The volume addresses a neglected subject: secrecy and concealment as a means of creating identity and establishing social interaction. For the first time well known historians of mediterranean religions reveal…

Sarah Stroumsa untersucht die als Convivencia bezeichnete interkommunale Balance zwischen christlichen, judischen und muslimischen Gemeinschaften im mittelalterlichen islamischen Osten. Sie zeigt auf, dass gerade das Vermachtnis der christlichen Akademien in…

This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world’s major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation.

The Bundahisn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology. Compiled sometime in the ninth century CE, it is one of the most…

The book studies how the religious structures of late antique religion (in particular Christianity) forged the core elements that became identified with those of the Abrahamic religions after the birth…