4. Race in Britain and India, Susan Bayly "Nation and Religion urges us to rethink the received historical interpretation that associates the onset of western modernity with the separation of the private world of religion from the public ...

Here Drake offers a fresh understanding of Constantine's rule.

This work reexamines Israel in terms of its origins as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multi-cultural society. The author suggests that the Israeli State has divided into seven major cultures.

Constantine was of profound importance for the study of Roman history. This biography explores the political, military, economic and cultural aspects of his reign.

The author asks whether religious confrontations with secular authorities will lead to a new Cold War.

Myth 2. That the Medieval Christian Church Suppressed the Growth of Science Myth 3. That Medieval Christians Taught That the Earth Was Flat Myth 4. That Medieval Islamic Culture Was Inhospitable to Science Myth 12. That Ren?

Previously published: New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, c1986.

This collection of essays addresses this hiatus by examining the intersection between religion and state-organized murder in the cases of the Armenian, Jewish, Rwandan, and Bosnian genocides.

In this book, Jason Ananda Josephson reveals how Japanese officials invented religion in Japan and traces the sweeping intellectual, legal, and cultural changes that followed.

'... A major survey of the last four decades [pre-1988] of American religious life - an intriguing and well-documented account of the dramatic changes that have occurred since World War II.' - Publisher.