In this volume a number of scholars from Israel, the USA, and England have joined forces with the well-known Utrecht University Research Unit "The Cultural Mili

This groundbreaking, first basic reference work on ancient religious beliefs collects and organizes available information on ten ancient cultures and traditions

The hundred books discussed here have radically altered the course of civilisation , whether they have embodied religions practised by millions, achieved the pi

A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.

For a contemporary world in which religious belief exercises a more potent - some might say more dangerous - influence on global events than many would have tho