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John Guy, Julia Fox

Hunting the Falcon

"A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falconbrilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combined to accelerate Anne's triumph and tragedy." ---Tina Brown, New York Time…

Government Issue

Complete History Volume 1

Waldemar Chrostowski

St. Paul of Tarsus

Leaving no stone unturned, this authoritative book offers fresh perspectives on the life, times, and zealous ministry of St. Paul. Historian and professor Rev. Waldemar Chrostowski provides the chronology…

Leslie E Todd

Sculpting Quito

A study of domestic religious sculptures in Quito

Stef Aupers, Dick Houtman, Galen Watts

New Religious Movements and the Romantic Spirit of Modernity

Although new religious movements (NRMs) are characterized as diverse and unique, this Element analyzes the cultural logic underlying this apparent diversity from a sociological approach. Section 1 demonst…

Steven Nadler

Spinoza, Atheist

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Steven Nadler, a fascinating historical and philosophical narrative that unravels the mystery of whether Spinoza was an atheistIn 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommun…

Alan Watts

Out of Your Mind

In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and self…

Derek S Burdette

Miraculous Celebrity

A study of the Christ of Ixmiquilpan, a historically beloved religious icon from sixteenth-century Mexico, and its evolving cultural importance.

James Alison

You Can, If You Want to

What if Christianity was far more liberating than the culture wars suggest? Can the conflict concerning Christianity and homosexuality be viewed from a more interpretative lens? James Alison, a Catholic p…

Martha Bradley Evans

Constructing Space

Worldviews and experiences of place among noted religious communitiesReligion transforms and inspires specific ways of living in the world. Through architecture and the built environment, members of relig…

Maria-Magdalena Pruss

Rethinking Islamic Modernism

Over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Muslim modernist thinkers and writers in South Asia demanded a reconciliation between Islam and European thought in response to a perc…

Ryan P Burge

The American Religious Landscape

The American Religious Landscape uses an in-depth statistical analysis of large datasets to answer foundational questions about religious diversity in America. It focuses on the overall size, geographic d…

Xu Ma

Boundaries and Bodhisattvas

A striking new perspective on women, religious spaces, and literary culture during the Ming and Qing eras From the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries, Neo-Confucian ideology sought to reinforce the s…

Catherine Conybeare

Augustine the African

Augustine of Hippo (354-430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in history. His writings, including the autobiographical Confessions and The City of God , helped s…

Jennifer Walker

Berlioz's Requiem

Hector Berlioz's Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts, 1837) remains a fixture in the repertoire of choirs and orchestras today. Since 2003, it has been performed in its entirety over one hundred times and has…

Antonia Salzano, Andrea Acutis

God's Influencer

He played video games, excelled athletically and academically, manifested contagious joy and wit -- even in suffering -- and befriended all those he met. St. Carlo Acutis (1991-2006), already hailed "…

Christopher Insole

If God Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

What is the question to which God might be the answer?You can argue about God forever, and not change your mind. Believers and non-believers often talk at cross purposes, both failing to grasp what is rea…

Farid Hafez

Governing Islam in Austria and Germany

Governing Islam in Austria and Germany argues that the foundations of contemporary policies towards Islam in Austria and Germany are deeply rooted in colonial practices from the late 19th and early 20th c…

Unruly Books

This volume explores the idea of the unruly book, from books now known by their titles alone to books that subverted structures of power and gender. The contributors show how these books functioned as &qu…