"History Culture Religion" downloads

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

This work outlines a brief history of conservatism from 800 BC to present day, and offers insight and suggestions for...

In this magisterial work, leading cultural critic Mary Eberstadt delivers a powerful new theory about the decline of religion in...

A useful and concise introduction to the worlds around the New Testament, focusing on seven key moments in the centuries...

In Paul and Economics, leading scholars address a variety of topics in contemporary discussion, including an overview of the Roman...

What does it mean to speak of a "canon" of scripture? How, when, and where, did the canon of the...

What is the nature and purpose of the Black Church? What is the relationship of the scholar of religion to...

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

Jesus was a Jew and not a Christian. That affirmation may seem obvious, but here an international cast of Jewish...

Why is the set of human beliefs and behaviours that we call "religion" such a widespread feature of all known...

In this magisterial overview of the Pentateuch John Van Seters reviews the various historical-critical attempts to read it that arise...

Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to...

One of the world's leading Bible scholars summarizes a career of study to ask the biggest questions: how has the...

An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation provides a much-needed introduction to womanist approaches to biblical interpretation. It argues that wom......

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W....

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

The author of Secular Truthfulness, Hannah Orion, has written another stunning work of revelation concerning the mysteries, mythology, symbolism, and...

The last three decades have seen an explosion of biblical scholarship on the oral expression of tradition among Jesus' followers....

15 Reasons This Is The Generation That Will be Left Behind Jesus stated clearly that it will be “business as...

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