Table of Contents: “…Religious imaginations in a changing world / Craig Calhoun -- Imagination and the ethics of religious narratives / Mona Siddiqui -- Christian imagination in an age of terror / Anba Angaelos -- The Balfour declaration : from imagining a state to re-imagining majority-minority relations in Jewish thought and the Jewish state / Ophir Yarden -- Diplomacy and the religious imagination / John Casson -- The musical imagination in religious worship / Mena Mark Hanna -- Muhammad abu Zahra's Muslim theology of religions / Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour -- The field of interfaith in the Middle East / John Fahy -- Reimagining the formative moments of Islam : the case of Pakistani scholar, Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, and his new narrative of early Islam / Kamran Bashir -- Lived belief in cross-cultural comparison / Abby Day -- New religious movements as resources in a changing world / Eileen Barker -- Human rights as a narrative of faith / Jenna Reinbold -- Interpretation of Islamic principles : Muslim movements and ethical social imaginary in South India / Thahir Jamal -- The relationship of ecological science to the Christian narrative / Caleb Gordon -- Gurmat -- The Art of Spiritual Wisdom : how peace from mind through knowledge of the soul can help overcoming the challenges of humankind / Khushwant Singh -- Understanding the Islamic perspective on environment : doctrine and ethics / Emmanuel Karagiannis -- Religious leadership in conflict transformation : the case of Christian leadership in South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission / Megan Shore -- Who do you trust? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Chapter 6 -- ""A Lot of Blood Is Unrevenged Here"": Moral Disintegration in Post-War ChechnyaChapter 7 -- Morality, Utopia, Discipline: New Religious Movements and Soviet Culture; Chapter 8 -- Constructing Moralities around the Tsarist Family; Chapter 9 -- St. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Wainwright -- Islam / Oliver Leaman -- Hindu theism / David Peter Lawrence -- Sikhism / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh -- African religions / Segun Gbadegesin -- New religious movements / Peter B. Clarke -- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century intellectual life / Geoffrey Gorham -- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century intellectual life / Jacqueline Marina -- Twenty-first-century intellectual life / Chad Meister -- Pt. 2. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Rodgers -- Space and location in The X-Files / Matt Melia -- 'Mulder, it's me' : intimacy, invasion and mobile phones / Victoria Scrimer and Nicholas Stanton -- Artificial intelligence, surveillance and the (post)human in The X-Files / Alex Goody and Antonia Mackay -- Agentic oil and petrocultures : black oil in The X-Files / Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse -- Believe the lie : digital visual effects in The X-Files / Tom Livingstone -- 'I want to believe' : how UFOs conquered The X-Files / David Clarke -- (Cult)ural tensions : new religious movements and The X-Files / Racheal Harris -- The end of history? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Historian of "Humble Access" -- "The Greatest Curiosity": Race, Religion, and Politics in Henry Evans's Methodist Church, 1785-1858 -- Strangers in a Wilderness: Lorenzo Dow and John Taylor on the Religious Frontiers of the Early American Republic -- "Taking Up" Quaker Slaves: The Origins of America's Slavery Imperative -- Presbyterian Orthodoxy and the Dilemma of Pluralism: The Battle over Kentucky's Transylvania University, 1800-1830 -- Nat Turner and Signs of the Apocalypse -- "Neither Cult nor Charisma": William Miller and Leadership of New Religious Movements -- "Ladies, Arise! The World Has Need of You": The Widow Bumpass's Newspaper War -- Where Do We Go from Here?…”
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Table of Contents: “…Iranian Sufi Orders in London ; Sufism in Iran; Sufism and the Islamic Republic; Sufism in the West; The Nimatullahi Order; The Nimatullahi Khâneqâh in London; The Oveyssi Spiritual Tradition; Maktab Tariqat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi [Islamic School of Sufism]; The Shahmaghsoudi Oveyssi Order in London; The Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi Sufi Order and New Religious Movements; Conclusions Chapter 5. The Iranian Christian Fellowship and Elam Ministries ; The Pentecostal Movement; Protestant Christianity in Iran; The Iranian Diaspora and Pentecostalism; Elam Ministries and Ex-Muslims; Training to Become Christian Pastors; The Congregation; Baptisms and Church Members; Iranian Women as Born-Again Christians -- Preserving Morals; Expectations of Women Outside of the Church; Conclusions Chapter 6.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Goldman -- Soka Gakkai: searching for the mainstream / Robert Kisala -- Aum Shinrikyo and the Aum incident: a critical introduction / Martin Repp -- The Falun Gong: a new religious movement in post-Mao China / David Ownby -- Notes on the Aumist religion / PierLuigi Zocatelli -- Inventing L. