For sale in CIS only! Jeremy Henzell-Thomas argues that educational reform is the biggest challenge facing Muslim societies, Richard Pringle discusses the purpose of education, Abdelwahab El-Affendi suggests ways that Muslim education should be reco...

<p>In this lively and provocative book, Michael Coogan guides readers into the ancient past to examine the iconic status of the Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue. How, among all the laws reportedly given on Mount Sinai, did the Ten Comman...

How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties and significance of the...

Drawing on cutting-edge historical and archaeological research, author Michael Satlow provides a grand, sweeping exploration of the true origins of the Holy Bible. Originally cobbled together from a diverse assortment of ancient Middle Eastern texts...

The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century, "Introduction a l'histoire du Buddhisme indien", by the great French scholar of Sanskrit Eugene Burnouf, set the course for the academic study of Buddhism – and Indian B...

For sale in CIS only! In his disturbing and timely political history of the "Deep State" in the Middle East, Jean-Pierre Filiu reveals how the autocracies of Syria, Egypt, and Yemen crushed the democratic uprisings of the "Arab Revolution". They did...

Beginning with Walt Whitman singing hymns at a wounded soldier's bedside during the Civil War, this surprising and vivid anthology ranges straight through to the twenty-first century to end with Francine Prose crying tears of complicated joy at the s...

Differences among religious communities have motivated – and continue to motivate – many of the deadliest conflicts in human history. But how did political power and organized religion become so thoroughly intertwined? And how have religion and relig...

For many Christians in America, becoming filled with Christ first requires being empty of themselves – a quality often overlooked in religious histories. In "Emptiness", John Corrigan highlights for the first time the various ways that American Chris...

For sale in CIS only! There is an important if largely unremarked diversity within African Christianity; on the one hand, an enchanted Christianity that views the world as pervaded by spiritual forces, and on the other a disenchanted Christianity th...