Religion and beliefs

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

A study of William James'' philosophy of democracy and pluralism, and its relevance to modern debates.

This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England.

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

It is a comprehensive and critical study of the normative status of human nature in biotechnology from a Christian perspective.

This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.

A comprehensive global study of the political ideology of Christian Democracy, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

A philosophical exploration of the relationships between spirituality, well-being, religion, and philosophy, examining specific spiritual practices and spiritually informed virtues.

First full-length study of the mouth''s centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual ''good'' in Middle English literature.

Analyzes the labor experience of Israeli Palestinian women, arguing that state policies and widespread discrimination hinder their labor force participation and success.

The angels feature prominently in Augustine''s works.

Develops an approach to contemporary religious, moral, and political conflicts in which conflict may be constructively reframed and creatively engaged toward productive democratic practice.

Through a comparative study of Morocco and Tunisia, Feuer proposes a compelling theory accounting for complexities in religion-state relations across the Arab world.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

A major illustrated collection offering a fresh interdisciplinary reading of Chinese women''s periodicals and history in the long twentieth century.

A wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.

Explores the social interactions and pathways that enabled Christianity to travel across Asia and to India.

The first book-length study of the outsider designations that early Christians used and what they reveal about the movement''s identity, self-understanding and character.

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

Women and Microfinance in the Global South is a grounded exploration of the intersections of neoliberal ideology and feminism.

This book challenges our assumptions about morality by explaining how industrialized philanthropy and universalized goodness came to dominate Chinese religious engagement.

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

This is study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany.

Looks at the situation of Kurds in Turkey through the lens of multiculturalism, giving us a fresh and new comparative perspective.

Examines the influence of Islam, as a religion, a practice, and a tradition, on Egypt''s visual and literary modernity.

This book applies and explores Catholic social thought, focusing on the relevance of the encyclical Laudato Si'' in an era of climate crises.

Examines how thirteenth-century clergymen used pastoral care - preaching, sacraments and confession - to increase their parishioners'' religious knowledge, devotion and expectations.

An original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750.

A major re-assessment of the Frankish historian Flodoard of Rheims, one of the tenth century''s most intriguing but neglected narrators.

Examines how law regulates religion and explores the influence of world religions on the legal systems in Asia.

While dominant narratives emphasize war''s destructive effects, this book demonstrates how war can open up unexpected opportunities for women''s political mobilization.

This book explores the history and halakhah of conversion in context of the visions, beliefs and prejudices that may have shaped them.

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

A theory of religious freedom for the modern era that uses natural law from ancient Greek, Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources.

Argues that laywomen''s interactions with gendered theology, Catholic rituals, and church institutions significantly shaped colonial Mexico''s religious culture.

Martin Luther was the subject of a religious controversy that never really came to an end.

Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction fared in the face of nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control.

This book provides a solution to one of the Bible''s notorious cruxes, the identity of the speaking ''I'' of Romans 7.

Re-evaluates the political integration and Christianization of Saxony following its violent conquest (772–804) by Charlemagne.

The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.

Marshalling previously untapped Christian materials, Bar-Asher Siegal offers radically new insights into Talmudic stories about Scriptural debates with Christian heretics.

Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.

Considers how to implement children''s rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.

Re-examines Aristophanes'' engagement with Greek religion by studying his dramatization of traditional stories of religious experiences.

Explores gender and identity in fourth-century Cappadocia, where bishops used a rhetoric of contest to align with classical Greek masculinity.

The first full-length study to uncover the profound impact of early modern musical culture on George Herbert''s religious verse.

Offers an innovative reappraisal of the impact of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars on modern Islamic thought.

Demonstrates the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco.