History of Religion

This student-friendly introduction combines both thematic and chronological approaches in exploring the pivotal role religion played in American hi...

Formed from This Soil offers a complete history of religion in America that centers on the diversity of sacred traditions and practices that have e...

A ground-breaking introductory textbook for the study of the New Testament and the first Christians, written for the next generation of students Co...

Is the Church Losing the Next Generation?More than half of all Christian teens and twentysomethings leave active involvement in church. Based on re...

God Visible: Patristic Christology Reconsidered considers the early development and reception of what is today the most widely professed Christian ...

Global Reformations offers a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early modern world.The v...

Offers an overview of Sufism in North America.In this book, William Rory Dickson explores Sufism as a developing tradition in North America, one th...

How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer the...

A History of Religion in America: From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century provides comprehensive coverage of the history of relig...

Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval reli...

This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in expl...