With 46 chapters, The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East spans the historical, socio-political and contemporary settings of the region and importantly describes the interactions that…

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

Offers a compelling retelling of the saga of how the iconoclastic movement detonated ferocious controversy within the church and secular society as icon supporters challenged the image breakers. Decades of…

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…

This textbook provides a dynamic and concise overview of the Cold War. Offering balanced coverage of the whole era, it takes a firmly global approach, showing how at various times…

Christians in the churches of Africa, Asia, and Latin America live in settings very close to the social, cultural, and intellectual milieu in which the New Testament itself was written…

This book explores the images of terrorism that we see daily in the mass media. The author believes that our perceptions of terrorism are formed by outside agencies which do…

Philip Jenkins looks at how the image of the cult evolved and why panics about such groups occur at certain times. He examines the roots of cult scares in American…