Olav Hammer & Mikael Rothstein 
Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements [PDF ebook] 

Religion is living culture. It continues to play a role in shaping political ideologies, institutional practices, communities of interest, ways of life and social identities. Mediating Faiths brings …

This volume is a concentrated examination of the varied roles of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel and Judah, shedding light on the social world of the Hebrew Bible. Divided into discus …

This unique and entertaining travel guide to Greek waters recreates parts of voyages undertaken in myth, anchoring off landmarks or ports associated with ancient legends. It follows the trails of Ody …

Hand painted on canvas, this set of Stations resulted from the artist”s two great loves, the passion of Christ and art. These modern illustrations of the Stations of the Cross are open to personal i …

Sacred Enigmas assesses the religious and intellectual significance of the Hebrew Bible both as a document of its time and as an important step in the development of thought. It presents the major as …

Through engagement with theologies of adoption, pro-natalism, marriage, and queer theology, Susannah Cornwall figures developments in models of marriage and family not as distortions of or divergence …

In Transcendence , thinkers from John Milbank, Graham Ward, and Kevin Hart, to Thomas Carlson, Slavoj Zizek, and Jean-Luc Marion have come together to create the definitive analysis of this key conce …

What is secular biblical criticism? ”Secularism and Biblical Studies” presents a selection of essays that examine the nature of secular biblical studies and its hermeneutical principles. The essays …

This book addresses critical questions about how legal development works in practice. Can law be employed to shape behavior as a form of social engineering, or must social behavior change first, rele …