A rich and inclusive history of belief, from humanitys earliest days to our own times Religion is distinctly human. We can’t help wondering about where we come from and why we are here. Did some all-powerful being make the un...Loe edasi...
This magical narrative aims to take you on a journey following a golden string first written about by the eighteenth-century poet, artist and shaman William Blake. Fo...Loe edasi...
This groundbreaking study approaches contemporary yoga through a cultural and social anthropological lens, explicitly weaving together historical perspectives with lived practice. Moving beyond reductionist interpretations, such as Silvia Ceccomoris...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
A groundbreaking framework for discourse analysis, this book reveals how concepts originate and evolve through relational structures. Focusing on the long-contested terrain between religion and science, it introduces relationality analysis, a method...Loe edasi...
Heathenism has changed. In the 2010s, the global popular culture market saw a surge in the production and consumption of Viking-themed and Norse-inspired media products, with music, movies, t...Loe edasi...
This book offers a groundbreaking psychological exploration of how religion influences sport performance, motivation, injury recovery, and interpersonal dynamics in athletic settings. Bridging sport psychology and religious studies, it introduces tw...Loe edasi...
This book presents primarily firsthand information from some mysterious and unpublished archaeological sites excavated in the Swat Valley in the 1980s. In addition,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649033703)
A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentially hybrid forms and becomes p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197745809)
Edited by Simran Jeet Singh, Modeling Religious Pluralism brings together global leaders and experts to share experiences and practical advice on bridging divides across religious difference....Loe edasi...
This volume explores the many intersections of religion and health through the lens of Comparative Theology. International scholars from theology, religious studies, sociology and medicine reflect on what this interconnection means for their ......Loe edasi...
Addressing a significant gap in the field, Introduction to Religions of the African Diaspora brings together key themes-Africa, the Diaspora, colonialism, race, Black identity, and religion-into one cohesive and accessible volume....Loe edasi...
Addressing a significant gap in the field, Introduction to Religions of the African Diaspora brings together key themes-Africa, the Diaspora, colonialism, race, Black identity, and religion-into one cohesive and accessible volume....Loe edasi...
In Recycled Lives, Julie Chajes explores the rebirth doctrines of the controversial occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), matriarch of Theosophy. Examining her teachings in detail, Chajes places them in the context of multiple dim...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a fresh exploration of the enduring dialogue between Confucianism and Buddhism, two traditions that have profoundly shaped East Asian thought. Reviving an exchange long neglected in modern scholarship, it proposes a new comparativ...Loe edasi...
A practical guide to living with selfless love and attaining enlightenmentlike a lotus rising from the muddrawing on both Eastern and Western philosophies....Loe edasi...
This book examines the evolving intersection of urban development, ecological theology, and technological transformation across diverse spiritual traditions, including Hindu, Sikh, Islamic, Catholic, and Buddhist perspectives. In an age defined by d...Loe edasi...
Marking the 30th anniversary of its original publication, Russell T. McCutcheon revisits an influential critique of traditional scholarship on religion, given that, in his estimation, little has changed in the field despite the progress often said t...Loe edasi...
Sari: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197830444)
The life of virtue takes place in a field of adversities. It involves not only contingencies that can thwart the virtues but also the horrors and tragedies that can bring to naught even the sturdiest virtue. Persisting in the Good confronts...Loe edasi...
This book offers an examination of the intersection of American civil religion, religious nationalism, and American militarism. Tracing civil-religious themes like American chosenness, Americas place in the unfolding design of Providence, the dedic...Loe edasi...
This books explores several dimensions of conflict and transformation in Southeast Asian Islam, with a particular focus on the largest Islamic country in the region, Indonesia, based on a diverse range of in-depth case studies that engage local, nat...Loe edasi...
