This collection explores the Gospel of John regarding Jews and the origins of Christian anti-Judaism. It examines how Johannine Christianity was tied to ancient Judaism while distancing itself from Jewish culture, providing vital context for modern Jewish-Christian dialogue.
This book examines how religion, politics, gender, and sexuality in Zimbabwe have been gendered and sexualised to trap women in tradition and bar them from playing a participative role. Its findings cut across disciplines to empower people in theory and practice.
Ambrose of Milan, Christian Sage
Ambrose of Milan melds philosophy with Scripture, holding that life’s purpose is to serve the common good. At the heart of his theology is misericordia: a moral reset of forgiveness and benevolent justice for the marginalized, future generations, and the earth itself.
Secularism in French Cultural Discourse
This book explores the interplay between literature and law, revealing how writers have shaped French secularism. It examines pivotal debates on religious freedom, church-state separation, and equality, offering a view of laïcité beyond purely legal interpretations.
Anticipating Veil Ban Effects
How do veiling bans truly impact Muslim women? This vital research uses critical racial feminism to analyze the consequences for their quality of life and human rights, questioning the balance between state interest and individual freedom in the West.
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.
Custodians of Purity
This book integrates anthropological rigour with a personal quest for truth. Through the stories of four women in the Brahma Kumaris, it explores purity as a transformative force, revealing a path to profound self-respect, peace, and spiritual authenticity.
An anthology of texts from significant writers between the Renaissance and the late seventeenth century, from Ficino to Dryden. The study traces a growth of self-awareness, worldview scepticism, and aesthetic exuberance.
Imprints of Jesus of Nazareth
The Veil of Manoppello shows a face, alive. The Shroud of Turin, a body, dead. For 2000 years, their origin has been a mystery. Now, discover overwhelming new evidence from the first scientific examination of the Veil, linking both relics to one man.
This ground-breaking volume shows how leading Islamists use Islamic legal theory to create a liberal theory compatible with secularism. This rests not on a break with heritage, but on rediscovering it by shifting focus from what God said to what He intended.
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.
A Concise History of Japan
Although modern Japan is well known, its long history of governance, rituals, and conflict is not. This book summarizes the history of Japan, including the incidents and monuments of historical significance, from the Jomon period to the end of the Heisei period.
This study explores the Mass and sacraments developed by Jesuit missionaries and their Huron allies in 17th-century New France. Drawn from the Jesuits’ own chronicles, it presents the liturgy celebrated before the community was massacred and became the North American Martyrs.
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.
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 study presents the Pentateuch in both its wider Biblical context and a close reading of the five books. Synthesizing historical and literary approaches, it investigates aspects of these texts that remain challenging and helpful for anyone searching for the path of faith.
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 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.
Christians’ and Muslims’ Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria
This collection of essays engages Christians and Muslims’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from theological, sociological, and gender perspectives. It presents coping mechanisms for religious institutions and offers strategies to adopt for future pandemics.
The Christian-Islamic Vision of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror
This book is about the debt owed to a martyr of Ecumenical Romanity: Mehmed the Conqueror. His Christian-Islamic Roman vision, in the line of Alexander and Constantine, was stopped by the West, a conspiratorial son, and a lurking doctor in the service of Venice.