- The Paterik of the Kievan Caves Monastery
- Muriel Heppell, Translator
- The Kievan Caves Monastery was for centuries the most important Ukrainian monastic establishment. It was the outstanding center of literary production, and its monks served throughout the territory of Rus' as bishops and monastic superiors. Heppell now makes available the first complete English translation of the Paterik.
- Hardcover 1989
- Ancient Mystery Cults
- Walter Burkert
- The foremost historian of Greek religion providers the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices.
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback
- The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles
- François Bovon, Editor
- Ann Graham Brock, Editor
- Christopher R. Matthews, Editor
- This collection provides a rich, multilayered analysis of a long-neglected branch of early Christian apocryphal literature that examines the relationship between tradition and redaction, uses of language, and the fluid border between literary criticism and motif analysis.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- Beloved Strangers
- Anne C. Rose
- Interfaith marriage is a visible and often controversial part of American life--and one with a significant history. Rose draws a vivid picture of interfaith marriages over the century before World War I, their problems and their social consequences. She shows how mixed-faith families became agents of change in a culture moving toward pluralism.
- Hardcover 2001
- Buddhism and Ecology
- Mary Evelyn Tucker, Editor
- Duncan Ryuken Williams, Editor
- In this book, twenty religionists and environmentalists examine Buddhism's understanding of the intricate web of life. In noting the cultural diversity of Buddhism, they highlight aspects of the tradition which may help formulate an effective environmental ethics, citing examples from both Asia and the United States of socially engaged Buddhist projects to protect the environment.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover 1998
- Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic
- Frank M. Cross
- The essays in this volume address key aspects of Israelite religious development. Cross traces the continuities between early Israelite religion and the Canaanite culture from which it emerged; explores the tension between the mythic and the historical in Israel's religious expression; and examines the reemergence of Canaanite mythic material in the apocalypticism of early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- Hardcover 1973 / paper 1997
- Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis
- Aaron L. Katchen
- Hardcover 1985
- Chronology and Recensional Development in the Greek Text of Kings
- James Donald Shenkel
- Hardcover 1968
- Contraception
- John T. Noonan
- Originally published in 1965, Contraception received unanimous acclaim from all quarters as the first thorough, scholarly, objective analysis of Catholic doctrine on birth control. More than ever this subject is of acute concern to a world facing serious population problems, and the author has written an important new appendix examining the development of and debates over--the doctrine in the past twenty years.
- Hardcover 1986
- Countertraditions in the Bible
- Ilana Pardes
- In this eye-opening book, llana Pardes explores the tense dialogue between dominant patriarchal discourses of the Bible and counter female voices.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback
- The Creationists
- Ronald L. Numbers
- In light of the embattled status of evolutionary theory, particularly as "intelligent design" makes headway against Darwinism in the schools and in the courts, this now classic account of the roots of creationism assumes new relevance. Expanded and updated to account for the appeal of intelligent design and the global spread of creationism, The Creationists offers a thorough, clear, and balanced overview of the arguments and figures at the heart of the debate.
- Paperback 2006
- Crisis and Reform
- Borys Gudziak
- Crisis and Reform provides an excellent overview of the ecclesiastical structures in Eastern Slavic lands from their Christianization to the late sixteenth century.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
- Crossing and Dwelling
- Thomas A. Tweed
- A deeply researched and vividly written study, this book depicts religion in place and in movement, dwelling and crossing. Drawing on insights from the natural and social sciences, Tweed's work is grounded in the gritty particulars of distinctive religious practices, even as it moves toward ideas about cross-cultural patterns. It offers a responsible way to think broadly about religion, a topic that is crucial for understanding the contemporary world.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Decadence and Catholicism
- Ellis Hanson
- Ellis Hanson traces the intersections of the aesthetic, erotic, and religious in the decadent literature of the late nineteenth century. The decadents--including Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, J. K. Huysmans, Walter Pater, and Paul Verlaine--found in the Catholic Church a peculiar language that gave them a means of artistic and sexual expression. Hanson shows how Catholicism offered both the hysterical symptom and the last hope for paganism amid the dullness of Victorian puritanism and bourgeois materialism.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover 1998
- Decoding the Rabbis
- Marc Saperstein
- Hardcover 1980
- Early Christian Rhetoric
- Amos N. Wilder
- Mr. Wilder study of early Christian rhetoric, first published in this country and in England in 1964, was hailed as the basic work on the literary art of the New Testament, important for its analysis of oral forms and for its insight into the novelty of New Testament speech. In his introduction to this reissue Mr. Wilder explains more particularly the aim and method of the work, discusses the significance of his approach in current biblical interpretation, and considers some recent developments in the specifically "literary" and rhetorical aspects of New Testament study.
