History of Religion

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

What historical continuity, if any, existed between the practice of crucifixion in the early Islamic polity and crucifixion as practiced by the Byz...

Justice and injustice were subjects of ongoing debate in medieval Europe. Received classical and biblical models both influenced how these qualitie...

The Muslim Speaks reimagines Islam as a strategy for investigating the modern condition. Rather than imagining it as an issue external to a discret...

Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christ...

We live in a secular world and cinema is part of that secular edifice. There is no expectation, in modern times, that filmmakers should be believer...

The Cascadia bioregion British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon has long been at the forefront of cultural shifts occurring throughout North Amer...

British Columbia is at the forefront of a secularizing movement in the English-speaking world. Nearly half its residents claim no religious affilia...

Religion and nationalism are two of the most powerful forces in the world. And as powerful as they are separately, humans throughout history have f...

In Azusa Reimagined, Keri Day explores how the Azusa Street Revival of 1906, out of which U.S. Pentecostalism emerged, directly critiqued America's...

In Azusa Reimagined, Keri Day explores how the Azusa Street Revival of 1906, out of which U.S. Pentecostalism emerged, directly critiqued America's...

Temporal and spiritual journeys were a shared characteristic of life for mendicant friars and the laity in medieval and early modern times. This bo...

Tracing the evolving nature of popular and official beliefs about the purported nature of the Jews from the 18th century onwards, Russia and the Je...

With its expanding legal system and its burgeoning throngs of lawyers, legates, and documents, the papacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centurie...