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<strong>RELIGION</strong> & <strong>THEOLOGY</strong> | <strong>2011</strong><br />
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Table of Contents<br />
1 General Interest<br />
3 Reference<br />
6 Biblical Studies<br />
9 Theology<br />
14 World Religions<br />
17 Sociology of Religion<br />
19 Science & Religion<br />
20 History of Religion<br />
22 Religious Ethics<br />
24 Philosophy of Religion<br />
26 Journals<br />
27 Index<br />
Religion &<br />
Theology<br />
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Christian theology list now includes Alister McGrath’s<br />
Darwinism and the Divine (p1) and the new edition<br />
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Against Atheism<br />
Why Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris Are<br />
Fundamentally Wrong<br />
Ian S. Markham<br />
Virginia Theological Seminary, USA<br />
“A brilliant defence of the reasonableness of Christian<br />
belief, against its modern detractors. Written beautifully<br />
and clearly, this is modern Christian thought at its best.”<br />
Keith Ward, University of Oxford<br />
Drawing on ideas from Nietzsche, cosmology, and art, Against Atheism<br />
is a powerful response that allows for a faith that is grounded, yet one<br />
that recognizes the reality of uncertainty.<br />
• A fascinating challenge to the recent spate of successful books<br />
written by high-profile atheist authors such as Richard Dawkins,<br />
Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris<br />
• Tackles these authors on their own ground, arguing that they do not<br />
understand the nature of atheism, let alone theology and ethics<br />
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The God Debates<br />
A 21st Century Guide for Atheists and Believers<br />
(and Everyone in Between)<br />
John R. Shook<br />
Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York, and<br />
University at Buffalo, USA<br />
“Shook lays out the questions, controversies, and schools<br />
of thought with amazing clarity, gradually building his<br />
case for a “staunchly naturalistic yet faithfully ethical<br />
humanism”… Clear and blunt, with a light touch of irony.”<br />
Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology<br />
The God Debates presents a comprehensive, non-technical survey<br />
of the quest for knowledge of God, allowing readers to participate<br />
in a debate about the existence of God and gain understanding and<br />
appreciation of religion’s conceptual foundations.<br />
• Explains key arguments for and against God’s existence in clear ways<br />
for readers at all levels<br />
• Brings theological debates up to the present with current ideas<br />
from modernism, postmodernism, fideism, evidentialism,<br />
presuppositionalism, and mysticism<br />
• Updates criticism of theology by dealing with the latest terms of the<br />
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Darwinism and<br />
New<br />
the Divine<br />
Evolutionary Thought and Natural Theology<br />
Alister E. McGrath<br />
King’s College, London, UK<br />
Darwinism and the Divine examines the<br />
implications of evolutionary thought for natural<br />
theology, from the time of publication of<br />
Darwin’s On the Origin of Species to current<br />
debates on creationism and intelligent design.<br />
• Questions whether Darwin’s theory of natural selection really shook<br />
our fundamental beliefs, or whether they served to transform and<br />
illuminate our views on the origins and meaning of life<br />
• Identifies the forms of natural theology that emerged in nineteenthcentury<br />
England and how they were affected by Darwinism<br />
• The most detailed study yet of the intellectual background to William<br />
Paley’s famous and influential approach to natural theology, set out in 1802<br />
• Brings together material from a variety of disciplines, including the<br />
history of ideas, historical and systematic theology, evolutionary<br />
biology, anthropology, sociology, and the cognitive science of religion<br />
• Considers how Christian belief has adapted to Darwinism, and asks<br />
whether there is a place for design both in the world of science and<br />
the world of theology<br />
• A thought-provoking exploration of twenty-first-century views on<br />
evolutionary thought and natural theology, written by the worldrenowned<br />
theologian and bestselling author<br />
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Dawkins’ God<br />
Genes, Memes, and the<br />
Meaning of Life<br />
Alister E. McGrath<br />
King’s College, London, UK<br />
“McGrath has written a brilliant book, and it is difficult to<br />
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50 Voices of Disbelief<br />
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Edited by Russell Blackford &<br />
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General Interest<br />
Why Politics Can’t Be Freed<br />
From Religion<br />
Ivan Strenski<br />
University of California, Riverside, USA<br />
“Ivan Strenski examines the connections among religion,<br />
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Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University<br />
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A Brief History of the Soul<br />
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Ursinus College, Pennsylvania, USA;<br />
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Love<br />
A Brief History Through Western Christianity<br />
Carter Lindberg, Boston University, USA<br />
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The Use and Abuse of the Bible<br />
Adrian Thatcher, University of Exeter, UK<br />
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Religion and the Human Future<br />
An Essay on Theological Humanism<br />
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William Schweiker<br />
University of Iowa, USA; University of Chicago,<br />
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Christian Mission<br />
How Christianity Became a<br />
World Religion<br />
Dana L. Robert, Boston University, USA<br />
“A masterful survey of mission in Christian history from<br />
the very origins of the religion to the present. It should<br />
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International Bulletin of Missionary Research<br />
Exploring how Christianity became a world religion, this brief history<br />
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people who shaped the Christian story and tradition.<br />
Series: Blackwell Companions to Religion<br />
1008 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-3507-8 • HB • £210.00 / €272.00 / US$400.00 / AUD$415.00<br />
The Blackwell Companion<br />
to Catholicism<br />
New<br />
2<br />
VOLUME SET<br />
Now in<br />
PAPERBACK<br />
Edited by James Buckley,<br />
Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt<br />
& Trent Pomplun<br />
All of Loyola College, USA<br />
The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism offers<br />
an extensive survey of the history, doctrine,<br />
practices, and global circumstances of Roman<br />
Catholicism, written by a range of distinguished<br />
and experienced Catholic writers.<br />
Series: Blackwell Companions to Religion<br />
544 pages • November 2010<br />
978-1-4051-1224-6 • HB (2007) • £115.00 / €142.00 / US$188.95 / AUD$230.00<br />
978-1-4443-3732-7 • PB • £24.99 / €30.90 / US$44.95 / AUD$49.95<br />
The Blackwell Companion to<br />
Christian Spirituality<br />
Edited by Arthur Holder<br />
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA<br />
“It amounts to the single most thorough treatment of the<br />
field to date... lending the book considerable interest and<br />
depth.” The Way<br />
Series: Blackwell Companions to Religion<br />
584 pages • October 2010<br />
978-1-4051-0247-6 • HB (2005) • £110.00 / €142.00/ US$183.95 / AUD$220.00<br />
978-1-4443-3765-5 • PB • £24.99 / €30.90 / US$44.95 / AUD$49.95<br />
The Blackwell Companion to<br />
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Edited by Ken Parry<br />
Macquarie University, Australia<br />
Now in<br />
PAPERBACK<br />
Now in<br />
PAPERBACK<br />
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Series: Blackwell Companions to Religion<br />
528 pages • April 2010<br />
978-0-6312-3423-4 • HB (2007) • £105.00 / €135.00/ US$167.95 / AUD$210.00<br />
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Also available in the series ...<br />
The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English<br />
Literature<br />
Edited by Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, Jonathon<br />
Brooks & Christopher Rowland<br />
The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary<br />
Islamic Thought<br />
Edited by Ibrahim Abu-Rabi<br />
The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology<br />
Edited by Gareth Jones<br />
The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology<br />
Edited by Peter Scott & William T. Cavanaugh<br />
The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology<br />
Edited by Graham Ward<br />
The Blackwell Companion to Protestantism<br />
Edited by Alister E. McGrath & Darren C. Marks<br />
The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics<br />
Edited by William Schweiker<br />
The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture<br />
Edited by John F. A. Sawyer<br />
The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible<br />
Edited by Leo G. Perdue<br />
The Blackwell Companion to the Qur’an<br />
Edited by Andrew Rippin<br />
The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion<br />
Edited by Robert A. Segal<br />
REFERENCE<br />
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BIBLICAL STUDIES<br />
An Introduction to<br />
the Bible<br />
Sacred Texts and Imperial Contexts<br />
David M. Carr & Colleen M. Conway<br />
Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA;<br />
Seton Hall University, USA<br />
“Students will find this book intellectually engaging and<br />
a pleasure to read. Instructors will be pleased to have a<br />
creative textbook as a partner in their teaching.”<br />
Richard S. Ascough, Queen’s University<br />
An Introduction to the Bible explores the emergence and development<br />
of the Bible, placing it in the broader context of world history. It<br />
particularly focuses on the role of a number of empires in the formation<br />
of the Biblical canon.<br />
• Explores the historical role the Bible has played in subsequent<br />
empires, and its enduring influence in the contemporary world<br />
• Explores topics including: the formation of the Pentateuch; the<br />
development of the earliest Old Testament stories; the historical study<br />
of the Gospel traditions surrounding Jesus; the influence of Roman<br />
rule in the provinces where Paul spent much of his ministry; and<br />
the interpretation of the Biblical texts and their use by different faith<br />
communities<br />
• Incorporates student-friendly features throughout, including study<br />
questions, review sections, bibliographies, timelines, and photos,<br />
as well as an accompanying website: www.wiley.com/go/carr<br />
408 pages • April 2010<br />
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An Introduction to<br />
the Old Testament<br />
Sacred Texts and Imperial Contexts of the<br />
Hebrew Bible<br />
David M. Carr<br />
Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA<br />
“An innovative approach to the Hebrew Bible ... A very<br />
readable introduction and a model of judicious synthesis.”<br />
Mark S. Smith, New York University<br />
This comprehensive, introductory textbook is unique in exploring the<br />
emergence of the Hebrew Bible in the broader context of world history.<br />
It particularly focuses on the influence of pre-Roman empires,<br />
empowering students with a richer understanding of Old Testament<br />
historiography.<br />
• Provides a historical context for students learning about the<br />
development and changing interpretations of biblical texts<br />
• Examines how these early stories were variously shaped by<br />
interaction with the Mesopotamian and Egyptian, Assyrian,<br />
Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenistic empires<br />
Key<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
Key<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
• Incorporates recent research on the formation of the Pentateuch<br />
• Reveals how key biblical texts came to be interpreted by Jewish,<br />
Christian, and Muslim faiths<br />
• Includes student-friendly features, such as study questions, review<br />
