Jesus was Jewish? Yes, he was...and how.

Butler explores what might happen if Black people in the United States merged technology and spirituality in their fight towards materializing liberating realities...

Nathan offers a history of P’ogyo (Buddhist Propagation) on the Korean peninsula from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 21st that switches its focus to South Korea beginning with the Post-Korean War period...

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

The ancient Indian philosophers conceptualized the universe as comprising 5 elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space), corresponding to the five human senses...

Yang examines the resurgence of religious and ritual life after decades of enforced secularization in the coastal area of Wenzhou,..

What if the moral guardians of West African societies are postmenopausal women?

Newfield presents a comprehensive portrait of the prolonged state of being “in-between” that characterizes transition out of a totalizing worldview...

This ethnographic journey across three Indian locales examines the agency of various materials – from ornaments, to female guising, to cement images....

Whitehead ask Eisler "Is a frequent occurrence that men see The Christ; and are there occasions known when the visions are free from religiosity and at the same time full of life and power?”

Sex scandals are ubiquitous in American politics...

Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry...

Drawing on anthropology and psychoanalytic theory, Kaniel enhances our understanding of the connection between female transgression and redemption...

Haberman explores the worship world of Mount Govardhan; located in the Braj region of India, the mountain is considered an embodied form of the Hindu deity Krishna...

In this interview, we have a candid conversation with Dr. Christopher Key Chapple of Loyola Marymount University...

Miura examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of “world renewal” (yonaoshi)...

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....

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

The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...

"Dying to Eat" is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that examine the role of food in rituals surrounding death and dying from around the globe...

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

Fogg analyzes the religious aspirations that motivated many Muslim revolutionaries to fight the return of Dutch after the Second World War and envision a new nation-state...

What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?

Benjamin contends that the physical and psychological work of caring for children presents theologically fruitful but largely unexplored terrain for feminists...

Why are the myths of the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, found in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa framed by myths glorifying the Sun, Sūrya?