Is there evidence to believe the Gospels?

One of the most important trends within evangelicalism over the last half-century has been a renewal of Reformed theology...

Why are myths of the Indian Great Goddess couched in a conversation between a deposed king and forest-dwelling ascetic?

Gleig focuses on meditation-based convert Buddhist lineages in North America, and in particular she is interested in the generational changes underway in these groups...

The first in a two part interview about Alan Watts.

Zaman's book is is a landmark publication in the fields of Religious Studies, modern Islam, South Asian Islam...

What does a typical American Catholic parish look like?

Why does the narrative motif of ‘dialogue’ pervade Hindu texts?

Five decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade to force museums to return their sacred objects and allow them to rebury their kin...

Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...

Michael R. Cohen is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he holds a Sizeler Professorship...

To what extent may we say that religion is a theatrical phenomenon, and that theatre is a religious experience?

Jacob, reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms.

Jewish women have consistently played a vital and significant role in American history more broadly, and American Jewish history specifically...

What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern myths?

Thomas A. Wayment, professor of Classics at Brigham Young University, has done something remarkable — he has retranslated the New Testament...

Islam in American has been profoundly shaped by the Black Muslim experience...

I spoke with Andrea on the heels of her trip to India to attend the International Buddhist Conclave...

Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both positive and negative...

Bhikkhu Anālayo skillfully analyzes the early Buddhist doctrine of rebirth before discussing the debate around rebirth throughout Buddhist history...

Ward Keeler joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to discuss egalitarianism and autonomy, anthropology and audience, clientelism and communism, and how the study of Java and Bali informed his thinking about Burma...

Vivian Percy's new book is the narration of a mother and daughter’s long painful journey from tragedy, through opioid addiction, toward redemption...

Why did creative writers in early modern England write so forcefully about the relationship between aesthetics and morality?

If you’re a Latter Day Saint, you’ve probably heard of W. W. Phelps, and no doubt, you’ve probably sung some of his hymns...