Religious foundations of Western civilization: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Defining the terms

What do we mean by "religion" and "Western civilization"? / William Scott Green

Religions of the West

Judaism / Jacob Neusner

Christianity : what it is and how it defines Western civilization / Bruce Chilton

Islam : what it is and how it has interacted with Western civilization / Th. Emil Homerin

Religion, politics, culture, law, and society

Judaism / Alan J. Avery-Peck

Christianity / Bruce Chilton

Islam / Th. Emil Homerin

Philosophy : Averroes, Maimonides, and Aquinas / Seymour Feldman

Mysticism as a meeting ground : seeing the unseen / Elliot R. Wolfson

Historic encounters

Latin Christianity, the crusades, and the Islamic response / James A. Brundage

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Spain from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries / Olivia Remie Constable

Christianity and Islam in the Balkans from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries / Amila Buturovic

Zionism, imperialism, and nationalism

Zionism / Jacob Neusner

Christian imperialism / Bruce Chilton

Political Islam / Th. Emil Homerin

Modernity and religion in the West : negotiating change

The modernization of Christianity / Bruce Chilton

The modernization of Judaism / Jacob Neusner

The modernization of Islam / Th. Emil Homerin

Religion and western civilization in the twenty-first century

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in their contemporary encounters

Judaism addresses Christianity / Jon D. Levenson

Christianity meets other religions / Bruce Chilton

Islam and Pluralism / Th. Emil Homerin

Timeline / compiled by Cory Berry-Whitlock.