"An impressive and thought-provoking work... regarding the metaphysical myster..."An impressive and thought-provoking work... regarding the metaphysical mysteries of life, physical reality, and human consciousness. Highly recommended!" -Spirituality Today Science and religion are often thougmore
Christopher F Black assesses the nature and extent of church reform demands wi...Christopher F Black assesses the nature and extent of church reform demands within Sixteenth Century Italy then concentrates on religious society after the supposed watershed of the Council of Trent 1546 63 through the Seventeenth Century Black...more
Focusing on the lived experience of individuals in Russia and Ukraine these es...Focusing on the lived experience of individuals in Russia and Ukraine these essays explore continuity and change comparatively and in the context of larger interpretative issues such as popular culture mentality and religious beliefmore
The beginning of global commerce in the earlymodern period had an enormous im...The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, amore
The Sciences of Homosexuality inEarlyModern Europe investigates earlymodern...The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe investigates early modern scientific accounts of same-sex desires and the shapes they assumed in everyday life. It explores the significance of those representations and interpretationsmore
This book sheds light on the originality and historical significance of women'...This book sheds light on the originality and historical significance of women's philosophical, moral, political and scientific ideas in Italy and early modern Europe. Divided into three sections, it starts by discussing the women philosophers' engmore
In the early centuries of Christianity Christians studied scienceand natural ...In the early centuries of Christianity Christians studied science and natural philosophy only to the extent that these subjects proved useful for a better understanding of the Christian faith - not to acquire knowledge for its own sake This book...more
Analyses the tensions and contradictions within the 'religion of protestants' ...Analyses the tensions and contradictions within the 'religion of protestants' that dominated great swathes of the early Stuart church This book studies puritan theology and intra-puritan theological dispute It also studies lay clerical relations and...more
The interplay between scienceandreligionin the 17th andearly 18th centurie...The interplay between science and religion in the 17th and early 18th centuries is a complicated historical topic which has led to an abundant second literature characterized by debates and interpretations This book is intended to help students find...more
This concise introduction to scienceandreligion focuses on Christianity and ...This concise introduction to science and religion focuses on Christianity and modern Western science the epicenter of issues in science and religion in the West with a concluding chapter on Muslim and Jewish Science and Religion This book also invites...more
This concise introduction to scienceandreligion focuses on Christianity and ...This concise introduction to science and religion focuses on Christianity and modern Western science (the epicenter of issues in science and religion in the West) with a concluding chapter on Muslim and Jewish Science and Religion. This book also...more
Latin America plays an increasingly important role in the development of moder...Latin America plays an increasingly important role in the development of modern Christianity yet it has been underrepresented in current scholarship on religion and science In this first book on the subject contributors explore the different ways that...more
This reader brings together carefully selected material from a wide range of a...This reader brings together carefully selected material from a wide range of authors on the relationships between science religion and theology It samples the recent literature on the challenges to religion posed by both modern physics and evolutionary...more
Have evolution scienceand the trappings of the modern world killed off God ir...Have evolution science and the trappings of the modern world killed off God irrevocably And what do we lose if we choose not to believe in him From Newton and Descartes to Darwin and the discovery of the genome religion has been pushed back further and...more