This book charts the shifting boundaries of Judaism from antiquity to the modern period in order to bring clarity to what scholars mean when they claim that ancient texts or groups are “within Judaism", as well as exploring how rabbinic Jews, Christians, and Muslims have negotiated and renegotiated what Judaism is and is not in order to form their own identities.
Since their discovery in 1945, the significance of the texts contained in the thirteen papyrus manuscripts now known as the Nag Hammadi Codices has been fiercely debated.
The volume offers a new critical reflection on the use of the Bible in contemporary cultural and political debates in the Nordic countries.
Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises explores various dimensions of the interrelations between the individual, community, and religion.
This volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental protection and fight against climate change. Climate change and sustainability are increasingly prominent topics among religious and spiritual groups.
The authors presented in this volume deal with important cases of Protestantization of religion or of debates on religion.
This volume presents a detailed introduction to the post-Reformation church topography of Norway. Around 140 epitaphs are preserved in all parts of Norway from the period 1550 to 1700, and are in this volume documented with illustrations, descriptions and short biographies.
