Religion & Spirituality

In August 1999, Georgetown University became the first American university to hire a full-time Muslim chaplain. Imam Yahya Hendi works with students of all faith traditions and teaches a…

Gerald J. Beyer’s Just Universities discusses ways that U.S. Catholic institutions of higher education have embodied or failed to embody Catholic social teaching in their campus policies…

Through an exploration of film, drama, fiction, performance art, graphic novels, and philosophical discourse, this volume considers how artists grapple with questions of representation, as they ask whether…

An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation provides a much-needed introduction to womanist approaches to biblical interpretation. It argues that womanist biblical interpretation is not simply a byproduct of…

The “Good Death” had its roots in the Middle Ages with the “ars moriendi” or “art of dying”. “The Narrative of the Good Death” analyses more than 1200…

Was religion a friend or foe in the post-conflict statebuilding endeavours of Iraq and Afghanistan? Religious institutions are important non-state actors that wield considerable influence and can draw upon…

Edward Gibbon once attributed to the rise of Christianity in Rome to the group’s “intolerant zeal.” This book, already being praised by scholars, offers a new, radically different perspective…

Finite Transcendence: Existential Exile and the Myth of Home argues the universality of the realization of finitude in the experience of exile, positing “faith” and “exile” as fundamental…

Just as often as superheroes journey into the afterlife, they also return from it. Their surprising immortality has created its own set of storytelling rules and expectations; it…

A portrait of daily life during the “Fall of Rome,” told from the harbor town at Ostia. Cambridge University Press (2013) View book listing >…