Saadya ben Joseph al-Fayyumi (882-942), gaon (head) of the rabbinic academy at Sura and one of the preeminent Jewish thinkers of the medieval perio...

Saadya ben Joseph al-Fayyumi (882-942), gaon (head) of the rabbinic academy at Sura and one of the preeminent Jewish thinkers of the medieval perio...

The Hackett edition of Teresa of Avila's spiritual autobiography features Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez's authoritative translation of The ...

The images published are from the almost complete manuscript of the Mushaf as-suwar, one of the oldest available manuscripts of perhaps the first G...

The Book of Ruth is one of the most appealing to modern biblical interpreters, touching as it does on so many subjects of current concern: the emer...

This book is that of the earliest history of the Papacy, but even were it provided with the most exhaustive notes, it could never furnish by itself...

What do we know about reality? What can we know at all? This is the question that the essays on religion (especially Buddhism and Christianity) and...

Of the hundreds of Buddhist introductory books on the market, The Buddha Journey: Questions and Answers for the Awakening Mindaims at bringing real...

In the 19th century, countless individuals believed a new Revelation was imminent. In Persia, the Báb fulfilled the prediction by several clerics o...

Politics and religion combine when governments contract out welfare services to church welfare agencies. This practice raises questions of the auto...

This collection of essays on the topic of the Church in China examines the church and religion in China, looking at both the above ground church an...

The Clergy Club as the title suggests, looks at the disconnection that exists between the clergy and the laity in the Catholic Church, and the "clu...

The Clergy Club as the title suggests, looks at the disconnection that exists between the clergy and the laity in the Catholic Church, and the "clu...

EARLY YEARS: Francis Israel Regardie was born in 1907 to an Orthodox Jewish family in the East End of London, an impoverished area that twenty year...

In 1561, a Eucharistic controversy erupted in Danzig of the sixteenth century, sparked by disagreements on the real presence and the practical trea...

From the perspective human beings informed by the study of cosmology, there are three stages in the process of becoming: the beginning of the unive...

No one after reading this thought-provoking book will blithely assert that we are living in an age of equality between the sexes. Taking the 1930s ...

No one after reading this thought-provoking book will blithely assert that we are living in an age of equality between the sexes. Taking the 1930s ...

After the arrival of Buddhism toward the end of the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220), Buddhism found itself in a fierce conflict with indigenous Chines...

The current volume offers a comparative approach to the study of the dissolution of monasteries in Scandinavia. In a Northern European context the ...

"To dowse," says the author of this definitive study of the divining art, "is to search with the aid of a handheld instrument such as a forked stic...

With eleven new contributions, this second edition of essays on the sources and principles of Dominican values in education offers an extended samp...

With eleven new contributions, this second edition of essays on the sources and principles of Dominican values in education offers an extended samp...