History of Religion

The fraught tension between science and religion has loomed large in scholarship about the nineteenth century in Spain, especially given the promin...

Medieval and Renaissance Cyprus was a fascinating place of ethnic, cultural, and religious encounters. Following almost nine centuries of Byzantine...

Two of the most influential forces in American history are business and religion. Merchants and Ministers weaves the two together in a history of t...

Jacob Neusner describes, analyzes, and interprets the transformation of one system of the Israelite social order by a connected but autonomous succ...

Christian communities in the state Andhra Pradesh of south India and the Telugu Christians in diaspora have passed their stories from one generatio...

Beyond Belief: Surviving the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France presents a demographic study of the behaviors of Protestants and Catholics...

This volume addresses the problematic relationship between colonialism and the Bible. It does so from the perspective of the Global South, calling ...

Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions Shows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional...

A Jewish Public Theology draws from Halakhah, Jewish law, to address some of the most searing current policy issues. Abraham Unger examines how Jew...

The Hussite movement in Bohemia is an essential component for understanding the general history of medieval Europe and the Hussite period is a crit...

This book demonstrates that ancient Christian Gnosticism was an ancient form of cultural criticism in a mythological garb. It establishes that, muc...

Archaeologists have been increasingly turning their attention to the study of religion, but the field so far has lacked a cross-cultural overview. ...

In the 6th century BCE, Jerusalem and Judea were destroyed by the Babylonians. This traumatic event created the need to construct and articulate a ...

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

Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs...

A nonconformist, unifier, husband of three deceased wives, victim of religious persecution, and author of what has been collected into six volumes ...

The American-Jewish philosopher Berel Lang has left an indelible impression on an unusually broad range of fields that few scholars can rival. From...

Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest influencers in the world, was himself influenced by trailblazing thinkers and writers like Tolstoy, Ruskin, Tho...

Hindu Diasporas presents the histories and religious traditions of Hindus with a South Asian ancestral background living outside of South Asia. Hin...

Comprised of debates among the rabbis of late antiquity in the aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.), the Talmud has provided...

A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New EnglandThis book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergen...

In 1550–51, English Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer engaged in a debate with Bishop Stephen Gardiner. Archbishop Cranmer was asserting a ne...

The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural movement that swept through Western Europe, has often been characterized as a m...

This is a unique book that combines a political narrative with poetry to examine the role of culture and the fusion of religion and politics during...

While born into a working-class Methodist family in a small English town, Catherine Booth (1829-1890) went on to become one of the most influential...

The compelling argument of Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930: Struggles for Recognition is that narratives of Eastern European...

This book analyzes the acquisition and use of texts by the parish clergy in the diocese of Eichstätt between 1400 and 1520 to refute the amusing, b...

The modern culture we live off and take for granted is an elevated, sophisticated one, containing a great variety of precious anthropological insig...

This book investigates the lives and careers of Muslim African interpreters employed by the French colonial administration in Saint Louis, Senegal,...

Augustine identified reason and authority as complementary ways of learning the truth, and he employed both to explore such perennial questions as ...

America's Other Muslims: Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Mu...

Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest influencers in the world, was himself influenced by trailblazing thinkers and writers like Tolstoy, Ruskin, Tho...

The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust shares a complex tapestry of voices of memories previously underrepresented, ignored a...

Through an examination of Methodist mission to Southeast Asia at the turn of the twentieth century, this broad-ranging book unites the history of g...

Judaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of ‘Judaism’ is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual journey ...

Judaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of ‘Judaism’ is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual journey ...

In 1879, Canon Thomas Frederick Simmons edited the late medieval poem now known as The Lay Folks' Mass Book creating what remains the standard edit...