One of the most important conservative voices of the last century takes on the dangers of secularism in this, the most important book of his life. Your beloved dog and a stranger are drowning. Who do you try to save first?...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197833216)
The Meeting of Rivers reconstructs the prehistory of Indias newest religion, Virasaivism (or Lingayatism) from its own voices, drawing on unstudied and unpublished archival sources in several south Indian languages. By radically reframing o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197800232)
Given the theological significance of the state of Israel for many evangelicals worldwide, the existence of a population of Palestinian evangelicals seems counterintuitive at first. This small population shares with global evangelicals many common ma...Loe edasi...
This book provides the first comparative analysis of how religious, gender and national identities have been constructed in Christian, Buddhist and Hindu girls schools in Sri Lanka in the context of colonial histories and postcolonial struggle...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197818800)
First published in 1997, Manufacturing Religion was a controversial book because it critiqued a widely adopted style of scholarship that presumes that religion is utterly unique, inexplicable, and therefore able only to be interpreted by pri...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Georgetown University Press, ISBN-13: 9781647126841)
A fascinating exploration of religious belief as the key to understanding ourselves and other people, societies, and culturesWhen we explore the problem of God, we are exploring issues that force us to dig down into the very foundation of w...Loe edasi...
A fascinating exploration of religious belief as the key to understanding ourselves and other people, societies, and culturesWhen we explore the problem of God, we are exploring issues that force us to dig down into the very foundation of w...Loe edasi...
This book analyzes the contemporary politics of the Hajj in countries of Africa, the Near East, and Southeast Asia. States must organize the mobility of approximately two million pilgrims every year. States also manage the flow of vast amounts of fi...Loe edasi...
This magical narrative aims to take you on a journey following a golden string first written about by the eighteenth-century poet, artist and shaman William Blake. Fo...Loe edasi...
This groundbreaking study approaches contemporary yoga through a cultural and social anthropological lens, explicitly weaving together historical perspectives with lived practice. Moving beyond reductionist interpretations, such as Silvia Ceccomoris...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
A groundbreaking framework for discourse analysis, this book reveals how concepts originate and evolve through relational structures. Focusing on the long-contested terrain between religion and science, it introduces relationality analysis, a method...Loe edasi...
Sari: Traditions in Transformation. Thinking with Theology
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111331317)
The thread of historical continuity, Hannah Arendt once remarked, was the first substitute for tradition. To the historian, the assumed continuity of historical events became an Ersatzreligion of sorts, a substitute religion that rejected not the i...Loe edasi...
Hindus, Jews, and the Politics of Comparison argues that comparative studies of Hindu and Jewish traditions can generate alternative epistemologies, critically interrogating the Eurocentric and Protestant-based paradigms in the academy that have per...Loe edasi...
Heathenism has changed. In the 2010s, the global popular culture market saw a surge in the production and consumption of Viking-themed and Norse-inspired media products, with music, movies, t...Loe edasi...
This book offers a groundbreaking psychological exploration of how religion influences sport performance, motivation, injury recovery, and interpersonal dynamics in athletic settings. Bridging sport psychology and religious studies, it introduces tw...Loe edasi...
This book presents primarily firsthand information from some mysterious and unpublished archaeological sites excavated in the Swat Valley in the 1980s. In addition,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649033703)
A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentially hybrid forms and becomes p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197745809)
Edited by Simran Jeet Singh, Modeling Religious Pluralism brings together global leaders and experts to share experiences and practical advice on bridging divides across religious difference....Loe edasi...
This inspiring guide invites you to rediscover the true value of your mind and heart, uncover the boundless treasure within your soulforgotten in todays materialistic ageand awaken to a higher way of living rooted in spiritual awareness....Loe edasi...
Joachim Willems, Helmut Zander, Mathieu Cudré-Mauroux
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112239001)
Human rights are a central common denominator in global politics but they often only fulfil this function if cultural relativity is ignored. In this volume, we use the example of the human right to freedom of religion (Universal Declaration of Huma...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the many intersections of religion and health through the lens of Comparative Theology. International scholars from theology, religious studies, sociology and medicine reflect on what this interconnection means for their ......Loe edasi...
