***On The New Yorker's list of The Best Books We've Read in 2023***One of the five books on religion selected by Publishers Weekly's for their list of The Best Books of 2023***-------------------------------------------------------------------------"A...

Winner of a Christianity Today Book AwardThe word evangelical is widely used and widely misunderstood. Where did evangelicals come from? What motivated them? How did their influence become so widespread throughout the world during the eighteenth...

Concentrates on Edwards's vocation as a pastor in a time of great social and cultural change, progressing from his grandfather Solomon Stoddard's religious "harvests," through the Great Awakening, to the Northampton congregation's rejection of Edwards's...

Proposing a new model for understanding religious debates in the churches of England and Scotland between 1603 and 1625, Charles Prior sets aside 'narrow' analyses of conflict over predestination, This book's theme is ecclesiology--the nature of the...

This new introduction to religious history reviews the events of the turbulent period of the French Revolution. It is an accessible summary of key developments in the confrontation between the Churches and the Enlightenment. The text is supplemented by...

A pioneer in the commercialization of religion, George Whitefield (1714-1770) is seen by many as the most powerful leader of the Great Awakening in America: through his passionate ministry he united local religious revivals into a national movement...

One of Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Award * Winner of the Sophie Brody MedalThe...

Religion or ultimate belief is not perceived to be part of the public domain, and certainly not the origin of the affairs of commerce. The proper place for religious activities is thought to be in the home and place of worship, or some equally remote...

"The most honored discussion of American religion in mid-twentieth century times is Will Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew. . . . [It] spoke precisely to the mid-century condition and speaks in still applicable ways to the American condition and, at its...

“Surely destined to become the classic commentary on the Satipatthana” —Christopher Titmuss Now in its second printing!

The Baker History of the Church series is an accessible and authoritative series that sheds light on the roots of the faith, the foundations of the church, and the sweeping changes occurring during the Reformation. The fifth volume, The Age of Reason,...

Despite their near-scriptural status, the Lutheran Confessions are not widely used in Lutheran circles, the authors believe, because presentation of them has been too technical for non-specialists. Geared specifically for classroom and parish use, this...

This book is the first major study of Calvin's doctrine of the Lord's Supper in 25 years and the first attempt to show the eucharistic shape of Calvin's entire theology. The systematic character of Calvin's theology rests on his consistent understanding...

The communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have been working for racial justice over the past fifty yearsHave progressive religious organizations been missing in action in recent struggles for racial justice? In Faith Communities and...

The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern worldSince its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus—more commonly known as the Jesuits—has played a critical role in the...

Twenty-five years of writings by the religious thinker and activist Pauli MurrayA Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023The religious thought and activism that shaped the late twentieth century is typically described in terms of Black men from the major...

An “Upanisad” is a teaching session with a guru, and the thirteen texts of the “Principal Upanisads”—which comprise this volume—form a series of philosophical discourses between teacher and student that question the inner meaning of the world. Composed...