Religion in the Lands That Became America
A New History
ISBN: HB: 9780300221480,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
640 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
640 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
A sweeping retelling of American religious history, showing how religion has enhanced and hindered human flourishing from the Ice Age to the Information Age.
Until now, the standard narrative of American religious history has begun with English set...
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Crusader Criminals
The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land
ISBN: PB: 9780300284294,
ISBN: HB: 9780300276077,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
384 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 14 colour illus., 6 maps
384 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 14 colour illus., 6 maps
A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land.
The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieva...
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Buddhism and the Political
Organisation and Participation in the Theravada Moral Universe
ISBN: HB: 9781849048385,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Popular participation is one of the hallmarks of modern politics. So why have democracy and democratic norms generally failed to take root in the Theravada Buddhist countries of South and Southeast Asia? This book explores traditions of Buddhist po...
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Israelite Religion
From Tribal Beginnings to Scribal Legacy
ISBN: HB: 9780300248111,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
432 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
432 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A panoramic, thousand-year history of Israelite religion, from the Iron Age to the birth of Judaism, by a renowned biblical scholar.
From its Iron Age beginnings to its aftermath in the Roman period, Israelite religion went through significant chan...
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Broken Altars
Secularist Violence in Modern History
ISBN: HB: 9780300263619,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
296 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 14 black&white illus.
296 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 14 black&white illus.
A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth century.
A popular truism derived from the Enlightenment holds that violence is somehow inherent to religion, to which political...
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Little History of Religion
New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300283228,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
256 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
256 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A rich and inclusive history of belief, from humanity's earliest days to our own times.
Religion is distinctly human. We can't help wondering about where we come from and why we are here. Did some all-powerful being make the universe? When we die,...
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Spinoza
Freedom's Messiah
ISBN: PB: 9780300281866,
ISBN: HB: 9780300248920,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time.
Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632-1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by...
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Francis of Assisi
The Life of a Restless Saint
ISBN: HB: 9780300263800,
Yale University Press,
March 2025
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An award-winning historian reconstructs the life of Francis of Assisi, uncovering the man behind the myths.
One of the most famous figures in Christian history, Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226) was revered as a miracle worker during his life and qu...
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Abraham
The First Jew
ISBN: HB: 9780300266801,
Yale University Press,
March 2025
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history.
In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism's foundational figure, Anthony Julius offers an account of...
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Exclusionary West
Medieval Minorities and the Making of Modern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781787383159,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A timely study of the intrinsic connections between Western European nations and their non-Christian minorities in the age of state formation.
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are on the rise in twenty-first-century Europe, but these notions of the...
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