Sari: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Tension, Transmission, Transformation
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783119149099)
Thinking in binaries (us versus they) has often been identified as a characteristic of modern Western societies. This is reflected in the ubiquitous concept of identity, both in colloquial and academic discourse, which emphasizes differentiati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855803648)
Two important texts in the Sufi tradition made available together in English for the first time. Inscriptions of Wisdom brings together, for the first time in English, two pivotal Sufi texts that illuminate Ibn al-Arabs (d. 1240) celebra...Loe edasi...
Aike P. Rots, Georgina Drew, Florence Durney, Lindsey DeWitt Prat, Sonja Åman, Sonja Åman, Barbara R. Ambros, Darmanto Darmanto, Susan M. Darlington, Lindsey DeWitt Prat...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9798880702084)
Water Powers is an interdisciplinary collection that presents timely, original research on sacred aquatic animalsfrom dragons and nagas to crocodiles, eels, dugongs, and whalesand environmental change. Contributors examine the past and present signi...Loe edasi...
Addressing a significant gap in the field, Introduction to Religions of the African Diaspora brings together key themes-Africa, the Diaspora, colonialism, race, Black identity, and religion-into one cohesive and accessible volume....Loe edasi...
Addressing a significant gap in the field, Introduction to Religions of the African Diaspora brings together key themes-Africa, the Diaspora, colonialism, race, Black identity, and religion-into one cohesive and accessible volume....Loe edasi...
Shâmaran: The Neolithic Eternal Mother, Love and the Kurds covers one of the earliest ancient figures of Mother Earth, Shâmaran, of the Zagros Mountains, which is at the crossroads of Iran, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia, and has historically been a melt...Loe edasi...
In Recycled Lives, Julie Chajes explores the rebirth doctrines of the controversial occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), matriarch of Theosophy. Examining her teachings in detail, Chajes places them in the context of multiple dim...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a fresh exploration of the enduring dialogue between Confucianism and Buddhism, two traditions that have profoundly shaped East Asian thought. Reviving an exchange long neglected in modern scholarship, it proposes a new comparativ...Loe edasi...
A practical guide to living with selfless love and attaining enlightenmentlike a lotus rising from the muddrawing on both Eastern and Western philosophies....Loe edasi...
This book examines the evolving intersection of urban development, ecological theology, and technological transformation across diverse spiritual traditions, including Hindu, Sikh, Islamic, Catholic, and Buddhist perspectives. In an age defined by d...Loe edasi...
Marking the 30th anniversary of its original publication, Russell T. McCutcheon revisits an influential critique of traditional scholarship on religion, given that, in his estimation, little has changed in the field despite the progress often said t...Loe edasi...
Sari: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197830444)
The life of virtue takes place in a field of adversities. It involves not only contingencies that can thwart the virtues but also the horrors and tragedies that can bring to naught even the sturdiest virtue. Persisting in the Good confronts...Loe edasi...
This book offers an examination of the intersection of American civil religion, religious nationalism, and American militarism. Tracing civil-religious themes like American chosenness, Americas place in the unfolding design of Providence, the dedic...Loe edasi...
Thomas E Burman, Nuria de Castilla, Seonyoung Kim, Sergio La Porta, Jeremy Pearson
Sari: Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, ISBN-13: 9781614911418)
This book offers the first comprehensive edition and translation of all surviving versionsLatin, Armenian, Arabic, and Aljamiadoof the polemical correspondence attributed to the Byzantine emperor Leo III and the Umayyad caliph ?Umar II, providing in...Loe edasi...
This books explores several dimensions of conflict and transformation in Southeast Asian Islam, with a particular focus on the largest Islamic country in the region, Indonesia, based on a diverse range of in-depth case studies that engage local, nat...Loe edasi...
