Mary Magdalene’s story of conversion from sinner to saint is one of Christianity’s most compelling and controversial stories...

Nathan McGovern draws on ancient texts to problematize the distinction between Brahman and non-Brahman in this era, shedding light on the presence of various Buddhist, Jain and Vedic groups who equally identified as Brahmans.

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Open conflict between religion and science may not be inevitable, but a germ of discord resides in some of the fundamental commitments of both...

Claire Pamment’s book is a fantastic new book centered on the Punjabi folk art of the Bhānd, or comic performance...

Hardin explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness...

An interview with Eddie Glaude, Jr.

The Westminster Assembly (1643-53) was one of the most important ecclesiastical councils in the history of Reformed Protestantism, but until very recently it had received little in the way of scholarly attention...

In 2008 Meido Roshi received inka shomei ("mind seal"), designating him an 86th-generation Zen dharma heir and a 48th-generation holder of the lineage descended from Rinzai Gigen...

The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America...

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...

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

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

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...

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