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
A critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on quantitative data, personal stories, and the gendered history of the field
How rabbinic expertise was socially constructed, performed, and defended in Roman Palestine
How children’s non-belief and non-religion are formed in everyday life
A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William James
A richly illustrated collection of never-before-seen writings and drawings from the notebooks, portfolios, and personal papers of C. G. Jung’s wife and collaborator
Jung’s landmark seminar on the symbolism of yoga and its applications to dream analysis
Jung’s landmark seminar on the psychotherapeutic method of active imagination
What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic...
The most comprehensive and authoritative collection of Kierkegaard quotations ever published