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

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

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

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...

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

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

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.’

Caputo’s conversation partners in this volume include Lyotard, Derrida, and Hegel, but also earlier versions of himself:...

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...

This ground-breaking work on Indian philosophical doxography examines the function of dialectical texts within their intellectual and religious milieu

McBride offers a comprehensive study of the Koryŏ (918-1392) Buddhist exegete, Ŭichŏn, that convey’s his life and work through letters, speeches, memorials, addresses, and poetry, from three epigraphical accounts...

McGrath examines the complex and enigmatic Vyāsa, both the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and a key character in the very epic he composes...

Rocklin draws on colonial archives and ethnographic work in this pioneering examination of the realities of indentured workers in colonial Trinidad...

Rashid conducts an intimate and layered ethnography of militarism and death in Pakistan, with a focus on the lives, aspirations, and tragedies of soldiers and their families in rural Punjab...

Sutton describes the work of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, as well as his own scholarship.

What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?

Collins examines a fascinating, understudied figure appearing in Sanskrit narrative texts: Paraśurāma, i.e., “Rāma with the Axe”...

Adamson and Ganeri survey the breadth and depth of Indian philosophical traditions...

Welch investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology,..

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

In this interview we discuss the sophisticated structure and profound content of the Tiruvaymoli, along with the translator’s own transformative journey rending into English the meaning, emotion, cadence and kaleidoscopic brilliance proper to this Tamil masterpiece...

Dorrell covers approaches, strategies, and topics important for the study of Islam today...