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
The first major exploration of the mural tradition in early modern South India
How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political life
How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political life
A bold new interpretation of Augustine’s virtue of hope and its place in political life
How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the Torah
A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval Europe
Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association
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 compelling book that casts the Qur’anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new light
How the booming Islamic finance industry became an ultramodern hybrid of religion and markets
Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practice
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
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
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