Oxford University Press

Hagith Sivan offers an unconventional study of one corner of the Roman Empire in        late antiquity, weaving around the theme of conflict strands of distinct histories,        and of peoples and places, highlighting Palestine's polyethnicity, and cultural,        topographical, architectural, and religious diversity. During the period 300-650...

W. B. Yeats searched throughout his life for a system of spiritual truth. From 1917 he and his wife did automatic writing, W. B. asking questions and George writing down answers from beyond their conscious selves. Harper thoroughly analyses this script, touching on a number of related topics including feminist issues of collaborative authorship....

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Author Matt J. Rossano provides an evolutionary history of religion, beginning with the social lives of our primate ancestors. This book makes the case that religion is adaptive; that it is essential to morality; that childhood imagination provides its raw materials, and that it is the very essence of what it means to be human....

Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state        rest on assumptions about 'Enlightenment' and the republican ethos of citizenship.          Nicholas Miller does not seek to dislodge that interpretation but to augment and        enrich it by recovering its cultural and discursive religious contexts...

Europeanism offers a major new examination of the political, economic, and social norms, and values associated with Europe and Europeans....