In Unveiling the French Republic, Per-Erik Nilsson engages in a critical analysis of national identity, secularism, and Islam in France. He argues that secular ideology has been used to justify religi
In Religion as an Agent of Change leading historians and Church historians discuss religion as a driving historical force on the basis of three particular cases from the history of Christianity in Wes
In The Lawsuit Motif in John’s Gospel from New Perspectives Per Jarle Bekken sheds fresh light on aspects of the lawsuit motif in John from the background of Diaspora-Jewish and Greco-Roman data and p
Whereas sovereignty became the hot topic in the West in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia, the modern concept of sovereignty was introduced in China in the nineteenth century forcefully and unequally
In The Peregrine Profession Per-Olof Grönberg offers an account of transnational mobility of engineers and architects educated in the Nordic countries 1880-1919. These graduates constituted an extraor
One of the myriad effects of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 was legal reform throughout Europe. In this thorough and fascinating study, the theory, and especially, the practice of law in medieval
