Continuum

A new introduction to the field of Chinese religion and culture ideally suited to undergraduate students. [Språk: Engelska] Häftad

A monumental and authoritative work covering every aspect of Christianity and the impact it has made on the world, throughout history and to the pr...

Henn, William

Huang, Yong

This is a comprehensive study of the well known and the not so well known creeds. Dr Kelly's famous book - a study of the rise, development and us...

Sister Wendy leads us on a 'pilgrimage of desire' to view the earliest surviving Icons of Mary. 'These early images of Mary seem to me to have the...

This is an essential and indispensable reference work, covering the fascinating relationship between religion and nature. »The Encyclopedia of Rel...

Dunn, James D G

One of the most perplexing problems facing believers in God is the problem of evil. The words of Epicurus put the point concisely: »Either God wan...

This is a great way to get to know a lot of (mostly dead) existentialists whilst still holding down a day job. It is a very concise and precise int...

When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those ...

In the days of Moses, blasphemy was the mortal offence of failing to respect the divine. In an age of human rights, blasphemy is understood as a f...

In a strongly worded »notification,» in February of 2005, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith denounced Jesuit Roger Haight's aw...

The success of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code has raised new interest in Mary Magdalene and in the Gospel of Mary. Here, the author examines Mary Magda...

The Second Vatican Council declared the restoration of unity among Christians to be one of its principal concerns. Division among the Churches sca...

In Holy Misogyny, bible scholar April DeConick wants real answers to the questions that are rarely whispered from the pulpits of the contemporary C...

Written by an international and interdisciplinary team of biblical historians, theologians and other scholars, this is the most comprehensive refer...

Liturgy in a Post-Modern World grapples with the future of liturgy at a time of exceptional uncertainty in the Christian Churches. In the summer ...

Mary Grace and Hope in Christ: the Seattle statement of the Anglo-Roman Catholic international commission, the fifth statement of the second phase ...

Many Muslim societies, regardless of location, are displaying a 'youth bulge', where more than half their populations are under the age of 25. An ...

It is not a lack of training in the art of rhetoric that accounts for the ineffectiveness of preaching within Christian churches. More significant ...

Since the middle of the twentieth century, there has been a renaissance of new insights into God in the Christian tradition. On different continent...

'Since the middle of the twentieth century,' writes Elizabeth Johnson, 'there has been a renaissance of new insights into God in the Christian trad...

This is an analytical and reflective look at the contribution that Christian-Muslim partnerships can make to community cohesion. In »Religious Coh...

In order to impart a deeper understanding the relationship between the various arts and theology, and especially liturgical celebrations, Roman Cat...

'Spirituality' is a word that is used increasingly these days yet it is often ill-defined. What exactly is spirituality? Is it distinct from reli...

Søren Kierkegaard was one of the most important European philosophers of the nineteenth-century and is widely regarded as the founder of existentia...

This volume in the Studying World Religions series is an essential guide to the study of Judaism. Clearly structured to cover all the major areas ...

Leading Catholic biblical scholar Henry Wansbrough provides a pithy and readable commentary covering all the Sunday readings for years A, B and C. ...

Explores the causes of evil in myth, encompassing themes such as defilement, the figure of the trickster, evil people both within and outside the s...

This is an informative and engaging book about monasticism, its history, practice, and relevance to contemporary life, combining personal insights ...

Deleuze's relationship with theology is a complex one. Indeed, there seem to be many possible objections to such an 'assemblage' taking place. In...

The first-century Jewish woman Miriam of Nazareth, mother of Jesus, proclaimed in faith to be Theotokos, the God-bearer, is the most celebrated fem...

Bart Ehrman a leading biblical scholar reveals the many challenging and even disturbing, early variations of our cherished biblical stories. With t...