sections, bibliographies, timelines, and photos, as well as an<br />
accompanying website: www.wiley.com/go/carr<br />
296 pages • April 2010<br />
978-1-4051-8468-7 • HB • £50.00 / €64.90 / US$89.99 / AUD$110.00<br />
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Opening the Old Testament<br />
Katharine Dell<br />
University of Cambridge, UK<br />
“This is a very successful attempt to ‘open’ the Old<br />
Testament for the reader with no specialist knowledge.<br />
By concentrating on selected passages in detail, Katharine<br />
Dell introduces the major themes and genres of the Bible<br />
in an accessible way, and then provides the background<br />
information needed to understand the bigger picture.<br />
An invaluable guide for anyone puzzled or intrigued by<br />
the Old Testament.”<br />
John Barton, University of Oxford<br />
240 pages • 2008<br />
978-1-4051-2500-0 • HB • £55.00 / €71.90 / US$89.95 / AUD$110.00<br />
978-1-4051-2501-7 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$40.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
Exploring Postcolonial<br />
Biblical Criticism<br />
History, Method, Practice<br />
R. S. Sugirtharajah<br />
University of Birmingham, UK<br />
New<br />
Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism:<br />
History, Method, Practice offers a concise<br />
and multifaceted overview of the origins,<br />
development, and application of postcolonial<br />
criticism to biblical studies.<br />
• Offers a concise and accessible introduction to postcolonial biblical<br />
studies<br />
• Provides a comprehensive overview of postcolonial studies by one of<br />
the field’s most prominent figures<br />
• Explains one of the most innovative and important developments in<br />
modern biblical studies<br />
• Accessible enough to appeal to general readers interested in religion<br />
208 pages • April <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-1-4051-5856-5 • HB • £50.00 / €71.90 / US$84.95 / AUD$110.00<br />
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Paul<br />
A Brief History<br />
Robert Paul Seesengood<br />
Albright College, USA<br />
“This outstanding and accessible book is a welcome and<br />
timely contribution… A rich addition to the study of Paul<br />
through the ages and paradigm for how to think about<br />
such matters.”<br />
Jerry L. Sumney, Lexington Theological Seminary<br />
Tracing the life and influence of one of Christianity’s most important<br />
figures throughout the major periods of its history, this book explores<br />
the changing interpretations of Paul and his work, and in doing so<br />
throws new light on his writings and on religious history.<br />
This insightful, brief history offers a unique approach to the subject,<br />
distilling the many interpretations of Paul and his impact on Christianity.<br />
It also includes a glossary of key people, places and terms in the<br />
Pauline letters, making it a vital resource for anyone studying the life<br />
and letters of Paul and the New Testament.<br />
Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion<br />
264 pages • January 2010<br />
978-1-4051-7891-4 • HB • £50.00 / €64.90 / US$84.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
978-1-4051-7890-7 • PB • £16.99 / €22.90 / US$29.95 / AUD$34.95<br />
Jesus<br />
A Brief History<br />
W. Barnes Tatum<br />
Greensboro College, USA<br />
“A remarkable book. Tatum has taken on the daunting task<br />
of sailing the Christological currents from the backwaters<br />
of first century Nazareth to the cultural tsunamis of<br />
twenty-first century globalization. “<br />
Arthur J. Dewey, Xavier University<br />
Jesus: A Brief History reveals how Jesus and<br />
his story have been received over the past two millennia through art,<br />
literature, and culture, as well as theology. Two questions about Jesus<br />
which recur throughout the book are: Who was he? and What did he<br />
do? But this engaging study also shows the importance of asking<br />
Whose was he? in fully understanding Jesus’ life and legacy.<br />
In tracing the reception history of Jesus and his story over two<br />
thousand years, W. Barnes Tatum draws on a fascinating range of<br />
materials, from ancient texts, creeds, and theological treatises, to the<br />
visual and dramatic arts, including The DaVinci Code and The Passion of<br />
the Christ.<br />
Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion<br />
288 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-7019-2 • HB • £55.00 / €71.90 / US$94.95 / AUD$110.00<br />
978-1-4051-7018-5 • PB • £16.99 / €21.90 / US$29.95 / AUD$34.95<br />
The Apocalypse<br />
A Brief History<br />
Martha Himmelfarb<br />
Princeton University, USA<br />
“Written in an accessible style and uncluttered by<br />
detail, this is an excellent example of a scholar making<br />
available to a wide audience the fruits of her considerable<br />
academic labours in a field that has significant<br />
contemporary relevance.”<br />
Kenneth Newport, Liverpool Hope University<br />
The Apocalypse: A Brief History traces the tradition of apocalyptic<br />
writing through the Middle Ages, when Jews and Christians continued<br />
to record apocalypses and developed related forms of literature. It<br />
concludes with a look at the modern era, a time when the production<br />
of apocalypses may have ended, yet movements with intense<br />
expectations of the world’s imminent demise continue unabated.<br />
Accessible and enlightening, this brief history provides readers with<br />
insights into the fascinating historical genre of apocalyptic literature,<br />
showing how the apocalypse encompasses far more than popular<br />
views of the last judgment and violent end of the world might suggest.<br />
Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion<br />
192 pages • January 2010<br />
978-1-4051-1346-5 • HB • £50.00 / €64.90 / US$84.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
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BIBLICAL STUDIES<br />
Blackwell Bible Commentaries Series:<br />
The Blackwell Bible Commentaries offer a genuinely new approach in<br />
their emphasis on the way the Bible has been used and interpreted<br />
through the ages, from the church fathers through to current popular<br />
culture, and in spheres as diverse as art and politics, hymns and<br />
official church statements.<br />
This outstanding series will be appreciated by students, their teachers,<br />
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Further information about the series is available from the Blackwell<br />
Bible Commentaries website at http://www.bbibcomm.net/<br />
1 & 2 Thessalonians Through<br />
the Centuries<br />
Anthony C. Thiselton<br />
University of Nottingham, UK<br />
Thiselton’s reception history commentary on<br />
the first two of Paul’s epistles investigates<br />
the evolution of religious beliefs and practices<br />
resulting from the letters, and their impact on<br />
social and political developments across the<br />
centuries. It also demonstrates how these<br />
events and changing customs in turn influenced the interpretation<br />
of the letters. Thiselton’s analysis provides a broad range of original<br />
perspectives, offering the reader a depth and appreciation of these<br />
two important letters. In discussing the content, setting, and<br />
authenticity of the two Thessalonian letters, Thiselton examines the<br />
responses from leading scholars, poets, hymn writers, preachers,<br />
theologians, and biblical scholars throughout the ages.<br />
Written by a leading New Testament specialist, the result is a text that<br />
offers genuinely new and illuminating insights into the evolution of the<br />
reception of these two early epistles.<br />
336 pages • January <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-1-4051-9682-6 • HB • £70.00 / €89.90 / US$114.95 / AUD$140.00<br />
Six Minor Prophets<br />
New<br />
Through the Centuries<br />
Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai,<br />
Zechariah and Malachi<br />
Richard Coggins & Jin H. Han<br />
Formerly of King’s College, London, UK; New York<br />
Theological Seminary, USA<br />
The Minor Prophets (Nahum, Habakkuk,<br />
Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi)<br />
have left a mark on the entire span of the<br />
history of biblical reception disproportionate to the brevity of the<br />
books. Suggestive allusions and references turn up throughout<br />
ancient, mediaeval and modern literature, as well as in sculpture<br />
and paintings. Within the rich and complex reception history of the<br />
Prophets, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, have a special role to play<br />
in both Jewish and Christian tradition. They are known collectively as<br />
“the last of the prophets” for after them the spirit of prophecy died<br />
out. In Jewish tradition they thus bridge the gap, as it were, between<br />
the age of prophecy and the age of the Torah. In Christian Bibles their<br />
role is different but also pivotal: located at the very end of the Old<br />
Testament the three last prophets point dramatically, in numerous<br />
familiar phrases and images, towards fulfilment in the Gospels which<br />
immediately follow them.<br />
256 pages • April <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-1-4051-7675-0 • HB • £70.00 / €89.90 / US$109.95 / AUD$110.00<br />
Also available in the Blackwell Bible<br />
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Galatians Through the Centuries<br />
John Riches<br />
352 pages • 2007<br />
978-0-631-23084-7 • HB • £65.00 / €83.90 / US$104.95 / AUD$130.00<br />
Psalms Through the Centuries , Volume 1<br />
Susan Gillingham<br />
400 pages • 2007<br />
978-0-631-21855-5 • HB • £65.00 / €83.90 / US$104.95 / AUD$130.00<br />
Esther Through the Centuries<br />
Jo Carruthers<br />
320 pages • 2007<br />
978-1-4051-3213-8 • HB • £65.00 / €83.90 / US$104.95 / AUD$130.00<br />
The Pastoral Epistles Through the Centuries<br />
Jay Twomey<br />
272 pages • 2008<br />
978-1-4051-2614-4 • HB • £60.00 / €77.90 / US$104.95 / AUD$120.00<br />
Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries<br />
Eric S. Christianson<br />
256 pages • 2006<br />
978-0-631-22529-4 • HB • £60.00 / €77.90 / US$99.95 / AUD$120.00<br />
John Through the Centuries<br />
Mark Edwards<br />
256 pages • 2003<br />
978-0-631-22906-3 • HB • £75.00 / €97.90 / US$125.95 / AUD$150.00<br />
978-0-631-22907-0 • PB • £26.99 / €34.90 / US$51.95 / AUD$54.95<br />
Judges Through the Centuries<br />
David M. Gunn<br />
344 pages • 2004<br />
978-0-631-22251-4 • HB • £75.00 / €97.90 / US$125.95 / AUD$150.00<br />
978-0-631-22252-1 • PB • £26.99 / €34.90 / US$51.95 / AUD$54.95<br />
Revelation<br />
The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ<br />
Judith Kovacs & Christopher Rowland<br />
336 pages • 2003<br />
978-0-631-23214-8 • HB • £75.00 / €97.90 / US$125.95 / AUD$150.00<br />
978-0-631-23215-5 • PB • £26.99 / €34.90 / US$51.95 / AUD$54.95<br />
Exodus Through the Centuries<br />
Scott M. Langston<br />
320 pages • 2005<br />
978-0-631-23523-1 • HB • £65.00 / €83.90 / US$104.95 / AUD$130.00<br />
978-0-631-23524-8 • PB • £29.99 / €38.90 / US$55.95 / AUD$59.95<br />
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Christian Theology<br />
An Introduction<br />
5th Edition<br />
Alister E. McGrath<br />
King’s College, London, UK<br />
New<br />
EDITION<br />
Key<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
“Alister McGrath has proven himself a master at engagingly<br />
and simply introducing Christian theology in all of its<br />
contested complexity.”<br />
M. Douglas Meeks, Vanderbilt University Divinity<br />
School<br />
Alister E. McGrath’s Christian Theology: An Introduction is one of the<br />
most internationally-acclaimed and popular Christian theology textbooks<br />
in use today. This fifth edition has been completely revised, and now<br />
features new and extended material, numerous additional illustrations,<br />
and companion resources, ensuring it retains its reputation as the ideal<br />
introduction to Christian theology.<br />
The revised fifth edition includes:<br />
• Entirely new sections exploring Copernicanism and Darwinism<br />
• Extended discussions of Augustine’s doctrine of creation, Trinitarian<br />
theologies of religion, and the relation of Christianity to other faiths<br />
• Retains the chapter structure of the fourth edition, ensuring<br />
compatability with earlier editions and courses based on these<br />
• A fully updated website available at www.wiley.com/go/mcgrath,<br />
featuring new student resources such as study questions and<br />
additional lectures from Alister McGrath<br />
536 pages • December 2010<br />
