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The Newark Earthworks

Enduring Monuments, Contested Meanings
Jones, Lindsay, Shiels, Richard D.

Considered a wonder of the ancient world, the Newark Earthworks—the gigantic geometrical mounds of earth built nearly two thousand years ago in the Ohio valley--have been a...

Pontius Pilate

Caillois, Roger

If you thought you knew all there is to know about Pontius Pilate and Jesus, this little book has some surprises for you. In this "greatest story never told," Pontius Pilate...

The Value of Solitude

The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography
Barbour, John D.

Most people feel ambivalent about solitude, both loving and fearing it depending on how they experience being alone at certain points in their lives. In The Value of...

Ordinarily Sacred
Sexson, Lynda
Lynda Sexson offers a theology of everyday experience in this enchanting book that shows how the religious traditions of the world lie slightly concealed in the details and...

Exhibiting Religion
Colonialism and Spectacle at International Expositions, 1851–1893
Burris, John P.
World’s fairs contributed mightily to defining a relationship between religion and the wider world of human culture. Even at the base level of popular culture found on the...

Versions of Deconversion
Autobiography and the Loss of Faith
Barbour, John D.
In Versions of Deconversion John Barbour examines the work of a broad selection of authors in order to discover the reasons for their loss of faith and to analyze the ways in...

Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World
The Yijing (I Ching, or Classic of Changes) and Its Evolution in China
Smith, Richard J.
Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World is the first full-length study in any Western language of the development of the Yijing in China from earliest times to the present...

John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption
Craig, David M.
The first book on the Victorian critic and public intellectual John Ruskin by a scholar of religion and ethics, this work recovers both Ruskin's engaged critique of economic...

From Theology to Theological Thinking
Lacoste, Jean-Yves
"Christian philosophy" is commonly regarded as an oxymoron, philosophy being thought incompatible with the assumptions and conclusions required by religious faith. According to...

Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics
Why and How Deep Learning Still Matters
Clooney, Francis X.
We live in an era of unprecedented growth in knowledge. Never before has there been so great an availability of and access to information in both print and online. Yet as...

Ideas to Live For
Toward a Global Ethics
Gunn, Giles
Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to...

Boredom and the Religious Imagination
Raposa, Michael L.
Boredom matters, writes Michael Raposa, because it represents a threat to spiritual life. Boredom can undermine prayer and meditation and signal the failure of religious...

Nietzsche on Gender
Beyond Man and Woman
Oppel, Frances Nesbitt
Although Nietzsche has been considered by some critics to be a misogynist for his treatment of woman, women, and the feminine, Frances Nesbitt Oppel offers a radical...

Freud and Augustine in Dialogue
Psychoanalysis, Mysticism, and the Culture of Modern Spirituality
Parsons, William B.
"It is arguably the case," writes William Parsons, "that no two figures have had more influence on the course of Western introspective thought than Freud and Augustine." Yet it...

The Book of Common Prayer, 1559
The Elizabethan Prayer Book
Booty, John E.
John E. Booty’s edition of The Book of Common Prayer, 1559, first published by the University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1976 and long out...