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

The interconnected ways that sexism functions in academic Islamic studies and how to shift professional norms toward parity

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 philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world

In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice. This was the summer...

A new study of the early Renaissance portrait

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

An entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death—and what we might learn from them

Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion—and why giving it up can free us from suffering

A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to today

A concise new narrative history of Islam that draws on the transformative insights of recent research to emphasize the diversity and dynamism of the tradition