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Paul H B Chang

The Spiritual Person

Watchman Nee (1903-1972) was a Chinese minister who promoted a unique set of Christian teachings. They included the idea that people were created with a human spirit, distinct from the human soul, and tha…

Harriet I Flower

The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden

A richly detailed study of everyday religion in ancient RomeThe most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the…

Julie Masis,

How My Grandfather Stole a Shoe (and Survived the Holocaust in Ukraine)

During World War II, thousands of Moldovan Jews were imprisoned in the Obodovka ghetto, located in the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine. Unlike the areas under German control where Jews faced systematic …

Marty Wheeler Burnett

Shapers of the Hymnal 1982

Explore the groundbreaking Hymnal 1982 through the eyes of its creators as the Episcopal Church celebrates the fortieth anniversary of its publication.The Hymnal 1982 is a landmark publication that has sh…

Fatima Quraishi

Palimpsests Past and Present

Established in the late fourteenth century in what is now Sindh Province, Pakistan, the Maklī necropolis grew over three centuries to a site of more than seventy monumental tombs and mosques, and hundreds…

Government Issue

Complete History Volume 1

Fergus Butler-Gallie

Twelve Churches

Karen Armstrong meets Pico Iyer in this sweeping history of Christianity that visits a dozen places of worship on every inhabited continent to tell their often wild stories and examine their sometimes dif…

Joseph L. Locke

One State Under God

A broad and accessible history of religion in Texas, from prehistory to the present.From sprawling megachurches to religious billboards and towering steel crosses, religion quite literally looms over Texa…

Lisa Silverman

The Postwar Antisemite

In the wake of the Holocaust, Austrians, Germans, and others often turned to a figural Antisemite to come to terms with their altered political, economic, and cultural circumstances and to shape new natio…

Lisi Linster

Somatic Sculpture

This book explores the return of the somatic - the bodily and emotional response that an object produces in the viewer - in contemporary life-cast sculpture, revealing how the body-centricity of pre-moder…

Joel R Beeke, Fraser E Jones, Randall J Pederson

Meet the Puritans

Whether you're meeting them for the first time or returning with questions, this is the indispensable guide to the lives and works of the Puritans.If your impression of the Puritans comes from grim portra…

Words Hurt

**Investigates how discourse spills from language to action, generating, obfuscating, and perpetuating violence while also offering the words, principles, and practices that may interrupt it.**We are cont…

Markus Ohler,

History of Early Christianity

"Describes the history of Early Christianity from Jesus of Nazareth to the time of the Second Judean Revolt, presenting the developments of early Christianity in antiquity, drawing on both ancient Ju…

Miriam Chusid

The Ill-Fated Afterlife

In thirteenth-century Japan, death was fraught with spiritual uncertainty. Salvation depended on dying with perfect concentration on the Buddha--an ideal that was seemingly unattainable amid political uph…

Thomas S. Bremer

Sacred Wonderland

Sacred Wonderland explores the historical role of religion in making Yellowstone National Park a meaningful American icon.

Tzahi Weiss

Rethinking the Beginning of the Kabbalah

The Kabbalistic literature, with its enigmatic secrets, vivid mythical depictions, and profound mystical content, along with its exhortations and admonitions to study its contents with great caution, is a…

Fatimid Cosmopolitanism

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies has published the following work as open access. The Fatimid caliphs (297-567/909-1171), who were also the Ismaili Imams, reigned over a va…

Justin A. Davis

Moving beyond Theoria toward Theosis

Moving Beyond Theoria Towards Theosis focuses on the telos of man as understood in Plato's theoria, envisioned in the allegory of the cave, and early Christian reinterpretation of theoria as theosis. In h…

Fatimid Cosmopolitanism

This book examines the diverse achievements of the Fatimid dynasty across religion, statecraft and art.