978-1-4443-3514-9 • PB • £22.99 / €27.90 / US$49.95 / AUD$47.95<br />
Fourth edition (2006):<br />
978-1-4051-5360-7 • PB • £22.99 / €29.90 / US$59.95 / AUD$47.95<br />
Theology: The Basics<br />
3rd Edition<br />
Alister E. McGrath<br />
King’s College, London, UK<br />
From acclaimed theologian and author Alister E.<br />
McGrath, this third edition of the international<br />
bestseller introduces students to the core<br />
topics of Christianity, discussing them in<br />
relation to the Bible and the work of major<br />
theologians.<br />
• Uses the Apostle’s Creed as a framework to introduce readers to key<br />
topics<br />
• Examines central subjects such as God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit,<br />
faith, creation, salvation, atonement, religious history, and heaven<br />
• Includes a major new chapter on the Holy Spirit and features<br />
expanded discussions throughout<br />
New<br />
EDITION<br />
• Expands the range of theological positions discussed within the book,<br />
especially those of contemporary and feminist theologians<br />
• Offers a complete overview, but can be further enhanced if used<br />
alongside McGrath’s Theology: The Basic Readings<br />
Written in an engaging and clear style, this third edition is the perfect<br />
introduction to the foundations of the Christian faith and the central<br />
concepts of theology, both traditional and contemporary.<br />
240 pages • August <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-0-470-65675-4 • PB • £16.99 / €21.90 / US$29.95 / AUD$ 34.95<br />
Second edition (2007):<br />
978-1-4051-6754-3 • PB • £14.99 / €19.90 / US$31.95 / AUS $29.95<br />
<strong>THEOLOGY</strong><br />
The Christian Theology<br />
Reader<br />
4th Edition<br />
Edited by Alister E. McGrath<br />
King’s College, London, UK<br />
New<br />
EDITION<br />
This bestselling volume is now available in a fully<br />
updated and expanded fourth edition, bringing<br />
together 370 readings, drawn from in excess<br />
of 230 sources, and charting 2,000 years of<br />
Christian history.<br />
• Each reading is accompanied by its own introduction, commentary<br />
and study questions, and illustrates a key doctrine, point of view,<br />
intellectual development, or theological landmark<br />
• Includes several new readings on religion and science, an expanded<br />
coverage of feminist theological voices, extracts from radical<br />
protestant perspectives, and more contemporary theology<br />
• Features additional writers, including: Pope Benedict XVI, John<br />
Polkinghorne, Celia Deane Drummond, John Milbank, Elizabeth A.<br />
Johnson, Delores Williams, and John Yoder<br />
• Use alongside Christian Theology: An Introduction, 5th edition for a<br />
complete subject overview<br />
• Accompanied by a fully revised and expanded website, visit<br />
www.wiley.com/go/mcgrath for more details<br />
576 pages • April <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-0-470-65484-2 • PB • £22.99 / €28.90 / US$49.95 / AUD$ 47.95<br />
Third edition (2006):<br />
978-1-4051-5358-4 • PB • £22.99 / €29.90 / US$59.95 / AUS$47.95<br />
Theology:<br />
The Basic Readings<br />
2nd Edition<br />
Alister McGrath<br />
King’s College, London, UK<br />
New<br />
EDITION<br />
Fully updated and expanded, this new edition<br />
introduces the Christian faith through important<br />
theological readings, covering historical, modern,<br />
denominational, gender, liberal and traditional<br />
issues. It is the ideal accompaniment to the<br />
bestselling textbook, Theology: The Basics.<br />
• Edited by leading theologian Alister E. McGrath, this volume brings<br />
together a range of readings that act as an introduction to the<br />
Christian faith<br />
• Incorporates a new section of readings on the Holy Spirit as well as<br />
expanded readings on contemporary theology and feminist theology<br />
• Provides an introduction and analysis of each reading, along with a<br />
helpful glossary <br />
• Uses the Apostle’s Creed as a framework to introduce readers to<br />
writings on key topics, such as faith, God, Jesus, creation, and<br />
salvation <br />
• Encourages readers to interact with each text and to engage with<br />
primary sources <br />
232 pages • August <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-0-470-65676-1 • PB • £16.99 / €21.90 / US$29.95 / AUD$34.95<br />
First edition (2007):<br />
978-1-4051-7042-0 • PB • £15.99 / €20.90 / US$31.95 / AUD$32.95<br />
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<strong>THEOLOGY</strong><br />
Comparative Theology<br />
Deep Learning Across Religious Borders<br />
Francis X. Clooney, SJ.<br />
Harvard University, USA<br />
“This will be a definitive text which introduces and<br />
exemplifies the discipline of comparative theology, as an<br />
important part of theology and the study of religions.”<br />
Keith Ward, University of Oxford<br />
Drawing on the author’s three decades of work<br />
in comparative theology, the book discusses the<br />
history of the field and the distinctive features of its current practice. It<br />
offers a clear sense of the purposes and methods of the discipline, and<br />
illustrates how one makes the necessary choices about which traditions<br />
to study, and how to focus in manageable areas of comparative study.<br />
Several chapters offer full-length examples of comparative theology in<br />
practice. This multi-faceted introduction demonstrates that comparative<br />
theology can be initiated from within any religious tradition and even in<br />
accord with a personally defined spiritual path.<br />
200 pages • March 2010<br />
978-1-4051-7973-7 • HB • £50.00 / €64.90 / US$89.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
978-1-4051-7974-4 • PB • £16.99 / €22.90 / US$29.95 / AUD$34.95<br />
The Modern<br />
Theologians Reader<br />
Edited by David F. Ford, Mike<br />
Higton with Simeon Zahl<br />
University of Cambridge, UK ; University of Exeter, UK<br />
The Modern Theologians Reader is an<br />
accompaniment to the third edition of The<br />
Modern Theologians (ed. David F. Ford with Rachel<br />
Muers), designed to follow the latter closely in<br />
length and structure. As well as standing on its<br />
own as a wide-ranging and enjoyable sampler of modern theology, the<br />
reader enhances the use of the main volume as a class textbook.<br />
Series: The Great Theologians<br />
368 pages • August <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-1-4051-7111-3 • HB • £55.00 / €57.90 / US$89.95 / AUD$89.95<br />
978-1-4051-7110-6 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$39.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
The Modern<br />
Theologians<br />
An Introduction to Christian<br />
Theology Since 1918<br />
3rd Edition<br />
Edited by David F. Ford<br />
with Rachel Muers<br />
University of Cambridge, UK;<br />
University of Leeds, UK<br />
“A distinguished and outstanding work.”<br />
Theology (of the first edition)<br />
New<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
Key<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
The Modern Theologians provides a comprehensive and accessible<br />
overview of the main Christian theologies of the twentieth and twentyfirst<br />
centuries. Each chapter is written by a leading theologian and gives a<br />
clear picture of a particular movement, topic or individual. Together these<br />
provide an unparalleled picture of the development of modern theology.<br />
Series: The Great Theologians<br />
848 pages • 2005<br />
978-1-4051-0277-3 • PB • £24.99 / €32.90 / US$59.95 / AUD$49.95<br />
The Future of<br />
Christian Theology<br />
David F. Ford, University of Cambridge, UK<br />
In The Future of Christian Theology, one of the<br />
world’s leading theologians tackles the question<br />
of how we should think about Christian faith<br />
and practice today — and especially tomorrow.<br />
With engaging clarity and great insight, the<br />
book explores the ways Christian theology in<br />
the twenty-first century can face the challenges<br />
of our complex religious and secular world in a way that is creative,<br />
empathetic, and wise.<br />
After addressing the reasons why the past century has been one of the<br />
most fruitful in the history of Christian thought, Ford explores some<br />
of the most thought-provoking questions in contemporary theological<br />
thinking and scholarship. Themes and topics covered include what<br />
makes for ‘good theology,’ the relationship of Christian theology to<br />
church, academy, society, and other faiths; and what it takes to become<br />
a theologian in today’s world.<br />
Series: Blackwell Manifestos<br />
256 pages • February <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-1-4051-4272-4 • HB • £50.00 / €65.90 / US$84.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
978-1-4051-4273-1 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$34.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
Understanding<br />
Christian Doctrine<br />
Ian S. Markham<br />
Virginia Theological Seminary, USA<br />
Understanding Christian Doctrine is a<br />
wonderfully accessible and lively introduction to<br />
the central beliefs of Christianity. Each chapter<br />
introduces and explores a key area of doctrine<br />
— such as God, the Trinity, the Church, life<br />
after death skilfully — taking readers through<br />
the main approaches to each topic. Unlike other textbooks, however,<br />
Understanding Christian Doctrine then goes on to encourage and show<br />
readers how to take a position on these theological issues.<br />
248 pages • 2007<br />
978-1-4051-3152-0 • HB • £55.00 / €71.90 / US$89.95 / AUD$110.00<br />
978-1-4051-3153-7 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$34.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
Divine Teaching<br />
An Introduction to Christian Theology<br />
Mark A. McIntosh<br />
Loyola University, Chicago, USA<br />
New<br />
Key<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
“Astonishing in its combination of scope, acuity, and<br />
accessibility. In short, truly magisterial: this book is in all<br />
ways the product of a master theologian working at the<br />
top of his game.”<br />
Charles T. Mathewes, University of Virginia<br />
Divine Teaching: An Introduction to Christian<br />
Theology is an imaginative and lively analysis of the Christian way<br />
of thinking, offering vivid and informing insights into the history and<br />
practice of Christian theology.<br />
272 pages • 2007<br />
978-1-4051-0270-4 • HB • £60.00 / €77.90 / US$99.95 / AUD$120.00<br />
978-1-4051-0271-1 • PB • £20.99 / €26.90 / US$39.95 / AUD$42.95<br />
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The Open Secret<br />
A New Vision for Natural Theology<br />
Alister E. McGrath<br />
King’s College, London, UK<br />
“This is vintage McGrath: confident, capacious in scope,<br />
brisk in exposition, decisive in argument.”<br />
John Webster, King’s College, Aberdeen<br />
Natural theology, in the view of many, is in<br />
crisis. Here, Alister E. McGrath sets out a new<br />
vision for natural theology, re-establishing its<br />
legitimacy and utility. Meeting traditional criticisms head-on, McGrath<br />
develops an intellectually rigorous vision of natural theology as a point<br />
of convergence between the Christian faith, the arts and literature, and<br />
the natural sciences, opening up important possibilities for dialogue,<br />
cross-fertilization, and enrichment. Natural theology, he argues, is about<br />
seeing nature in a Christian manner, and hence discerning its truth,<br />
beauty, and goodness. This major book is certain to be a fundamental<br />
resource and stimulus for the growing interest in reclaiming a viable<br />
natural theology in the early twenty-first century.<br />
384 pages • 2008<br />
978-1-4051-2692-2 • HB • £65.00 / €83.90 / US$104.95 / AUD$130.00<br />
978-1-4051-2691-5 • PB • £24.99 / €32.90 / US$47.95 / AUD$49.95<br />
Christianity and Contemporary<br />
Politics<br />
The Conditions and Possibilites of Faithful Witness<br />
Luke Bretherton, King’s College, London, UK<br />
“Bretherton is one of the most helpful voices engaging<br />
culture in a way that results in robust witness and faithful<br />
gospel proclamation.”<br />
European Journal of Theology<br />
Through insightful case studies of faith-based<br />
organizations, Christian political activism, and welfare provision in the<br />
West, this innovative and informative book shows how Christians can<br />
engage politically in a multi-faith, liberal democracy. The case studies<br />
include assessments of initiatives such as community organizing, fair<br />
