Saints & sinners

Abstract Cornwall is unique among English counties, though similar to other Celtic lands, in its religious history. Its churches, chapels, and place-names commemorat...

Sainthood took on its most familiar forms from the death of Jesus c.33 ce to the decades following the Council of Chalcedon in 451 ce. The early Christian church was an urban diasp...

This chapter explores the 1980s Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' schism by the ways individuals mapped the Kirtland Temple within their sacred universes. Su...

For centuries, people have invested shoes with supernatural powers beyond their daily functionality. Their moulding quality makes them vessels for holding emotions, containing agen...

Abstract Divine forgiveness is expressed in biblical and liturgical contexts through a variety of metaphors—canceling debts, covering stains, forgoing or stopping li...

The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer. It examines Bunyan’s...