Ali presents a lyrical and at many times haunting account of the aspirations, anxieties, and tragedies enfolding everyday life in the rarely studied Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan...

In 1960, a poet and journalist named Lin Zhao was arrested by the Communist Party of China and sent to prison for re-education...

Gurumaa’s syncretic approach innovates Hindu religiosity, as does her progressive attitudes towards treatment of women...

The word “ghetto” has taken on different meanings since its coinage in the 16th century...

Jones explores many of the core doctrines, practices and controversies of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism, situating them historically and in the modern period...

Gorman examines the important Pauline theme of participation in Christ, a topic of great interest in New Testament circles and one that is central to Paul's theology and spirituality...

Millions of tourists visit Holocaust museums and memorials every year.,,

Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh...

Izharuddin explores the development of the Islamic film genre with a specific focus on gender representation...

Mendes-Flohr paints a detailed and compelling portrait of one of the twentieth century's most versatile and influential thinkers..,

McQuade opens up an entirely new field for the study of early modern women’s writing,..

Science fiction has had an obsession with Roman Catholicism for over a century...

In the absence of any real certainty about the nature and intention of the early sources that tell us the story of the early Islamic period, how can we use them?

Schlesinger writes about the intermingling of three key elements of Christian worshipping communities: the eucharist, mission and outreach to the wider world, and the unity between Christian faith traditions...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

McIntyre explores the impact of Protestantism on Catholic indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in the period directly following the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920...

Jones shows how the Crusades was a different event depending upon one’s perspective, be that of a Norman ruler, a Byzantine princess, or a Muslim chronicler....

Goldman has written a powerfully impressive new book on the long history of the political theology that he describes as “Christian Zionism"...

Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...

Buddhism and psychotherapy have been in conversation since the days of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Erich Fromm...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

The Hindu great epic, Mahābhārata, exists today in hundreds of variant manuscripts across India...

What makes a good missionary makes a good spy...

Thomas challenges the commonsensical notion that the Japanese empire granted its subjects no religious freedom...

Few doctrinal and political issues are more controversial in Pakistan today than that of blasphemy...