Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Revolution and the widespread effects of "priestcraft" rhetoric that grew out of it, but J. Barton Scott, in "Spiritual Despots", reveals an unexamined piece of that story: how Protestant...

The issue of how to represent God is a concern both ancient and contemporary. In this wide-ranging and authoritative study, renowned biblical scholar Mark Smith investigates the symbols, meanings, and narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Ugaritic texts, a...

For sale in CIS only! Jeremy Henzell-Thomas goes for a long walk in the woods; Hester Koning argues that it is time we cherished nature; J. E. Montgomery reads Al-Jahiz's Book of Animals; Laura Hassan examines the concept of nature in Muslim philoso...

For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, mother of Jesus, came to prominence have long remained strange...

For sale in CIS only! "God is no thing, but not nothing". These words from the renowned thinker Herbert McCabe point to a fallacy at the heart of New Atheist polemics against religion: the deity rejected by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam...

For sale in CIS only! Hassan Mahamdallie walks the streets of Detroit – the city America allowed to die; Ziauddin Sardar visits the "first city" at the crossroads of Asia; Boyd Tonkin is shocked at the new gleaming cultural capitals of Dubai and Abu...

For sale in CIS only! Samia Rahman argues there is more to the Muslim world than extremism; Anne Alexander wonders at the rise and rise of ISIS; John Sweeney suggests we are living in an age of extremes; Raza Ali struggles with reactionary love for...

In recent years, students, scholars, and lay readers of the Bible have been increasingly drawn to the book of Ruth. Delving deeply into the complicated nature of its characters' relationships, Jeremy Schipper encourages readers to consider the roles...

For sale in CIS only! Tahir Abbas explores the enigma of modern Islamist Turkey, Ahmet Kuru discovers Turkey's political history, Nagihan Haliloglu gets tangled in Turkish heritage wars, Zeynep Okten has reservations about the country's Islamic fina...

For sale in CIS only! Few books have had a more profound impact on human history than the Qur'an. It shapes the beliefs, lives and behaviour of over 1.5 billion Muslims, who regard it as the Word of God, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. Speaking di...