History of Religion

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...

Is it ever acceptable to lie? This question plays a surprisingly important role in the story of Europe's transition from medieval to modern society...

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

Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom t...

In Hindutva as Political Monotheism, Anustup Basu offers a genealogical study of Hindutva—Hindu right-wing nationalism—to illustrate the significan...

A multi-disciplinary re-evaluation of the role of women religious in the Middle Ages, both inside and outside the cloister. Medieval women found d...

From epigraphical, archaeological, and literary evidence Jon D. Mikalson has here assembled all relevant data concerning the dates of Athenian fest...

When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a vari...