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In a bold and moving book that is sure to spark heated debate, the novelist and cultural critic James Carroll...

Yoga classes and Zen meditation, New-Age retreats and nature mysticism-all are part of an ongoing religious experimentation that has surprisingly...

Religion, Material Culture and Archaeology offers a new understanding of the materiality of religion. By drawing on the field of...

EGYPT AND INDIA AFRICAN ORIGINS OF Eastern Civilization, Religion, Yoga Mysticism and Philosophy. Over the past several years I have...

This book, the second of two volumes, offers a comprehensive history of Israelite religion. It is a part of the...

Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. She examines...

Jeffry H. Morrison offers readers the first comprehensive look at the political thought and career of John Witherspoon-a Scottish Presbyterian...

"People and Events Every Christian Should Know In this 12-session DVD-based study, Dr. Timothy Paul Jones...

In 1963, as Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique appeared and civil rights activists marched on Washington, a separate but related social...

Lester L. Grabbe provides a concise and up-to-date introduction to the books of Kings, covering all the historical and interpretative...

This engaging and insightful history of the Qing dynasty (1636–1912) offers a systematic discussion of topics such as language, philosophy,...

These essays examine Iran�s place in the world--its relations and cultural interactions with its immediate neighbors and with empires and...

"Reinventing Religious Studies" offers readers an opportunity to trace the important trends and developments in Religious Studies over the last...

Colonial Spanish America is a book of readings about people-people from different worlds who came together to form a society...

Would you believe that 86 percent of LGBT people—from the proud marcher at the Pride Parade to the quiet, closeted...

A religious scholar and former evangelical Christian explores the history of the Bible, from the ancient Hebrew scrolls that Jesus read...

From struggles over identity politics in the 1990s to current concerns about a clash of civilizations between Islam and Christianity,...

The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition...

This is a cross-cultural study of the multifaceted relations between Buddhism, its materiality, and instances of religious violence and destruction...

The practice of Islam in the United States, spanning more than a century, has a contentious history that has escalated...