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The Ethnography of Tantra: Textures and Contexts of Living Tantric Traditions (2023)

Edited by Carola E. Lorea & Rohit Singh This is the first collection of essays to approach the topic of Tantric Studies […]


Blood Theology: Seeing Red in Body- and God-Talk (May 31, 2021)

Eugene F. Rogers Jr. The unsettling language of blood has been invoked throughout the history of Christianity. But until now […]


Elements of Christian Thought: A Basic Course in Christianese (May 25, 2021)

Eugene F. Rogers Jr. In the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted classrooms around the world, teachers scrambled […]


Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima (2020)

Alyssa Gabbay In Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima, Alyssa […]


Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries (2017)

Derek Krueger, Editor Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries forges a new conversation about the diversity […]


The New Testament in Byzantium (2017)

Derek Krueger, Editor The New Testament lay at the center of Byzantine Christian thought and practice. But codices and rolls […]


Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity (2016)

Ellen Haskell The thirteenth-century Jewish mystical classic Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Splendor), commonly known as the Zohar, took shape […]


Cyber Zen: Imagining Authentic Buddhist Identity, Community and Practices in the Virtual World of Second Life (2016)

Gregory Grieve Cyber Zen ethnographically explores Buddhist practices in the online virtual world of Second Life. Does typing at a […]


Playing with Religion in Digital Games (2014)

Gregory Grieve Shaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. From the Shinto-inspired Japanese video game […]


Liturgical Subjects: Christian Ritual, Biblical Narrative, and the Formation of the Self in Byzantium (2014)

Derek Krueger Liturgical Subjects examines the history of the self in the Byzantine Empire, challenging narratives of Christian subjectivity that […]