Religion

Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural life

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation

A timely and provocative account of the Bible’s role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slavery

How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity

An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability—and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily difference

An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political lives

How evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into positive religious devotion

How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political life

A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soil

A compelling book that casts the Qur’anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new light

A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stage

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient Rome

An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland today

A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel

The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life

A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscape

How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belonging

An essential single-volume companion to the critical interpretation of Islamic scripture

Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identity

An essential history of Wahhābism from its founding to the Islamic State

Enduring lessons from the desert soundscapes that shaped the Christian monastic tradition

The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern world

A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology

A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval Europe

How the medieval church drove state formation in Europe

A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn’t absent from—but rather was at the heart of—Roman religion

A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experience

Why you don’t have a self—and why that’s a good thing

A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William James

An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths

“This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths.”—Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series

Jung’s lectures on the psychology of Jesuit spiritual practice—unabridged in English for the first time

A bold new interpretation of Augustine’s virtue of hope and its place in political life

Revelatory talks about art and life with internationally acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz

From the Nobel Prize–winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essays

A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature—featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka’s acclaimed biographer

The definitive English translation of the classic Sanskrit epic poem—now available in a one-volume paperback

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature

From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life image

Jung's correspondence with one of the twentieth century's leading theologians and ecumenicists

Jung's illuminating lectures on the psychology of Eastern spirituality

A landmark reinterpretation of why Christianity became the dominant faith of the West

How the rabbis of late antiquity used time to define the boundaries of Jewish identity

The first comprehensive history of American Jewish philanthropy and its influence on democracy and capitalism

The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religion

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern age

How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman Republic

The now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra

The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith

How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters today

From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects

A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities

A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world

An essential companion to a timeless spiritual classic

A revealing look at the Jewish American encounter with Buddhism

Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost achieved official status, but...

A landmark book that changed the story of Poland’s role in the Holocaust

How parents approach the task of passing on religious faith and practice to their children

How the Catholic Church redefined its relationship to the state in the wake of the French Revolution

A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary life

An engaging and illuminating exploration of grief—and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us grow

A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledge