This collection of essays critically engages with Charles Taylor’s idea of a Catholic modernity through focusing on the crucial issue of the shape and role of religion in modernity. Taylor launched the idea in his seminal 1996 essay 'A Catholic Modernity?', and the idea is here explored in relation to other Christian denominations and non-Christian traditions. Taylor’s proposal has the potential to become a central and encompassing perspective in thinking about relations between modernity...

"Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning" by Edward Carpenter is a book that explores the origins and meaning of religious beliefs and practices in both pagan and Christian traditions. Carpenter argues that many of the fundamental beliefs and practices of Christianity have their roots in earlier pagan traditions, and that the differences between the two are largely a matter of historical and cultural context.

Carpenter examines the similarities and differences between pagan and C...

This book presents the various Churches and ecclesial communities in the Middle East, focusing on the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox and the Oriental Catholic Churches, the spiritual heritage of the Coptic, Syriac and Armenian traditions. The Christians in the Middle East can be called a Church of martyrs.

Listening to witnesses of faith in the first centuries, as well as to the martyrs of our time, this book reveals the cruel reality of the ‘forgotten genocides’ at th...