Piety in a Niqab
Women’s lives in black may seem primitive and subordinated. However, as this book shows, the women themselves tell a different story. They build their identities on the Qur’an and sunnah, achieving peace, happiness in this world, and salvation in the afterlife.
The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius
Salapatas analyses the history, theology and practice of the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius, an ecumenical body that promotes relations between various Christian denominations. He examines issues such as Church relations, Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, and iconography.
The ten articles here investigate the relationship between Chinese wisdom and the practice of modern management. The present-day application of the wisdom hidden within traditional Chinese culture and philosophy provides the study of modern management with fresh ideas.
This book builds on critiques of development theory by exploring the transformation of religious fundamentalism. Raising themes of development and intersectionality, it considers these processes in the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish-Zionist worlds and in China.
Why did Philo of Alexandria avoid the open use of dialectic? Does his interpretation of Abraham’s migration include a hidden political message? This collection of essays investigates these and other questions, exploring the ideological aspects of Philo’s approach to Scripture.
Christian–Muslim Dialogue
This book provides an intimate glimpse into the beliefs, attitudes and experiences of Australian Christians and Muslims towards each other. It highlights the factors that inhibit and/or motivate interfaith engagement, drawing on diverse fields like social psychology and history.
This book challenges the assumption that Islamism and democracy are incompatible. Drawing from fieldwork in post-Suharto Indonesia, it reveals how these forces can coexist through contestation and compromise, with implications for Muslim-majority countries.
Exploring Christian Identity from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
This book challenges the popular view that all Byzantines linked faith, Hellenic culture, and Roman rule. It explores the resistance of St. Maximus the Confessor to the emperor’s power in the church, revealing that many did not recognise the office of the emperor as holy.
This book discusses fundamental morals, helping the disciple of Jesus Christ direct human acts to God, their true happiness. It explores how Christ’s teaching, Natural Law, and human reason form a bridge between faith and life, guiding our conscience and moral decisions.
Dowry is a Serious Economic Violence
This book argues that the practice of dowry in India is evolving into gruesome economic violence, while the law has failed to keep pace. It explores the coercion and exploitation of women and suggests a multipronged approach to ending the culture of dowry violence with impunity.
The uncodified Khasi religion has no priesthood. Life-cycle rites are performed by maternal uncles, whose absence presents a crisis. This book explains how such crises are resolved, the rites used to thwart evil, and the role of the Ka Seng Khasi in preserving Khasi beliefs.
This book presents Luke’s Gospel as the source of the New Testament. A reading of Flavius Josephus and Latin inscriptions confirms the Evangelist’s reliability. His work was published so early, in the decade following the events, that even Mark and Paul knew of it.
The Nation of Islam’s Cautious Return to Americanity in the 2010s
This volume depicts the deradicalization of the Nation of Islam and its return to an American national identity. It offers a reflection on how ethnicity is more resilient than ethnic identity, allowing people to change identity and circumvent those imposed on them by birth.
Christianity and Islam
Challenging the belief that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, this book shows how the two faiths radically disagree. They present contradictory views on the nature of God, the divinity of Jesus, the crucifixion, human nature, sin, and scripture.
As European society segregates along religious and ethnic lines, static multiculturalism has failed, strengthening religious nationalism. This book presents a message to Europe’s elites: embrace the dynamic principle of interculturalism to build one society for all.
The World of the Axial Sages
This book analyzes the “Age of Awakening” in the first millennium BCE. It argues that earthshattering spiritual encounters led prophets and sages to redirect people away from stagnant traditions towards new forms of dynamic, personal spirituality.
The Israeli Druze Community in Transition
Through in-depth interviews with two generations of Israeli Druze, this unique book gives voice to a traditional people bound by a secret religion. How are they dealing with modernization? Can their very identity survive the meeting with the technological world?
Regulating Freedom of Religion
International human rights declarations empowered religious communities, making them powerful social and political actors. This book investigates the rulings that shaped these rights, exploring the paradox of religion’s power in a secular, globalizing world.
Christian Responses to Five Views of the Bhagavad Gita
This book examines five readings of the Bhagavad Gita, juxtaposing them with a Christian response to the text and its theology. Written for students and practitioners of interfaith dialogue, it is a resource to enable deeper conversations between Hindus and Christians.
What has Newman to say to a world where religion is mere opinion? This volume shows how he challenges us to think in an integrated way about the self, conscience in political life, and the individual’s relationship with the community and academic disciplines.
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