[Cross-posted from New Books in Islamic Studies] There are few concepts commonly associated with Islam and Muslims today that evoke more anxiety, phobia, and paranoia…

[Cross-posted from New Books in Christian Studies] Liberal Protestants are often dismissed as reflecting nothing more than a therapeutic culture or viewed as a measuring…

[Cross-posted from New Books in Christian Studies] “In no other instance,” notes Yaacov Ariel, professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,…

[Cross-posted from New Books in Christian Studies] In theory, Christian missionaries plan only on working in a country until an indigenous leadership can take over…

[Cross-posted from New Books in History]  If you look up the word “secular” in just about about any English-language dictionary, you’ll find that the…