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A Catholic Theology of the Church and State: The Things that are Caesar’s and the Things that are God's
1st Edition
By Joseph G. Trabbic
March 11, 2027
This book offers a systematic exploration of the relationship between the Church and state from a Catholic perspective, drawing on the primary sources of Catholic theology -- Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium -- and integrating the teaching of Vatican II and postconciliar teaching with ...
Religious Studies from the Field: The Sightline to Scholarship
1st Edition
By J. Shawn Landres
February 12, 2027
Scholars of religion long have asked what their methods reveal about religious practice. This book takes up the reverse: how sustained practice can reshape the tools with which a scholar interprets the evidence. Drawing on the author’s fieldwork and decades of communal and civic work, and on cases ...
The Politics of Spiritual Work in Christian Movements
1st Edition
By Aini Linjakumpu
November 24, 2026
This book examines how three conservative Christian movements – Jehovah’s Witnesses, Conservative Laestadians and the Old Order Amish – attribute spiritual meanings to both paid employment and voluntary work, and how work functions as a tool of governance within these communities. A central concept...
Vulnerability Unveiled: Ethical Foundations and Cultural Biases
1st Edition
By Jordi Pujol, Carolina Montero Orphanopoulos
November 24, 2026
This book explores the moral, cultural, and institutional meanings of vulnerability in contemporary life. Vulnerability has become a word of remarkable reach and too often is framed as a problem to be solved, a deficit to be managed, or a category for those ‘in need’. Yet to live as a human being ...
David Jones’ Philosophy of Art in the Context of Catholic Thought
1st Edition
By Martin Potter
November 16, 2026
This book places British poet and artist David Jones’ thought in the context of contemporary and recent writing relevant to philosophical and theological aesthetics. It shows that Jones’ theoretical work is central to these currents and proposes that his thought has the potential to be the ...
The Christological Dimension of the Trinity: A Tale of Hypostatical Existence
1st Edition
By Anna Zhyrkova
September 28, 2026
This book provides an account of the Triune God that attempts to offer remedy to the problems of current theological and philosophical interpretations by returning to and developing the intuitions and solutions put forward in the Patristic tradition and Plotinus’ philosophy. It puts forward a ...
Contemporary Christian Music and the Soundtrack of Christian Nationalism
1st Edition
By R. Shea Watts
August 28, 2026
This book explores the relationship between Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) and Christian nationalism. It offers a unique perspective on how CCM has transmitted Christian nationalist ideals and contributed to nationalist rhetoric and agendas in the United States. Decades before insurrectionists ...
Martin Luther, Jews, and Judaism: A Re-Examination
1st Edition
By Isaac Kalimi
July 20, 2026
This book explores Martin Luther’s attitudes towards Jews and Judaism, considering his approach in the historical, religious, theological, and cultural context of late Middle Ages Europe. During his career, especially in the later stage, Luther made numerous venomous comments and wrote violently ...
The Spiritual Narratives of Generation Z: From Divine Disillusionment to Simple Faith
1st Edition
By Edward A. David, Claire MacLeod, Ning Xu, Phoebe Kelly, Saadadden Monajed
January 21, 2026
The Spiritual Narratives of Generation Z explores how the first smartphone generation narrates faith amid shifting religious practice and influencer culture. Grounded in pioneering research begun at the University of Oxford, it is the first study to use story completion and participatory ...
A New Copernican Turn: Contemporary Cosmology, the Self, and Orthodox Science-Engaged Theology
1st Edition
By Doru Costache, Geraint F. Lewis
December 26, 2025
This short book discusses the latest in terms of cosmology’s knowns and unknowns and sets out to ascertain the potential of Orthodox Christian theology for accommodating the current scientific view of the universe. It also addresses one of cosmology’s unknowns, the destiny of the self in the ...
Godless Polemics: Atheist Pamphleteering and the Specter of Emancipation in the United States
1st Edition
By Florian Zappe
December 23, 2025
Godless Polemics examines the role of pamphleteering as a medium for radical critique in the intellectual and cultural history of American atheism, focusing on its function as oppositional and counter-hegemonic discourse. It investigates how atheist pamphleteers, operating from the margins of ...
Prophetism from Scripture to Practice: African and Afro-Caribbean Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh
December 12, 2025
This book critically examines the relationship between prophetic practices in the Bible and contemporary prophetism in African Christianity. Pentecostalism continues to evolve across Africa with its beliefs and practices mimicking the older and well-established Christian denominations, along with ...