trade, and the sanctuary movement.<br />
Bretherton integrates debates in political theology with analysis of policy<br />
and practice regarding religious, social, political, and economic engagement<br />
in the USA, UK, and continental Europe, but avoids presenting an<br />
idealized archetype for church-state relations.<br />
272 pages • January 2010<br />
978-1-4051-9968-1 • HB • £50.00 / €64.90 / US$89.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
978-1-4051-9969-8 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$39.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
<strong>THEOLOGY</strong><br />
The Blackwell Companion to<br />
Natural Theology<br />
Edited by William Lane Craig &<br />
J. P. Moreland<br />
Both of Talbot School of Theology, La Mirada, USA<br />
The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology<br />
gathers together original contributions from<br />
a variety of leading philosophers to provide a<br />
timely and thought-provoking exploration of the<br />
nature and existence of God through the beauty<br />
and order of the natural world. Each of the in-depth essays draws upon<br />
a particular theistic argument, from Contingency and Consciousness<br />
to Reason and Religious Experience. Distinguished authors provide<br />
analysis and evaluation of each argument, offering original insights and<br />
new perspectives on perennial questions.<br />
704 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-7657-6 • HB • £110.00 / €142.00 / US$209.95 / AUD$220.00<br />
The Holy Spirit<br />
Classic and Contemporary Readings<br />
Edited by Eugene F. Rogers Jr.<br />
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA<br />
In order to clarify and explain the role of the<br />
Holy Spirit within the Christian Trinity, this<br />
book provides a comprehensive collection of<br />
crucial texts relating to the Holy Spirit from<br />
Christianity’s earliest origins to the present<br />
day. Foundational issues are questioned,<br />
critiqued, and clarified by drawing on Greek,<br />
Latin, Eastern Orthodox, Mystical, and oft-neglected Syriac and Russian<br />
resources from throughout Christianity’s rich history. Organized<br />
by place, time, and type, the readings are each prefaced with a<br />
theologically informed essay.<br />
360 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-3623-5 • HB • £60.00 / €77.90 / US$104.95 / AUD$120.00<br />
978-1-4051-3624-2 • PB • £20.99 / €26.90 / US$41.95 / AUD$42.95<br />
Theology and Film<br />
Challenging the Sacred/Secular Divide<br />
Christopher Deacy &<br />
Gaye Williams Ortiz<br />
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK;<br />
Augusta State University, USA<br />
This textbook is the ideal introduction to<br />
exploring how film can enrich our study of<br />
theology, opening up debates surrounding<br />
contemporary culture and theological inquiry. The<br />
accessible structure lays out both the methods<br />
and theological perspectives required for understanding theology through<br />
film. Examples of films discussed range from Unforgiven, Jarhead, and<br />
The Passion of the Christ, to An Inconvenient Truth, Something’s Gotta<br />
Give, and Vanilla Sky. The book is accompanied by website resources<br />
available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/theologyandfilm.<br />
264 pages • 2007<br />
978-1-4051-4437-7 • HB • £55.00 / €71.90 / US$94.95 / AUD$110.00<br />
978-1-4051-4438-4 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$34.95 / AUD$52.95<br />
The Religious Film<br />
Christianity and the Hagiopic<br />
Pamela Grace, Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA<br />
The Religious Film is a welcome introduction to this<br />
complex and iconic genre of film. Pamela Grace<br />
provides historical, cultural and critical background<br />
for religious films from the silent era through<br />
today, and explores the genre in its many guises<br />
as spectacle, as musical, and as controversy. From<br />
The Gospel According to Matthew to Jesus Christ<br />
Superstar, from The Passion of Joan of Arc to The<br />
Last Temptation of Christ and Jesus of Montreal, The Religious Film captures<br />
the glory, gore, and centrality of this important genre.<br />
Series: New Approaches to Film Genre<br />
192 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-6025-4 • HB • £50.00 / €65.90 / US$83.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
978-1-4051-6026-1 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$31.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
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<strong>THEOLOGY</strong><br />
Challenges in Contemporary Theology Series<br />
Divine Illumination<br />
The History and Future of<br />
Augustine’s Theory of Knowledge<br />
Lydia Schumacher, University of Oxford, UK<br />
“…challenges the traditional history of theories of<br />
knowledge. A bold and provocative reading.”<br />
Olivier Boulnois<br />
In Divine Illumination, Schumacher offers an<br />
original approach to Augustine’s theory of divine<br />
illumination, the precondition of all human<br />
knowledge. Written with great originality and clarity, she traces the<br />
idea through medieval thinkers, into early modernity, and reveals its<br />
importance in modern theories of knowledge.<br />
• Presents a groundbreaking way of thinking about the writings of<br />
Augustine, Anselm, Bonaventure, Aquinas, and John Duns Scotus,<br />
and relates this to cutting edge questions in contemporary philosophy<br />
of religion, especially epistemology<br />
• Is a significant contribution to the history of philosophy but also to<br />
contemporary debates on faith and reason<br />
Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology<br />
288 pages • April <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-0-470-65742-3 • HB • £75.00 / €97.90 / US$119.95 / AUD$150.00<br />
The Vietnam War and<br />
Theologies of Memory<br />
Time and Eternity in the Far Country<br />
Jonathan Tran, Baylor University, USA<br />
“With the soul of a poet, the mind of a theologian, and<br />
the complex commitment of a Vietnamese-American<br />
Christian, Jonathan Tran’s analysis is hauntingly,<br />
beautifully, profound. The book is worth its price for<br />
several individual sections on their own; the cumulative<br />
achievement is extraordinary and not to be missed.”<br />
L. Gregory Jones, Duke University<br />
Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology<br />
304 pages • April 2010<br />
978-1-4051-8320-8 • HB • £50.00 / €64.90 / US$119.95 / AUD$120.00<br />
In Adam’s Fall<br />
A Meditation on the Christian Doctrine of<br />
Original Sin<br />
New<br />
Ian A. McFarland, Emory University, USA<br />
Towards a Jewish-<br />
Muslim-Christian<br />
Theology<br />
David B. Burrell<br />
University of Notre Dame, USA<br />
Towards a Jewish-Muslim-Christian Theology<br />
delineates the ways that Christianity, Islam, and<br />
the Jewish tradition have moved towards each<br />
another over the centuries and points to new<br />
pathways for contemporary theological work.<br />
• Explores the development of the three Abrahamic traditions, brilliantly<br />
showing the way in which they have struggled with similar issues<br />
over the centuries<br />
• Shows how the approach of each tradition can be used comparatively<br />
by the other traditions to illuminate and develop their own thinking<br />
• Written by a renowned writer in philosophical theology, widely<br />
acclaimed for his comparative thinking on Jewish and Islamic theology<br />
• A very timely book which moves forward the discussion at a period of<br />
intense inter-religious dialogue<br />
Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology<br />
216 pages • April <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-0-470-65755-3 • HB • £65.00 / €83.90 / US$99.95 / AUD$130.00<br />
God, Sex, and Gender<br />
An Introduction<br />
New<br />
New<br />
Adrian Thatcher, University of Exeter, UK<br />
The last 50 years have seen unprecedented<br />
changes in sexual and gender relationships.<br />
These include the easy availability of<br />
contraception, the separation of sexual<br />
experience from marriage and marriage from<br />
parenthood. Relationships between men and<br />
women have moved towards a new model of<br />
equality, and a new recognition of sexual and<br />
gender difference. These transformations have resulted in great benefits<br />
but they have also sparked painful and on-going controversies in all the<br />
churches. God, Sex, and Gender is a clear and engaging introduction<br />
to these issues. It offers a consistent theological understanding which<br />
is contemporary, undogmatic, questioning, and relevant to readers’<br />
experience, interests and needs.<br />
Throughout the book, Thatcher connects theological ideas, with<br />
broader, secular thought, filling a gap in the literature by linking together<br />
the diverse themes of sexuality, gender and Christian thought in one<br />
coherent volume.<br />
288 pages • April <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-1-4051-9369-6 • HB • £50.00 / €65.90 / US$79.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
978-1-4051-9370-2 • PB • £19.99 / €24.90 / US$34.95 / AUD$37.95<br />
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“A must read for anyone who thinks seriously about<br />
questions of sin and what it means to be human.<br />
McFarland deftly explores historical theological texts<br />
and contemporary scientific theory to paint a picture of<br />
human beings as creatures whose identity is rooted in an<br />
essential unity and thus a common destiny… This book<br />
will be a classic…” Stephen G. Ray Jr,<br />
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary<br />
Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology<br />
256 pages • October 2010<br />
978-1-4051-8365-9 • HB • £70.00 / €87.90 / US$119.95 / AUD$140.00<br />
The Blackwell Reader<br />
in Pastoral and Practical Theology<br />
Edited by James Woodward, Stephen Pattison &<br />
John Patton<br />
Rector of Middleton and Wishaw, UK; University of Wales, Cardiff, UK;<br />
Columbia Theological Seminary, Georgia, USA<br />
“This is a textbook to be recommended. The whole spectrum of practical theology,<br />
including the feminist perspective, is covered.”<br />
International Journal of Practical Theology<br />
Series: Blackwell Readings in Modern Theology<br />
360 pages • 1999<br />
978-0-631-20745-0 • PB • £24.99 / €32.90 / US$55.95 / AUD$49.95<br />
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Dust that Breathes<br />
Christian Faith and the New Humanisms<br />
William Schweiker<br />
University of Chicago, USA<br />
“In Dust That Breaths, the renowned North American<br />
ethicist William Schweiker continues to portray the stance<br />
towards life that he has made known as theological<br />
humanism. The reader is taken on a fascinating journey…<br />
It is a difficult and exciting endeavor. It is carried out with<br />
the help of Schweiker’s learnedness and his trademark<br />
ability to integrate a quest for intersubjectivity with<br />
openness for great complexity and ongoing change.”<br />
Per Sundman, Uppsala University<br />
This is an insightful and masterly look at the challenges and possibilities<br />
for Christian life in the contemporary world. Dust that Breathes is unique<br />
in its appreciation of the ambiguity of religion, in its representations<br />
of the highest human achievements and the very worst of human<br />
actions. Schweiker concludes that a Christian outlook on life is still<br />
relevant, proposing an approach to Christian existence which is fully<br />
engaged with shared human concerns, and yet one which can meet the<br />
practical challenges and possibilities of the global age.<br />
256 pages • October 2010<br />
978-1-4443-3535-4 • HB • £65.00 / €83.90 / US$119.95 / AUD$130.00<br />
Twentieth-Century Catholic<br />
Theologians<br />
Fergus Kerr<br />
University of Oxford and University of Edinburgh, UK<br />
This book offers a lively and succinct account<br />
of Catholic theology from 1900 to the present<br />
day. The book begins with the work of<br />
Chenu, the guru of the French worker priest<br />
movement, and concludes with the writings<br />
of contemporary theologians such as the<br />
present Pope, Benedict XVI. Kerr, himself one of the foremost Catholic<br />
theologians writing in English, discusses the theological development<br />
of each figure and their relationship to Church teaching.<br />
240 pages • 2006<br />
978-1-4051-2083-8 • HB • £55.00 / €71.90 / US$89.95 / AUD$110.00<br />
