79 products in Religion

Recent Reference Books in Religion provides incisive summaries and evaluations of more than 350 contemporary reference works on religious traditions ancient and modern that have been published in English, French and German.

Explores the fascinating and foreign social context of first century Palestine and the Greco-Roman East, in which the Chrstian faith was first proclaimed and the New Testament written, so enabling a better

Argues that the biblical historians were influenced by typology, interpretation of earlier texts, satire and ideology; shows how, with this model, we can put together a history of ancient Israel using the

Using in-depth examples of "magical" practice such as exorcisms, love rites, alchemy and the transformation of humans into divine beings, this lively volume demonstrates that the word 'magic' was used widely in

The developments in Judaism which occurred during the Second Temple period (c. 550 BC to 100 AD) were of great importance for the nature of Jewish religion in later centuries, yet few

Provides an analysis of the rituals and social customs surrounding death in the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka. This book describes the rituals of death and rebirth and presents an investigation of

This is an interdisciplinary study that explores the influence of Christian fundamentalism in a variety of nations in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The authors explain how American evangelicalism has developed its

Sage, Saint and Sophist explores the experience of holy men, both pagan and Christian, and the extent of their participation in the Roman Empire's religious climate which often wavered between faith and

Emmanual Levinas (1906-1995) is acknowledged as one of the great Jewish thinkers of the 20th century, yet during his lifetime he refused the label "Jewish philosopher". This book explores the relationship between

An exploration of the historical course and nature of early Christian theology, this text concentrates on setting it within particular traditions or sets of traditions. The contributors reconsider classic themes and texts

The authors examine the social history of popular protestantism in Ulster from the Evangelical Revival in the mid-eighteenth century to the conflicts generated by proposals for Irish Home Rule at the end

The Mythology of Modern Law is a radical reappraisal of the role of myth in modern society. Peter Fitzpatrick uses the example of law, as an integral category of modern social thought,

Robert Hayward offers a careful analysis of surviving accounts of the Temple and its service. All the central texts are provided in translation, with a detailed commentary. While descriptions of the Temple

These two immensely distinguished writers show how the writings of the early church emerged from communities which defined themselves in Judaic terms even as they followed Jesus; how the early movement is

Sacred Enigmas assesses the religious and intellectual significance of the Hebrew Bible both as a document of its time and as an important step in the development of thought. It presents the

Ray Billington explores the spirituality of Eastern thought and its differences from and relationships with the Western religious tradition by presenting the main principles of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Jainism and Confucianism. Billington

In this original study, Vernon Robbins brings together social-scientific and literary-critical approaches to explore early Christianity. Treating its canonical texts as ideological constructs, Robbins investigates Christianity as a cultural phenomenon, and expounds

This study establishes a concept of culture and then combines it with Geertz' anthropological concept of "thick description". Subsequently, the relation of texts to society and culture is discussed. In this manner,

Heidegger's Hidden Sources reveals for the first time Heidegger's remarkable appropriations of East-Asian philosophy. In this groundbreaking new study, Reinhard May shows that Martin Heidegger drew some of his major ideas--on occasions

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls 50 years ago revealed Jewish apocalypticism that was before unknown. The scrolls chronicled life in an apocalyptic community, whose members believed that the end of