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Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victor
Marx’s Capital looms large today, a century and a half after first publication, a massive tome that
In 1903, the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America revised the Westminster Confession
Comparing Husserl’s Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World: A Journey Beyond Or
The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete st
In Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Harvard University Press, 2022
Many people made the European Enlightenment, but probably nobody better represents the movement’s sp
David Newheiser is a senior research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Au
In Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy (Penn State University Press, 2021) a provoca
The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism: The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal (Bloomsbury,
Visions of utopia – some hopeful, others fearful – have become increasingly prevalent in recent time
Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World (Edinburgh UP, 2022) examines ideas, beli
Jane Stevenson’s newest book, Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period (Brill, 2022), tracks the h
Those of us living today generally think of ourselves as modern, that we live in modern times, and t
Autumn Womack is a professor of English and of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her
Ayelet Zohar’s The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan: (De)Colonialism, Orientalism, and Imag
In The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth (Oxford University Press, 2022
In October 1981, Hans Magnus Enzensberger gave the Institute’s James lecture, titled “Second Thought
Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik: The Map and the Territory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is about Primo Levi
Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar per
