A resource for a burgeoning interdisciplinary field dealing with the early church and late antiquity.

A seasoned journalist guides us through the passions surrounding Jerusalem's sacred Temple Mount and their potentially dangerous impact on the world

An eye-opening look at the spiritual vacuum that underlies the contemporary American loss of meaning and moral purpose

This comprehensive and engaging introduction to the anthropology of religion offers a rich and balanced collection of classic and recent readings by authors from diverse ethnic and national backgrounds.

In Making Magic , Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that this persistence can best be explained in light of the Western drive to establish and secure distinctive norms for modern identity, norms based on narrow forms of instrumental rationality, industrious labor, rigidly defined sexual roles, and the containment of wayward forms of desire.