Myths have intrigued scholars throughout history. 'Twentieth Century Mythologies' traces the study of myth over the last century, presenting the key...
This volume is the first English language presentation of the innovative approaches developed in the aesthetics of religion. The chapters present...
In the first millennium the Christian Church forbade its clergy from bearing arms. In the mid-eleventh century the ban was reiterated many times at...
This volume makes a considerable contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century Anglicanism and evangelicalism. It includes an expansive...
From the moment of its arrival in Britain in 1852, modern spiritualism became hugely popular among all sections of society. As well as offering...
Cathars have long been regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox Catholicism in the medieval West, even as a "counter-Church" to...
This book traces the rise and fall of the evangelical movement, the powerhouse of Victorian religion, via its preoccupation with pleasure. Victorian...
In the 1960s, two great social and cultural changes of the western world began. The first was the rapid decline of Christian religious practice and...
This book tells the story of how a parish women's meeting started in 1876 by a Victorian vicar's wife is now the most authentic and powerful...