This powerful and innovative work by a gifted cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how the challenges of the reformation can offer insight to families facing similarly divisive challenges to...

This book examines the small library of 24 separate books common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles – books that preserve the efforts of diverse individuals over the span of many centuries to make sense of their personal experiences and those of thei...

For sale in CIS only! Iberia is a special place of colliding myths over its Islamic past and the Christian reconquista, the Inquisition and massive expulsion of Muslims and Jews some five centuries ago. Long a land of emigrants and explorers, it has...

For sale in CIS only! During the decade prior to the Arab Spring dozens of Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious channels were established across the Middle East, advocating different forms of religiosity and shaping public perceptions through thei...

Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocriti...

This hard hitting and timely book explores the roots of militant Islam in South Asia and how it has grown to become a source of profound global alarm. Dilip Hiro tracks the growth of the jihadist movement from its first violent activities in Afghanis...

In the tradition of "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "The Great Cat Massacre", "Miracles at the Jesus Oak" is a rich, evocative journey into the past and the extraordinary events that transformed the lives of ordinary people. In the musty archive of...

The mere mention of Sunday will immediately conjure up a rich mixture of memories, associations and ideas for anyone of any age. Whatever we think of Sunday, it occupies a unique place in Western civilization. But how did we come to have a day with s...

For sale in CIS only! Sana Haroon examines religious organisation and mobilisation in the North-West Frontier Tribal Areas, a non-administered region on the Indo-Afghan border. The Tribal Areas was defined topographically as a strategic zone of defe...

For sale in CIS only! Until recently, policy-makers and academics generally saw religion as something that would disappear as countries made economic progress. But we now know that this rarely happens. People in most countries continue to look at t...