978-1-4051-2084-5 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$34.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
Luther’s Theology of the Cross<br />
Martin Luther’s Theological Breakthrough<br />
2nd Edition<br />
Alister E. McGrath, King’s College, London, UK<br />
Building on the success of his classic text, Luther’s Theology of the<br />
Cross, first edition, Alister E. McGrath draws on new sources and<br />
advances in our understanding of late medieval intellectual, cultural and<br />
religious life to offer a fresh understanding of this pivotal moment in<br />
Protestant history. This is a must-read for anyone interested in Martin<br />
Luther, the intellectual history of the late Middle Ages and sixteenth<br />
century, and those interested in the Reformation and the development<br />
of Protestantism.<br />
240 pages • April <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-0-4706-5530-6 • HB • £60.00 / €72.00 / US$99.95 / AUD$120.00<br />
Theology and Social Theory<br />
Beyond Secular Reason<br />
2nd Edition<br />
John Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK<br />
“ [Theology and Social Theory] remains a dense,<br />
challenging and elusive masterpiece of a book, which<br />
has lost none of its power to intrigue and repel in equal<br />
measure.” Times Literary Supplement<br />
480 pages • 2005<br />
978-1-4051-3683-9 • HB • £75.00 / €97.90 / US$125.95 / AUD$150.00<br />
978-1-4051-3684-6 • PB • £26.99 / €34.90 / US$52.95 / AUD$54.95<br />
After Enlightenment<br />
Hamann as Post-Secular Visionary<br />
New<br />
John R. Betz, Loyola College, Maryland, USA<br />
“John Betz’s book is arguably the single best work on<br />
Hamann in the english speaking world and the most<br />
informed recent work on Hamann in any language.”<br />
Reinhard Huetter, Duke University<br />
<strong>THEOLOGY</strong><br />
Re-thinking Dionysius the<br />
Areopagite<br />
Edited by Sarah Coakley &<br />
Charles M. Stang<br />
University of Cambridge, UK;<br />
Harvard Divinity School, USA<br />
Dionysius the Areopagite, the early sixthcentury<br />
Christian writer who took the name<br />
of Paul’s first convert in Athens, effected<br />
a marriage between Christianity and neo-<br />
Platonist philosophy which was, from the start, as controversial as it<br />
was generative. This volume provides a succinct and clear analysis of<br />
the original context and intent of the Dionysian writings, and of their<br />
subsequent interpretation in Christian tradition, up to the present day.<br />
Series: Directions in Modern Theology<br />
240 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-8089-4 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$34.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
Series: Illuminations: Theory & Religion<br />
376 pages • 2008<br />
978-1-4051-6246-3 • HB • £60.00 / €77.90 / US$104.95 / AUD$120.00<br />
The Theology of Food<br />
Eating and the Eucharist<br />
Angel F. Mendez Montoya<br />
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico<br />
“This book deserves to be widely read and, if you will<br />
forgive the metaphor, digested.”<br />
Christian Century<br />
Series: Illuminations: Theory & Religion<br />
184 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-8967-5 • HB • £50.00 / €65.90 / US$94.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
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WORLD <strong>RELIGION</strong>S<br />
The Religion Toolkit<br />
A Complete Guide to Religion<br />
John Morreall & Tamara Sonn<br />
Both at the College of William & Mary, USA<br />
This unique introductory textbook is a complete<br />
overview of Religious Studies, providing<br />
students with the essential knowledge and<br />
tools they need to explore and understand the<br />
nature of religion.<br />
In a lively and engaging way, the authors draw<br />
together the main elements of Religious Studies, allowing the reader to<br />
develop an integrated understanding of religion.<br />
• Covers the early development of religion, with overviews of major and<br />
minor religions from Islam to Scientology<br />
• Considers recent developments including secularization; the<br />
relationship between religion and science; and scientific studies on<br />
religion, health, and mystical experience<br />
• Uses humor throughout, allowing students to remain open-minded to<br />
the subject<br />
• Explains what it means to study religion academically, and considers<br />
the impact of the study of religion on religion itself<br />
• Contains numerous student-friendly features including photos, maps,<br />
time lines, side bars, historical profiles, and population distribution<br />
figures<br />
• Provides classroom users with a lively website including questions,<br />
quizzes, extra material, and helpful primary and secondary sources<br />
The attractive design, lively text, numerous illustrations, side bars, text<br />
boxes, questions and activities all make The Religion Toolkit an exciting<br />
and thought-provoking book to use.<br />
344 pages • August <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-1-4051-8247-8 • HB • £55.00 / €71.90 / US$94.95 / AUD$110.00<br />
978-1-4051-8246-1 • PB • £19.99 / €23.90 / US$49.95 / AUD$37.95<br />
World Religions in<br />
Practice<br />
A Comparative Introduction<br />
Paul Gwynne<br />
University of New South Wales, Australia<br />
New<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
Key<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
“This is an impressive accomplishment that presents<br />
a moving and engaging encounter with the religious<br />
traditions of the world.”<br />
Kim Paffenroth, Iona College<br />
World Religions in Practice introduces the world’s great religions<br />
through their customs, rituals and everyday practices. By focusing on<br />
this lived experience it goes beyond many traditional introductions<br />
to religious studies, providing an in-depth, comparative study and an<br />
appreciation of the broader context in which these religions should be<br />
understood. The book explores the five major religions of Hinduism,<br />
Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, adopting a directly<br />
comparative approach to develop a greater understanding of the<br />
nature of religion. It includes chapter-by-chapter opening themes<br />
and summaries, and is accompanied by a website at<br />
www.blackwellpublishing.com/gwynne featuring additional<br />
resources and study questions.<br />
448 pages • 2008<br />
978-1-4051-6702-4 • HB • £60.00 / €77.90 / US$97.95 / AUD$120.00<br />
978-1-4051-6703-1 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$47.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
Christianity and World Religions<br />
Disputed Questions in the Theology of Religions<br />
Gavin D’Costa, University of Bristol, UK<br />
“Informative and thought-provoking, this book tackles one<br />
of the most heated issues of the time: the interactions<br />
within religious pluralism. Old-timers and newcomers to<br />
disputes over these ‘disputed questions’ will not walk<br />
away from this book casually or apathetically.”<br />
Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago<br />
This engaging introduction to Christianity’s relationship with other world<br />
religions addresses the questions of why the reality, and vitality, of<br />
other religions has become a challenge, showing how Christianity is<br />
equipped to deal with religious plurality at both the doctrinal and social<br />
level. The book makes a decisive contribution to debates about clashes<br />
between Islam and the West, arguing that the major threat to religious<br />
freedoms comes from secularism, and that Islam and Christianity both<br />
have the resources to develop a vibrant and pluralist public square<br />
informed by intellectual debate.<br />
248 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-7674-3 • HB • £50.00 / €65.90 / US$84.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
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A World Religions<br />
Reader<br />
3rd Edition<br />
Edited by Ian S. Markham with<br />
Christy Lohr<br />
Virginia Theological Seminary, USA;<br />
Hartford Seminary, USA<br />
“… the most valuable reader on world religions to date<br />
to any student or teacher that seeks to study or teach the<br />
religious traditions of the world.”<br />
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Providing a comprehensive exploration of the teachings and beliefs<br />
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344 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-7109-0 • PB • £21.99 / €28.90 / US$47.95 / AUD$44.95<br />
The Major Religions<br />
An Introduction with Texts<br />
2nd Edition<br />
BESTSELLER<br />
BESTSELLER<br />
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“This book is the best, brief description available currently<br />
of the origins, tenets and ways of worship of the world’s<br />
great religions aimed at beginning students.”<br />
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This popular introduction to the world’s religions<br />
provides a comprehensive survey of the major religious traditions<br />
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beliefs and values that animate each religion, helping students to<br />
understand what makes them meaningful to their followers.<br />
400 pages • 2004<br />
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Alister E. McGrath is Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and Professor of Historical<br />
Theology at Oxford University. He is author of numerous works in theology, including the<br />
best-selling Christian Theology: An Introduction, Third Edition (Blackwell, 2001).<br />
Introducing World Christianity<br />
Edited by Charles E. Farhadian<br />
Westmont College, USA<br />
Introducing World Christianity brings together leading scholars from a<br />
range of disciplines to provide an engaging introduction to the global<br />
impact of Christianity. This book takes a non-theological approach,<br />
focusing on the impact of and response to Christianity, rather than the<br />
motivations of those who communicated the faith. It contains studies<br />
from every major region of the world, including Africa, Asia, Latin<br />
America, North Atlantic, and Oceania; covering Protestant, Evangelical,<br />
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illuminate the context and issues.<br />
288 pages • April <strong>2011</strong><br />
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The World’s Christians<br />
Who They Are, Where They Are,<br />
and How They Got There<br />
Key<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
Key<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
Douglas Jacobsen, Messiah College, USA<br />
Christianity is the world’s largest religion, with<br />
one third of the world’s population defining<br />
themselves as Christians, and with a truly global<br />
presence. In a clear and lively style, Jacobsen<br />
describes how Christianity has developed and<br />
spread around the world and how Christians<br />
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today. The book offers a balanced and engaging account of global<br />
Christianiaty, past and present, with fascinating accounts of the world’s<br />
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Written by an award-winning author, the book combines history,<br />
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472 pages • April <strong>2011</strong><br />
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Christianities in Asia<br />
Edited by Peter C. Phan<br />
Georgetown University, USA<br />
“Phan and his colleagues have produced what will surely<br />
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The book explores Christianity in the countries<br />
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M c G R AT H Christian SPIRITUALITY<br />
Series: Blackwell Guides to Global Christianity<br />
288 pages • December 2010<br />
978-1-4051-6089-6 • HB • £55.00 / €71.90 / US$89.95 / AUD$110.00<br />
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SPIRITUALITY<br />
A L I S T E R E . M c G R A T H<br />
Christianity<br />
An Introduction<br />
2nd Edition<br />
Alister E. McGrath<br />
400 pages • 2005<br />
978-1-4051-0899-7 • PB<br />
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Christian Spirituality<br />
An Introduction<br />
Alister E. McGrath<br />
King’s College, London, UK<br />
“The book is written with superb clarity and very considerable<br />
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International Journal of Children’s Spirituality<br />
224 pages • 1999<br />
978-0-631-21281-2 • PB<br />
