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Assembling Futures - Economy, Ecology, Democracy, and Religion

Transdisciplinary insights at the intersection of religion, democracy, ecology, and economy What is the relationship of religion to econo...

A History of the Desire for Christian Unity, Vol. II - Paths Towards Communion

"A History of the Desire for Christian Unity is a multi-volume reference work on the history of the Ecumenic movement. Scholars from acro...

Most Adaptable to Change - Evolution and Religion in Global Popular Media

How Multimedia Influenced Relationships between Evolutionary Studies and Religion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint - Third Corrected Edition

Das seit vielen Jahren bewährte Spezial-Lexikon zur griechischen Ausgabe des Alten Testaments (Septuaginta), erscheint in einer erneut du...

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.

Anglican Confirmation 1820-1945 - From 'Renewing the Baptismal Covenant' to 'The Sacramental Principle'

This book focuses on Anglican confirmation in theology, liturgy and practice from 1820 to 1945.

Exploring Film and Christianity - Movement as Immobility

This book examines the connections between film and Christianity, considering how films express and depict Christian faith and spirituali...

Prayer in the Ancient World Vol.1

Prayer in the Ancient World (PAW) is a major new resource on prayer in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. With over 350 entries it ...

Ancient Synagogues in Palestine - A Re-Evaluation Nearly a Century After Sukenik's Schweich Lectures

Nearly a century has passed since Eleazar Lipa Sukenik delivered the Schweich Lectures on ancient synagogues in Palestine and Greece, est...

Cultural Adaptation in Chinese Mental Health Translation

This open access book demonstrates the necessity, feasibility, and effectiveness of cultural adaptation in the translation of mental heal...

Karl Barth Spiritual Writings

"This CWS volume includes a selection, with introduction and commentary, of spiritual writings by one of the most significant Protestant ...

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 ...

Geopolitics of Global Catholicism - Politics of Religion in Space and Time

Geopolitics of Global Catholicism uncovers the key trends in today's Catholicism, including its deep entanglement with national, regional...

Sex Therapy with Religious Patients - Working with Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Communities

Sex Therapy with Religious Patients is a comprehensive guidebook for mental health professionals who work with those struggling with sexu...

Chinese Mental Health Scale Translation

This open access book illustrates the key steps and procedures of developing mental health scales into linguistically and culturally appr...

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...

Religious and Cultural Difference in Modern British Political Cartoons

Focusing on British broadsheets such as The Times and The Guardian, and tabloid publications such as The Sun and The Daily Mail, this boo...

Faith's Answer 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?

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender and Sexuality

Bringing together disciplines across the arts, humanities and social sciences, this Handbook presents novel and lively examinations of th...

Martinez de Pasqually - Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings Into Their Original Property, Virtue and Divine, Spiritual Power

Élus Coën Instruction from the Eighteenth Century Hardback, Digital-Cloth Cover with Dust Jacket Pasqually's 'Treatise on the Reintegrati...

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 ...

The State of Theological Education in Central and East European Universities - Challenges and Prospects in View of Secularization and Globalization

What is the role of theological education in academia and in God's mission to the world? Is the university still understood as the place ...

God and Happiness

This Element explores the connection between God and happiness, with happiness understood as a life of well-being or flourishing that goe...

The Production of Entheogenic Communities in the United States

The rise of entheogenic religion - that is, religions that involve the use of psychoactive drugs - has captured the attention of scholars...

Monotheism and Peacebuilding

This book addresses the opportunities and constraints operating on monotheistic peacebuilding, focusing on the three Abrahamic faiths, Ch...

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...

Survey of the Old Testament Workbook | Softcover

This workbook accompanies A Survey of the Old Testament by Andrew E. Hill and John H. Walton. Following the textbook's structure, it offe...

The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics

The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics contains over fifty chapters written by international scholars covering all aspects of metaphysics...

The Gift of the Stranger - Faith, Hospitality, and Foreign Language Learning

A pioneering look at the implications of Christian faith for foreign language education. It has become clear in recent years that reflect...

