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This book poses the question: How relevant is the concept of war today? Professor Andrew Clapham of
Uncovers what Christian seminaries taught about Islam in their formative years Throughout the ninete
Mick Brown’s The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West (Oxford UP, 2023) is a
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts have edited a new collection of essays, Creolizing Hannah Aren
It is a common assumption that in Israel, Jews have sovereignty, and in most other places where Jews
The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy (Ox
While scholars of ancient Mediterranean literature have focused their efforts heavily on explaining
In Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism (U Wisconsin Press, 2025), K
Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, t
For centuries before its "rebirth" as a spoken language, Hebrew writing was like a magical ship in a
Shallow and quickly outdated Christian worship practices have left many searching for something with
Our ability to find meaning in things is one of the most important aspects of human life. But it is
In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectu
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa (Harvard UP, 2023) is a revelatory new account of th
Constitutional Ratification Without Reason (Oxford UP, 2022) focuses on constitutional ratification,
Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitu
How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift a
Jana Byars talks to Ellen Arnold about Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Eur
White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages (Manchester University Press, 2024) by Dr. Wan-Chuan
In this conversation, we sit down with John D. Wilsey, Professor of Church History and Philosophy at
