Religion and Profit– Now Available
01/23/2009
Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America Katherine Carté Engel 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4123-5 | $39.95 | £26.00 A volume… READ MORE
Category: Religious Studies
Bryn Mawr Classical Review on Schott’s Late Antiquity Book
01/06/2009
Bryn Mawr Classical Review offers a critique of Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity by Jeremy M. Schott. Reviewer Heidi Marx-Wolf writes, "Schott's book is a… READ MORE
Books and Culture reviews W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet
12/16/2008
Edward J. Blum's W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet was chosen to be the latest Books & Culture Book of the Week. Reviewer Kathryn Lofton writes: Students of U.S…. READ MORE
Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity– Now Available
11/25/2008
Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity: Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam Thomas Sizgorich 408 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth Dec 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4113-6 | $55.00 | £36.00… READ MORE
Righteous Persecution– Now Available
Righteous Persecution: Inquisition, Dominicans, and Christianity in the Middle Ages Christine Caldwell Ames 320 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth Dec 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4133-4 | $59.95 | £39.00 A… READ MORE
Bodies of Belief–Now Available
11/17/2008
Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America Janet Moore Lindman 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4114-3 | $39.95 | £26.00 A… READ MORE
Blum Sees Little “Sublime Mystery” in Obama Victory
11/06/2008
In "Neither Christ Nor Antichrist: A Reflection on the Election of Barack Obama," an essay for www.religiondispatches.com, historian Edward J. Blum warns against assigning too much sublime mystery to the… READ MORE
Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life–Now Available
10/16/2008
Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages John Van Engen 448 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 |… READ MORE
No Place of Rest–Now Available
10/08/2008
No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France Susan L. Einbinder 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4115-0… READ MORE
Boyarin and Idel Comment on Ancient Hebrew Tablet
07/07/2008
"Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection," an article in yesterday’s New York Times, outlines the potential religious significance of a centuries-old stone tablet that "may speak of a… READ MORE
