Lawrence LeShan's classic guide to meditation introduced mindfulness to an entire generation. Now it's available in a new paperback edition.Since its initial publication nearly 50 years ago, this simple yet powerful guide has helped more than a million...

Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of MuhammadIn European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren’t the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge...

A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theologySince the earliest days of Christianity, theologians expressed pervasive anxiety about Jews as equal members of society, and, with European...

This book examines the extraordinary flowering of the English spirituality in the fourteenth and early fifiteen centuries, and shows its continuing power to nourish contempory life and prayer.Though each the writers discussed in this book each has a...

An accessible historical exploration of the methods and motivations behind using magic in ancient Greece and Rome.In the ancient world, magic was everywhere. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit and caterpillars into butterflies. In a...

Vols. for 1964- are papers read at the 1st- winter and 1st- summer meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society.