Chakravarti recovers the religious roots of Europe's first global order, by tracing the evolution of a religious vision of empire through the lives of Jesuits working in the missions of early modern Brazil and India...

How are algorithms shaping our experience of the internet?

Carlin critically engages Beauchamp and Childress by revisiting the role of religion in bioethics and argues that pastoral theologians can enrich moral imagination in bioethics by cultivating an aesthetic sensibility...

Junior sought to understand how Hagar become Black and what purposes that served...

Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill,...

Who exactly was Abu Nasr Qursawi and what was his reformist project to grapple with this situation?

In connecting these threads, McIlwain demonstrates the centrality of African Americans to both the history and future of the Internet...

Scarfi shows the central role of a coterie of elite Latin American jurists and intellectuals in constructing a Pan-American inflected conception of international law...

The province of Odisha, previously “Orissa,” was the first linguistically organized province of India...

The edited volume is not only an at times ethnographic dive into Middle Eastern sports’ multiple facets but also in many ways a mapping of how much remains to be explored....

In Chicago, "public safety" and "social justice" do not alway go hand in hand...

When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented minorities, the potential for disruption is even greater.

Subramanian offers an amphibious history written around the juncture of the nineteenth century, when the northwestern littoral of India—largely comprising of Gujarat, Kathiawad, Cutch, and Sind—was battered by piratical raids....

Alpers offers a concise yet an immensely informative introduction to the Indian Ocean world, which remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions...

How should we understand and combat injustice? Is it only the responsibility of those who suffer the consequences or perpetrate the harm?

Sex scandals are ubiquitous in American politics...

Harrison critiques many of the current methods of communicating and explores the growing divide within political discourse...

Messac challenges the inevitability of inadequate social services in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the political history of Malawi...

Haberman explores the worship world of Mount Govardhan; located in the Braj region of India, the mountain is considered an embodied form of the Hindu deity Krishna...

Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist...

How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law?

Scholz's maps shift the focus from the border to the thoroughfare to show that controls of moving goods and people were rarely concentrated at borders before the mid-eighteenth century...

Was Weimar doomed from the outset?

In our conversation we defined the disciplines of Public Choice and Public Administration and we named the key actors of a very long intellectual debate...

The authors propose twelve mechanisms that can move individuals, groups, and mass publics from political indifference to sympathy and support for terrorist violence...