Religion in the Lands That Became America
A New History
ISBN: HB: 9780300221480,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
640 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
640 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
A sweeping retelling of American religious history, showing how religion has enhanced and hindered human flourishing from the Ice Age to the Information Age.
Until now, the standard narrative of American religious history has begun with English set...
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18.00 GBP
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Little History of Religion
New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300283228,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
256 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
256 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A rich and inclusive history of belief, from humanity's earliest days to our own times.
Religion is distinctly human. We can't help wondering about where we come from and why we are here. Did some all-powerful being make the universe? When we die,...
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10.99 GBP
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Francis of Assisi
The Life of a Restless Saint
ISBN: HB: 9780300263800,
Yale University Press,
March 2025
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An award-winning historian reconstructs the life of Francis of Assisi, uncovering the man behind the myths.
One of the most famous figures in Christian history, Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226) was revered as a miracle worker during his life and qu...
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20.00 GBP
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Cross Purposes
Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy
ISBN: HB: 9780300273540,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
168 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
168 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracy.
What happens to American democracy if Christianity is no longer able, or no longer willing, to perform the functions on which our constitutional order depends? In this provocative bo...
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25.00 GBP
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Christianity as a Way of Life
A Systematic Theology
ISBN: HB: 9780300244090,
Yale University Press,
November 2024
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Focusing on Christianity's core practices, a leading theologian imagines Christianity as a way of life oriented toward wisdom.
In this book, Kevin W. Hector argues that we can understand Christianity as a set of practices designed to transform one'...
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30.00 GBP
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Genesis 1-11
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300149739,
Yale University Press,
November 2024
488 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 13 black&white illus.
488 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 13 black&white illus.
The first volume of a groundbreaking two-part commentary on the book of Genesis by leading biblical scholar Ronald Hendel.
The first eleven chapters of Genesis narrate the origin of the universe; the creation of the first human beings; the beginnin...
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70.00 GBP
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Monastic World
A Thousand Year History
ISBN: HB: 9780300208566,
Yale University Press,
November 2024
512 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus.
512 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus.
A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century.
From the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. But who were monasteries for? What kind of people founded and...
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25.00 GBP
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Women and the Reformations
A Global History
ISBN: HB: 9780300268232,
Yale University Press,
October 2024
368 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 18 colour illus., 7 black&white illus., 6 maps
368 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 18 colour illus., 7 black&white illus., 6 maps
A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe.
The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transform...
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25.00 GBP
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Widening of God's Mercy
Sexuality Within the Biblical Story
ISBN: HB: 9780300273427,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
288 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
288 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
A fresh, deeply biblical account of God's expanding grace and mercy, tracing how the Bible's narrative points to the full inclusion of LGBTQ people in Christian communities.
Discussions of the Bible and human sexuality often focus on a scattered ha...
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20.00 GBP
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Problem of the Christian Master
Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery
ISBN: HB: 9780300266597,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A bold rereading of Augustine of Hippo's political thought in the wake of Black Lives Matter.
Over the last two decades, scholars have made a striking return to the resources of the Augustinian tradition to theorize citizenship, virtue, and the pla...
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35.00 GBP
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