Violence has always played a part in the religious imagination, from symbols and myths to legendary battles, from coloss......more

For thousands of years the Jewish tradition has been a source of moral guidance, for Jews and non-Jews alike. As the ess......more

Calvin at the Centre explores the consequences of various ideas in the thought of John Calvin, and the influence of his ......more

Sophronius was one of the most influential figures spanning the ecclesiastical troubles in East and West during the sixt......more

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Do miracles happen? Is the Bible true? What about the paranormal? Does God exist? The underpinning of belief have crumbl......more

The Council of Constantinople of 553 (often called Constantinople II or the Fifth Ecumenical Council) has been described......more

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This volume contains fifteen studies by John O’Malley that press forward the trajectory he launched with The First Jesui......more

This work identifies Kant’s doctrine of inner sense as a central element within the ’architectonic of pure reason’ of th......more

Benefitting from the Qumran library now available, this book offers a new model for reading S that better accounts for t......more

As the first comprehensive study on the concept of ritual purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls since the full publication of t......more

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Die Erschlie ung des Kontextes der mittelalterlichen Predigt zielt auf die inner- und au erliterarischen Einflüsse, die ......more

In this work, the printed Greek confession books are subjected to extensive analysis for the very first time. These book......more

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This collection of articles applies concepts developed in the wake of the so-called "spatial turn" to the field of relig......more

This Handbook provides an unprecedented overview of Brazil’s religious landscape. Its three sections discuss specific re......more

In The World of St. Francis of Assisi, thirteen scholars from diverse academic disciplines offer accounts of the way in ......more

Issues in Religion and Education, Whose Religion? is a contribution to the dynamic and evolving global debates about the......more

Garry Winston Trompf (b.1940) in his outstanding academic career has inspired scholars in the fields of Stduies in Relig......more

Offering extensive international and comparative law materials, as well as discussion of key United States First Amendme......more

The focus of this volume is the early modern self-critical appropriation of the "religious other". Processes of selfing/......more

The sermons here published for the first time are attributed to an otherwise unknown friar referred to simply as Frater ......more

Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: "There is a Mystery"..., brings together groundbreaking essays tha......more

"The Egyptian gods" mattered greatly to many kings, emperors, cities and elites in the Hellenistic and Roman world. Powe......more

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Nationalism comprehensively surveys the sub-disciplinary area of religious nation......more

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions is essential reading for students and re......more

This Handbook provides readers, practitioners, and policy makers methods and approaches which can facilitate a spiritual......more

This companion studies the life and legacy of Guru Hargobind (1590-1644), the Sixth Guru of the Sikh tradition. It highl......more

The Sikh World is an outstanding guide to the Sikh faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. W......more

In an era which many now recognise as ’post-secular’, the role that religions play in shaping gender identities and rela......more

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Evangelicalism, an inter-denominational religious movement that has grown to become one of the most pervasive expression......more

This comprehensive narrative account of religion in America from the sixteenth century through the present depicts the r......more

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In recent years, the intersection of religion and the American Civil War has been the focus of a growing area of scholar......more

The shape and course which Christian thought has taken over its history is largely due to the contributions of individua......more

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The Uley Tablets is the first full publication of the eighty Roman lead writing-tablets found in the excavation of a Rom......more

De gestis Giraldi is a narrative of the deeds of Gerald of Wales (c. 1146-1223), written in the third person but actuall......more

The Handbook of Religion and Health has become the seminal research text on religion, spirituality, and health, outlinin......more

This is the first great commentary in the Western European tradition of expounding Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Dated about ......more

In Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor, Christina G. Williamson uses a multi-disciplinary appro......more

Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion studies narrativity as situated modes of engaging with reality in reli......more

This volume examines the theoretical and practical questions concerning the evolving role of imams in Europe....more

Using case studies from the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Basin, this book examines the globa......more

Max Scheler (1874-1928) decisively influenced German philosophy in the period after the First World War, a time of uphea......more

This volume is dedicated to Wittgenstein’s remarks on Frazer’s The Golden Bough and represents a collaboration of schola......more

Charles Taylor’s monumental book A Secular Age has been extensively discussed, criticized, and worked on. This volume, b......more

Global Secularisms addresses the state of and prospects for secularism globally. Drawing from multiple fields, it brings......more

Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England traces the emergence and transformation of a distinct apologetic discourse called t......more

This volume presents Theodore Abu Qurrah’s apologetic Christian theology in dialogue with Islam. It explores the questio......more

The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and stat......more

Scholarly interest in print culture and in the study of religion in modern China has increased in recent years, propelle......more

What is the significance of sustainable resource management for the functioning of Mediterranean island societies? How d......more

Private associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood or family were common th......more

Over the course of his career, Luther H. Martin has primarily produced articles rather than monographs. This approach to......more

Die Praktische Theologie bildet die neuzeitlichen Konstitutionsbedingungen des Christentums in sich ab. Ihre Handlungsfe......more

Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the......more

The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology is the first collection to consider the full breadth of natural theology from bo......more

The study of contemporary esoteric discourse has hitherto been a largely neglected part of the new academic field of Wes......more

The period 1689-1901 was "the golden age" of the sermon in Britain. It was the best selling printed work and dominated t......more

For the last decade, early modern studies have significantly been reshaped by raising new and different questions on the......more

This handbook examines the history of Trinitarian theology and reveals the Nicene unity still at work among Christians t......more

This innovative volume highlights the relevance of globalization and the insights of gender studies and religious studie......more

The articles in this volume originated from lectures given in two meetings devoted to the Samaritans. The first was the ......more

This book suggests a regional paradigm for understanding the development of the traditions about Egypt and the exodus in......more

Sectarianism in Qumran: A Cross-Cultural Perspective explores the sectarian characteristics of the system of beliefs and......more

Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte first began publication in 1925 and can claim to be one of the most tradition-rich histor......more

Im späten 10. Jh. verfasste ein anonymer Autor, wohl in Konstantinopel, das fiktive Protokoll eines Religionsgesprächs z......more

Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and ac......more

Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, ......more

This latest comprehensive work on Simon Magus lends new impetus to the investigation of Early Christianity and questions......more

Interpreting Kierkegaard in the general context of Golden Age Denmark, this interdisciplinary anthology features article......more