£21.99 / €28.90 / US$52.95 / AUD$44.95<br />
Historical Theology<br />
An Introduction to the History of<br />
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Alister E. McGrath<br />
King’s College, London, UK<br />
New<br />
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The Orthodox Church<br />
An Introduction to its History,<br />
Doctrine, and Spiritual Culture<br />
John Anthony McGuckin<br />
Union Theological Seminary and Columbia<br />
University, USA<br />
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title<br />
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480 pages • October 2010<br />
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“An ideal introduction to the tradition that debunks many<br />
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In this fascinating book, renowned Buddhist<br />
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978-1-4051-8065-8 • HB • £50.00 / €65.90 / US$83.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
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Confucius and Confucianism<br />
The Essentials<br />
Now in<br />
PAPERBACK<br />
Lee Dian Rainey<br />
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada<br />
This lively and highly accessible introduction<br />
explores the life and teachings of Confucius,<br />
and development of Confucian thought,<br />
from ancient times to the present today.<br />
The book skilfully lays out and explores the<br />
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280 pages • April 2010<br />
978-1-4051-8841-8 • HB • £50.00 / €64.90 / US$84.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
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A New History of Shinto<br />
John Breen & Mark Teeuwen<br />
International Research Centre for Japanese Studies,<br />
Kyoto, Japan; University of Oslo, Norway<br />
“Written by two scholars at the forefront of the study of<br />
Japanese religions, this book offers much more than a<br />
brief history. It is in fact a very bold and lucid attempt to<br />
redraw the parameters that govern our understanding of<br />
that elusive body of thought and practice we call Shinto.<br />
This book will surprise and on occasion shock; it will<br />
surely be required reading for all those interested in Japan<br />
and the Japanese.”<br />
Richard Bowring, University of Cambridge<br />
Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion<br />
280 pages • January 2010<br />
978-1-4051-5515-1 • HB • £50.00 / €64.90 / US$84.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
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Islam<br />
A Brief History<br />
2nd Edition<br />
Tamara Sonn<br />
The College of William and Mary, USA<br />
“Sonn provides a significant new analysis of the range<br />
of contemporary Muslim thought as well as updating<br />
sections in light of recent scholarship. These changes<br />
mean that it continues to be an essential book for those<br />
who need an introduction to Islam that is both readable<br />
and well-informed.”<br />
John Voll, Georgetown University<br />
Reflecting recent global developments, the second edition of this<br />
illuminating introduction to Islamic history expands its coverage of the<br />
Quran, Sufism, and Muslim views on human rights, including the rights<br />
of women.<br />
Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion<br />
248 pages • January 2010<br />
978-1-4051-8094-8 • HB • £55.00 / €69.90 / US$89.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
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A New Introduction<br />
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2nd Edition<br />
BESTSELLER<br />
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A New Introduction to Islam offers students<br />
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This second edition offers additional material on Islam in America, on<br />
gender and women, and on recent trends in Islamic thought.<br />
360 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-5807-7 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$41.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
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The Story of the Qur’an<br />
Its History and Place in Muslim<br />
Life<br />
Ingrid Mattson<br />
Hartford Seminary, USA<br />
“A balanced, academically-based, and well-documented<br />
introduction … Mattson throws a much-needed light on<br />
what it means to be a Muslim.”<br />
Islamic Horizons<br />
Written by a well known Islamic expert, this<br />
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influence of the Qur’an on all major aspects of Muslim society, such as<br />
personal relationships, popular culture, law, art and architecture, political<br />
movements, science, and literature is also explored.<br />
272 pages • 2007<br />
978-1-4051-2257-3 • HB • £60.00 / €77.90 / US$97.95 / AUD$120.00<br />
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Hinduism<br />
A Reader<br />
Edited by Deepak Sarma<br />
Case Western Reserve University, USA<br />
“An excellent collection for use in the classroom and for<br />
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Expository Times<br />
This collection brings together the sacred<br />
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cover topics such as creation, sacrifice, birth, marriage and death and<br />
tell the stories of the great Hindu gods.<br />
424 pages • 2007<br />
978-1-4051-4989-1 • HB • £60.00 / €77.90 / US$99.95 / AUD$120.00<br />
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Islam, Politics, Anthropology<br />
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256 pages • January 2010<br />
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SOCIOLOGY OF <strong>RELIGION</strong><br />
Utopias<br />
A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual<br />
Communities<br />
Howard P. Segal<br />
University of Maine, USA<br />
This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought,<br />
from the first utopias in ancient Greece, through their flourishing in<br />
the Renaissance, via the famous “dystopias” of Orwell, Huxley and<br />
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now conceived as cyberspace paradises or the result of high-tech<br />
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Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion<br />
224 pages • April <strong>2011</strong><br />
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The New Blackwell Companion<br />
to the Sociology of Religion<br />
Edited by Bryan S. Turner<br />
University of Western Sydney, Australia<br />
Reflecting the very latest developments in<br />
the field, this new companion provides a<br />
comprehensive introduction to the sociology of<br />
religion, with a clear emphasis on comparative<br />
and historical approaches. The volume is<br />
international in its scope, covering American<br />
exceptionalism, Native American spirituality, and China, Europe, and<br />
Southeast Asia. Included are discussions on key issues including<br />
megachurches, spirituality, post-secular society, and globalization.<br />
Series: The Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Sociology<br />
712 pages • April 2010<br />
978-1-4051-8852-4 • HB • £110.00 / €142.00 / US$199.95 / AUD$220.00<br />
A Reader in the<br />
Anthropology of<br />
Religion<br />
2nd Edition<br />
Edited by Michael Lambek<br />
University of Toronto, Canada<br />
New<br />
BESTSELLER<br />
“The most comprehensive anthology on its subject, this<br />
is a splendid tool for teaching and a matchless scholarly<br />
resource.”<br />
International Review of Biblical Studies<br />
In the second edition of the highly acclaimed Reader in the<br />
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significant classic and contemporary writings on the subject, creating<br />
an unparalleled guide to the past, present, and future of the field.<br />
Series: Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural<br />
Anthropology<br />
696 pages • 2008<br />
978-1-4051-3615-0 • HB • £65.00 / €83.90 / US$104.95 / AUD$130.00<br />
978-1-4051-3614-3 • PB • £24.99 / €32.90 / US$59.95 / AUD$49.95<br />
The Anthropology of<br />
Religion<br />
An Introduction<br />
2nd Edition<br />
Fiona Bowie, University of Bristol, UK<br />
The second edition of this popular introduction<br />
to the anthropology of religion introduces<br />
readers to the central theoretical ideas in the<br />
anthropology of religion, illustrating them with<br />
specific case studies. New ideas are developed throughout the book,<br />
linking the work of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholars,<br />
and contemporary ideas and practices.<br />
344 pages • 2005<br />
978-1-4051-2105-7 • PB • £20.99 / €26.90 / US$42.95 / AUD$42.95<br />
Cults and New Religions<br />
A Brief History<br />
Douglas E. Cowan &<br />
David G. Bromley<br />
University of Waterloo, Canada;<br />
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA<br />
“Cults and New Religions is an excellent book that is<br />
highly informative and enjoyable to read. The book not<br />
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Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion<br />
272 pages • 2007<br />
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Cults and New Religious<br />
Movements<br />
A Reader<br />
2nd Edition<br />
Edited by Lorne L. Dawson<br />
University of Waterloo, Ontario<br />
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Spiritualities of Life<br />
New Age Romanticism and Consumptive<br />
Capitalism<br />
Paul Heelas, University of Lancaster, UK<br />
This enlightening book explores the ways<br />
in which inner-life spirituality has been<br />
experienced, understood, and valued in Western<br />
society. In doing so, it traces the development<br />
of modern spiritualities of life, from the origins<br />
of Romanticism in the late-eighteenth century,<br />
through to the counter-cultural sixties and on to<br />
the wellbeing culture. The result is an insightful account of the spiritual<br />
landscape. In a provocative argument, Heelas takes on the belief that<br />
holistic spirituality is merely an extension of capitalism in which people<br />
consume spirituality without giving anything back. He contends that<br />
much of the wide range of popular mind-body-spirit practices are really<br />
an ethically charged force for the good life.<br />
Series: Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World<br />
296 pages • 2008<br />
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Consolidating the New Paradigm<br />
2nd Edition<br />
Edited by Isabel Clarke<br />
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, NHS, UK<br />
The new edition of this successful text builds<br />
on the very latest research to present a unique<br />
exploration of the psychology of both spirituality<br />
and psychosis. The editor brings together fascinating perspectives from<br />
a broad range of distinguished contributors, including Peter Fenwick and<br />
Gordon Claridge, to develop and support the link between these two<br />
areas of human experience. This text offers a fundamental rethinking<br />
of the interface between psychosis and spirituality, proposing new and<br />
original insights.<br />
304 pages • September 2010<br />
978-0-470-68348-4 • HB • £75.00 / €97.90 / US$119.95 / AUD$150.00<br />
978-0-470-68347-7 • PB • £29.99 / €38.90 / US$49.95 / AUD$59.95<br />
Science and<br />
Religion in Dialogue<br />
New<br />
EDITION<br />
2<br />
VOLUME SET<br />
Edited by Melville Y. Stewart<br />
University of St. Thomas, USA<br />
“The pithiness of the contributions and the breadth<br />
of topical coverage make this a fine resource for<br />
research or instructional purposes.”<br />
Justin L. Barrett, University of Oxford<br />
This two-volume collection of cutting edge discussion about science and<br />
religion shows how scientific and religious practices of inquiry can be<br />
viewed as logically compatible, complementary, and mutually supportive.<br />
Consisting of 70 articles by eminent scientists and philosophers, these<br />
volumes address issues such as Big Bang cosmology, evolution, intelligent<br />
design, dinosaurs and creation, and the God-Gene Hypothesis. The<br />
implications of religious beliefs on hot-button scientific issues such as<br />
stem cell research, bioethics, and neuroscience, are also explored, along<br />
with topics that delve into the deeper realm of physics, such as general<br />
and special theories of relativity, dark energy, dark matter, the Multiverse<br />
Hypothesis, and Super String Theory.<br />
1168 pages • 2 volume • January 2010<br />
