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Bano, Masooda

Nearly everyone has wronged another. Who among us has not longed to be forgiven? Who has not struggled to forgive? Charles Griswold has written the...

Taylor, Paul M

The director of Hebrew studies and professor of Old Testament interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary takes a fresh look at this book of orig...

This volume applies the principles of Christian ethics in examining recent significant developments in the science of genetics. Derived from a mod...

C. S. Lewis is one of the most beloved Christian apologists of the twentieth century; David Hume and Bertrand Russell are among Christianity's most...

This commentary differs from most others in that it does not attempt to repeat all the critical materials which can be found in the larger, major s...

The first book to offer an integrated reading of ancient Greek attitudes to laughter. Taking material from various genres and contexts, the book a...

Anglicanism can be seen as irredeemably English.In this book Kevin Ward questions that assumption.He explores the character of the African, Asian, ...

Tripp, Charles

Analyzing the treatment of homicide in the Hebrew Bible, this study demonstrates that it is directly linked to the social structure and religion of...

Bantekas, Ilias (Author), Oette, Lutz (Author)

Shaw, Malcolm N

The Vatican. The Inquisition. Contraception. Celibacy. Apparitions and miracles. Plots and scandals. The Catholic Church is seldom out of the news...

This is the first comprehensive introduction to Quakerism which balances a history of the theology of the Quakers or Friends with an overview of pr...

The world Methodist community now numbers over 75 million people in more than 130 countries.The story of Methodism is fascinating and multi-faceted...

Robinson, Chase F

Using archival materials from the Jewish communities of East and West Germany as well as governmental and political party records, Jay Howard Gelle...

Emmanuel Levinas was a significant contributor to the field of philosophy, phenomenology and religion. A key interpreter of Husserl, he stressed th...

Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Middle Ages were divided in many ways. But one thing they shared in common was the fear that God was offended ...

Khalidi, Muhammad Ali

Green, Joel B (Editor)

Hall, Donald E (Editor), Beer, Gillian (Editor)

Over ten million Muslims live in Western Europe. Since the early 1990s, and especially after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, vexing p...

The present study focuses on the theology of the Book of Jeremiah. That theology revolves around themes familiar from Israel's covenantal faith, e...

Covering more than three centuries of legal history, this study presents an important account of how Islam developed its own law from ancient Near ...

The Origins of Judaism provides a clear, straightforward account of the development of ancient Judaism in both the Judean homeland and the Diaspora...

This comparative interdisciplinary study of the rise of Christianity in the late Roman Empire and in colonial Mexico reveals that epidemic disease ...

Jantzen, Grace M

This text introduces the book of Psalms and provides an exposition of each psalm with attention to genre, liturgical connections, societal issues a...

Choudhury, Barnali

Ten writers present radical interpretations of religious belief in the styles of Donald Davidson, Robert Brandom, Richard Rorty, and William James ...

This important textbook provides a critical introduction to the social anthropology of religion, focusing on more recent classical ethnographies. ...

Coakley, Sarah (Editor), Clayton, John (Editor), Collins, Steven (Editor)

This book is an English translation of the French work La Religion Grecque. Its purpose is to consider how religious beliefs and cultic rituals we...

Beard, Mary (Author), North, John (Author), Price, Simon (Author)

Beard, Mary (Author), North, John (Author), Price, Simon (Author)