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The Spiritual Narratives of Generation Z: From Divine Disillusionment to Simple Faith
1st Edition
By Edward A. David, Claire MacLeod, Ning Xu, Phoebe Kelly, Saadadden Monajed
January 21, 2026
The Spiritual Narratives of Generation Z explores how the first smartphone generation narrates faith amid shifting religious practice and influencer culture. Grounded in pioneering research begun at the University of Oxford, it is the first study to use story completion and participatory ...
A New Copernican Turn: Contemporary Cosmology, the Self, and Orthodox Science-Engaged Theology
1st Edition
By Doru Costache, Geraint F. Lewis
December 26, 2025
This short book discusses the latest in terms of cosmology’s knowns and unknowns and sets out to ascertain the potential of Orthodox Christian theology for accommodating the current scientific view of the universe. It also addresses one of cosmology’s unknowns, the destiny of the self in the ...
Godless Polemics: Atheist Pamphleteering and the Specter of Emancipation in the United States
1st Edition
By Florian Zappe
December 23, 2025
Godless Polemics examines the role of pamphleteering as a medium for radical critique in the intellectual and cultural history of American atheism, focusing on its function as oppositional and counter-hegemonic discourse. It investigates how atheist pamphleteers, operating from the margins of ...
Prophetism from Scripture to Practice: African and Afro-Caribbean Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh
December 12, 2025
This book critically examines the relationship between prophetic practices in the Bible and contemporary prophetism in African Christianity. Pentecostalism continues to evolve across Africa with its beliefs and practices mimicking the older and well-established Christian denominations, along with ...
The Politics of Spiritual Work in Christian Movements
1st Edition
By Aini Linjakumpu
August 06, 2025
This book examines how three conservative Christian movements – Jehovah’s Witnesses, Conservative Laestadians and the Old Order Amish – attribute spiritual meanings to both paid employment and voluntary work, and how work functions as a tool of governance within these communities. A central concept...
Conspiracy Theorizing: Analysis and Scriptural Critique
1st Edition
By Gerald Arbuckle
June 27, 2025
Conspiracy Theorizing explore how should individuals with the Christian faith should react to conspiracy theories, their untruths, and their dangers. This book outlines the way that conspiracy theories are the fundamental basis for this stigmatization and scapegoating. It goes further to explain ...
Understanding Religious Fundamentalists: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Peter Herriot
June 27, 2025
This book introduces the prominent role that fundamentalists play in religious, cultural, and political arenas. It begins by investigating religious fundamentalist groups and their psychological motivations for this counter-cultural adherence. Their extremely varied actions, argues the author, are ...
The Christological Dimension of the Trinity: A Tale of Hypostatical Existence
1st Edition
By Anna Zhyrkova
June 05, 2025
This book provides an account of the Triune God that attempts to offer remedy to the problems of current theological and philosophical interpretations by returning to and developing the intuitions and solutions put forward in the Patristic tradition and Plotinus’ philosophy. It puts forward a ...
Martin Luther, Jews, and Judaism: A Re-Examination
1st Edition
By Isaac Kalimi
April 11, 2025
This book explores Martin Luther’s attitudes towards Jews and Judaism, considering his approach in the historical, religious, theological, and cultural context of late Middle Ages Europe. During his career, especially in the later stage, Luther made numerous venomous comments and wrote violently ...
Counseling Survivors of Religious Abuse
1st Edition
By Paula J. Swindle, Craig Cashwell, Jodi L. Tangen
November 29, 2024
This book identifies and analyzes the forms, causes, and potential treatments of religious abuse. Religious abuse can include experiences of sexual, physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental abuse connected to a religious context. The book will help readers understand different types of religious ...
White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism: How Did We Get Here?
1st Edition
By Marcia Pally
January 29, 2024
How did America’s white evangelicals, from often progressive history, come to right-wing populism? Addressing populism requires understanding how its historico-cultural roots ground present politics. How have the very qualities that contributed much to American vibrancy—an anti-authoritarian ...
Worldview Religious Studies
1st Edition
By Douglas J Davies
October 01, 2023
Worldview Religious Studies brings the study of religion, spirituality, secularism, and other mixed attitudes of life under the overarching scheme of worldview studies. This book introduces and defines worldviews more generally before establishing a framework specific to religious studies. The ...