Religion

This book comprises scholarly essays and creative works exploring the implications of Christian environmentalism through literary and cultural criticism. For scholars, researchers and upper-level students interested in the relationship between religion and environment, ethics, animal welfare, poetry, and post-secularism.

This Handbook provides the first in-depth analysis of non-violent extremism across different ideologies and geographic centres, a topic overshadowed until now by the political and academic focus on violent and jihadi extremism in the Global North.

This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and ideological dimensions of John's Apocalypse and the religious landscape of the Roman East.

This book provides a comprehensive survey on science in the Islamic world from the 8th to the 19th century.

This book introduces the approach of 'transloyalties' to study 'connected histories' in World Christianity. The term 'transloyalties' is used to analyze the multifaceted processes in various contact zones through which cultural and religious identities were transformed in the tension between different loyalties.

The Witch, the Seed and the Scalpel isa horror story steeped in the Gothic tradition. The story follows the battlebetween botanist Joseph Ware and one of Scotland's last witches, against asinister order of surgeons.

This volume provides a deeper understanding of ethical issues in a selection of texts concerned with Abraham in Genesis 12-25.

Comprised of thirty chapters by a team of international contributors, this handbook is the first comprehensive volume to feature multireligious cross-cultural perspectives on the body and embodiment, and is a must-read for students and scholars in religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, cultural and gender studies.

Drawing on participant observation and more than 100 interviews, Dawne Moon and Theresa W. Tobin show how many LGBTQ+ Christians and their heterosexual/cisgender allies are working to make their families, churches, and communities more inclusive, loving, and just.

This volume explores aspects of ancient magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean, specifically ways in which religious and mythical ideas, including the knowledge and practice of magic, were transmitted and adapted through time and across Greco-Roman, Near Eastern, and Egyptian cultures.

The Concordia Commentary Series: A Theological Exposition of Sacred Scripture is written to enable pastors and teachers of the Word to proclaim the Gospel with greater insight, clarity, and faithfulness to the divine intent of the Biblical text.The series will cover all the canonical books of the Old and New Testament, with an original translation and meticulous grammatical analysis of the Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek of each text. The foremost interpretive lens centers on the unified proclamation of the person and work of Christ across every Scriptural book.The Commentary fully affirms the divine inspiration, inerrancy, and authority of Scripture; Each passage bears witness to the confession that God has reconciled the world to Himself through the incarnation, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ His Son.Authors expose the rich treasury of language, imagery, and thematic content of the Scripture while supplementing their work with additional research in archaeology, history, and extrabiblical literature. Throughout, God's Word emanates from authors' careful attention and inculcates the ongoing life of the Church in Word, Sacrament, and daily confession.

Muslim Friends provides an introduction to Islam to help Christians better understand the Muslims' faith and practice. This volume enables non-Muslims to understand Islam and to help foster friendly relations between non-Muslims and Muslims.

Spirits of extraction reexamines the entangled histories of racism, Christianity, and humanitarian biopolitics in the long nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective on the intersection of extractive industries, evangelical revivalism, and the violent civilisational metaphysics of race. Moving across eighteenth-century industrialising Bristol, the Cornish mining diaspora of the expanding British Empire, and the contested lands of Anishinaabewaki/Upper Canada/Ontario, this book traces how evangelical Christianity helped shape the colonial world through processes of extraction - of resources, bodies, and souls. Blending historical narrative with critical theory, the book makes two key interventions. Firstly, it repositions colonial religion and educational/cultural racism as central to the biopolitical project, analysing the wounding effects of 'truly Christian' education and exorcism in evangelical subject formation. Secondly, it extends thinking on the 'geology of race' by highlighting the extractive industries as the affective scene through which modern evangelical Christianity came to life. By showing how mining and missionary practices co-constituted racial hierarchies and modes of sovereignty, Spirits of extraction offers a major contribution to thinking about the politics of life and resource extraction. Evangelical experiences of salvation, exorcism, and the transformative power of faith, the book argues, resonate through geological consciousness and the logics of extraction, sustaining a quasi-divine force that continues to structure lives and landscapes today.

The Good News Bible - Premium Youth Edition combine the full text from our award-winning Good News Bible - The Youth Edition with a beautiful soft-touch cover and colour-matched head and tail band with marker ribbon. This Premium Edition is an ideal gift for young people, or for adults who love the content from our Good News Bible - The Youth Edition.

A series of interviews with extraordinary people to explore the reasons for and impact of their faith in their lives.

From a rising star in theological academia, a provocative book about human and divine agency in an era of political extremism, climate catastrophe, and rising violence.

A powerful work of narrative nonfiction that humanizes the immigration crisis in the United States through the lens of undocumented, unaccompanied minors and the teacher who provides hope through poetry.

You may know the Bible as a testament of faith. But within this sacred book are also the world's first horror stories.

This book studies relations between Muslims and non-Muslims where it matters most, diverse inner cities. Residents' insights prove relevant for both community relations and cohesion.

For years Robert Newton Baskin (1837-1918) may have been the most hated man in Utah. Yet his promotion of federal legislation against polygamy in the late 1800s and his work to bring the Mormon territory into a republican form of government were pivotal in Utah's achievement of statehood. The results of his efforts also contributed to the acceptance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by the American public. In this engaging biography--the first full-length analysis of the man--author John Gary Maxwell presents Baskin as the unsung father of modern Utah. As Maxwell shows, Baskin's life was defined by conflict and paradox.