Religion
A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology
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
Why you don’t have a self—and why that’s a good thing
The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation
An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political lives
An essential single-volume companion to the critical interpretation of Islamic scripture
An essential history of Wahhābism from its founding to the Islamic State
A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stage
The communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have been working for racial justice over the past fifty years
A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era
Philosopher Myisha Cherry teaches us the right ways to deal with wrongdoing in our lives and the world
A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient Rome
How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like one
A new study of the early Renaissance portrait
Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identity
The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survival
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
How the medieval church drove state formation in Europe
How mindfulness came to be regarded as a psychological support, an ethical practice and a component of public policy
A landmark reinterpretation of why Christianity became the dominant faith of the West
A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern age
Two simple yet tremendously powerful ideas that shaped virtually every aspect of civilization
The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religion
How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman Republic
How the Catholic Church redefined its relationship to the state in the wake of the French Revolution
A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experience
Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural life
Jung’s lectures on the psychology of Jesuit spiritual practice—unabridged in English for the first time
How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political life
An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland today
How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belonging
A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval Europe
Jung's correspondence with one of the twentieth century's leading theologians and ecumenicists
Jung's illuminating lectures on the psychology of Eastern spirituality
The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature
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
A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel
Enduring lessons from the desert soundscapes that shaped the Christian monastic tradition
How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity
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
How evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into positive religious devotion
The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life
A bold new interpretation of Augustine’s virtue of hope and its place in political life
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
An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability—and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily difference
A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscape
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 landmark book that changed the story of Poland’s role in the Holocaust
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
How a controversial biblical tale of conquest and genocide became a founding story of modern Israel
A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalism
A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world
How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and Israel
A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world
A groundbreaking new account of the writing of the Hebrew Bible
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 comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries
Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practice
An innovative analysis that traces the continuity of the state’s custodianship of Islam as the preferred religion in the Middle East and North Africa
A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William James
A timely and provocative account of the Bible’s role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slavery
The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern world
A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soil
The definitive English translation of the classic Sanskrit epic poem—now available in a one-volume paperback
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 compelling book that casts the Qur’anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new light
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...
How parents approach the task of passing on religious faith and practice to their children
The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern state