Religion: General

Who is God? How should we think about the concept of God? How have religions shaped and altered various conceptions of God over time? Many use lang...

Notions of place have always permeated Jewish life and consciousness. The Babylonian Talmud was pitted against the Jerusalem Talmud; the worlds of ...

Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to th...

For decades, Mark Juergensmeyer has been studying the rise of religious violence around the world, including groups like ISIS and Christian militia...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian thinkers emerged, convinced that humanity was entering an advanced...

A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs. From the early percolation of Protestant thought in th...

Uncovering Islam's formative impact on U.S. literary origins, Jeffrey Einboden traces neglected genealogies of Islamic reception from the Revolutio...

A new history of how the Nazi era upended German-Jewish experiences of space and time from eminent historian Guy Miron.   In Space and Time under P...

Evangelicalism appeared as a new pattern of Christian devotion at a moment in history when the foundations of Anglo-American society were shifting....

The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history 'A first-class storyteller' The Time...

At the Edge of Reformation springs from Peter Linehan's continuing interest in the history of Spain and Portugal, on this occasion in the first hal...

'Goethe called colour the deeds and sufferings of the light - victorious deeds when it pierces matter, and suffering when it endures the darkness i...

The Irish Presbyterian Mind considers how one protestant community responded to the challenges posed to traditional understandings of Christian fai...

In the international press, East Africa is depicted as a region mired in civil war, child abduction, rebel militias, Muslim-Christian violence, and...

The comparative method is an integral part of religious studies. All the technical terms that scholars of religion use on a daily basis, such as ri...

A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon presents the first extensive study of the primary sources chronicling the origin of the long-ridiculed ...