Burial crypts of St Francis of Assisi church in Cracow In the light of interdisciplinary studies

The Francis Effect explores how a church once known as a towering force for social justice became known for a narrow agenda most closely aligned with one political party, and then ...

Retracing the origin, development and survival of individual and collective identities in past human societies, this volume features a global and interdisciplinary range of case st...

Burials had become a focal point of some Confucian efforts to build a socio-moral order based on Confucian norms. “Simple burial,” idealized by scholar-officials, used a simple pit...

Chapter 5 examines issues of gender dynamics in the cowboy church movement. Church leaders use simplistic notions of gender, in combination with assumptions about the cowboy cultur...

Recognized as a masterly commentary when it first appeared, Frederick Dale Bruner’s study of Matthew is now available as a greatly revised and expanded two-volume work – the result...

The story of the Episcopalians in America is the story of an influential denomination that has furnished a disproportionately large share of the American political and cultural lea...

The African Church and COVID-19: Human Security, the Church, and Society in Kenya is a bold and incisive look at the African Church in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout th...