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Explore our groundbreaking books that facilitate teaching across disciplines. To request an exam copy, click on “Request an Exam or Desk Copy” on the book page, and this will take you to our distributor's site where you can order your copy.Religion in America by Lisa D. Pearce and Claire

Explore our groundbreaking books that facilitate teaching across disciplines. To request an exam copy, click on “Request an Exam or Desk Copy” on the book page, and this will take you to our distributor's site where you can order your copy.Valentinian Christianity: Texts and Translations

Nova Religio is pleased to announce the winners of the Seventeenth Annual Thomas Robbins Award for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements. The first prize has been awarded to Damon Berry for his article in vol. 23, no. 4 (May 2020), “Voting in the Kingdom: Prophecy Voters, the New Ap

Since its launch in early 2017, the online quarterly journal Studies in Late Antiquity has published ground-breaking and wide-ranging interdisciplinary research on the world of Late Antiquity (150-750 CE).Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, founding editor of Studies in Late Antiquity, joined UC Press Ac

For this year's American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature virtual meeting, scholar Tony Keddie joined us to discuss his new book, Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels. In this conversation, Tony explains why this book is important for understanding today's

By Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, author of Constantinople: Ritual, Violence, and Memory in the Making of a Christian Imperial CapitalRitualized occasions—holy days and holidays, funerals and weddings, graduations and retirements, conferences, protests, and elections—are crucial for communities.

By John Renard, author of Crossing Confessional Boundaries: Exemplary Lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic TraditionsIn this short comment, author John Renard reflects on the cover of his book, Crossing Confessional Boundaries: Exemplary Lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions. Ran

By Amanda Lucia, author of White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational FestivalsAll-white powwows, reggae festivals, and blues festivals are relatively unthinkable in the US context. In contrast, yogic and transformational festivals draw predominantly white spiritual seekers into

Have a book project to pitch? Editor Eric Schmidt is taking appointments Dec. 2-8.

by Jordan D. Rosenblum, author of Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us About Rabbinic LiteratureA good textbook can be dry—so long as it’s dry like a nice red wine and not dry like a boring recitation of tax codes. With this caveat in mind, I endeavored to write the former, even when (admi