Oxford University Press

Since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the United States and Western Europe's        paths to modernity have diverged sharply with respect to religion. In short,        Americans have maintained much friendlier ties with traditional forms of religion        than their European counterparts. What explains this transatlantic...

Valuation and Pricing in the EconomyDrawing on theory and empirical research, this interdisciplinary book brings        together leading social scientists to examine how prices are set and how values        emerge inside and outside of markets, which have become the central force in the        contemporary economy....

Hope and Healing Through Music and the ArtsThe Culture of AIDS in Africa presents 30 chapters offering a multifaceted, nuanced, and deeply affective portrait of the relationship between HIV/AIDS and the arts in Africa, including source material such as song lyrics and interviews....

Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II.    Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities....

India is frequently represented as the quintessential land of religion. Johannes Quack challenges this representation through an examination of the contemporary Indian rationalist organizations: groups who affirm the values and attitudes of atheism, humanism, or free-thinking....

A history of the King James Version of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Version) over the four hundred years from its remote beginnings to the present day. It explains how the translation came to be commissioned and who the translators were, before tracing its textual history, and the responses it has provoked to the present day....