Religious & Theocratic Ideologies

This book explores the political trajectories of various countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, tracing the shifts in party s...

How are Western, mostly secular, societies handling religion in its increasingly pluralistic and complex forms? Here, the authors study the interac...

Ayres examines the relationship between early Christian thought and Hellenic philosophical traditions by considering the extent to which fundamenta...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON FICTION AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE. A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR. An intimate, d...

How do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal--a people whose obligations extend solely to their own? Or are they propheti...

Today, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty. Young Islam takes readers inside the evolving competition for their support--a c...

How Israel is dividing American JewsTrouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In...

The Radical Mind is a groundbreaking analysis of the origins of the Christian Right, whose political victories are radically reshaping the landscap...

What is driving political extremism in Pakistan? In early 2011, the prominent Pakistani politician Salmaan Taseer was assassinated by a member of h...

Global jihadism has been on policy agendas for more than two decades. Since the 9/11 attacks, both transnational jihadi entities such as Al-Qaeda a...

After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, those in London and Madrid, and the arrest of the Toronto 18, Canadians have changed how they think about terr...

The Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East has always attracted widely divergent attention. Scholars have regarded it both as the source of terroris...

'Sectarianism' is one of the most over-discussed yet under-analysed concepts in debates about the Middle East. Despite the deluge of commentary, th...

Analysis of both official and opposition Saudi divine politics is often monolithic, conjuring images of conservatism, radicalism, misogyny and resi...

Boko Haram's appetite for exemplary violence and kidnapping women and girls has thrust it to the top of the global news agenda. In a few furious ye...

Are Europe's 'Christian values' under threat? Can religion be a pillar of identity and culture? What will be the fate of Christianity in Europe? I...

This book explores the correlation between anti-theological thought and the rise of Islamism in the twentieth century by examining Egypt's Muslim B...

Traces changing visions of mystical power and authority on the island of Pemba, whose people's reputed resistance to outside rule has shaped the na...

How do the norms of the liberal international order affect the activity of Islamist movements? This book analyzes and assesses the extent to which ...