Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books
Screens are ubiquitous. From the screen on a mobile, to that on a tablet, or laptop, or desktop comp
“Conspiracy theories are neither the vile excrescence of puny minds nor the telltale symptom of a si
When did religion begin in South Asia? Many would argue that it was not until the colonial encounter
A colleague once told me that people in linguistics could be divided into two groups: sheep and snip
Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos are the authors of Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements
What is it to be the same person over time? The 17th-century British philosopher John Locke approach
After “Schindler’s List,” it became customary for my students, and I, to repeat the slogan “Never Ag
In Muslims in the Western Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2015), Sophia Rose Arjana explores a
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn‘s An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban/Al Qaeda M
In his new book Recasting the Region: Language, Culture, and Islam in Colonial Bengal (Oxford Univer
Daniel DiSalvo is the author ofGovernment against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences (O
In understanding a tradition what is the relationship between the ‘center’ and the ‘periphery’? How
Religious ritual has been a staple of anthropological study. In his latest monograph, Ritual Textual
Daniel Prosterman‘s new book Defining Democracy:Electoral Reform and the Struggle for Power in New Y
When a contemporary reader opens up their Bible they may be unaware of the long historical process t
In theory, Christian missionaries plan only on working in a country until an indigenous leadership c
Modern democracy is build around a collection of moral and political commitments. Among the most fa
Vahid Brown and Don Rassler‘s Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012 (Oxford University
Americans have a paradoxical relationship with cities, Steven Conn argues in his new book,Americans
Central Asia is one of the least studied and understood regions of the Eurasian landmass, conjuring
