In 1978, Evan Pederick, a naive 22-year-old in the thrall of a radical religious movement, Ananda Marga, placed an enormous bomb outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel...

Moise offers a comprehensive description of the ‘doctrine of salvation’ (niḥśreyasa/ mokṣa) and Vaiśeṣika...

Harb offers a delightful and formidable study on the details and development of poetics and aesthetics in medieval Arabic literature...

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...

Diamond challenges the widespread caricature of Judaism as a religion of law as opposed to theology...

Stainton explores the relationship between 'poetry’ and ‘prayer’ in South Asia through close examination of the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir from the eighth century onwards...

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.

What happens when the Anthropocene Age makes everything virtual? What happens when heaven gets plowed under?

Reynolds argues that contrary to many scholarly and popular claims about the God of the Qur’an as either merciful or vengeful, God is in fact both...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

"Jewish New York" reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups...

Bedasse examines Rastafarian reparation to Tanzania in the 1970s and 1980s...

Nadell surveys varied experiences of Jewish women who made America their home. In elegant prose, she introduces readers to a fascinating cast of characters from the seventeenth century to the present day...

Formichi helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities...

Cook shows that there is a deep religious strain within the American Left despite contrary common perceptions...

In recent decades, the number of Americans and Canadians who identify has nonreligious has risen considerably..

Muslims living in locations like Australia, Europe, or North America exist within a context dominated by white racial norms...

Whatever strategy one uses there is a relationship between one’s social identity and the categories shaping theoretical and methodological assumptions...

Elverskog challenges the popular image of Buddhism as a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment...

Yadgar provides a novel analysis of the interplay between Israeli nationalism and Jewish tradition, arriving at a fresh understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through its focus on internal questions about Israeli identity...

Elkins examines ancient representations of mothers and children in the context of sociopolitical violence....

Quammen situates the Bundy standoff within the long and convoluted history of Mormon migration into the American West—and provides an exciting new take on religion in modern American politics...

What recourse did you have in Ming China if your very excellent local official was leaving your area and moving on to a new jurisdiction? You could try to block his path, you could wail and tear your hair out – or you could house an image of him in a temple, make offerings before it, and create a ‘living shrine.’

What is a mosque? What are women's mosques specifically?

McGeever examines Bolshevik and Jewish communists' attempts to confront antisemitism, including within the revolutionary movement itself...