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 ...

Borders and Districts in Biblical Historiography

David King of Israel Alive and Enduring?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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”. 

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...

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.

Textuality, Culture and Scripture

“Textuality, Culture and Scripture,” a study of the necessary and close relations between the three concepts, argues for the necessary role of textuality in culture and the inadequacy of a cultural theory based on materialism. It explores the standing and role of scripture in textual theory and i...

Christian responses to Islam

This is the only book currently on the market that attempts to construct a global perspective of Christian-Muslim interaction in a post-9/11 world.

Understanding Political Islam

Looks at how the rise of political Islam has been expressed: first in the Arab world, then in its interactions with French and Western societies, and finally in its interactions with other European and Western societies.

Divine love

Religious themes have permeated Luce Irigary’s thought from the beginning, but this book is the only major study of this dimension of her work -- both her rejection of traditional western religions, and her recent explorations of eastern religions.

Women and the shaping of British Methodism

A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton’s call to analyse women’s experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century.

Infidel feminism

The first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women’s rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fund...

Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies

Long before the Taliban, ISIS and other iconoclasts, Muslims imagined localities of antiquity as places imbued with didactic, historical and moral power. In thirteen articles by leading scholars covering the eighth century to the present, this book explores diverse ways Muslims have valued the ma...

Crossing the Street in Hanoi

Crossing the Street in Hanoi is a study of media and cultural artifacts that constitute the remembrance of a tragic war as reflected in the stories of eight people who lived it. Using memoir, history and criticism, this book is based on scholarly research, teaching and writing, as well as persona...

The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah

The Gate

Entering Transmasculinity

Entering Transmasculinity is a holistic study of the intersecting and overlapping discourses that shape transgender identities. In the book, matthew heinz offers an examination of mediated and experienced transmasculine subjectivities and aims to capture the apparent contradictions that structure...

The Eternal Soul

Create in me a pure heart