Rebecca Carpenter 
Ambushed by Glory in My Grief [EPUB ebook] 

11 September 2001 in New York; 11 March 2004 in Madrid; 7 July 2005 in London: these dates remind us that suicide bombings, or ”martyrdom operations”, have become the common coin of international p …

Why do people study religion? How have they studied it in the past? How do we study religion today? Is the academic study of religion the same as religious education? These and many other questions a …

Will people of other faiths be ”saved” and to what extent should the response to this question shape Christian engagements with people of other faiths? Historically, the predominant answer to these …

Indispensable for anyone trying to understand Islam in the West When the Western mass-media talk of conversion to Islam, we are bombarded with accounts of vulnerable people brainwashed into a culture …

By considering transformative ideas and experiences which are explicitly articulated or implicitly structured in languages of religion and spirituality, Alternative Salvations probes concepts includi …

This study sheds light on the work of the evangelical scientists who sought to bridge the cultural divide Christianity and evolutionary theory. In the well-known Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925, famous …

The Theology of Louis-Marie Chauvet provides a much needed accessible introduction to the philosophical and theological foundations of Chauvet”s sacramental theology. Particular attention is given t …

Drawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergence of postsecular societies. Neo-Durkheimian categor …

A book of modern, engaged prayers following the rhythm of the Iona Community’s daily prayer cycle. Concerns include: health and wholeness and the ministry of healing * church renewal * the ecumenical …