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This unique encyclopedia describes how a wide range of religious groups from an even wider spectrum of religious denominations has acted vigorously to influence public policy since the beginning of the republic.

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This volume provides an introduction to the major classic and modern writings dealing with religious sacrifice. It traces the history of scholarly attempts to define, classify and explain sacrifice and offers a view of the competing theories of sacrificial behaviour.

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This volume provides an introduction to the major classic and modern writings dealing with religious sacrifice. It traces the history of scholarly attempts to define, classify and explain sacrifice and offers a view of the competing theories of sacrificial behaviour.

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This book examines John Donnes theory of royal absolutism within a tradition of conformist thought.It argues that Donne displaced the conventional opposition between Catholics and Protestants and instead divided English subjects into two political categories: those who obey the law and those who break it.

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Worship even more than theology may be the key to a true understanding of the Church's history, for through it people express their interpretation of theology and religion. In this third volume (chronologically) of a planned several-volume series, Professor Davies traces liturgy's relationship to music, literature, and architecture; studies the eff

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Drawing from a rich collection of archival material and oral interviews, Preachers, Pastors, Prophets is the story of the Dominican friars of Aotearoa New Zealand and their impact on the communities and churches they served in New Zealand.

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Delves into the writings of a prolific mystic to argue that Ottoman Sufism was political

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From the shadow of the Kantian critique it to the Oxford debates over Darwinism that shook the discipline to the core, and from the death of God to the rise of new Evangelical movements, 19th-century theology was fundamentally reshaped by both internal struggles and external developments.

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An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman The contradictory Western visions of MuhammadIn European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren't the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators have also portrayed Muhammad as a visionary reformer and

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The Cathars, a beautifully illustrated volume by the leading author on the subject, unveils the mysteries surrounding the Cathars, their links with the Knights Templar, the Troubadours, and the search for the Holy Grail.

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Exploring seventy incidents that serve as a reminder as to whothe Prophet really was: a man of mercy and moral greatness who sought notthe praise of this world, but its betterment through his example.

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This is the story of 16 Carmelite Nuns who would not be cowed by the terror of the French Revolution and were martyred for their faith. Included with the story is a translation of the full relation of events left by Sister Marie de l'Incarnation, one of the surviving Carmelites, and various letters and other pieces of writing that survived.

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God: An Anatomy is cultural history and often controversial examination of the real God of the Bible.