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Dive into the timeless wisdom of Ecclesiastes in Jay Garfinkel's groundbreaking work, Kohelet's Cock

Hinduism and Tribal Religions (Springer, 2021) offers an overview of Hinduism as found in India and

The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in 5 Minutes (Equinox Books, 2024), co-edited by Philippe Guill

Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the imp

The specter of the “Godless” Soviet Union haunted the United States and continental Western Europe t

What is the right way to live? This is an old question in Western moral philosophy, but in recent ye

Does Hindu astrology work? If so, why? When does it not work? Why? Where and how did Hindu astrology

Jehovah’s Witnesses are one of the most successful “new religious movements” to have emerged from th

The New Testament and the Theology of Trust (Oxford UP, 2022) argues for the recovery of trust as a

The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes

Throughout the 20th century, especially during and immediately after WWII, New York Jews changed the

In this episode, Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Dr Theodora Wildcroft, a researcher, anthropologi

Losing a pet has always been a unique kind of pain. No set rituals exist to help provide closure whe

Muslimness in China

2024/8/9

In this episode Salman Sayyid talks to Haiyun Ma about Muslimness in China. This is the second episo

Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the

Eyal Regev's The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred (Yale UP, 2019) is he first s

Mainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox religious women often frame their faith as oppressive: they

A common misconception has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is seen as the religion of l

For people in medieval England, the parish church was an integral part of their community. In Going

Written in Rome as a book with revelatory intentions, the early Christian work known as the Shepherd