In the United States, the number of megachurches increased from 350 in 1990 to over 1,600 in 2011 with that number continuing to grow exponentially in subsequent years...

Anti-semitism is on the rise in the U.S. and other parts of the world...

Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all...

García traces Olivares’ humble beginnings as a poor boy growing up in San Antonio’s west side barrio to his improbable rise as the “Gucci priest” of the Claretian order...

For the author of the fourth Gospel, there is neither a Christless church nor a churchless Christ...

"Slavery in Islam" also offers a remarkable combination of intellectual and social history, anchored in layers of complex yet eminently accessible textual analysis...

Strongman reveals the many non-heteronormative texts, practices and beliefs though which Black Atlantic religious practices in Haiti, Cuba and Brazil were constituted...

"Providence Lost" is the most up to date and accessible narrative of this crucial period...

Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von Braun...

In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...

Dawe gathers work from the 1980s to the present day that reflects upon the problem of Protestant culture in Northern Ireland. In this careful and deliberate work,..

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Abraham Kuyper was one of the most important theologians in the Dutch Reformed tradition...

In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844...

The relationship between Islam and the environment has a long and rich history across various Muslim societies...

Colbert Cairns traces the biblical figure of Esther, the secret Jewish Queen, as she is reinvented as the patron saint for the early modern Sephardic community....

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, responded simply, “I am a Christian and a Democrat.”

DeLay traces five zones of White Evangelical opposition: future, knowledge, sexuality, reality, and society...

Marsili offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE)...

Collett delves into the lives of six of the best-known nuns from the period of early Buddhism...

What does cow care in India have to offer modern Western discourse animal ethics?

Faith language permeates the letters of Paul. Yet, its exact meaning is not always clear...

Bajoghli presents a riveting ethnography of pro-regime media networks in Iran, and sketches an intimate portrait of the actors, projects, and infrastructures invested in preserving and packaging the memory of the Islamic revolution 40 years later...

Cameron offers a precise and nuanced history of African American secularism from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century...

Lankauskas explores Lithuanians’ pursuit of “modernity”, combining archival and ethnographic data...