Religion and Faith – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Re-Embroidering the Robe

Faith, Myth and Literary Creation since 1850

Edited By: Suzanne Bray, Adrienne E. Gavin, Peter Merchant

£34.99

Since the mid-nineteenth century, writers have retold old myths with fresh messages or created new ones for traditional truths. The eighteen essays in this book examine this transforming artistry in literature from 1850 to the present day.

Writing Fundamentalism

Edited By: Axel Stähler, Klaus Stierstorfer

£39.99

Fundamentalism is text-centred, but its complex and paradoxical relationship with literature remains largely unexplored. These essays explore this relationship, analysing literary representations of fundamentalism and revealing unexpected affinities between the two.

Charles Williams and his Contemporaries

Edited By: Richard Sturch

£34.99

After a period of neglect, interest in Charles Williams—Inkling, novelist, and theologian—is growing once more. This symposium contributes to the serious study of his work, exploring his novels, theology, and influence, which is being recognized more and more.

To Test the Limits of Our Endurance

By: Shlomo Giora Shoham

£44.99

A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.

After Satan

Essays in Honour of Neil Forsyth

Edited By: Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Kirsten Stirling

£39.99

In tribute to Neil Forsyth, these essays trace the lineage of the Satan figure through literary history. They chart the demonised other from biblical history and Milton to the contemporary novel, showing how evil functions as a necessary other.

Back to the Future

Israeli Literature of the 1980s and 1990s

By: Dvir Abramovich

From £24.99

This study opens a fascinating window into Israeli writing of the 1980s and 90s. It links the era's dramatic social and political transformations to the evolution of key literary genres like Holocaust literature, the Mizrachi novel, and detective fiction.

This study opens a fascinating window into Israeli writing of the 1980s and 90s. It links the era’s dramatic social and political transformations to the evolution of key literary genres like Holocaust literature, the Mizrachi novel, and detective fiction.

Byron’s Religions

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£44.99

This comprehensive study of Byron’s eclectic attitude to religion concludes he was never the atheist of cliché, but a man whose profound need for a faith always clashed with an equally profound scepticism.

Shakespeare on Love

The Sonnets and Plays in Relation to Plato’s Symposium, Alchemy, Christianity and Renaissance Neo-Platonism

By: Ronald Gray

£34.99

Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare's Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.

Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare’s Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.

Divine Madness

By: Harry Eiss

£54.99

Lila is the play of the gods, a free spirit of creation beyond the chains of reason and the clocks of time. Come, enter a realm of divine madness, where the trickster, the artist, and the savior weave the great tapestry of life. Join the play.

Hamlet of Morningside Heights

By: Kenneth Craven

£34.99

Craven uncovers Apostle Paul's ethics hidden in Hamlet, a discovery that unlocks seismic shifts in American culture and illuminates his own quest for power.

Craven uncovers Apostle Paul’s ethics hidden in Hamlet, a discovery that unlocks seismic shifts in American culture and illuminates his own quest for power.

On Wolves and Sheep

Exploring the Expression of Political Thought in Golden Age Spain

Edited By: Aaron M. Kahn

£39.99

On Wolves and Sheep explores the methods used in the Spanish Golden Age to voice political opinions. Studying works by Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and others, these original essays reveal critical thoughts concerning Spain’s monarchs and imperial policies.

Persona and Paradox

Issues of Identity for C.S. Lewis, his Friends and Associates

Edited By: Suzanne Bray

£39.99

This collection of essays examines the life and work of C.S. Lewis and his associates through the theme of identity. Scholars explore gender, family, and national identity in the writings of Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, and others.

Dialogic Openness in Nikos Kazantzakis

By: Charitini Christodoulou

£44.99

Charitini Christodoulou argues that a "dialogic openness" permeates Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation. Antithetical forces clash in unresolved tension, revealing that subjectivity and identity are always in the process of becoming.

Charitini Christodoulou argues that a “dialogic openness” permeates Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation. Antithetical forces clash in unresolved tension, revealing that subjectivity and identity are always in the process of becoming.

Language, Lineage and Location in the Works of Osbern Bokenham

By: Alice Spencer

£39.99

The first study of Osbern Bokenham since the discovery of his lost magnum opus. It reveals how Bokenham negotiates his marginality to claim poetic authority, countering patriarchal history by asserting an alternative, spiritual matrilineage.

The Figure of the Shaman in Contemporary British Poetry

By: Shamsad Mortuza

£44.99

This study locates five contemporary British poets in a counter-cultural tradition responding to state power. From Celtic druids to Thatcherism, these shamanic poets use ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy’ to wrest spirituality from religion and politics.

Visions and Revisions

The Word and the Text

Edited By: Roger Kojecký, Andrew Tate

£39.99

Literary texts draw on other texts and ideas to communicate. This book offers new ways to understand the creations of writers like William Blake, Salman Rushdie, and Hilary Mantel, exploring their labours with form and affinities to the Western spiritual tradition.

Christianity and the Detective Story

Edited By: Anya Morlan, Walter Raubicheck

£44.99

This is the first book of academic criticism on the connection between Christianity and the detective story. It covers Chesterton, Sayers, and contemporary TV crime dramas, making the case that mystery writing provides both entertainment and religious insight.

Science, Fables and Chimeras

Cultural Encounters

Edited By: Philippe Murillo, Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

£49.99

Imagination, religion, and mythology have both helped and hindered scientific progress. This interdisciplinary book weaves together visual art, literature, and science to explore our fascination with potent symbols like dinosaurs, dragons, and the chimera.

Transfigurations of the European Identity

Edited By: Zsolt Almási, Mike Pincombe

£39.99

European identity is both a problem and an opportunity. This interdisciplinary volume examines its complex facets—from cultural politics to digital media—to clarify and even create a new sense of what it means to be European.

A Northrop Frye Chrestomathy

By: Robert D. Denham

£52.99

A selection from the unpublished notebooks of Northrop Frye, Canada’s greatest literary critic. These insightful, startling, and unguarded passages reveal his fertile mind at work and showcase the seeds of the ideas he developed in his books and essays.