Gods and heroes in the athenian agora

The author of this booklet shows where and how the major Olympian gods were worshipped, and then turns his attention to lesser-known deities, such as Hekate, the triple-bodied goddess of the crossroads.

Time and power in azraq refugee camp

WINNER OF THE 2023 ALIXA NAFF PRIZE IN MIGRATION STUDIES The politics and governance of Jordan’s Azraq camp for Syrian refugeesAzraq refugee camp, built in 2014 and host to forty thousand refugees, is one of two official humanitarian refugee camps for Syrian refugees in Jordan. Time and Power i...

The shum cities of the rhine

Since the High Middle Ages the three Jewish centres of the mid-Rhine region, Mainz, Worms and Speyer have been known by the acronym ShUM, composed of the first letter of the city names in Hebrew - Shin (Shpira), Waw (Warmaisa), and Mem (Magenza). These ShUM communities have a singular status for ...

Early medieval elite jewellery from great moravia and bohemia

The technological approach developed in this publication provides new insights into Great Moravian and Bohemian elite jewellery dated from the 9th and 10th centuries AD. It sheds light on the complex construction of these jewels, on the different manufacturing processes, and on the decoration tec...

The coptic papacy in islamic egypt, 641–1517

An authoritative account of the Coptic Papacy in Egypt from the coming of Islam to the onset of the Ottoman era, by a leading religious studies scholar, new in paperbackIn Volume 1 of this series, Stephen Davis contended that the themes of “apostolicity, martyrdom, monastic patronage, and theolog...

Borders and districts in biblical historiography

A letter that has not been read

Shaul Bar explores the etymology of key terms for dreams in the Hebrew Bible, presents dozens of examples of biblical dreams and visions, and categorizes them as prophetic, symbolic, or incubation. He studies biblical dreams and visions in the context of similar phenomena in the literature of nei...

Sifra, dibbura de sinai

Sifra is the earliest extant rabbinic commentary on the book of Leviticus. Howard Apothaker demonstrates that the set of rules in Dibbura deSinai on topics shared with Mishnah-Tosefta can be understood as an independent body of law.

Remember amalek!

The divine command to exterminate Amalek--men, women, children and even animals who have no free will--is what in contemporary terms has been called genocide. This book explores how the earliest commentators wrestled with the issues involved in this divine command that an entire people must be et...

David king of israel alive and enduring?

Introduction to the literature of the hebrew bible

An introduction to the Hebrew Bible, with aim, scope, and source of inspiration very different from those of for the standard Introductions.

The book of job in jewish life and thought

Critical essays on the work of ancient, medieval and modern Jewish writers to make sense of the book of Job, followed by a detailed survey of the place of Job in the Talmud and Midrashic corpus, in ethical, mystical and philosophical tracts, as well as in poetry and creative writing around the wo...

The verbal system of biblical hebrew

With his profound expertise in Biblical Hebrew, the Jewish Bible, Classical Syriac and the Septuagint, Jan Joosten presents here an impressive synthesis of the modern studies of the Hebrew verbal system.

Voices from the underworld

Embracing an ontological approach to religious phenomena, this study traces the origins and development of Chinese Hell deity worship now prevalent in Singapore and Malaysia. Written for academics and the interested public, it challenges a priori assumptions vis-à-vis the diversity of present-day...

Sara coleridge and the oxford movement

‘Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement’ reveals a significant body of virtually unknown religious works by a woman writer. The first scholarly edition of Sara Coleridge’s religious writings, it presents selections from works not published since the 1840s, and substantial extracts from a major un...

Edward bouverie pusey and the oxford movement

‘Edward Bouverie Pusey and the Oxford Movement’ challenges accepted scholarly wisdom regarding the life, personality and work of this once-famous Victorian scholar and churchman.

The ocean of god

‘The Ocean of God’ proposes that the future of religions will become transreligious. Its polyphilic pluralism, entertaining religious pluralism and the unity of religions mediated by process and Baha’i thought, assumes the spiritual impulse of humanity, despite secularizations, naturalizations an...

Chindian myth of mulian rescuing his mother – on indic origins of the yulanpen sūtra

The scriptural source for the Ghost Festival in East Asia is the Yulanpen Sūtra, which, however, is overwhelmingly considered apocryphal in modern scholarship. This book challenges this widely held belief by demonstrating that the sūtra is a Chinese creative translation rather than an indigenous ...

A sacred city

Through an examination of the rite and practice of consecrating (dedication) churches in eleventh-century Italy, A Sacred City examines how ritual was employed to foster the Gregorian reform and how sacred space shaped identity, generated conflict, and provoked a debate over symbolic meaning and ...

Islamic leadership and the state in eurasia

The book presents the first integrated study of the relationship between official Islamic leadership (muftiship), non-official Islamic authorities, grassroots Muslim communities and the state in post-Communist Eurasia. It employs a history-based perspective and compares this relationship to that ...

