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Unity and Disunity in Ezra-Nehemiah - Redaction, Rhetoric, and Reader

Until the late 1960s the scholarly consensus was that Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah was a single, unified literary work. Then arguments began ...

Faith in Numbers - Religion, Sectarianism, and Democracy

Why does religion sometimes increase support for democracy and sometimes do just the opposite? This book presents a theory of religion, s...

Faith-Based Influences on Legislative Decision Making - Emerging Research and Opportunities

In recent years, state legislatures in the United States have been transformed based on the social identities of their membership. At its...

Religious Authority and Political Thought in Twelver Shi'ism - From Ali to Post-Khomeini

Ranging from the time of the infallible Imams, to the contemporary era, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Shi¿i religious an...

Book Ceremonial Magic

Arthur Edward Waite writes The Book of Ceremonial Magic as a newer and more accurate edition of his previous title The Book of Black Magi...

Faith, Doubt and Knowledge in Religious Thinking

This volume grows out of an international conference, entitled "Faith and Doubt" that was held in 2015 at the Department of European Ethn...

NIV Larger Print Personal Value Hardback Bible

A hardback Bible, with easy-to-read NIV text.

Cult Following - The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations--And Take Over Our Lives

From the author of Cursed Objects and The United States of Cryptids, an eye-popping compendium of the most infamous, audacious, and dange...

Thoreau's God

"Thoreau's deep religious sensibility was a central thread in his life and thought. Despite his scathing criticism of organized religion,...

2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition - How Artificial Intelligence Informs Our Future

In response to recent popular accounts, scientist and philosopher John Lennox offers a Christian perspective on humanity's future with te...

Is This God's Country? - Religion and Democracy in America

Is This God's Country? presents an exploration by noted philosopher Robert Audi on the tensions between church and state in the democrati...

A Hidden Wholeness - The Journey Toward an Undivided Life, 20th Anniversary Edition

A wise, heartfelt, and compelling guide to our quest for wholeness in a broken world A Hidden Wholeness--now in its 20th Anniversary Edit...

Living in Wonder

A big ideas book on recovering a Christian spirituality in a world of atheistic materialism.

Sex, God, and the Brain - How Sexual Pleasure Gave Birth to Religion and a Whole Lot More

While others have speculated on a connection between religion and sex, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, in Sex, God, and the Brain, is the ...

How to End Christian Nationalism

How to End Christian Nationalism is the essential guidebook for Christians alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism and committed to ...

The Broken Body - Israel, Christ and Fragmentation

"Fusing biblical and patristic theology, analytic philosophy, and spiritual tradition, Sarah Coakley has produced a fascinating, inspirin...

Faith's Answers to America's Political Crisis - How Religion Can Help Us Out of the Mess We're in

Can the faith in God that most Americans share help us out of the political mess we’re in?

Disbelief - The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species

Losing Our Religion tells us how we became religious, why we¿re leaving faith behind, and how we can get along with others across the rel...

Jesus, Contradicted - Why the Gospels Tell the Same Story Differently

New Testament scholar Michael Licona offers a fresh approach to the question of differences, discrepancies, and apparent contradictions f...

The Violent Take It by Force - The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy

When charismatic believers wage spiritual battles, ideas can take tangible form. With scholarly precision and narrative force, religion s...

Muhammad - A Critical Biography

Muhammad: What can we really know about him?

Second-Class Saints - Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality

On June 9, 1978, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) president Spencer W. Kimball announced a revelation lifting the church...

Faith and Pestilence - Paradigms and Historical, Theological, Hermeneutic Issues

This volume aims to take up the theme of the relationship between faith and pestilence, which, despite its topicality, is rooted in a lon...

Sin and Temptation

Volume 15 of The Complete Works of John Owen includes 4 edited and formatted treatises on the mortification of sin, the power of temptati...

The Islamic Secular

This book argues that the meaning of "secular" in the West and in Islam differ fundamentally. Though the Islamic secular is a "liberation...

Conversations with Dostoevsky - On God, Russia, Literature, and Life

Conversations with Dostoevsky presents a series of fictional conversations between George Pattison and Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky...

Lower than the Angels - A History of Sex and Christianity

A major new assessment of one of the most controversial topics in historyFew matters produce more public interest and public anxiety than...

Benedict XVI Rethinking Africa - Tasks for Today

Savvy ecclesial observers recognize that in the great moral debates of the age African Catholics remain committed to the Gospel. Readers ...

Ending Persecution - Charting the Path to Global Religious Freedom

Building on his extensive experience in the U.S. government and as an international human rights lawyer, H. Knox Thames provides fresh, d...

Missionary Spirituality

Over the past years, a lively cooperation has been developed between Catholic and Protestant Missiologists, who have experienced ecumenic...

Ritual and Resonance

Ritual and ritualization have become central concepts in cultural and social studies. This book shows why it is productive neither to equ...

Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary

A comprehensive dictionary of Hebrew and Aramaic words occurring 10 times or more for Hebrew words and 5 times or more for Aramaic words....

Sri Chinmoy - Bharat Mata II

Seven books on India, and some of India's great spiritual figures. Book titles include: Sri Aurobindo: The Infinite Aurobindo versus Sri ...

Targums and Rabbinic Literature - 7

Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies is a multivolume series that seeks to introduce key ancient texts that form the cultural, hi...

A New Copernican Turn - Contemporary Cosmology, the Self, and Orthodox Science-Engaged Theology

This short book discusses the latest in terms of cosmology's knowns and unknowns, and sets out to ascertain the potential of Orthodox Chr...

Anticultism in France - Scientology, Religious Freedom, and the Future of New and Minority Religions

This Element introduces readers to the problem of anticultism and antireligious movements in France. It offers an overview of anticultism...

Exhortation to the Monks by Hyperechios - Reflections on the Spiritual Journey

"Hyperechios is a little-known monk of the fourth to fifth centuries, who is thought to have lived in Roman Palestine, possibly coastal S...

Religious Trauma

When religion is the cite of abuse and trauma, it can deeply impact a person's ability to relate to God and engage in spiritual practice....

Children in New Religious Movements

New Religious Movements have arisen not only in the present but have also developed in the past. While they differ in ideology and practi...

Schools for the Lord's Service - A History of the American-Cassinese Congregation of Benedictine Monasteries 1855-2023

An inspiring narrative history of the oldest congregation of Benedictine monasteries in the United States. Commissioned by the American-C...

Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran - A Socio-Legal Analysis

This Element offers a theoretically informed examination of the manner in which religion, especially alternative and emergent religious a...

Moral Debates in Contemporary Catholic Thought - Paradigms, Principles, and Prudence

A lucid introduction to Catholic moral theology with individual chapters exploring such controversial issues as abortion, the death penal...

In the Doorway of All Worlds - Gonzalo de Berceo's Translation of the Saints

In the Doorway of All Worlds revisits the hagiographical poetry of Gonzalo de Berceo in the context of the emergent vernacular culture of...

Could a Good God Permit So Much Suffering? - A Debate

Could a Good God Permit So Much Suffering? presents a debate about whether the kind of world we live in, ridden with horrendous evil, is ...

Proceedings against the 'scandalous ministers' of Essex, 1644-1645

This book records the ordeal of parish clergy in Essex who were the victims of Parliament's purge of the clergy in 1644-45.

Charles Darwin - No Rebel, Great Revolutionary

The Roman Curia - History, Theology, and Organization

"The Roman Curia is the central body for the administration of the Roman Catholic Church. The structure and organization of the Curia are...

Korean Religious Texts in Iconic and Performative Rituals

This book examines the ways in which scriptures are accepted and appropriated by religious people in Korea. It explores how sacred texts ...

The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Artificial Intelligence

This Cambridge Companion covers the field of Religion and AI comprehensively and provides an authoritative guide to the field. It introdu...

LGBTQ+ Educators in Catholic Schools - Embracing Synodality, Inclusion, and Justice

This is the first comprehensive treatment of LGBTQ+ educators in Catholic schools, and why their continued inclusion in the classroom is ...

New Religious Movements in North America - An Introduction

"Among the new religious movements explored in this book are the Church of Scientology, the Branch Davidians, the Nation of Islam, the Ch...

Latin American and Us Latino Religions in North America - An Introduction

"Students are encouraged to consider how the study of religion in Latin American and Latinx contexts of North America necessarily pushes ...

The Centrality of Christ in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance - Some Dogmatic Implications

Leading systematic theologian, Paul D. Molnar examines the theology of Thomas F. Torrance in three powerful essays. In a ground-breaking ...

Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change: Sovereignties and Disruptions

Christian Cosmopolitanism - Faith Communities Talk Immigration

Forthcoming Fall 2024

The Woman Question in Islamic Studies

The interconnected ways that sexism functions in academic Islamic studies and how to shift professional norms toward parityDespite remark...

The Moral Vision of Pope Francis - Expanding the US Reception of the First Jesuit Pope

"The papacy of Pope Francis has ushered in remarkable changes for the Roman Catholic Church. From a new emphasis on collegiality in eccle...

The Integrity of the Qur'an - Sunni and Shi'i Historical Narratives

Advances the method of isnād-cum-matn analysis for unravelling complex aspects of early Islamic history

Jimmy's Faith - James Baldwin, Disidentification, and the Queer Possibilities of Black Religion

A novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transformative potential The relationship of James Baldwin's life and...

Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast - Uchawi in Pemba

Traces changing visions of mystical power and authority on the island of Pemba, whose people's reputed resistance to outside rule has sha...