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.
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.
As tales of holy people moved across cultures and time, their meanings transformed. While basic storylines remained, changing details reveal important shifts in attitudes. This volume presents case studies from early China to Christian, Muslim, and Jewish contexts.
Public Theology and Institutional Economics
In our modern society, many public debates urge for attention to questions about the economy. This book shows why religious thinking offers unexpectedly relevant perspectives on our capitalist market, our urge for common ground, and our responsibility for a sustainable lifestyle.
African Pentecostalism and Eschatological Expectations
This book investigates the eschatology of African Pentecostalism concerning the second coming of Christ. It critiques literalistic Bible readings and presents a new Pentecostal hermeneutics, offering new ways of thinking to enrich and enlighten the movement’s hope.
Through twenty-six testimonies from those involved in honour killings (killers, victims, and the falsely accused), this important study reveals the malign intentions and agendas behind such acts and explores the dangerous point at which culture, crime and discrimination coalesce.
An insightful study of the Jewish theologian Martin Buber, this volume combines a review of the unconventional Zionism he proposed with a sensitivity to myth as the basis of an inclusive civil religion. It also discusses how his ideas were applied in practice.
An Environmental Ethic for the End of the World
Powell investigates Romans 8:19-22 and Paul’s Christological discourse as a source of ecological healing, arguing that Paul’s midrash provides deep insight into the biblical role of humans and their instrumentality in bringing both harm and healing to the world of nature.
Insights into Sufism
This book considers a broad range of questions on Sufism, from its history and poetry to its impact on daily life. It challenges the long-held view of Sufism as necessarily peaceful, through a consideration of Sufis engaging in violent Jihad.
Pāli, the Language
This book argues that the medium in which the Buddha spoke is as important as the message. Unlike formal Sanskrit, Pāli is an oral, musical language of the people. It reveals how its sonic content carries and enhances the Buddha’s practical philosophy for ending suffering.
Despite a secular culture, spiritual life persists. When manifested through the Christian faith, it has the power to surprise, transform and renew. This volume’s case studies describe the spiritual life as a transformative point of contact between God, world, society and self.
This book is a major contribution to studies on the Acts of the Apostles, examining how the New Testament writer quotes and interprets the Old Testament. It focuses on the nine explicit quotations in Stephen’s speech of Acts 7 and is for all students, ministers, and scholars.
In an over-sexualised culture, sexuality education is a sensitive and important issue. This book dispels the myth that sexuality is a taboo in Islam, exploring the subject within the matrix of Islamic beliefs and its moral grid of rights, obligations, justice, and equity.
Weaving Theology in Oceania
Woven like an ocean-going canoe, this book offers creative solutions to global needs from an Oceanic perspective. Hearing the cries of the suffering, it draws on Christian academic endeavor anchored in faith, hope and love for a continuing voyage towards a new consciousness.
This book highlights the cultures and religions of Mediterranean countries, discussing diversity, minority rights, and interreligious dialogue. It provides a roadmap to manage pluralism, helping different populations live together in harmony, acceptance, and coexistence.
The Posthuman Imagination
What does it mean to be human in the Anthropocene? This volume explores posthumanism’s response to this crisis through accessible essays. Featuring an interview with philosopher Francesca Ferrando, it explicates the subject through various literary and filmic texts.
Two Jewish scholars explore the historical Jesus and Messianic Judaism, bridging the gap between Jewish and Christian scholarship. This series of essays forges a new understanding across religious boundaries, turning serious research into a means for vital interfaith discourse.
Martin Buber and Eastern Wisdom Teachings
This book is a conversation between Martin Buber’s philosophy of Dialogue and wisdom from the East—particularly Zen Buddhism, Sufism, and Hinduism. It argues that God is the between of I and Thou, exploring the universal principle of relationship across spiritual traditions.
Rhetoric in 2Maccabees
2Maccabees describes the threat of Hellenisation, yet its authors ironically used Greek rhetoric to combat Greek influence. This book presents the latest post-2012 findings from nine prominent scholars, offering essential theological insights for serious Biblical scholars.
The Psalms are a key text of world literature, but archaic language can be an impediment for modern readers. This book provides a compact apparatus for exploring the text, including descriptions of places and events and a practical index to find psalms for real-world problems.