978-1-4051-8921-7 • HB • £235.00 / €302.00 / US$400.00 / AUD$465.00<br />
Science and Religion<br />
A New Introduction<br />
2nd Edition<br />
Alister E. McGrath<br />
King’s College, London, UK<br />
Now thoroughly updated to reflect the latest<br />
debates, this popular textbook introduces<br />
readers to the central questions in the field of<br />
science and religion. Ideally suited to those who<br />
have little or no prior knowledge in either area,<br />
it incorporates numerous student-friendly features, including maps,<br />
summaries, and historical references, resulting in the most up-to-date<br />
introduction to the study of religion and the natural sciences available.<br />
• Examines the historical, theological, philosophical and scientific<br />
aspects of the interaction between religion and science<br />
• Fully updated to reflect current, cutting-edge debates on scientific<br />
atheism and the limits of scientific method, and discussions about the<br />
relationship between science and religion in major world faiths<br />
• Includes a historical component to enable readers to orientate<br />
themselves within the subject<br />
• Takes a topic based approach which fits into the existing structure of<br />
most courses, and includes explanatory material not found in other<br />
works of this kind, making it highly accessible for those with little<br />
scientific or religious background knowledge<br />
264 pages • January 2010<br />
978-1-4051-8790-9 • HB • £50.00 / €64.90 / US$89.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
978-1-4051-8791-6 • PB • £19.99 / €24.90 / US$39.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
Science and Religion<br />
Understanding the Issues<br />
Nancy Morvillo<br />
Florida Southern College, USA<br />
New<br />
EDITION<br />
Key<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
“This is an excellent introduction to science and religion<br />
that focuses on how the disciplines of science and<br />
Christian theology can inform each other. Nancy Morvillo<br />
offers both a historical perspective and an up-to-date<br />
survey of contemporary thinking on the central topics of<br />
methodology, cosmology, evolution, and ethics.”<br />
Mary Kathleen Cunningham, North Carolina State<br />
University<br />
Addressing the complex issues at the interface of science and religion,<br />
this introductory textbook examines a range of basic scientific topics<br />
and their theological responses, including methodology, cosmology,<br />
evolution, and contemporary bio-ethical and environmental concerns.<br />
Examples and careful explanations of scientific concepts are included<br />
throughout. To shed light on the various issues at the crossroads of<br />
religion and science, the text also delves into the past to examine ideas<br />
from early scientists and theologians that have helped shape current<br />
thinking.<br />
368 pages • April 2010<br />
978-1-4051-8966-8 • HB • £55.00 / €69.90 / US$99.95 / AUD$110.00<br />
978-1-4051-8965-1 • PB • £22.99 / €24.90 / US$39.95 / AUD$47.95<br />
SOCIOLOGY OF <strong>RELIGION</strong> / SCIENCE OF <strong>RELIGION</strong><br />
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HISTORY OF <strong>RELIGION</strong><br />
Religion in American History<br />
Edited by Amanda Porterfield &<br />
John Corrigan<br />
Both at Florida State University, USA<br />
“A remarkably imaginative reading of religion in American<br />
history, the essays in this volume provide fresh insights<br />
into old materials and, at the same time, bring a wide<br />
array of new materials into view. “<br />
Grant Wacker, Duke University<br />
This student-friendly introduction combines<br />
both thematic and chronological approaches in exploring the pivotal role<br />
religion played in American history - and of its impact across a range of<br />
issues, from identity formation and politics, to race, gender, and class.<br />
• A comprehensive introduction to American religious history that<br />
successfully combines thematic and chronological approaches, aiding<br />
both teaching and learning<br />
• Brings together a stellar cast of experts to trace the development of<br />
theology, the political order, practice, and race, ethnicity, gender and<br />
class throughout America’s history<br />
• Accessibly structured in to four key eras: Exploration and Encounter<br />
(1492-1676); The Atlantic World (1676-1802); American Empire (1803-<br />
1898); and Global Reach (1898-present)<br />
• Investigates the role of religion in forming people’s identities,<br />
emotional experiences, social conflict, politics, and patriotism<br />
360 pages • April 2010<br />
978-1-4051-6137-4 • HB • £50.00 / €65.90 / US$89.85 / AUD$99.95<br />
978-1-4051-6138-1 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$39.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
The Reformation<br />
A Brief History<br />
Kenneth G. Appold<br />
Princeton Theological Seminary, USA<br />
The Reformation marked a decisive breaking<br />
point in both the history of Christianity and the<br />
nature of the medieval world. This brief history<br />
describes the new ways of thinking, believing<br />
and behaving that could no longer be integrated<br />
into the world-view of late-medieval Catholicism<br />
and precipitated a break with the established<br />
order. The book portrays the late-medieval context out of, and into<br />
which the Reformation arose, describes the radical ideas proposed by<br />
the Reformers, and outlines the long-term consequences brought about<br />
by these crucial develoments. Drawing on work in social and political<br />
history, historical anthropology, and in the history of theology, the work<br />
promises an engaging synthesis which will provide readers with an upto-date<br />
and comprehensive overview of an era of enduring significance.<br />
Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion<br />
256 pages • April <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-1-4051-1749-4 • HB • £50.00 / €51.90 / US$79.95 / AUD$79.95<br />
978-1-4051-1750-0 • PB • £17.99 / €17.90 / US$29.95 / AUD$27.95<br />
New<br />
Protestants<br />
A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania<br />
1517–1740<br />
C. Scott Dixon<br />
Queen’s University, Belfast, UK<br />
Protestants: A History from Wittenberg<br />
to Pennsylvania 1517-1740 presents a<br />
comprehensive historiography of the rise,<br />
reception, and ongoing global influence of the<br />
branches of Christianity that emerged out of the<br />
Protestant Reformation. Offering more than a<br />
chronological recounting of historic events, renowned religious scholar<br />
C. Scott Dixon reveals the role of Protestantism as a creative force in<br />
history, and offers a startling new perspective on the complex strands<br />
of a sixteenth-century religious upheaval whose repercussions remain<br />
with us to the present day.<br />
280 pages • October 2010<br />
978-1-4051-5084-2 • HB • £70.00 / €89.90 / US$119.95 / AUD$140.00<br />
The European<br />
Reformations<br />
2nd Edition<br />
Carter Lindberg, Boston University, USA<br />
“Not only does Lindberg place the religious movements<br />
of the time in their political and, especially, social context,<br />
but his knowledge of the theological debates provides the<br />
reader with succinct, clear explanations of the theological<br />
substance that gave rise to the great variety of the ages<br />
reformations.”<br />
Timothy J. Wengert, The Lutheran Theological<br />
Seminary at Philadelphia<br />
Updated with the best of recent scholarship, while maintaining its<br />
hallmark features, the second edition of The European Reformations is<br />
an outstanding introduction to the sixteenth-century Reformations in<br />
Europe. New sections include coverage of the Catholic Reformation,<br />
the Counter-Reformation, and the Reformation in Britain. The book<br />
continues its tradition of presenting material in the most lively and<br />
accessible manner possible, and sets the origin of the Reformation<br />
in the context of late medieval social, economic and religious crises,<br />
carefully tracing its responses and trajectories through the different<br />
religious groups.<br />
472 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-80689 • HB • £60.00 / €77.90 / US$99.95 / AUD$120.00<br />
978-1-4051-80672 • PB • £21.99 / €28.90 / US$52.95 / AUD$44.95<br />
The European<br />
Reformations<br />
Sourcebook<br />
Edited by Carter Lindberg<br />
Boston University, USA<br />
BESTSELLER<br />
BESTSELLER<br />
“ [It provides] a rich vein of material to be mined by those<br />
who are catching a glimpse of reformation thought for the<br />
first time…”<br />
Religious Studies Review<br />
328 pages • 1999<br />
978-0-631-21362-8 • PB • £20.99 / €26.90 / US$52.95 / AUD$42.95<br />
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Women and the Reformation<br />
Kirsi Stjerna<br />
Lutherian Theological Seminary, USA<br />
“This work should be viewed as a very welcome teaching<br />
resource: it provides novice undergraduate students of<br />
the early modern with the means to be informed about<br />
and inspired by the reformation, whilst offering ample<br />
resources for postgraduates to develop ideas.”<br />
Journal of Theological Studies<br />
Women and the Reformation gathers historical<br />
materials and personal accounts to provide a comprehensive and<br />
accessible look at the status and contributions of women as leaders<br />
in the sixteenth century Protestant world. Examining individual stories<br />
from women of the times, this volume includes biographical sketches<br />
from figures as diverse as the ex-nun Katharina von Bora Luther and<br />
Queen Jeanne d’Albret, the prophetess Ursula Jost and the learned<br />
Olimpia Fulvia Morata. A website to accompany the book is available at<br />
www.blackwellpublishing.com/stjerna, featuring writings by the<br />
women included here.<br />
280 pages • 2008<br />
978-1-4051-1422-6 • HB • £60.00 / €77.90/ US$99.95 / AUD$120.00<br />
978-1-4051-1423-3 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90/ US$41.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
Reformation Thought<br />
An Introduction<br />
3rd Edition<br />
Alister E. McGrath<br />
BESTSELLER<br />
Ancient Greek Religion<br />
Historical Sources in Translation<br />
Edited by Emily Kearns<br />
University of Oxford, UK<br />
“Kearn’s superb sourcebook makes it possible…for<br />
students in a convenient, well-informed, and systematic<br />
way to engage directly with over 200 primary texts central<br />
to the study of Greek religion.”<br />
Jon D. Mikalson, University of Virginia<br />
Series: Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History<br />
384 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-4927-3 • HB • £60.00 / €77.90 / US$0 / AUD$120.00<br />
978-1-4051-4928-0 • PB • £22.99 / €29.90 / US$44.95 / AUD$47.95<br />
Ancient Greek Religion<br />
2nd Edition<br />
BESTSELLER<br />
Jon D. Mikalson, University of Virginia, USA<br />
“A brilliant general synthesis covering the Greek world<br />
over the period of ‘classical’ Athens… [Mikalson’s] book<br />
is a model of how it should be done.”<br />
BBC History Magazine<br />
Series: Blackwell Ancient Religions<br />
256 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-8177-8 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$41.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
HISTORY OF <strong>RELIGION</strong><br />
344 pages • 2000<br />
978-0-631-21521-9 • PB • £22.99 / €29.90 / US$62.95 / AUD$47.95<br />
Ancient Egyptian Tombs<br />
The Culture of Life and Death<br />
Steven Snape<br />
University of Liverpool, UK<br />
This book explores the development of tombs<br />
as a cultural phenomenon in ancient Egypt and<br />
examines what tombs reveal about ancient<br />
Egyptian culture and Egyptians’ belief in the<br />
afterlife.<br />
Series: Blackwell Ancient Religions<br />
320 pages • January <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-1-4051-2089-0 • HB • £70.00 / €89.90 / US$119.95 / AUD$140.00<br />
Religion of the Roman Republic<br />
Lora Holland<br />
University of North Carolina at Asheville, USA<br />
Religion of the Roman Republic presents the religion of the Romans in<br />
concrete terms, focusing on the religious culture of the Republic.<br />
Series: Blackwell Ancient Religions<br />
288 pages • October <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-1-4051-1576-6 • HB • £55.00 / €65.90 / US$84.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
978-1-4051-1577-3 • PB • £17.99 / €20.90 / US$29.95 / AUD$32.95<br />
New<br />
Forthcoming<br />
A Companion to Greek Religion<br />
