Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of his grandfather and father in the broader context of the twentieth century...

Ramacciotti provides a lucid synthesis of the Catholic Church’s responses to the secularization of the State and society...

Is love between man and woman the source of wisdom and the cornerstone of moral life?

Perabo examines the conflict through the concept of an “interreligious war” between Christian and Buddhist nations...

Is “Vedic” fire sacrifice at odds with “Hindu” image worship?

Wilken offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire...

Hawley was an active member of several Latter Day Restoration denominations in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Texas, the Indian Nations of Oklahoma, and Utah Territory from 1838 to 1909...

More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life...

Johnson examines the lives and work of four well-known women-evangelical marriage advice author Marabel Morgan, singer and anti-gay-rights activist Anita Bryant, author and political lobbyist Beverly LaHaye, and televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker...

Some people find the Old Testament to be confusing, out of date, and essentially replaced by the New Testament. They are missing out...

Thanks to the international tourism industry most people are familiar with the spectacular ruins of Angkor, the great Cambodian empire that lasted from about the 9th to the early 15th century...

Kinder states “If we want our children to live in a Golden Civilization, the first step is for each of us to imagine it.”

Dochuk places religion and oil at the center of American history...

"Sex and Secularism" is a compelling analysis of the discourse of secularism in the modern democratic (imperial) nation-states of “the West”.

Walton explores how members of three contemporary Muslim groups, the Nur community, the Gülen movement, and Alevis, articulate religiosity within the Turkish public sphere...

Zalar exposes the myth of faith-based intellectual repression...

Harrower takes on the tremendous topic: the problem of horrific evil that seems to omnipresent in today’s world...

Janzen examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture...

Is alcohol a universal feature of human society? Why is problematic in some countries and not others? How was alcohol helped build the modern state?

Hill provides life stories of various fascinating and powerful female muqaddamas (or Sufi leaders) in Dakar and explores how they navigate the complexity of their gendered authority in religious, familial, and public domains...

Grainger argues that it was not the Transcendentalists but evangelical revivalists who transformed the everyday religious life of Americans and spiritualized the natural environment..

Burchett re-examines what we assume about the rise of devotionalism in North India, tracing its flowering since India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” to present day...

MacKenzie re-examines the political and constitutional bonds that were implied by the covenant to which the English and Scottish parliaments had subscribed at the beginning of the first civil war, and considers why so many Presbyterians understood the Cromwellian occupation to represent a breach of the covenant’s obligations...

With his secretary’s coaxing over the course of nineteen years, McKay documented how he charted a steady course through institutional storms...

Mittermaier conducts a dazzling and at many times moving ethnography of an Islamic economy of giving and charity in Egypt..