Rape Culture and Spiritual Violence examines sexual violence against women, how religion and society contribute to a rape culture, and the extreme suffering endured by rape victims as a result. Using
This ground-breaking book examines the lives of two extraordinary, religious women. Both Edith Stein and Regina Jonas were German Jewish women who demonstrated 'deviant' religious desires as they purs
This groundbreaking book answers myriad compelling questions for modern day spiritual seekers, as well as those interested in a feminist theology of the Holocaust. What do Edith Stein, a Jewish Carmel
Scholars of Islam have largely overlooked those discourses within the larger field of Religious Studies that do not take the category "religion" as a given but contend that its study ought to occur wi
The present plight and future possibility of the general and comparative study of religion as a field of inquiry in the human sciences concerns Jensen (U. of Odense and U. of Aarhus, Denmark). For his
Attempts to understand the origins of humanity have raised fundamental questions about the complex relationship between cognition and culture. Central to the debates on origins is the role of religion
Why is the set of human beliefs and behaviours that we call "religion" such a widespread feature of all known human societies, past and present, and why are there so many forms of re
Why is the set of human beliefs and behaviours that we call "religion" such a widespread feature of all known human societies, past and present, and why are there so many forms of re
'Religion as Magical Ideology' examines the relationship between rationality and supernatural beliefs arguing that such beliefs are products of evolution, cognition and culture. The book does not offe
The Anastenaria are Orthodox Christians in Northern Greece who observe a unique annual ritual cycle focused on two festivals, dedicated to Saint Constantine and Saint Helen. The festivals involve proc
"A community of Deaf Zimbabwean women struggling to develop their own agency in relation to child rearing practices is Kirk VanGilder's focus of study. He explores a variety of theological approaches
Clayton (philosophy and religion, Claremont Graduate U., California) presented the first annual Frankfurt Templeton Lectures, at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt in May 2006, and the
The 34th annual conference in the series celebrated the centenary of French philosopher Paul Ric?ur (1913-2005), whose contributions to hermeneutics and the philosophy of religion left a mark in the f
