Books in the Issues in contemporary religion series

This account of a wide variety of new religions focuses on their origins, beliefs and practices in a dispassionate way, leaving readers to form their own value judgements.

What was the Holocaust? Were ordinary Germans morally culpable for murdering millions of innocent victims? This volume seeks to explore these and other ethical, moral, cultural and religious questions within a historical context.

Exploring how conversion has been understood by different religions during different eras, this study includes a survey of the textual, legal, ritual, historic and experiential dimensions of the phenomenon of conversion.

Focusing on the question "what does it mean to be human?", this study attempts to overcome the divide between secular and religious understanding of spirituality.

Focusing on the question "what does it mean to be human?", this study attempts to overcome the divide between secular and religious understanding of spirituality.