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What role has magic played in society through the ages? How has it been practiced and, at times, controlled? How has mag......more

Currently, religion is absent or severely underemphasized within the medical humanities, and The Routledge Handbook of S......more

This volume presents the first edition and translation of the Dyalogus de potentia summi pontifices, a little known, fra......more

Now in its fourth edition, The Heart of Counseling is a key resource helping students to understand the importance of th......more

This book explores the intersection of indigenous wisdom, spiritual traditions, and ecological sustainability. It brings......more

This study is the first to explore the reasons for the intriguing proliferation of the visual theme of the Donation of C......more

This volume investigates the rich spectrum of religious practices and beliefs at Carthage from its foundation until the ......more

Secrets in Contact presents a revolutionary perspective on religious secrecy--revealing how the concealed becomes a brid......more

This book studies religion through the eyes of some of its most influential, exemplary, and sometimes controversial peop......more

The book provides a historical analysis of how India and the Sikh community have been situated within the international ......more

This book provides a detailed view of the author’s conception of ’apocalyptic phenomenology’, referring to the revelator......more

This collection consolidates and develops a distinct approach to law and religion under the label of the ’Australian Sch......more

This book features an array of scholarly essays on Christian nationalism....more

This book explores the role of physical bodies, ritual technologies, healing practices, gender, and visual imagery in cr......more

This volume looks at key Irish figures, beyond lawyers and judges, whose ideas have impacted on the way law is conceived......more

This book looks at how the caste system has withstood resistance from below and survived the challenge of colonial moder......more

The Latin sermons published for the first time are attributed to an otherwise unknown Franciscan friar referred to as Fr......more

This volume examines critically the acquisition of religious knowledge and skills, arguing that religious literacy--like......more

This book offers theologians, philosophers, and neuroscientists accessible and engaging material for navigating the comp......more

This book is a comprehensive guide to the primary sources and scholarship on Yemen’s Rasulid dynasty (13th-15th centurie......more

In an age shadowed by pandemics, climate catastrophe, authoritarian resurgence, and existential technological threats, T......more

ʿAḇdīsōʿ of Gazarta: Patriarch, Poet and Scribe focuses on the literary legacy of the prominent East Syrian poet and chu......more

Why does Kierkegaard’s thought remain vital in French philosophy and theology? Kierkegaard in France traces the dynamic ......more

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Although African scholars have made a significant contribution to the study of African Pentecostalism, very few studies ......more

This book investigates the role of the Qur’an in the everyday lives of young Shia Muslims in Finland. Adopting a cultura......more

This volume brings together a collection of work from Africa to consider how New Testament ethics can speak to the philo......more

The relationship between the Qajar rulers of Iran and the Vatican constitutes a little-known thread of diplomatic and cu......more

Black Religion in America is an introduction to the religious history of African Americans from the period of slavery to......more

This book develops a logic of world-views: belief-systems that shape how we know, interpret, and act in the world. It ex......more

This book explores a significant historical event in sixteenth-century European history. The Italian crusade against the......more

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The Battle Among the Gods explores the evolving relationship between religion and national identity in Brazil, tracing i......more

The ancient city of Neapolis (modern Kavala, Greece) was founded by Thasos in the seventh century BCE at a strategic loc......more

What did ’religion’ mean for the Ancient Egyptians? Was the state involved in acting as a unifying and founding force fo......more

The volume "From Cases to Scandals: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church" contributes to the sociology of religion by exa......more

This book investigates the image of world-city and the idea of cosmopolitanism, starting from the Cynic-Stoic tradition ......more

The fundamentals of every faith are exposed in their conceptualization of death. Recent studies have caricatured Post-Re......more

Sara Mannen in her book rejects the notion that Karl Barth’s theology makes God in the image of the modern autonomous su......more

From decades-long shifts in state-Church relations to the intimate spiritual journeys of individuals, religious change i......more

Individuation presents a multifaceted problem within Avicenna’s philosophical system, appearing across various fields wi......more

For centuries, Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260-339 CE) was thought to have been a close confidante and advisor to hi......more

Since Republican times, Rome has fostered ideological constructs aimed at justifying its conquest and domination of the ......more

Ascetic Passions: Emotions in Early Christian Egypt reveals the role of emotions in shaping early Christian theology, co......more

This book is a new and original study of High Church activism in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Focusing ......more

This work delves into the fundamental issue of Otherness, from both sacred texts and communal experiences. While the tit......more

Spirituality and Holistic Spiritual Health makes the case for the key role that spiritual care and chaplaincy work play ......more

Sarah Iles Johnston has innovated in the study of myth, ritual, and belief, and her scholarship in these areas informs t......more

The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig offers a new interpretation of Franz Rosenzweig’s magnum opus The Star o......more

This book enhances awareness of the legal issues surrounding public funding of faith-based schools in representative nat......more

This book explores the architectural history of Christian universities in China, revealing how quasi-colonial power inte......more

This volume focuses on the interplay between metaphor, making, and mysticism and sheds new light on the power of the met......more

This volume explores the diversity of beliefs and practices around health and healing in minority religions from differe......more

This book provides a critique of naturalistic views of subjects and agency and argues that these are conditioned ways of......more

This book is the first comprehensive, English-language interpretation of the Highest Good’s internal structure, its deve......more

This thought-provoking volume unites bioethics experts from seven major world religions-Buddhism, Christianity, Confucia......more

Sacred Drugs explores the ways in which psychoactive substances from alcohol, cannabis, and pharmaceuticals to coffee an......more

This book focuses on the element of thresholds - makeshift gates, makeshift structures and house doors - as concepts of ......more

Over the last decades, Comparative Theology has established itself in varying methodological ways while considering the ......more

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A deep look at the impact of Christian scripture on Bartolomé de las Casas, one of the first and strongest critics again......more

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This book presents essays that investigate religious themes in anime and use anime as thinking partners for constructive......more

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the histo......more

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An engaging and thought-provoking translation of Paul Ricoeur’s earliest work that is essential for understanding his ph......more

This fully illustrated and indexed volume makes available all the publications of Nicholas Sims-Williams which include e......more

What influences the development and religious identity of a tradition like Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta? This volume examines t......more

The eight essays in this volume deal with different aspects of Mycenaean religion, synchronically and diachronically, an......more

Political theology is widely discussed but little understood. Across the humanities and critical social sciences, even i......more