This volume explores how well-being captures the imagination by addressing issues related to the social good and the quest for personal happiness. It discusses what difference the study of well-being makes from a Christian perspective.
Religious Periodicals and Publishing in Transnational Contexts
This volume explores the relationship between religion and print, examining the material devices, business structures, and cultural networks that circulate words and images to nourish religious faith in a global context.
The Christian Message as Vision and Mission
In our digital age, does the Christian message of love, hope and redemption still have relevance? The message is a way of life with a vision for humanity. This book provides philosophical considerations to establish points of encounter for believers and their critics.
Indonesian Muslims in a Global World
Muslim communities in non-Muslim countries have been an interesting topic in academia recently. Zulfikar serves to enrich previous literature on this important issue, highlighting Indonesian Muslims’ experience of living in between their home and their host society.
This title addresses the challenges that arise at the interface of science and religion in the 21st century. Drawing from many disciplines, including psychology and history, it considers the crucial questions of how science and religion can help shape our worldviews today.
Drawing on feminist commentary, this book examines the re-emergence of witchcraft beliefs. It argues that accusations are used to marginalize women, leading to pervasive violence, and assesses the effectiveness of human rights law in protecting them.
This compilation is the result of the 2016 conference of the UK’s Science and Religion Forum which brings together leading scientific and theological thinkers to reflect together on key issues in these two fields.
Sharma explores Quakerism, its legacy, and its relevance for Gandhian research, covering topics such as the historical circumstances that led to the birth of Quakerism, the history of the movement, the practices of the sect, and efforts of Quakers to make people more tolerant.
This volume offers insights from emerging and well-established Catholic scholars on Laudato si’, Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment. It focuses on the philosophical, ecological and anthropological aspects of Laudato si’, placing it within a specific history of ideas.
Aphorisms of Masquism
Grimes presents the monumental work of Swami R. Vaidyanathan (1913-1990), who was a research student at Cambridge under Lord Rutherford from 1934 to 1938, detailing his complete and unique philosophy, which aimed at reducing human suffering and promoting world welfare.
This collection highlights the divisive issue of the admission of women into the sacramental diaconal priesthood of the Christian Church from the Orthodox theological perspective, although the contributions also offer theological argumentation for the wider Christian community.
Jews in an Illusion of Paradise
Focusing on exemplary Jewish poets, artists, and critics once celebrated but now forgotten—not due to taste, but to social and political issues. This book examines their repressed anxieties and the clash with a culture that rejected their “otherness.”
Archaeological Approaches to Shamanism
This anthology delves into both ancient and modern shamanism, demonstrating its longevity and spatial distribution. It discusses the clear associations with this sometimes little-understood ritualised practice, and asks what exactly shamanism is.
Islām and the People of the Book Volumes 1-3
Over forty-five academics present scholarly studies on the treaties Prophet Muhammad concluded with Jewish, Christian, and other communities. This work offers unprecedented insight into the pluralistic nature of the state he created and includes translations of his Six Covenants.
This collection considers the human relationship with the natural environment from the perspective of religions and the social sciences. It makes it clear that religions can play a helpful role in raising ecological consciousness and supporting environmental preservation.
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.
This compendium offers updated accounts of Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe, and explores most of the dominant themes in contemporary Pentecostalism, including leadership, competition, gender, youth and prosperity.
A Charismatic Model of the Church
Lee focuses on Edward Irving’s teaching of the church as the body of Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and the eschatological community in holiness. He explores Irving’s emphasis upon the exalted humanity of Christ after His resurrection in relation to the church.
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe
The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. This volume documents the history of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Romania, Scandinavia and Finland, countries in which this religious community has had some troubles in the past.
Transformation of Political Islam in Turkey
Köni scrutinizes the causes and the nature of the major changes that Turkish political Islam witnessed from its emergence in the 1970s until the middle of 2012. He focuses on two particular aspects, specifically Turkish state elites and globalization.