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The recipient of the Western History Association's 2025 Arrington-Prucha Prize recognizing the best article on American western religious history tells us about his research into evangelical Christian nightclubs.

Hagiography Society Article Prize-winner Dina Boero tells us about “stylites,” Christian saints who lived for years and even decades on top of columns.

"Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture" author Lucy O'Sullivan answers questions about her ALAA-acknowledged article on "Martyrdom in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."

Meet David Feltmate, editor of the "Journal of Religion and Popular Culture," which is now published by UC Press.

UC Press has great news to share about FirstGen program growth and seeks your support for its continued success. Here’s how our program has benefitted first-gen authors so far.

"Golden States" author Eileen Luhr writes about her new book and how it ties into the current climate.

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos incoming editor is interested in continuing the journal's foundational mission, while finding new ways to increase MSEM’s visibility throughout Mexico and to intensify interdisciplinary dialogue within the pages of MSEM.

Author Kevin Lewis O'Neill discusses his new book "Unforgivable," the first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders.

The rise of the Sikh community from relative obscurity to political imperial prominence is a fascinating yet often overlooked story in the West, with lessons for contemporary geopolitical debates.

Read an excerpt from "Beyond the Binary," an exploration of early Hanafi legal thought that reveals early Muslim jurists imagined a world built not on a binary distinction between male and female but on multiple intersecting hierarchies of gender, age, enslavement, lineage, class, and other social roles.