Sam van Schaik 
Buddhist Magic [EPUB ebook] 

This volume draws together ethnographies of female initiation rites in Melanesia which require anthropologists to rethink their analysis of initiations and their perceptions of gender. The contributo …

Pauline Christianity sprang to life in a world of imperial imagery. In the streets and at the thoroughfares, in the market places and on its public buildings and monuments, and especially on its coin …

What role do novels, drama, and tragedy play within Christian thought and living? The twentieth century Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar addressed these questions using tragic drama. For hi …

Julia Ogilvy interviews twelve of the most notable Christian women of our time, exploring their disappointments, ambitions and hope for the future place of women in the Church. The role of women in t …

In 1928, a young Lebanese woman, Nazira Zeineddine al-Halabi, wrote a book called ‘Unveiling and Veiling’, an indictment of patriarchal oppression in which she boldly stated that the veil was un-Isla …

Since the original publication of Playing God? in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have moved to the center of the public conversation about the ethics of human bioengineering. Cloning, …