Religion: General

How and why did students at Kabul University engage in political activism or refrained from it between 1964 and 1992? Based on oral history intervi...

Ancient Mesopotamian, biblical, rabbinic, and Christian literature was created and transmitted by the intellectual elite and therefore presents the...

This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came ...

Global Phenomenologies of Religion offers a new way of looking at the past, current and future trajectory of the study of religion. The phenomenolo...

How can time become festive? How do festivals manage to make time special, to mark out a certain day or days, to distinguish them from normal, ever...

Why have Western societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? Looking to the feelings and faith of ordinary pe...

The legend of Theophilus is a widely disseminated medieval miracle story. A good man gives in to Vain Glory, sells his soul to the Devil, has a ter...

The legend of Theophilus is a widely disseminated medieval miracle story. A good man gives in to Vain Glory, sells his soul to the Devil, has a ter...

Throughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most c...

Though little-known today, Nicholas of Lyra's commentaries are arguably among the most widely-read and influential commentaries of all time. For mo...

In an era marked by insecurity from neoliberalism, financial volatility, political instability, regional conflicts, pandemics, and the climate cris...

This book is the second of two volumes which reflect on the trend in biblical scholarship that contrasts the vision of the historical Jesus with th...

Featuring scholars at the forefront of contemporary political theology and the study of German Idealism, Nothing Absolute explores the intersection...

Atheism has been on the rise in the West for several decades, but its roots, including those belonging to secularism, agnosticism, and freethought,...

Paul Voss and Donald Prudlo trace Western attitudes to money, merchants, and the market through 3,000 years of history. They focus their attention ...