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Period I: From the Beginnings to the Gnostic Crisis -- The General Situation -- The Jewish Background -- Jesus and the Disciples -- The Early Christian Community -- Paul and Gentile Christianity -- The Close of the Apostolic Age -- The Interpretation of Jesus -- Gentile Christianity of the Second Century -- Christian Organization -- Christianity and the Roman Government -- Period II: From the Gnostic Crisis to Constantine -- Gnosticism -- Maricon -- Montanism -- The Catholic Church -- The Growing Importance of the Roman Church -- Irenaeus of Lyon -- Tertullian and Cyprian -- The Logos Theology and Monarchianism -- The Alexandrian School -- Church and Roman Society from 180 to 260 -- The Constitutional Development of the Chruch -- Public Workshop and Ancient Time -- Baptism -- The Eucharist -- Forgiveness of Sins -- Patterns of Christian Life -- Rest and Growth -- Rival Religious Forces -- The Final Struggle -- Period III: The Imperial State Chruch -- The Changed Situation -- The Arian Controversy to the Death of Constantine -- Controversy under Constantine's Sons -- The Later Nicene Struggle -- The Germanic Invasions -- The Growth of the Papacy -- Monasticism -- Ambrose and Chrysostom -- The Christological Controversies -- The East Divided -- Controversy and Catastrophe in the East -- The Constitutional Development of the Church -- Worship and Piety -- The Latin Christian Tradition -- Jerome -- Augustine of Hippo -- The Pelagian Controversy -- Semi-Pelagianism -- Gregory the Great -- Period IV: The Middle Ages to the Close of the Investiture Controversy -- Missions in the British Isles -- Christianity and the Franksim Kingdom -- East and West in the Iconoclastic Controversy -- The Franks and the Papacy -- Charles the Great -- European Christianity in the Ninth Century -- The Papacy and the Ottonian Empire -- The Greek Church after the Iconoclastic Controversy -- Christian Expansion in the Early Middle Ages -- The Reforming Papacy -- From Reform to Revolution -- Hildebrand and Henry IV -- The End of the Investiture Struggle -- Period V: The Later Middle Ages -- The Crusades -- New Religious Movements -- Medieval Heresy - The Cathars and Waldenes; the Inquisition -- The Dominicans, Franciscans, and Other Mendicant Orders -- Early Scholasticism; Anselm of Canterbury and Peter Abelard -- The Rediscovery of Aristotle; the Rise of the Universities -- High Scholasticism and Its Theology; Thomas Aquinas -- Late Scholasticism; Duns Scotus and William of Ockham -- Mysticism, the Modern Devotion, and Heresy -- Mission and Defeats -- The Papacy at its Height and Its Decline -- The Avignon Papacy; Papal Critics and Defenders; the Great Schism -- Wyclif and Hus -- The Reforming Councils -- The Italian Renaissance and Its Popes; Popular Religious Leaders -- The New National Powers -- Humanism North of the Alps; Piety on the Eve of the Reformation -- Period VI: The Reformation -- Luther's Development and the Beginnings of Reformation -- Separations and Divisions -- Ulrich Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation -- The Anabaptists -- German Protestantism Established -- The Scandinavian Lands -- The Reformation in French Switzerland and Geneva before Calvin -- John Calvin -- The English Reformation -- The Scottish Reformation -- The Catholic Reformation and Counter-Reformation -- Confessional Strife in France, the Netherlands, and England -- German Religious Controversies and the Thirty Years' War -- Socinianism -- Arminianism -- Anglicanism, Puritanism, and the Free Churches in England, Episocopacy and Presbyterianism in Scotland -- The Quakers -- Period VII: Modern Christianity -- The Beginnings of Modern Science and Philosophy -- The Transplantation of Christianity to the Americas -- Deism and Its Opponents; Skepticism -- Unitarianism in England and America -- Pietism in Germany -- Zinzendorf and Moravianism -- The Evangelical Revival in Great Britain; Wesley and Methodism -- The Great Awakening -- The Impact of the Evangelical Revival; the Rise of Modern Missions -- The Revolutionary Epoch in the United States -- The German Enlightenment -- Trends in Nineteenth-Century Protestant Thought in Germany -- British Protestantism in the Nineteenth Century -- Continental Protestantism in the Nineteenth Century -- American Protestantism in the Nineteenth Century -- Roman Catholicism in the Modern World -- The Eastern Churches in Modern Times -- The Growth of the Ecumenical Movement -- The Church in the World.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Demerath -- Selections from sociological writings / Max Weber -- Transformations in new immigrant religions and their global implications / Fenggang Yang and Helen Rose Ebaugh -- The public perception of cults and new religious movements / Paul J. Olson -- Apocalypse at Waco / James D. …”

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