One of the most important trends within evangelicalism over the last half-century has been a renewal of Reformed theology...

What does a typical American Catholic parish look like?

Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...

In a new book, Beard describes growing up in a community that required its members to participate in excessive tithing, among other practices designed to prey on those who had the least to give...

What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern myths?

When rock n’roll emerged in the 1950’s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins....

Thomas A. Wayment, professor of Classics at Brigham Young University, has done something remarkable — he has retranslated the New Testament...

Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both positive and negative...

If you’re a Latter Day Saint, you’ve probably heard of W. W. Phelps, and no doubt, you’ve probably sung some of his hymns...

Why did creative writers in early modern England write so forcefully about the relationship between aesthetics and morality?

Mary Magdalene’s story of conversion from sinner to saint is one of Christianity’s most compelling and controversial stories...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Rivalry and Reform explores the historical relationships between presidents and social movements.

Open conflict between religion and science may not be inevitable, but a germ of discord resides in some of the fundamental commitments of both...

Hardin explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness...

Religion has returned to China. Really, it never left...

The Westminster Assembly (1643-53) was one of the most important ecclesiastical councils in the history of Reformed Protestantism, but until very recently it had received little in the way of scholarly attention...

What accounts for the antagonism between Christianity and Darwinism?

What happens after you die? The book brings together fascinating theological and religious studies perspectives on a controversial yet pervasive idea: reincarnation...

The intersection of religion and politics in the United States is one of the nation's most enduring conversations...

In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.

Bingham argues against several centuries of historical interpretation of the new religious movement that emerged in London in the late 1630s and now numbers around 35 million adherents worldwide...

Joseph Smith, the nineteenth-century American prophet who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, can, at times, be considered an elusive historical figure...