Religion

The Norse goddess Frigg is known to have influence over many roles. She is a goddess of marriage and children, but she is also a goddess of fate an...

What did people really believe in the Middle Ages? Much of our sense of the medieval period has come down to us from the writings of the learned: t...

Unamuno's long essay on Christianity as a state of agony is followed by nine essays including Nicodemus the Pharisee, Faith, and What is Truth? Or...

In this contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and causes of the Islamic conquests in Syria and Iraq during the sixth and seventh centuri...

Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominen...

Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominen...

Theology of the People explores first the origins of Argentine liberation theologyits distinctive characteristics, stages, status, and the figure o...

Our lives are filled with objectsones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value....

Investigates how a rural town became a site of community-making, mobility, and identity formationIn 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart to...

The tension between secular politics and religious fundamentalism is a problem shared by many modern states. This is certainly true of the State of...