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The Intersection of Therapeutic and Spiritual Practices
Mar 30 2025
"Golden States" author Eileen Luhr writes about her new book and how it ties into the current climate.
Meet the New Editor of "Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos": Matthew Butler
Feb 28 2025
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.
Q&A with Kevin Lewis O'Neill, author of "Unforgivable"
Feb 25 2025
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.
How to Politicize a People: A Case Study of the Sikh Community
Dec 05 2024
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.
"Beyond the Binary" reveals early Muslim jurists' ideas of gender
Nov 20 2024
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.
Sacred Activism: Muslim Women’s Quest for Gender Justice
Oct 31 2024
In a time when essentialist narratives are all too often imposed, "Women, Faith, and Family" challenges the dominant understanding of women’s rights in Muslim societies, recognizing faith-based activism as a powerful force in shaping gender discourse.
UC Press Welcomes the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Oct 30 2024
The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture will be published by UC Press beginning in Spring 2025.
How California’s Dr. Bronner’s Spiritual Messaging Became a Global Brand
Oct 23 2024
Many of us are now familiar with Dr. Bronner’s. Yet behind this now popular brand lays a larger story of California as an important site for reconceptualizing communities of belief and belonging.
Interview with Emrah Yildiz, author of "Zainab's Traffic"
Oct 16 2024
Emrah Yıldız discusses the values—religious, political, economic, or social—behind the eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to the Sayyida Zainab shrine.
Understanding Christianity Through Magical Objects
May 22 2024
Ritual Boundaries is part of the Christianity in Late Antiquity Series.By Joseph E. Sanzo, author of Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique ChristianityWhat do you do when you get sick? What do you do when you are afraid?