Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...

Idris traces the concept of peace, and the way it is often insinuated with other words and concepts, over more than 2000 years of political thought...

This book introduces principal themes of Calvin’s life, thought and literary achievements...

Why did early modern people change their religious affiliation? And how did they represent that change in writing?

In the United States, the number of megachurches increased from 350 in 1990 to over 1,600 in 2011 with that number continuing to grow exponentially in subsequent years...

How should we understand humanitarian NGOs?

García traces Olivares’ humble beginnings as a poor boy growing up in San Antonio’s west side barrio to his improbable rise as the “Gucci priest” of the Claretian order...

For the author of the fourth Gospel, there is neither a Christless church nor a churchless Christ...

"Providence Lost" is the most up to date and accessible narrative of this crucial period...

Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von Braun...

Dawe gathers work from the 1980s to the present day that reflects upon the problem of Protestant culture in Northern Ireland. In this careful and deliberate work,..

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Abraham Kuyper was one of the most important theologians in the Dutch Reformed tradition...

In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, responded simply, “I am a Christian and a Democrat.”

DeLay traces five zones of White Evangelical opposition: future, knowledge, sexuality, reality, and society...

Balint and Mack offer a fascinating journey through Jerusalem’s libraries which tells the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words...

Faith language permeates the letters of Paul. Yet, its exact meaning is not always clear...

Lankauskas explores Lithuanians’ pursuit of “modernity”, combining archival and ethnographic data...

Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a natural system capable of changing humans and of being changed by them...

O’Hara uncovers a vast array of social practices in colonial Mexico that force us to reconsider who owns the future...

Perry's collection of essays shows how seriously protestants are taking Benedict’s claims...

Hatter shows that the repertory she studies reflects a musical culture that valued intergenerational connections between artists and compositional virtuosity...

This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America...

Chamedes explores how World War I galvanized the central government of the Catholic Church to craft its own variety of internationalism...