- Hardcover 1971
- Early Christianity and Greek Paidea
- Werner Jaeger
- This small book, the last work of a world-renowned scholar, has established itself as a classic. It provides a superb overview of the vast historical process by which Christianity was Hellenized and Hellenic civilization became Christianized.
- Hardcover 1961 / Paperback
- Enchanting Powers
- Lawrence E. Sullivan, Editor
- Contributions by Judith Becker
- Contributions by Philip V. Bohlman
- Contributions by John Chernoff
- Contributions by Michael W. Harris
- Contributions by Jonathan D. Hill
- Contributions by Moshe Idel
- Contributions by Victoria Lindsay Levine
- Contributions by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Contributions by Rulan Chao Pian
- Contributions by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
- Contributions by Kay Kaufman Shelemay
- The Confucian Sacrificial Ceremony, the Choctaw ball game, the "drum history" of the Dagbamba, the chanting of the Qur'an--these are some of the topics addressed in this collection of essays by eminent musicologists, anthropologists, historians, and religionists as they consider the intersection of musics and religions in different world cultures.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- Erbadistan ud Nirangistan
- Firoze M. Kotwal, Editor
- James W. Boyd, Editor
- Paperback 1981
- Experiences of Place
- Mary N. MacDonald, Editor
- Place and orientation are important aspects of human experience. Place evokes geography and culture and conjures up history and myth. Place is not only a particular physical location but an idea, a mental construction that captures and directs the human relationship to the world.The distinguished contributors to this volume invite us to reflect on the significance of places, real and imagined, in the religious traditions they study and on how places are known, imagined, remembered, and struggled for.
- Paperback 2003 / Hardcover 2003
- Falaquera's Epistle of the Debate
- Steven Harvey
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback
- The Feast of Fools
- Harvey Cox
- In this fascinating interpretation of contemporary culture and theology, Harvey Cox examines both the loss and reemergence of festivity and fantasy in Western civilization. He evaluates both processes from a theological perspective, defining festivity as the capacity for genuine revelry and joyous celebration and defining fantasy as the faculty for envisioning radically alternative life situations. t speaks directly to such contemporary movements as the theology of hope, the rapidly disappearing radical theology, and the theology of culture. For many it will provide a new perspective on the renewal of religious life and the secular search for religious experience.
- Hardcover 1969
- The First Jesuits
- John W. O'Malley
- John O'Malley gives us the most comprehensive account ever written of the Society of Jesus in its founding years, one that heightens and transforms our understanding of the Jesuits in history and today.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker, Volume III, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
- Richard Hooker
- P. G. Stanwood, Editor
- Hardcover
- The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker, Volume IV, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
- Richard Hooker
- John E. Booty, Editor
- Hardcover
- The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker, Volumes I and II, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity:
- Richard Hooker
- Georges Edelen, Editor
- Edited by W. Speed Hill
- Hardcover
- The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker, Volume V, Tractates and Sermons
- Richard Hooker
- W. Speed Hill, Editor
- Edited by Laetitia Yeandle
- Commentaries by Egil Grislis
- Hardcover
- The Framework of the New Testament Stories
- Arnold Ehrhardt
- Dr. Ehrhardt considers that New Testament teaching could benefit by being more closely related to its context and background than is often the case. He suggests that the method of the presentation of the Gospel is important, as well as the intention behind it. It is hoped that these essays, many of which aim at giving a fresh, rather than a final view, may prove stimulating by asking unfamiliar questions and offering new solutions.
- Hardcover 1964
- Gershom Scholem
- David Biale
- Paperback
- God the Problem
- Gordon Kaufman
- The most discussed and most significant issue on the religious scene today is whether it is possible, or even desirable, to believe in God. Mr. Kaufman's valuable study does not offer a doctrine of God, but instead explores why God is a problem for many moderns, the dimensions of that problem, and the inner logic of the notion of God as it has developed in Western culture.
- Hardcover 1972 / Paperback
- God's Universe
- Owen Gingerich
- Are the creative forces of our vast cosmos purposeful, and in fact divine? Professor Emeritus of Harvard's Department of Astronomy and the Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Owen Gingerich, argues that an individual can be both a creative scientist and a believer in divine design--that indeed the very motivation for scientific research can derive from a desire to trace God's handiwork. Gingerich carves out "a theistic space" from which it is possible to contemplate a universe where God plays an interactive role, unnoticed yet not excluded by science.
- Hardcover 2006
- Greek Religion
- Walter Burkert
- In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject. First published in German in 1977, it has now been translated into English with the assistance of the author himself. A clearly structured and readable survey for students and scholars, it will be welcomed as the best modern account of any polytheistic religious system.
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback
- The Hagiography of Kievan Rus
- Translated with an introduction by Paul Hollingsworth
- Among the finest products of early Ukrainian literature were the Lives of the first Rus' saints. Hollingsworth provides a lucid introduction that discusses each saint and his or her cult in the historical as well as social contexts and examines the literary and textual features of the Rus' vitae.
- Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992
- The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture: Experience, Interpretation, Comparison, Volume 1, Monumental Occasions
- Lindsay Jones
- The two volumes of this investigation into how we perceive sacred architecture propose an original interpretation of built environments as ritual-architectural events. Exploring the world's cultures and religious traditions, Volume One maps out patterned responses to sacred architecture according to the human experience, mechanism, interpretation, and comparison of architecture. Volume Two, an exercise in comparative morphology, offers a comprehensive framework of ritual-architectural priorities by looking at architecture as orientation, as commemoration, and as ritual context.
- Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000
- The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture: Experience, Interpretation, Comparison, Volume 2, Hermeneutical Calisthenics
- Lindsay Jones
- The two volumes of this investigation into how we perceive sacred architecture propose an original interpretation of built environments as ritual-architectural events. Exploring the world's cultures and religious traditions, Volume One maps out patterned responses to sacred architecture, while Volume Two serves as an exercise in comparative morphology.
- Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000
- Idolatry
- Moshe Halbertal
- Avishai Margalit
- Naomi Goldblum, Translator
- "You shall have no other gods besides Me." This injunction, handed down through Moses three thousand years ago, marks one of the most decisive shifts in Western culture: away from polytheism toward monotheism. Ranging with authority from the Talmud to Maimonides, from Marx to Nietzsche and on to G. E. Moore, this brilliant account of a subject central to our culture also has much to say about metaphor, myth, and the application of philosophical analysis to religious concepts and sensibilities. Its insights into pluralism and intolerance, into the logic and illogic of the arguments religions aim at each other, make Idolatry especially timely and valuable in these days of dark and implacable religious difference.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- In Face of Mystery
- Gordon Kaufman
- In the symbolic world of Christianity, which millions have inhabited for centuries, is there room for modern and postmodern life--for today's real world of cultural relativism and religious pluralism, of scientific knowledge and historical understanding? In Face of Mystery draws these two worlds together in a full-scale reconception of Christian theology.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- In Potiphar's House
- James L. Kugel
- In this illuminating study of early biblical interpretation, James Kugel examines a series of exegetical stories that elaborate on the Joseph narrative in Genesis.
- Paperback
- Jewish Thought in the Seventeenth Century
- Isadore Twersky, Editor
- Bernard Septimus, Editor
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback
- The Jews in the Greek Age
- Elias Bickerman
- Bickerman presents a vivid account of the Jewish people from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E. to the revolt of the Maccabees. In a historical narrative told with consummate skill, he portrays Jewish life in the context of a broader picture of the Near East and traces the interaction between the Jewish and Greek worlds throughout this period.
