Harvard U P

There is no society without right and wrong. There is no society without sin. But every culture has its own favorite list of trespasses. Perhaps th...

Slavery may no longer exist as a legal institution, but we still find many forms of non-freedom in contemporary societies. It is a troubling parado...

Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of how ...

Burkert, Walter

Brett Whalen explores the compelling belief that Christendom would spread to every corner of the earth before the end of time. During the High Mid...

About the disciple known as Doubting Thomas, everyone knows at least this much: he stuck his finger into the risen Jesus' wounds. Or did he? A fre...

About the disciple known as Doubting Thomas, everyone knows at least this much: he stuck his finger into the risen Jesus' wounds. Or did he? A fre...

Bakhos, Carol

If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at the relationship between science and reli...

With exoplanets being discovered daily, Earth is still the only planet we know of that is home to creatures who seek a coherent explanation for the...

For thirty years, Hezbollah has played a pivotal role in Lebanese and global politics. That visibility has invited Hezbollah's lionization and vil...

Was Jesus a wisdom sage or an apocalyptic prophet? Did later followers view him as the Danielic »Son of Man» or did he use this expression for him...

The figure of the giant has haunted the literatures of the ancient Mediterranean world, from the Greek Gigantomachy and other Aegean epic literatur...

Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481), historian, political theorist, and author of a best-selling cookbook, began life as a mercenary soldier and ended i...

What impulse prompted some newspapers to attribute the murder of 77 Norwegians to Islamic extremists, until it became evident that a right-wing Nor...

The spectacle of modern sport displays all the latest commercial and technological innovations, yet age-old religious concerns still thrive at the ...

Bodman, Whitney S.

Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition - a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of l...

Lost in antiquity, rediscovered in 1896, and only recently accessible for study, The Secret Revelation of John offers a firsthand look into the div...

Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical and urgent as income inequalities or the paths to sustainable development. In this wide-ra...

Dabashi, Hamid

Some of the best-known biblical episodes are found in the story of David's rise to kingship in First and Second Samuel. Why was this series of stor...

Cox, Harvey

“What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?” This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secula...

Warner, Michael (Editor), Vanantwerpen, Jonathan (Editor), Calhoun, Craig (Editor)

Pollock, Sheldon (Editor), Elman, Benjamin A (Editor), Chang, Ku-Ming Kevin (Editor)