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.

This Handbook seeks to bridge that gap by examining the considerable research that has been conducted to this point and assessing what has been learned, what remains unsettled due to conflicting research findings, and what important ...

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.

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?

'... 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.

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

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.

Eduardo Mendieta is professor of philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. --