Ten Gods
This book uncovers the shared origins of Indo-European gods, proposing a pantheon of ten deities who reflect the social organization of their prehistoric society. Analyzing sources like the Edda and Rāmāyaṇa, it reveals Europe’s original culture.
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.
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 unique collection of essays reflects the authors’ lived experiences in interreligious dialogue. This timely book will appeal to anyone seeking to deepen one’s faith or wanting to learn how to live harmoniously with religious others.
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.
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.
Women’s Movements and Countermovements
This volume explores women’s movements and their countermovements in Southeast Asia and North Africa. Covering case studies from Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco and Tunisia, it reveals the dominant pattern of Islamist movements countering the goals of women’s movements.
The Source of the Blue Nile
In Ethiopia, the Blue Nile is seen as the biblical river Gihon, flowing from Paradise. This book combines historic sources and new ethnography to present the rich myths, rituals, and cultural heritage structured around these sacred waters.
Who really wrote the Letters of Paul? Anonymous editors saved him from oblivion but distorted his message, adding anti-Jewish and misogynistic texts alongside the beautiful praise of love. This book reconstructs the first edition, removing 2000 years of changes.
This pioneering collection applies new theories from Comparative Religion to Celtic mythology and religion. A landmark volume for scholars of Celtic studies and related fields.
Edward Said and Jacques Derrida
By placing Edward Said and Jacques Derrida in each other’s company, these essays by leading scholars reconstellate their work on humanism. This collection opens questions of ethics and politics to reconsider the human subject in the global moment.
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed irrational behaviours like those described as diabolical possessions. This book presents the first edition of the Xiropotamou manuscript 98, an ancient exorcistic prayer, with a biblical study and an overview of the Rite of Exorcism in Byzantium.
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.
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.
Culture Shock and Multiculturalism
‘Culture shock’ is a useful model for human experience, but its most popular form promotes a replacement religion: Multiculturalism. This book shows how to divorce the concept from its religious dimensions and return both it and anthropology to the realm of science.
Triune God
The contributions to this collection discuss the importance of the ideas of St Gregory Palamas and his followers in understanding of God in terms of divine energies, and for contemporary approaches to solving perennial problems in science, metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics.
Teaching C. S. Lewis
This practical guide for C.S. Lewis study groups eliminates weeks of research. Covering his novels, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters, each chapter includes biographical sketches, chapter summaries, discussion themes, and study questions.
Ten articles on contemporary Muslim thought, gathered here, give testimony to the existence of plurality in Muslim theology. They each focus on the thought of a contemporaneous Muslim theologian and deliberate the interdependence between theological debates and their context.
The Quaker Condition
This book sociologically examines the ‘Quaker Condition’ in present-day Britain. A pioneering social science study of a single faith group, it analyses Quakerism as a hyper-liberal religion, prefiguring developments that may overtake conservative groups.
Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Stephens offers a clear and concise historical overview of the major religious movements of the ancient Mediterranean world existing from the time of the second millennium BCE up until the fourth century CE, including both the Judeo-Christian and pagan religious traditions.