Religion

Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continu...

Maxime Rodinson, both a maverick Marxist and a distinguished professor at the Sorbonne, first published his biography of Muhammad in 1960. The book...

Walk down the streets of Chinatown in any American or western European city and look around. She is there. Walk through the downtown streets, look ...

From one of the nation’s preeminent experts on economic policy, a major reassessment of the foundations of modern economic thinking that explores t...

According to Alan Watts, "Zen taste deplores the cluttering of a picture or of a room with many objects." In that sense, this minimalist book embod...

Religions of Beijing offers an intimate portrayal of lived religion in 17 different religious communities in greater Beijing. Students at Minzu Uni...

The Basics: Anthropology of Religion is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues that all anthropologists of religi...

An accessible introduction to important topics that are deeply contested within the Church of England - marriage, gender equality and sexuality. It...

In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country’s first democratically elected presi...

translated by Ethan Rundell When Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his close...

The Bible, as we hold it today, is esteemed by many religious institutions and especially Conservative Christians to be the inspired, inerrant Word...

“It isn’t likely that this collection of journal entries, which I’m calling Fragrant Palm Leaves, will pass the censors… I’ll leave Vietnam tomorro...

notes by Mary Wellesley Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really kno...

Like music and dance, poetry is an art that antedates our secular civilization, and it has always borne the marks of its origin as a means by which...

The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in European history. It inspired th...

Late one night in 1823 Joseph Smith, Jr. was reportedly visited in his family's farmhouse in upstate New York by an angel named Moroni. According t...

Christos Tsiolkas' stunning new novel Damascus is a work of soaring ambition and achievement, of immense power and epic scope, taking as its subjec...

Nathan Vickery came into the world amid unfortunate circumstances. His mother, Elsa Vickery, daughter of an agnostic small town doctor and his piou...

The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-...

An indispensable guide to thousands of years of spiritual inquiry, The Kabbalistic Tradition features writings from a variety of literary forms--fr...

Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, this great theological and philosophical ...

translated by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination. A wor...

In this fearless, original book, Anne Norton demolishes the notion that there is a "clash of civilizations" between the West and Islam. What is rea...

In The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching, Thich Nhat Hanh brings his gift of clear and poetic expression to an explanation of the Four Noble Truths, t...

Muslim Education in the 21st Century reinvestigates the current state of affairs in Muslim education in Asia whilst at the same time paying special...

The Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of the sixteen...

Religion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it....

Nearly a century had passed since Languedoc had been put to the sword in the Albigensian Crusade, but the stain of Catharism still lay on the land....

The Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Heb...

American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social acti...