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We often think of reason as a fixed entity, as a definitive body of facts that do not change over ti
The history of early modern biblical scholarship has often been told as a teleological narrative in
Although Japan was never conquered by the Mongol empire, the 1274 and 1281 Mongol invasions were com
In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal (Duke UP, 2024), T
The work of St. Bartholomew of Braga, O.P. (1514-1590) appears here in English for the first time de
From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory sha
Star. Stjarna. Setareh. Thousands of miles apart, humans look up at the night sky and use the same w
Today, human exceptionalism is the norm. Despite occasional nods to animal welfare, we prioritize hu
Liberalism is in trouble. As a set of ideas, it has lost much of its historical authority in guiding
What does Islam, particularly Shīʿī Islam, really say about same-sex sexual relations? Can Islamic l
In Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity (Duke UP, 2025), Franck Billé examine
Reconciliation between Europe's Protestants and Catholics led to a new era of Christian collaboratio
Christopher Harding’s The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East (Allen Lane,
Political Theorist Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge) has a fascinating new
In The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm (Cambridge UP, 2020), Shushma Malik recon
In Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937 (Cambridge University Press
What does transphobic oppression have to do with sexism, heterosexism, and racism? How does a decolo
Quran Commentary and the Biblical Turn (de Gruyter, 2024) examines the exegetical relationship betwe
The city was one of the central and defining features of the world of the Greek and Roman Mediterran
The 60s produced a Baby Boom generation that catalyzed the dawn of a new era—the space age, the age
