Rose argues that failure should be welcomed as a core element of Christian identity....

Scott focuses on the Basque seroras, a category of uncloistered religious women that were employed by parishes to perform a wide variety of functions...

Sex scandals are ubiquitous in American politics...

Robinson helps readers understand how John utilizes Ezekiel’s imagery to portray Jesus Christ as the eschatological temple...

Holland tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century in the United States: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion...

Youthful arrogance. Hipster alienation. A lot of reading. A lot of drinking. Struggles to adjust to a land radically different from the one that one has left in youth....

In this episode, we focus on one of Eisler’s most controversial works, a reconstruction of the 1st-century Roman Jewish historian Josephus’ account of the events surrounding the death of Jesus...

Kleinbub challenges the notion that Michelangelo, renowned for his magnificent portrayals of the human body, was merely concerned with “superficial” anatomy....

Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy...

Turner challenges assumptions regarding the intersection between black religion and politics in this “signal moment of political and cultural transformation in the African-American experience.”

The exodus—the story of God leading his chosen people out of slavery in Egypt—stands as a pivotal event in the Old Testament...

For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage....

Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church’s improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression...

Sainsbury uncovers the significant but previously unknown contributions of the electioneers who advocated for Joseph Smith’s 1844 presidential campaign....

Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God...

Ryrie offers a new vision of the birth of the secular age, looking to the feelings of ordinary men and women―so often left out of the history of atheism...

Philip A. Craig’s new book on John Owen, the premier puritan theologian, demonstrates how carefully his subject tracked the influence of antinomianism in his writing...

Stephens shows how Dr. James Dobson reached millions of American evangelical households and shaped the cultural sensibilities and political attitudes of the U.S. culture wars...

In this book, well-known historians describe their journeys of writing books that have influenced our understanding of the Mormon past...

The authors explore each New Testament book in light of the broad history of redemption, emphasizing the biblical-theological themes of each New Testament book...

Perelman examines the consequences of Japan’s decision not to tackle the tuberculosis epidemic that ravaged the country during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth....

Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country...

"The Subhedar's Son" provides a fascinating insight into Brahmanical-Christian conversions of the era, along with attitudes surrounding such conversions...

Turek examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s...

A path-breaking work of religion and gender and sexuality, "Tabernacles of Clay" sets the agenda for a new generation of scholars interested in the recent Latter-day Saint past.