Ethical teachings of abū ḥāmid al-ghazālī

This book studies the interplay of economic philosophy and moral conduct as reflected in the writings of one of the most renowned scholars in Islamic history, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). Al-Ghazālī contributed to Islamic theology, philosophy, and Sufism but is also regarded as one of the fore...

The nostalgia for origins

This book examines a possible source for the origin of religion, using the theory of evolution and findings from cognitive science. It adds a theory of power to suggest the agency of early Homo sapiens.

Religion in history

This is an exceptional collection of essays that looks at the issues of conflict, conversion and coexistence in the religious context since the third century

What was the first bible like?

This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and...

Animals and plants in chinese religions and science

This transdisciplinary study focuses on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science. It examines how medieval religious agents engaged with animals and plants as material culture in the mundane world, and how the spiritual world and natural world mutually enriched each other in t...

A historical and theoretical guide to studying religion

The book is a historical and theoretical account of the development and present situation of what has come widely to be known as Religious Studies. This account emphasizes the complexity of the field due both to its origins and the uncertain and even conflicted position today of the academic stud...

Explorations in twentieth-century theology and philosophy

Ann Loades has been instrumental in bringing forward for the attention of readers in later generations “voices from the past,” notably highlighting the work of pioneering women such as Evelyn Underhill and Dorothy L. Sayers as well as advancing the study of better-known Anglican forebears C. S. L...

Studies on the carvaka/lokayata

This volume is the first attempt at a scientific study of the Carvaka/Lokayata, the materialist system of philosophy that flourished in ancient India between the eighth and the twelfth century CE.

Resourcing hope for ageing and dying in a broken world

For those captive to the broken world of late modernity, wherein ageing and dying persons become vulnerable to despair, this book not only offers a diagnostic of such despair but also resources the practices of a realistic, humanising hope that might enable a strength for person to journey with a...

Republican learning

Argues that far from being a marginal and insignificant figure, Toland counted queens, princes and government ministers as his friends and political associates

Martin del rio

This is the first English translation of one of the most important, interesting and comprehensive discussions of the occult sciences ever published.

Religion and identity in south asia and beyond

This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.

Political theologies and development in asia

A timely reassessment of the critical potential for political theology, this volume expands beyond the tendency to focus on the (post-)Christian West to open new lines of investigation. Through detailed empirical studies of development in Asia the chapters cast new light on the entanglements betw...

The mahanubhavs

This volume offers an overview of the origins and main religious and doctrinal characteristics of the Mahanubhavs, the ascetic, devotional sect that arose in 13th century Maharashtra.

Studies in hindu law and dharmaśāstra

This book presents for the first time a collection of the major studies on Hindu law and Dharmaśāstra by Ludo Rocher, one of the brightest lights of American academia. This collection of essays serves as an invaluable introduction to Rocher’s distinctive and important contributions to the field o...

Faith in the family

Assesses the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society

Tradition, veda and law

The essays presented in this volume constitute a progression from general considerations related to the ‘etic’ (in the geertzian sense of the word) approach to South Asian cultural productions, to peculiar and detailed investigations of them.

Religion, neuroscience and new physics in dialogue

Can we live with being merely a brain with a history of being souls? Can our supra-nature, learnt in the crucible of religion and expressed in theology, survive without being exiled to the quantum mysteries of consciousness? Our very survival depends on these questions being answered in this non-...

After jews

The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world “after Jews”. 

Burning the veil

During the Algerian War the French army engaged in the 'emancipation' of Muslim women, to subvert the nationalist movement while inflicting widespread violence. This contradictory, catastrophic policy, as in contemporary Afghanistan and Iraq, revealed the failure of imposed Westernisation and tri...

English benedictine nuns in exile in the seventeenth century

Provides the first detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the English Benedictine communities in exile during the seventeenth century, looking at their lived experiences, emotions and senses in religious life.

Irish women and the creation of modern catholicism, 1850–1950

This book analyses the roles that lay women and girls played in the evolution of Irish Catholicism and thus the creation of modern Irish identities.

Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age

This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. Rooted in the lived experiences of women religious in Britain, it explores British modernity, the social movements of the long 1960s and the Second Vatican Council, while acknowledging transnational relationships and global inter...

Islam in british media discourses

This book describes how non Muslims use the news to inform themselves about Islam and Muslims. It does so by exploring how media institutions function in society and how its practices affect the production of images and symbols about Muslims and Islam, as well as their influence on audiences.

Britain's chief rabbis and the religious character of anglo–jewry, 1880–1970

A radical new interpretation of Britain's Chief Rabbis from Nathan Adler to Immanuel Jakobovits, and the impact they had on Anglo-Jewry.