History of Religion

The rise of printing had major effects on culture and society in the early modern period, and the presence of this new technology—and the relativel...

Contentious Spirits explores the role of religion in Korean American history during the first half of the twentieth century in Hawai'i and Californ...

Bright Lights in the Desert explores the history of how members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Las Vegas have improved the r...

Food for the Soul is a work of theology that sheds light on the history of Catholicism while discussing important issues facing the Church and our ...

This book examines the contentious relationship between oath-taking, confessional subscription, and the binding of the conscience in reforms led by...

Erasmus’ thorough engagement with the New Testament, in particular his revision of the Vulgate translation, aroused much controversy, especially in...

Malmesbury Abbey was an institution of national significance throughout the Middle Ages and this book is the first full-length study of its history...

In 1944, the Nazis razed Warsaw’s historic Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. “They knew that the strength of the Polish nation was rooted in the C...

The history of a single book sheds light on the beginnings of modern Jewish thoughtIn 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pinḥas Hurwitz publi...

Shows how American forms of religion and empire developed in tandem, shaping and reshaping each other over the course of American history The Unite...

A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world Buddhist t...

We do not have many definitions of Christianity from late antiquity, but among the few extant is the brief statement of Gregory of Nyssa (335-395 C...

This book is an exercise in the systematic recourse to anachronism as a theological-exegetical mode of apologetics. Specifically, Neusner demonstra...

While much has been written about the Catholic Church and the Holocaust, little has been published about the hostile role of priests, in particular...

In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious in...

Finalist, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, given by the American Academy of Religion A comprehensive...

Despite their centrality to the history of Christianity in the East, Syriac Christians have generally been excluded from modern accounts of the fai...

First comprehensive survey of a major genre of medieval English texts: its purpose, characteristics, and reception. The "bestseller list" of medie...

In the decades following the era of decolonization, global Christianity experienced a seismic shift. While Catholicism and Protestantism have decli...