The first full-length study of the imperial contexts of the world's religions. Philip Jenkins offers extensive coverage of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism and other faiths, and ranges widely in…

America has a history of drug panics in which social problems have been blamed on the effects of some harmful substance. In the last forty years, such panics have often…

A paradigm-shifting history that reveals how the early Christian churches in the East helped to shape the Asia and the Christianity we know today

In the last decade, serial murder has become a source of major concern for law enforcement agencies, while the serial killer has attracted widespread interest as a villain in popular…

This study provides an extensive survey of the economic activities of the gentry, their role as entrepreneurs and as popularisers of the metropolitan culture of Georgian London. It describes how…

From the Ku Klux Klan to Father Coughlin’s Christian Front, the first full-length study to examine, compare, and assess the political influence of right-wing extremist groups during the second quarter…

As in the study of any social problem, to understand terrorism we must understand how certain interest groups and bureaucratic agencies present their particular views of terrorist phenomena, and how…

Authors David Mohney and Stover Jenkins explore the impact of the Glass House on Johnson’s subsequent designs, and they then proceed to cover the full range of Johnson’s domestic architecture…