Arik Moran examines three Rajput kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories and court intrigues.

Gorvine provides a multifaceted analysis of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), one of the most prominent modern representatives of the Tibetan Bön tradition...

Founded in the 1930s by a group of teachers focused on educational reform, Soka Gakkai has since evolved from its grassroot origins as a movement inspired by Nichiren Buddhism...

Elison explores how slum residents, tribal people, and members of other marginalized groups use religious icons to mark urban spaces in Mumbai...

Jansen discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies...

Why would the Chinese Communist Party revive this former ritual? What powers lie in the symbolism of the “Golden Urn”?

Did the early Christians believe their myths?

Veidlinger offers a theoretically compelling exploration of the types communicative “ecosystems” in which Buddhist ideas have flourished throughout history.

Kline has published a series of books that provide one-sentence daily readings in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic...

How do you understand mindfulness?

The Bhagavad Gītā remains to this day a mainstay of Hinduism and Hindu Studies alike,..

Kazi's book is a brilliant and powerful meditation on the intersection and interaction of Islamophobia, racism, and U.S. imperial state power...

Kaye examines how rabbis of late antiquity thought about time through their legal reasoning and storytelling, and what these insights mean for thinking about time today...

What does it mean to “read Romans with Eastern eyes”?

Laury Silvers discusses her transition from writing scholarship to historical fiction...

Starling invites us into the daily lives of the bōmori, the spouses of priests in the Japanese Jōdo Shinshū, or True Pure Land, tradition...

Zehnder looks at the enigmatic figure of the ‘Servant of the Lord.’

According to tradition, on the night of March 15, 1345, a Eucharistic host thrown into a burning fireplace was found intact hours later...

Artman tells the story of Kuhlman’s life and, in the process, relates the larger story of charismatic Christianity, particularly how it moved from the fringes of American society to the mainstream...

What is the relationship between religion and power?

Pace examines Hall’s life and philosophy, particularly through the lens of her civil rights activism, her teaching career, and her ministry as a womanist preacher...

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...