Peter Smith 
Baha’i Faith 
A Short History

This book offers a clear, concise introduction to the meaning of problematic terms, and the ways in which they should legitimately be used. Each entry considers the following: – Why is this …

Learning to Love Your Children Well The challenges of parenting can sometimes feel overwhelming. What do we do when we run out of patience? How do we handle our anger when it seems to be getting th …

This book argues that we have been mistaken about the fundamental assumption that Christianity is the key to understanding the “Christian” martyr. Examining martyrdom in early Christian history, Matt …

This handbook presents an overview of the main approaches from social and cultural anthropology to the Hebrew Bible. Since the late 19th century, biblical scholarship has addressed issues and themes …

This book engages the problem of how, in the 21st century, we are to speak about experiences of the extraordinary/anomalous/extreme which occur on a transhistorical and transcultural basis. Critical …

"Rays of Living Light at the One Way of Salvation" is a non-secular and inspirational paintings authored by means of Charles W. Penrose, an outstanding figure in the history of The Church …

Written by a police professional with 40 years’ experience, Police Responses to Islamist Violent Extremism and Terrorism examines the evolution of counter-terrorism policy and state narratives on the …

Michele A. Connolly”s postcolonial analysis links the Gospel of Mark – produced in the context of the Roman Empire – with contemporary Australia, established initially as a colony of the British …

The famed reform debates at al-Azhar Madrasa in nineteenth-century Cairo, one of the most influential centres of religious study in Sunni Islam, were enormously influential for twentieth-century …