique window into Muslim identities provides scholars and students with important up-to-date data about real Muslims living in Israel.

Focusing on philosophical method in Augustine''s early dialogues, explains their pedagogical program and its relevance to current debates.

Explores aspects of the private lives and interpersonal ties, between the personal and communal domains of early Sufis.