Religion / Religion and Society

The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God

by Peter Watson

From one of Britain’s most distinguished historians comes the stirring story of one of the modern world’s most important yet controversial intellectual achievements: atheism.

Since Friedrich Nietzsche roundly...

An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America

by Joseph Bottum

  We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals...

City of God: Faith in the Streets

by Sara Miles

Paradise is a garden...but heaven is a city.

From the acclaimed author of Take This Bread and Jesus Freak comes a powerful new account of venturing beyond the borders of religion into the unpredictable territory...

God on the Quad

by Naomi Schaefer Riley

Religious colleges and universities in America are growing at a breakneck pace. In this startling new book, journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley explores these schools-interviewing administrators, professors, and...

Women and Men in Scripture and the Church: A Guide to the Key Issues

by Steven Croft & Paula Gooder

This accessible guide will enable readers to look at what the Bible says about the roles of men and women in family life, in ministry and in society. Ideal for individual reading or group study, each chapter...

Unapologetic

by Francis Spufford

First published in the United Kingdom to great acclaim, Unapologetic is a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true—because how could anyone know that...

New Answers Book 4, The: Over 25 Questions on Creation/Evolution and the Bible

by Ken Ham

• What about climate change?
• Is there a connection between dragon legends and dinosaurs?
• Is evolution the bloodiest religion ever?
• What about cavemen?
• What are the 10 best evidences for a young creation?

The...

Religion, Gender, and the Public Sphere

by Niamh Reilly & Stacey Scriver

The re-emergence of religion as a significant cultural, social and political, force is not gender neutral. Tensions between claims for women's equality and the rights of sexual minorities on one side and the...

Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah

by Roger Bennett

Announcing a smart, daring, original new take on the Torah. Imagine: 54 leading young Jewish writers, artists, photographers, screenwriters, architects, actors, musicians, and graphic artists grappling with...

Women and the Gift: Beyond the Given and All-Giving

by Morny Joy

Recent inquiries into the concept of the gift have been largely male-dominated and thus have ignored important aspects of the gift from a woman's point of view. In the light of philosophical work by Mauss, Lévi-Strauss,...

Readings on Conversion to Judaism

by Lawrence J. Epstein

In his third book about the conversion to Judaism, Lawrence J. Epstein collects essays and memoirs that frame the debate around conversion. These essays cover a wide-range of topics to sharpen the focus around...

Spiritual Transformation and Healing: Anthropological, Theological, Neuroscientific, and Clinical Perspectives

by Joan D. Koss-Chioino & Philip Hefner

A new volume exploring spiritual transformation from various disciplinary perspectives.

The Anthropology of Religious Conversion

by Andrew Buckser & Stephen D. Glazier

The Anthropology of Religious Conversion paints a picture of conversion far more complex than its customary image in anthropology and religious studies. Conversion is very seldom simply a sudden moment of insight...

Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission

by Harvey Whitehouse

Religions_whatever else they may be_are configurations of cultural information reproduced across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission, Harvey Whitehouse goes on...

Magic, Miracles, and Religion: A Scientist's Perspective

by Ilkka Pyysiäinen

Can scientists study religion? Ilkka PyysiSinen says that they can. While the study of religion cannot be reduced to other disciplines, it must not ignore what other disciplines have learned about human thought...

Law, Darwinism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design

by Francis J. Beckwith

Francis J. Beckwith asks whether teaching Intelligent Design in public schools would be constitutional, in light of the Supreme Court's decision in Edwards v. Aguillard.

Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion

by Harvey Whitehouse & Robert N. McCauley

This collection examines new psychological evidence for the modal theory and attempts to synthesize this theory with other theories of cognition and religion.

The Family Book of Midrash: 52 Jewish Stories from the Sages

by Barbara Diamond Goldin

This collection gives the reader a taste of the thousands of stories one can find in the treasure house of rabbinic literature. Some of these stories are humorous, some mysteriuos, some tense with drama or adventure,...

Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths

by Susan D. Blum

This provocative book explores the ideology of truth and deception in China, offering a nuanced perspective on social interaction in different cultural settings. Drawing on decades of fieldwork in China, Susan...

Embodying Osiris: The Secrets of Alchemical Transformation

by Thom F. Cavalli

The modern Western movement to embrace Eastern spiritual traditions usually stops with India and the Orient. Westerners have yet to discover the wisdom that dates back even further to ancient Egypt. With a Jungian...