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The second volume of the series ‘Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses’ points out the roots of the concept of ”human rights” in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It shows how far the universal …

Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750–1960) is the first comprehensive study on the relationship between science and religion in a Spanish-speaking country with a Catholic majority and a ‘Latin’ …

Traditional semantic description of Ancient Greek prepositions has struggled to synthesize the varied and seemingly arbitrary uses into something other than a disparate, sometimes overlapping list of …

Chaos is a perennial source of fear and fascination. The original ‘formless void’ (tohu-wa-bohu) mentioned in the book of Genesis, chaos precedes the created world: a state of anarchy before the esta …

A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the …

IDH Religion provides a series of short introductions to specific areas of study at the intersections of digital humanities and religion, offering an overview of current methodologies, techniques, to …

In God’s Mechanics, Brother Guy tells the stories of thosewho identify with the scientific mindset–so-called’techies’–while practicing religion. A full fledged techiehimself, he relates some …

Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores t …

Still in its infancy because of the overly conservative views and methods assumed by the majority of scholars working in it since the mid-19th century, the field of early Islamic and quranic studies …

Studies of the Curse of Ham, the belief that the Bible consigned blacks to everlasting servitude, confuse and conflate two separate origins stories (etiologies), one of black skin and the other of …