Religion

How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and piety

A groundbreaking new account of the writing of the Hebrew Bible

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era

The extraordinary multiplicity of religions and religious cultures in India, chronicled over two thousand years

The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God

For the first time in one volume, the most elegant and accessible translation of Dante’s enduring masterpiece

An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways

A provocative look at the central role of slavery in Augustine’s religious, ethical, and political thought

A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalism