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Upending a longstanding consensus, Bruce W. Longenecker presents a wide variety of material artifacts to illustrate that Christians made use...

This reader fills a gap in classroom offerings by exploring historians' ongoing attempt to understand the social and cultural aspects...

In Vier Bloed-mane ondersoek Pastor John Hagee die bonatuurlike verband tussen sekere hemelse gebeurtenisse en Bybelse profesie. Geïnspireer deur...

This volume sheds light on how particular constructions of the 'Other' contributed to an ongoing process of defining what 'Israel'...

Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an...

This is the first book to consider the general course and significance of the European witch craze of the sixteenth...

What does the world admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education, consumer goods—but not, it seems, freedom and democracy....

Description is for all volumens in series-THE AFRICAN ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION, RELIGION AND YOGA SPIRITUALITY AND ETHICS PHILOSOPHY HARD COVER...

<P>Today the study of American religion continues to move away from an older, European American, male, middle-class, northeastern, Protestant narrative...

Christian metal has always defined itself in contrast to its non-Christian, secular counterpart, yet it stands out from nearly all...

How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic,...

How might one live the Christian faith within a culture that idealizes and privileges Christianity while also relativizing it and...

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

Exploring California as a theological place, this book renders critical engagement with significant Californian religious and theological phenomena and the...

The Christian faith has always stood in a place of tension between its transcendent nature and the surrounding culture. On...

This groundbreaking book on modern Palestinian culture goes beyond the usual focal point of the 1948 war to address the...

These essays explore new methods and overlooked traditions that appear to shed light on how the founders of the Christian...

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

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

When African scholars lament over the near destruction of African cultures, they do not reflect the reality of African women's...