The Mitre: Its Origins and Early Development

The story of the mitre began during the 11th-century church reform movements and was, surprisingly, inspired by a popular pastime. After ...

Starting with the Spirit - The T&t Clark Introduction to Third Article Theology

Trinitarian in its foundation, pneumatological in its impetus, and comprehensive in its scope, Third Article Theology (TAT) is both a met...

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...

Revelation and the Word of God - Theological Foundations of the Christian Church - Volume 2

"Why do we need a revelation? How far can human reason provide a natural knowledge of God? How is revelation connected with history and w...

Hell - In Search of a Christian Ecology

Escaping global warming hell, this revelatory book shows, requires a radical, mystical marriage of Christianity and biology that awakens ...

Félix Ravaisson - Fragments on Philosophy and Religion

Félix Ravaisson: Fragments on Philosophy and Religion offers accurate translations of a selection of writings from Ravaisson's notes on t...

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...

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...

Parapsychology - The Science of Unusual Experience

This new edition of Parapsychology continues to challenge and provoke readers with some of psychology's most puzzling phenomena. Whether ...

Creationism in a South Korean Culture - Science, Religion, and the Struggle against Evolution

Park investigates the unexpected success of early Korean creationists, who were mostly scientists, and argues that creationism is not a p...

The Nostalgia for Origins - Religion, Evolution, Cognition and Memory

This book examines a possible source for the origin of religion, using the theory of evolution and findings from cognitive science. It ad...

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...

Christians at Home - John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch

Examines Christian home life in late antiquity through the writings, teachings, and reception of John Chrysostom, an Antioch priest who b...

Demons in the USA - From the Anti-Spiritualists to QAnon

Demons in the USA argues that a discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over...

Chaplaincy and Seafarers - Faith at Work

A sociological exploration of the faith, work, and lives of port chaplains and the seafarers they minister to. The volume combines ethnog...

The Bible and Sustainability - Bringing Biblical Passages and Practices into the Ecological Debate

This book addresses the ecological crisis the world is facing and what the Bible can teach us about sustainable living, attempting to pus...

The Universal Way of Salvation in the Thought of Augustine

"How does Christ's mediation affect the individual human being? And how does that effect on the individual human being's soul relate to t...

Holy Waters - An Interdisciplinary Examination of Religion and Alcohol

This edited volume brings together scholars from across disciplines to examine the historical, social, ritual, economic, political, and c...

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...

The Nusayri Path of Knowledge - A Study and Critical Edition of ʿiṣmat Al-Dawla's (Thrived 11th Century) Manhaj Al-ʿilm Wa L-Bayān Wa-Nuzhat Al-Samʿ Wa L-ʿiyān

This book is a study and edition of a crucial doctrinal source in Nusayrism: The Path of Knowledge and Clarification and the Bliss of Hea...

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...

Ancient and Indigenous Wisdom Traditions in African and Euro-Asian Contexts - Towards More Balanced Curricular Representations and Classroom Practices

This book brings attention to the understudied and often overlooked question of how curricula and classroom practices might inadvertently...

Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters

This book hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater H...

The Court of the Gentiles, Or, a Discourse Touching the Original of Human Literature - Both Philologie and Philosophie, From the Scriptures & Jewish Church: In Order of a Demonstration Of, I. the Perfection of Gods Word, and Church-Light. Ii. the Imperfec

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...

Israel's Lord - YHWH as "Two Powers" in Second Temple Literature

Israel's Lord reviews Second Temple Jewish literature, finding that many texts describe a concept known as "two powers" in heaven. The tw...

Islamic Liberation Psychology - The Transformational Force of Self-Development, Community Empowerment, and Revolutionary Change

Islamic Liberation Psychology is a thoughtful and groundbreaking guide to liberatory and decolonial thought.

Ancient African Religions - A History

This book examines the history of religions in Africa from the burial practices of the earliest humans to the rise of centralized theocra...

Historical Dictionary of Judaism

Historical Dictionary of Judaism, Fourth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and the dictionary section has o...

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...