This book presents a demographic study of the behaviors of Protestants and Catholics in Loriol, a town in southeastern France between 1650 and 1715. There the Protestants did not endure the full array of horrors experienced by so many French Protestants and survived pressure to …
This book articulates the relationships involving hermeneutics and scriptural politics in the complex fields of religious freedom and human rights, with particular focus on women and minorities in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. It traverses the conventional notions of religio…
This text articulates the relationships involving hermeneutics and scriptural politics in the complex fields of religious freedom and human rights, with particular focus on women and minorities in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Examines the impact of religion on American life and how that impact has changed in the last half-century.
Examines the impact of religion on American life and how that impact has changed in the last half-century.
American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America. Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation's religious landscape has been reshaped. America has expe…
Examines the impact of religion on American life and how that impact has changed in the last half-century.
In recent years, the Sino-Tibetan frontier regions have attracted increasing scholarly interest. The region of Reb kong in Qinghai province is of particular significance because of its unique location on the Sino-Tibetan borderland, its multi-ethnic population and its complex re…
"Public religious practice lay at the heart of civic society in late medieval Europe. In this illuminating study, Andrew Brown draws on the rich and previously little-researched archives of Bruges, one of medieval Europe's wealthiest and most important towns, to explore the role…
"A leading scholar brings religion to its senses by exploring the importance of physical objects and sensory experience in the practice of religion Humans are needy. We need things: objects, keepsakes, knickknacks, bits and pieces, junk and treasure. As Brent Plate argues in A H…
