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Wayne Kalayjian

Saving Michelangelo's Dome

In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter’s Basilica—designed by Michelangelo—cracks and threatens to collapse, Pope Benedict XIV summons three mathematicians whose groundbreaking ideas spark a revo…

Paul Rorem

Singing Church History

Christianity is a "singing church" with biblical foundations and centuries of examples in Psalms and canticles, hymns, and gospel songs. Rorem brings history to life through engaging tales of the stories …

John Foxe

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

A frenzied account of the persecution of Protestants in Europe in the 16th century, and one of the most famous pieces of propaganda ever written There are few more potent books than Foxe's Book of Martyr…

Oliver Smith

On This Holy Island

A lyrical and insightful narrative that presents a new approach to the idea of pilgrimage, traversing paths both ancient and modern. Retracing sacred travel made across time, from murmurs of ritual journ…

Government Issue

Complete History Volume 1

Deborah Fripp, Violet Neff-Helms

Moment of Witness

A complete script script for a thoughtful and powerful Holocaust remembrance commemoration, designed specifically for secular and  interfaith groups.

John Dadosky

The Wisdom of Order

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Bernard Lonergan’s Method in Theology, this book presents a concise summary and commentary of Lonergan’s groundbreaking work.

Kathryn Gin Lum

Heathen

American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated "heathen world" held together by its need of assistance. This religious notion shaped American racial governance and undergirds Amer…

Nicholas Spencer

Magisteria

Most things you ?know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. The true history of science and religion i…

Alun Williams

Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain

This book presents an original perspective on the variety and intensity of biblical narrative and rhetoric in the evolution of history writing in León-Castile during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. …

Hartley Lachter

Kabbalah and Catastrophe

"While premodern kabbalistic texts were not chronicles of historical events, they provided elaborate models for understanding the secret divine plan guiding human affairs. Hartley Lachter analyzes innovat…

A New Song We Now Begin

We tend to remember hymns one at a time. We forget that the reason we can do so is because they have been made available throughout the centuries in hymnals. This edited collection explores the 500-year t…

Michael Horton

Shaman and Sage

"The first volume of Michael Horton's magisterial intellectual history of "spiritual but not religious" as a phenomenon in Western culture. Discussions of the rapidly increasing number of people identifyi…

Huston Smith

Forgotten Truth

This classic companion to The World's Religions articulates the remarkable unity that underlies the world's religious traditions

Thomas S Bremer

Sacred Wonderland

Sacred Wonderland explores the historical role of religion in making Yellowstone National Park a meaningful American icon.

Temporal Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion

Explores semantics across diverse religious, spiritual, cosmological, and historical views of time shape personal and collective understandings of the past through alternative historicities.

Karine Rashkovsky

An Improbable Life

An Improbable Life recounts Rashkovsky's father's childhood as a Jew in the post-World War II Soviet Union facing totalitarian oppression, deep poverty, petty harassment, discrimination, service in the Re…

Karine Rashkovsky

An Improbable Life

An Improbable Life recounts Rashkovsky's father's childhood as a Jew in the post-World War II Soviet Union facing totalitarian oppression, deep poverty, petty harassment, discrimination, service in the Re…

Ayla Lepine

Medieval Metropolis

Exploring the stories behind a range of iconic American and British buildings from the turn of the twentieth century, Medieval Metropolis is the first book to reveal how the modern architectural world thr…