What accounts for the antagonism between Christianity and Darwinism?

Ratner-Rosenhagen offers a sweeping examination of the key ideas that have infused American society...

In this book, Dr. Vivian asks readers to reconsider our almost sacred regard for the act of witnessing in public culture,,,

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...

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

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...

In State Capture, Hertel-Fernandez focuses on the development and political power of  three inter-locking interest groups...

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

It seems to go against evolutionary theory for an individual to give up its own chances at reproducing in order to increase the fitness of others...

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

The murder of Emmett Till and subsequent trial was a national and international news story, but the exact meaning of events in Mississippi were contested...

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

Even those among us who think that morality is rooted in timeless normative truths will acknowledge that the overall moral fabric that binds us to one another is subject to various kinds of renovation and expansion...

Dr. Hirota’s book focuses on state legislation policies of immigration control in New York and Massachusetts...

While William Penn’s name is one familiar to many Americans thanks to his founding of the Pennsylvania colony...

This text brings together a number of lenses through which to consider the writings and ideas of British liberal thinkers, especially John Locke, Edmund Burke, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield...

Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized...

Drawing on interventions made at the height of global war by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, Simone Weil and Jacques Maritain, Jacobs shows how leading intellectuals worried about a world in crisis and how they imagined it might be set right...

Migraine headaches can be absolutely devastating...

Victoria Brownlee is the author of an exciting new contribution to discussions of early modern religion and literature...

Victoria Fortuna's new book Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence and Memory in Buenos Aires (Oxford University Press, 2018) examines the different ways in which contemporary dance practices have engaged in resistance...

In the decades following the Second World War, the British government increasingly turned to covert operations as a means of achieving their foreign policy goals...

Katherine Preston’s new book, Opera for the People: English-Language Opera & Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2017) is the first complete overview of the repertoire, companies, performers, and managers that provided English-language opera to Americans after the Civil War...

Maier’s study steps away from debates about the formation of early Christian belief to reconstruct the social world in which the new religious movement emerged and began to take shape...

We’re all familiar with cases where one attributes certain psychological states or capacities to creatures and systems that are not human persons....