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990
- John Jewel and the Problem of Doctrinal Authority
- W. M. Southgate
- John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, was, after Archbishop Parker, the most important English churchman in the decisive Elizabethan era. His organizational work and voluminous doctrinal writings contributed largely to the stabilization of the Anglican Church in the early years of Elizabeth's reign. Among the most effective apologists in an age noted for them, an eminent humanist and patristic scholar, Bishop jewel brought the spirit of the new enlightenment to bear on the problem of authority which naturally arose after the Reformation's initial years of rupture and polemics.
- Hardcover 1962
- The Limits of Enlightenment
- Edward Breuer
- This book explores the early Jewish confrontation with modernity and its attendant cultural and religious challenges. Focusing on the burgeoning eighteenth-century interest in the study of Scripture, Edward Breuer examines the complex relationship between the Jewish Enlightenment and the German Aufklärung.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Love and Joy
- Yochanan Muffs
- Thorkild Jacobsen
- This first single-volume collection of the pivotal writings of this great religious humanist includes his studies of love and joy as metaphors, the laws of war in ancient Israel, the figurative nature of legal language, the role of the prophet and prophetic speech, and the expressions of belonging which united a culture.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Martin Luther
- Richard Marius
- Few figures in history have defined their time as dramatically as Martin Luther. In this occasionally irreverent--but always humane--biography, Richard Marius provides a full portrait of Luther: his inner compulsions, his struggle with himself and his God, the gestation of his theology, his relations with contemporaries, and his responses to opponents. Focusing in particular on the productive years 1516-1525, Marius' detailed account of Luther's writings yields a rich picture of the development of Luther's thought on the great questions that came to define the Reformation.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000
- Meletij Smotryc´kyj
- David Frick
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Midrash, Mishnah, and Gemara
- David Weiss Halivni
- Hardcover 1986
- Mindful of Famine
- Johannes Wilbert
- For the Warao of the Venezuelan Orinoco Delta, survival under the extreme ecological conditions of the deltaic marshland requires exceptional adaptive agility. Johannes Wilbert presents the Warao's response to the climatological challenge of their homeland, deftly weaving the strands of geographic, atmospheric, biological, and cultural lore and learning into a rich tapestry of environmental wisdom.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- The Modernist Impulse in American Protestation
- William R. Hutchison
- One of the nation's foremost authorities on American religion here traces the immensely important strand of liberal thought in American Protestantism during the last century. From a refreshingly candid viewpoint that religious ideas operate with some autonomy and religious thought is only partially reducible to social experience--or explained by it, William R. Hutchison has produced an original, lasting work that will appeal to readers interested in the formation of American culture and in the shaping role played by religion.
- Hardcover 1976
- New England Dissent, 1630-1833
- William G. McLoughlin
- Hardcover 1971
- The One and the Many
- Martin E. Marty
- A world-renowned authority on religion and ethics in America, Martin Marty here gives a judicious account of how the body politic has been torn between the imperative of one people, one voice, and the separate urgings of distinct identities--racial, ethnic, religious, gendered, ideological, economic.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- Ordaining Women
- Mark Chaves
- In a revealing examination of the complex interrelationship of religion, social forces, and organizational structure, Ordaining Women draws examples and data from over 100 Christian denominations to explore the meaning of institutional rules about women's ordination.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- People of the Book
- Moshe Halbertal
- Halbertal provides a panoramic survey of Jewish attitudes toward Scripture, provocatively organized around problems of normative and formative authority, with an emphasis on the changing status and functions of Mishnah, Talmud, and Kabbalah.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997
- The Practice of Chinese Buddhism, 1900-1950
- Holmes Welch
- Hardcover 1967 / Paperback 1967
- The Presbyterian Churches and the Federal Union, 1861-1869
- Lewis G. Vander Velde
- Hardcover 1932
- Qumran and the History of the Biblical Text
- Frank M. Cross
- Paperback
- Rabad of Posquiers
- Isadore Twersky, Editor
- Rabad of Posquières--Rabbi Abraham ben David--was one of the most creative Talmudic scholars of this period. This biographical treatise on Rabad captures his personality, chronicles his role in the intellectual history of the Jews in southern France during the twelfth century, and outlines his influence on subsequent generations.
