Why are Americans, and American politicians more specifically, obsessed with sex? Why, in the words of Janet Jakobsen, are gender and sexuality such riveting public policy concerns the United States?

One of the central threads in the public discourse on Black womanhood is the idea of the “Jezebel"...

Heroic Saktism is the belief that a good king and a true warrior must worship the goddess Durga, the form and substance of kingship...

Padma focuses on two types of Gramadevatas or goddesses: deified women and those associated with disease and fertility...

Taliaferro argues that natural law can act as a mediating tool...

Slouber surveys the diversity of India's feminine divine tradition by bringing together a fresh array of captivating and largely overlooked Hindu goddess narratives from different regions....

An interview with Steven Fine

What counts as contemplative practices in Hinduism? What can Hindu Studies offer Contemplative Studies as a discipline?

In the early 20th-century Muslims, primarily with roots in Lebanon, began to settle in Canada’s interior plains...

This book offers an historical survey of how dignity has been understood and explores the concept in the Judaeo-Christian tradition....

Historians of early modern religion recognise the importance of the development of covenant theology in the formation of Calvinism...

Is religion indispensable to public life?

Is it possible to interpret the Qur’an using the Qur’an alone? Is a feminist interpretation of controversial verses such as 4:34, the notorious “wife-beating” verse, possible?

How do Judaism and Hinduism compare as religions?

Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly as it took shape in the writings and visions of the laity...

As far back as we can see in the historical record, Buddhist monks and nuns have offered services including healing, divination, rain making, aggressive magic, and love magic to local clients..,,

Considering the examples of Christianity and Buddhism, Morisato focuses on finding the solution to the problem of philosophy of religion through comparative examinations of Tanabe’s metanoetics and Desmond’s metaxology...

How did Biblical figures such as Moses and Joshua justify brutal levels of violence against their enemies?

In Japan, a country popularly perceived as highly secularized and technologically advanced, ontological assumptions about spirits (tama or tamashii) seem to be quite deeply ingrained in the cultural fabric...

Evans offers a sustained and compelling critique of the doubt/belief binary in the anthropology of religion and Islam,..

Esler sheds light on this recent development in Sino-Tibetan Buddhism that is gaining increasing momentum in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan...

Saxena draws on her personal religious experiences and devotion to the Goddess Kali as a starting point to reflect on the absence of a Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism...

This book captures these complex varieties of Sufism in America...

Koller provides a compelling contemporary perspective on one of the Bible's most famous and difficult texts, the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac...

Daneshgar invites his readers on a journey exploring how the Muslim academy—that is, academic institutions in the Muslim-majority world—teaches Islamic Studies, with an emphasis on the Qur’an...