UC Press Award-Winning Authors
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The Latest Books in our World Literature in Translation Collection
A stunning collection of classics from around the world, read around the world. The World Literature in Translation program aims to represent a truly inclusive and expansive view of literature from around …
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What Ancient Polytheism Offers Our Society Today
Maurizio Bettini’s In Praise of Polytheism is a thought-provoking new book on what ancient polytheistic religions can teach us about building inclusive and equitable futures. At the heart of this book is …
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The Holy Vote
Sarah Diefendorf
Needle at the Bottom of the Sea
Tony K. Stewart
The New Crusades
Khaled A. Beydoun
The Consuming Fire
Liane Feldman
Fractured Tablets
Mira Balberg
Placing Islam
Timur Warner Hammond
An Afterlife for the Khan
Jonathan Z. Brack
When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven
Rafael Rachel Neis
A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean
Lia Brozgal, Lia Brozgal, Rebecca Glasberg, Leïla Sebbar
Love and Despair
Jaime M. PensadoRecommended for Courses
Augustine of Hippo
Peter Brown
Judaisms
Aaron J. Hahn Tapper
Terror in the Mind of God, Fourth Edition
Mark Juergensmeyer
Sufism and Taoism
Toshihiko Izutsu
Religion and Popular Culture in America, Third Edition
Bruce David Forbes, Jeffrey H. Mahan
Habits of the Heart, With a New Preface
Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler
Invitation to Syriac Christianity
Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shepardson, Charles M. Stang
Dark Green Religion
Bron Taylor
A Culture of Conspiracy
Michael Barkun
American Islamophobia
Khaled A. BeydounJournals
Luminos Open Access Titles
When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven
Rafael Rachel Neis
A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean
Lia Brozgal, Lia Brozgal, Rebecca Glasberg, Leïla Sebbar
Placing Islam
Timur Warner Hammond
Fractured Tablets
Mira Balberg
Merchants of Virtue
Divya Cherian
Spiritual Ends
Timothy O. Benedict
Creating the Qur’an
Stephen J. Shoemaker
Palimpsests of Themselves
Asad Q. Ahmed