- Hardcover 1962
- Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra
- Isadore Twersky, Editor
- Jay M. Harris, Editor
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Rebecca's Children
- Alan Segal
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback
- Religion of Soldier and Sailor
- Edited by Willard L. Sperry
- Hardcover 1945
- Religious Change in America
- Andrew Greeley
- Many observers assume that America is a much less religious nation than it was forty years ago. According to Andrew Greeley, however, this is simply not true. Carefully analyzing surveys conducted over the past half-century, Greeley concludes that rates of church attendance, prayer, church membership, activity in church organizations, belief in life after death, and other measures of religious involvement have remained surprisingly constant.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1996
- Reporting the Universe
- E. L. Doctorow
- Rich with philosophical asides, historical speculations, personal observations, and literary judgments, Reporting the Universe ranges from the circumstances of Doctorow's own boyhood and early work to the state of modern society. This series of reflections comes together as an artfully sustained meditation on American consciousness and experience, discrete episodes converging, as in the author's fiction, to form a luminous whole--a "report" by turns touching and funny, ironic and exalted, and, in its unique way, universally to the point.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004
- Rivayat-i Hemit-i Asawahistan
- Nezhat Safa-Isfehani
- Paperback 1980
- Roman Catholic-Protestant Colloquiam, Harvard University, 1963
- Samuel H. Miller, Editor
- G. Ernest Wright, Editor
- Hardcover 1964
- Set Theory and Its Logic, Revised Edition
- W. V. Quine
- Paperback
- Seven Deadly Sins
- Aviad Kleinberg
- Translated by Susan Emanuel
- With intellectual insight and deadpan humor, Kleinberg deftly guides the reader through Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman thoughts on sin. Each chapter weaves the past into the present and examines unchanging human passions and the deep cultural shifts in the way we make sense of them.
- Hardcover 2008
- Studies in Maimonides
- Isadore Twersky, Editor
- Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992
- The Trouble with Confucianism
- Wm. Theodore de Bary
- In Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and other parts of East and Southeast Asia, as well as China, people are asking, "What does Confucianism have to offer today?" For some, Confucius is still the symbol of a reactionary and repressive past; for others, he is the humanist admired by generations of scholars and thinkers, East and West, for his ethical system and discipline.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1996
- Urban Exodus
- Gerald Gamm
- In telling the story of why the Jews left Boston and the Catholics stayed, Gerald Gamm places neighborhood institutions at its center. He challenges the long-held assumption that bankers and real estate agents were responsible for the rapid Jewish exodus. Rather, according to Gamm, basic institutional rules explain the strength of Catholic attachments to neighborhood and the weakness of Jewish attachments.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
- When Time Shall Be No More
- Paul Boyer
- Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to like-minded local ministers and TV preachers, periodicals and paperbacks for help in finding their place in God's prophetic plan for humankind. And yet, influential as this phenomenon is in the worldview of so many, the belief in biblical prophecy remains a popular mystery, largely unstudied and little understood. When Time Shall Be No More offers for the first time an in-depth look at the subtle, pervasive ways in which prophecy belief shapes contemporary American thought and culture.
- Paperback 1994 / Hardcover
- Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment
- David D. Hall
- This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early New England and their spiritual lives. David Hall describes a world of religious consensus and resistance: a variety of conflicting beliefs and believers ranging from the committed core to outright dissenters.
- Paperback 1990
- Your Spirits Walk Beside Us
- Barbara Dianne Savage
- Even before the emergence of the civil rights movement, African American religion and progressive politics were assumed to be inextricably intertwined. Savage counters this assumption with the story of a highly diversified religious community whose debates over engagement in the struggle for racial equality were as vigorous as they were persistent.
- Hardcover 2008
- Yuruparí
- Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
- Through Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff's translations and commentaries of the yuruparí fertility mythologem and ritual complex, Tukano oral art is revealed as an important expression of tribal philosophical and religious thought. The four Tukano "texts" in this volume contain coded cultural history and lead us into the meaning of oral traditions.
- Hardcover 1996
- Zoroastrianism in Armenia
- James R. Russell
- Paperback 1988