Edited by Daniel Ogden<br />
Series: Blackwell Companions to the<br />
Ancient World<br />
520 pages • 2007<br />
978-1-4051-2054-8 • HB (2007)<br />
£105.00 / €135.00 / US$184.95 / AUD$210.00<br />
978-1-4443-3417-3 • PB<br />
£29.99 / €36.00 / US$50.00 / AUD$59.95<br />
A Companion to<br />
Greek Mythology<br />
Edited by Ken Dowden &<br />
Niall Livingstone<br />
New<br />
Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient<br />
World<br />
640 pages • April <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-1-4051-11782 • HB<br />
£110.00 / €142.00 / US$199.95 / AUD$220.00<br />
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RELIGIOUS ETHICS<br />
Understanding<br />
Religious Ethics<br />
Charles Mathewes<br />
University of Virginia, USA<br />
Key<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
“This splendid volume from a distinguished scholar and<br />
teacher is the best available general introduction to<br />
comparative religious ethics…”<br />
Eric Gregory, Princeton University<br />
This accessible introduction to religious<br />
ethics focuses on the major forms of ethical reasoning encompassing<br />
the three “Abrahamic” religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It<br />
examines the ethical dimensions of these faiths, both individually and<br />
comparatively, by exploring how and what they think about a series of<br />
important issues such as friendship, marriage, homosexuality, lying,<br />
forgiveness and its limits, the death penalty, the environment, warfare,<br />
and the meaning of work, career, and vocation. In doing all of this, the<br />
book offers insight both into these particular traditions and into the<br />
common moral challenges confronting all people today.<br />
280 pages • March 2010<br />
978-1-4051-3351-7 • HB • £55.00 / €67.90 / US$99.95 / AUD$110.00<br />
978-1-4051-3352-4 • PB • £22.99 / €27.90 / US$39.95 / AUD$47.95<br />
Introducing<br />
Christian Ethics<br />
Key<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
Samuel Wells & Ben Quash<br />
Duke University, USA; King’s College, London, UK<br />
“Wells’ and Quash’s typology of ethics (universal,<br />
subversive, and ecclesial) is a stroke of genius and a<br />
genuine contribution to the field.”<br />
Dan Bell, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary<br />
Written by two well-known theologians, the<br />
book encompasses Christian ethics in its entirety, but also offers a new<br />
way of viewing this subject. Wells and Quash approach it from three<br />
perspectives: universal (ethics for anyone); subversive (ethics for the<br />
excluded); and ecclesial (ethics for the church). In doing so, they are<br />
able to highlight the sharp distinctions between ethical approaches that<br />
are sometimes perceived as antagonistic, whilst providing a balance<br />
between description, analysis, and critique. The text may be used<br />
independently, or alongside a companion volume of readings, Christian<br />
Ethics: An Introductory Reader.<br />
400 pages • February 2010<br />
978-1-4051-5277-8 • HB • £55.00 / €69.90 / US$89.95 / AUD$110.00<br />
978-1-4051-5276-1 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$44.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
Comparative<br />
Religious Ethics<br />
A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics<br />
2nd Edition<br />
Darrell J. Fasching, Dell Dechant &<br />
David Lantigua<br />
University of South Florida, USA; University of<br />
South Florida, USA; University of Notre Dame, USA<br />
The new edition of this popular textbook has been<br />
thoroughly revised and updated to reflect recent global developments. The<br />
book retains the unique and compelling narrative-style approach which has<br />
proved so successful with students; reflecting the ways in which ancient<br />
stories from diverse religions, such as the Bhagavad Gita and the lives of<br />
Jesus and Buddha, have been used to project an ethical framework and<br />
provide ethical orientation in the modern world.<br />
New to this edition are discussions of globalization and its influence on<br />
cross-cultural and comparative ethics, economic dimensions to ethics,<br />
Gandhian traditions, and global ethics in an age of terrorism. The book<br />
also considers Chinese influences on Thich Nhat Hanhs Zen Buddhism,<br />
and Augustine’s Confessions. Greater in-depth discussions are included<br />
on Asian religions, quest narratives, and the religious and philosophical<br />
approach to ethics in the West.<br />
396 pages • April <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-1-4443-3133-2 • PB • £21.99 / €27.90 / US$44.95 / AUD$47.95<br />
First edition (2000):<br />
978-0-631-20125-0 •PB •£24.99 / €32.90 / US$59.95 / AUD$49.95<br />
Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic<br />
Edited by Heather Battaly<br />
Series: Metaphilosophy<br />
256 pages • October 2010<br />
978-1-4443-3562-0 • PB<br />
£19.99 / €24.90 / US$34.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
New<br />
EDITION<br />
Christian Ethics<br />
An Introductory Reader<br />
Edited by Samuel Wells<br />
Duke University, USA<br />
“Clear, sharply focused and precisely what is needed.<br />
This book is enlightening and potentially transformative...<br />
offers a rich, deep and accessible way of practicing<br />
ethics.”<br />
John Swinton, University of Aberdeen<br />
Christian Ethics: An Introductory Reader<br />
represents the entire canon of Christian ethics, including first-hand<br />
accounts from major figures in the theological and ecclesial tradition.<br />
Readers are introduced to foundational figures such as Augustine,<br />
Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, and Barth; as well as contemporary theorists<br />
including Paul Ramsey, Jürgen Moltmann, Stanley Hauerwas, Oliver<br />
ODonovan, and Wendell Berry. The notable figures of Ghandi and Martin<br />
Luther King, are also discussed.<br />
Use independently or alongside Introducing Christian Ethics to give<br />
students a fascinating insight into the evolution of Christian ethical thought.<br />
360 pages • April 2010<br />
978-1-4051-6886-1 • HB • £55.00 / €69.90 / US$89.95 / AUD$110.00<br />
978-1-4051-6887-8 • PB • £19.99 / €24.90 / US$49.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
God and Morality<br />
A Philosophical History<br />
John E. Hare<br />
320 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-9598-0 • PB<br />
£18.99 / €24.90 / US$31.95 / AUD$37.95<br />
Key<br />
TEXTBOOK<br />
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Social Ethics in<br />
the Making<br />
Interpreting an American Tradition<br />
Gary Dorrien<br />
Union Theological Seminary, USA<br />
Winner of the 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic<br />
Title Award<br />
In the early 1880s, proponents of what came to<br />
be called the social gospel founded what is now<br />
known as social ethics. This ambitious book describes the founding<br />
and development of social ethics as a discourse in the realms of the<br />
academy, church, and general public.<br />
Dorrien analyzes the three major traditions of social ethics,<br />
explains their revisions and offshoots, interprets evangelical and<br />
neoconservative alternatives, and delineates the various confessional<br />
and cultural standpoints from which religious thinkers have construed<br />
the social meaning of Christianity. Dorrien brings together prominent<br />
academic voices and important exponents of social Christianity,<br />
including pastors, movement activists, and self-styled public<br />
intellectuals. Engagingly written by one of the field’s leading figures,<br />
this book is set to become the definitive reference guide to the history<br />
and development of social ethics.<br />
752 pages • October 2010<br />
978-1-4051-8687-2 • HB (2008) • £85.00 / €112.00 / US$157.95 / AUD$170.00<br />
978-1-4443-3730-3 • PB • £24.99 / €29.90 / US$44.95 / AUD$49.95<br />
Christian Ethics<br />
A Brief History<br />
Michael Banner<br />
Trinity College, Cambridge, UK<br />
BESTSELLER<br />
Now in<br />
PAPERBACK<br />
Winner of the 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic<br />
Title Award<br />
“For a book so short, it is disproportionately powerful, and<br />
far from being an idiot’s guide it has its own distinctive<br />
voice and case to offer. “<br />
Regent’s Reviews<br />
Moral Struggle and<br />
New<br />
Religious Ethics<br />
On the Person as Classic in Comparative<br />
Theological Contexts<br />
David A. Clairmont<br />
University of Notre Dame, USA<br />
Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics examines<br />
the need that drives us from the comforts<br />
of our own religious traditions to learn about<br />
those that are unknown and even irreconcilably<br />
different. It takes as its theme a problem common throughout religions:<br />
that religious people do not always behave morally.<br />
Clairmont presents a fresh approach in his discussion of the challenges<br />
involved in living a moral life by offering an in-depth reading of the<br />
work of the two important religious figures: Bonaventure, a thirteenth<br />
century Roman Catholic priest and teacher in the Franciscan order,<br />
and Buddhaghosa, a fifth-century Theravada Buddhist monk. These<br />
two men offer crucial insights into the development of moral thinking<br />
in Christianity and Buddhism respectively. Clairmont’s comparison is<br />
centered on the struggle of both men to make sense of human moral<br />
weakness and their moral reflections on appropriate interaction with<br />
the world around them.<br />
272 pages • March <strong>2011</strong><br />
978-1-4443-3682-5 • HB • £70.00 / €89.90 / US$119.95 / AUD$<br />
An Introduction to Evolutionary<br />
Ethics<br />
Scott M. James<br />
University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA<br />
“In recent years evolutionary ethics has burgeoned in<br />
fascinating but sometimes confusing ways. James’<br />
judicious treatment of the field is well written, well<br />
organized, and well balanced. There is no better<br />
introductory text covering this ground.”<br />
Richard Joyce, University of Sydney<br />
Written in an engaging and accessible style, James presents an exciting<br />
study of the most up-to-date research and current issues being debated<br />
across both psychology and philosophy.<br />
RELIGIOUS ETHICS<br />
From questions about the status of early Christians who renounced their<br />
religion under Roman torture, through to current debates about euthanasia,<br />
Christianity has always had to grapple with complex moral problems. This<br />
book steers readers through these issues, providing a clear and decisive<br />
history of the main figures and texts in Christian ethics.<br />
Engaging with key figures such as Augustine, Benedict, Aquinas, Luther<br />
and Barth, it draws attention to the ways in which particular historical<br />
situations have unearthed different ethical dilemmas, and considers<br />
the contribution that Christian ethics can make to contemporary moral<br />
debates.<br />
Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion<br />
160 pages • 2009<br />
978-1-4051-1517-9 • HB • £50.00 / €65.90 / US$83.95 / AUD$99.95<br />
978-1-4051-1518-6 • PB • £14.99 / €19.90 / US$23.95 / AUD$29.95<br />
240 pages • November 2010<br />
978-1-4051-9397-9 • HB • £60.00 / €77.90 / US$99.95 / AUD$120.00<br />
978-1-4051-9396-2 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$34.95 / AUD$39.95<br />
Moral Psychology<br />
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PHILOSOPHY OF <strong>RELIGION</strong><br />
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Some wise men, a stable, a few sheep, and a<br />
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The Secular Outlook<br />
In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism<br />
Paul Cliteur<br />
University of Leiden, The Netherlands<br />
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Meaning and Mystery<br />
What It Means To Believe in God<br />
David M. Holley<br />
University of Southern Mississippi, USA<br />
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Is God A Delusion?<br />
A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers<br />
Eric Reitan, Oklahoma State University, USA<br />
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2nd Edition<br />
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St. Olaf College, USA; Purdue University, USA;<br />
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including new essays on Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion,<br />
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