The Safavid dynasty originated as a fledgling apocalyptic mystical movement based in Iranian Azarbaijan, and grew into a large, cosmopolitan Irano-Islamic empire stretching from Baghdad to Herat. Here...
Whether one thinks that religion continues to fade or has made a comeback in the contemporary world, there is a common notion that religion went away somewhere, at least in the West. But William Cavan...
The scenario that confronts us in the biblical text of 1 and 2 Kings is a turbulent one. Daniel Berrigan minces no words in his assessment of that biblical era. Prophets, kings, and the gods they wors...
Reporting from the heartland of Yugoslavia in the 1970s, Washington Post correspondent Dusko Doder described "a landscape of Gothic spires, Islamic mosques, and Byzantine domes." A quarter century lat...
A pastor who is also a politics professor examines current issues pertaining to sexuality and society and asks, What kind of world are we creating? And is it the world we want to live in? With no fing...
Thomas Curry argues that discussion and interpretation of the First Amendment have reached a point of deep crisis. Historical scholarship dealing with the background and interpretation of the Amendmen...
Praise for "Why the Christian Right Is Wrong" "For readers who are 'indignant over the direction of this country' and feel that the time has come for 'dignified but tangible resistance, ' Meyers del...
Geoffrey Adams argues that the creation of La France libre and its assumption of power constitute a major turning point in modern French history. Charles de Gaulle was both the representative of a pre...
Are there correlations between century-old prophecies and modern politicians, social and economic turmoil? And are the economic recessions and environmental catastrophes of our times pre-ordained in d...
Tries to ascertain to what extent, and in what ways, issues of faith and religion formed part of Cardinal Richelieu's attempts to define and pursue the national interest of seventeenth century France.
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