What accounts for the antagonism between Christianity and Darwinism?

What happens after you die? The book brings together fascinating theological and religious studies perspectives on a controversial yet pervasive idea: reincarnation...

One of the great archeological finds of the 20th century, the Gandhāran Buddhist Texts, dating from the 1st century CE, are the oldest Buddhist manuscripts ever discovered...

Our lives are shot through with contingency – where, when, and into what circumstances we are born is largely a matter of chance...

Frederiksen's book is an “exploration of what goes missing when one looks for meaning."

The intersection of religion and politics in the United States is one of the nation's most enduring conversations...

In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.

Bingham argues against several centuries of historical interpretation of the new religious movement that emerged in London in the late 1630s and now numbers around 35 million adherents worldwide...

Ranging across Heidegger, Buddhism, Christianity, German idealism, Russian literature, and mathematics, Kojève advances a novel argument about freedom and authority...

Jonathan Edwards is by now widely recognised as America’s most important early philosopher and theologian...

An interview with Michele F. Margolis

Studies of Hindu saints tend to focus primarily on the saints themselves—their words, teachings, and practices—rather than tending to the often complex and complicated world of texts and traditions about those saints...

American Sutra is also an inspiring account of how Japanese-Americans embodied faith, ingenuity and sacrifice in the face of great adversity...

Martin Buber is known as one of the 20th century's greatest Jewish scholars and thinkers, but he is less well known for his political theory and activism...

When and where did Jesus offer himself to God?

Howe examines the social and spiritual contexts of Muslims living outside of Chicago...

This work maps manifestations of the festival across historical periods and local celebrations over the regions of West Bengal, Odish...

Thomas Patton examines the weizzā, a figure in Burmese Buddhism who is possessed with extraordinary supernatural powers, usually gained through some sort of esoteric practice...

Alexander’s religious practices were a vital part of his legitimacy as a ruler of his people, and were interwoven into his daily activities...

Ingram sets out to account for the experience of those Spanish Jews, perhaps one-third of the total Spanish Jewish population, who converted to Catholicism after the Reconquista...

Far more than just an introductory book, Richard argues not only that the Pali Canon records the words of the Buddha, but that the Buddha himself is responsible for the Pali language...

The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos...

This landmark speech by Dr. B.R. Ambedakar is the pinnacle of his scholarly work and cements his legacy alongside Mahatma Gandhi in Indian politics...

Andrew surveys the period in which Irish Presbyterians came together as a community, to debate different ways of being conservative...

Men and women often engaged in ‘unnatural’ sexual acts revealed the relations of power in colonial society,...