University Of Chigaco

Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Withou...

At most church weddings, the person presiding over the ritual is not a priest or a pastor, but the wedding planner, followed by the photographer, t...

In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western...

Merry, Sally Engle

During the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a naturalistic one. It is generally assumed that this shi...

There have been numerous studies in recent decades of the medieval inquisitions, most emphasizing larger social and political circumstances and neg...

Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call “religion.” There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its ...

In Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam, Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined - and continues...

In Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam, Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined - and continues...

Before they were both internationally renowned philosophers, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig were young German soldiers fighting in Wo...

In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through ...

What is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to s...

It is a common belief that scripture has no place in modern, secular politics. Graham Hammill challenges this notion in The Mosaic Constitution, a...

Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twe...

Rahman, Fazlur

Casanova, José

Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of...

Bottéro, Jean

Recent events - from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations a...

While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, an...

Before the end of the thirteenth century, theologians had little interest in demons, but with Thomas Aquinas and his formidable “Treatise on Evil” ...

Pecora, Vincent P

Pelikan, Jaroslav

Barack Obama has called him »one of my favorite philosophers.» John McCain wrote that he is »a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good war.» A...