In Spain today the civil war remains 'the past that will not pass away'. The author explores the origins, nature and long-term consequences of this exterminatory war in Spain, charting the resonant forms of political, social and cultural resistance to it and the memory/legacy these have left behind in Europe and beyond.

Presents fresh insights into the relationships between missions and indigenous peoples, and the outcomes of mission activities in the processes of imperial conquest and colonisation. This book focuses on missions across the British Empire (including India, Africa, Asia, the Pacific), within transnational and comparative perspectives.

Offers an original way to integrate spiritual and scientific views of human evolution. This work offers an alternative to the way we think about our origins: random mutation (mechanistic neo-Darwinism), Genesis (God did it all personally), and Intelligent Design (God personally does what we can't otherwise account for).

The release of Soviet archives has allowed a re-examination of Anglo-Soviet relations during Churchill's peacetime administration, with special emphasis on the Kremlin's motivation for resisting the Prime Minister's attempts to end the Cold War. This book looks into this topic.

A biography of Mrs Nassau Senior, 1822-1877, that tells how an extraordinary woman escaped from the constraints of Victorian domesticity to become the first woman in Whitehall and one of Britain's great social reformers. An ardent Christian Socialist radical, Jeanie Senior co-founded the British Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian war.

Puts myth, religion, literature and psychology into an easily understandable analytic perspective. This book traces the influence of Gnosis in European culture.

A courageous attempt to compare and contrast Islamic ideals of prophecy, as found in Muhammad, with the prophetic traditions of the Hebrew Bible. It challenges Muslims, Jews and Christians to understand their own traditions better and to be open to learn from one another.

In this work, Teilhard guides the reader back in space-time to experience the birth of our planet as it emprisons the human future in its globe and motion, then forward, through the emergence of life and the birth of thought and socialization.

A guide to the Qur'an for non-Muslims. The text is arranged into themes: God and his praise; man in creation; prophethood in human guidance prior to Muhammad; Muhammad in his Meccan environment; Muhammad in his Medinan locale; religious law and devotion; social law and society; and the Last Things.

A study of Wallace Stevens. It queries the dominant interpretations of the poet's career, redirecting the reader's attention to the achievement of Stevens' first book, Harmonium , and examining the pluralism of these early poems in the context of current critical re-evaluations of modernisms.

A study of the history and contribution of the Huguenots in Britain. Originally published in 1985, this second edition takes into account research and writings since the first edition. The reference material has been updated in the light of new findings and the plate section has been expanded.

The feminine dimension of the Divine is omnipresent and alive in Hinduism. This work pays great attention to local details and differences between individual Indian goddesses, details relating to their diverse locations, their rich phenomenology, and their power in people's lives.

This text analyses the Americas, North and South, in the global and comparative arena, showing how these societies gazed at each other and Europe as they followed the road to multiple forms of modernity and globalization.