Comparative Religion

Medieval scholars and cultural historians have recently turned their attention to the question of “smells” and what olfactory sensations reveal abo...

In this daring debut, Zayin Cabot challenges the wise homebodies of academia. A profoundly interdisciplinary approach to comparative scholarship, E...

In Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures: The Same God?, D. E. Buckner argues that all reference is story-relative. We...

This book has its origins in a comparative religions course Burns has taught at the University of Arizona for the past thirty years. Those who have...

Peter D. Beaulieu examines the challenge posed by—and to—modernity and historic Islam as they encounter one another. He compares the Western separa...

This book provides a critical investigation into Sikh and Muslim conflict in the postcolonial setting. Being Sikh in a diasporic context creates ch...

This path-breaking book sets aside the traditional story of the life of Muhammad, and inquires into the internal history of the Qur'an itself. Draw...

This book is an exploration into the paradoxical structure of pluralistic thinking as illuminated by both Western and Eastern insights—especially J...

Mysticism and Intellect in Medieval Christianity and Buddhism explores two influential intellectual and religious leaders in Christianity and Buddh...

Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter is the first work to engage the new terrain of Hindu-Jewish religious encounter. The book offers win...

The Insurgency of the Spirit taps mutli-disciplinary methodologies of post-colonial biblical scholarship and anthropology, liberation theologies, i...

The essays collected here, prepared by a think tank of the Elijah Interfaith Academy, address the subject of religious leadership. The subject is o...

Postcolonial studies has challenged the Eurocentric frameworks and methodologies in the fields of biblical studies and theology. Postcolonial Pract...

"Radical theology" and "political theology" are terms that have gained a lot of currency among philosophers of religion today. In this visionary ne...

The women of communities in Hindu India and Christian Orthodox Finland alike offer lamentations and mockery during wedding rituals. Catholic women ...

What does the practice of religion look like in Latin American today? In this book, which examines religious practice in three Latin American citie...

This book about the missing Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism chronicles a personal as well as an academic quest of an Indian woman who g...

Across the world from personal relationships to global politics, differences—cultural, religious, racial, gender, age, ability—are at the heart of ...

This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportuni...

New religious movements—commonly known as cults—are defined as organizations that have arisen within the last 200 years. Most treatments of these m...

After the surprising publishing success of the so-called New Atheists it has become clear that there is a market for critical discussions about rel...

Writing on an often overlooked section of contemporary Persian culture, A. Christian Van Gorder provides a comprehensive and readable introduction ...

True religious faith cannot be confirmed by any external proofs. Rather, it is founded on a basic act of trust - and the common root of that trust,...