
The Tiger (2018)
Movie
A practicing Sikh is banned by the boxing commission for refusing to back down from his religious...
Food Cults: How Fads, Dogma, and Doctrine Influence Diet
Book
What do we mean when we call any group a cult? Defining that term is a slippery proposition - the...

Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life
Book
Throughout his long and turbulent career as an Indian leader, first in South Africa and then in...

Epistemic Authority: A Theory of Trust, Authority, and Autonomy in Belief
Book
In this book Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski gives an extended argument that the self-reflective person is...

Homa Variations: The Study of Ritual Change Across the Longue Duree
Richard K. Payne and Michael Witzel
Book
The practice of making votive offerings into fire dates from the earliest periods of human history,...

Household Gods - Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome
Book
Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides...
Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam
Michael Frishkopf, Federico Spinetti and Ali Asani
Book
Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary...

Popular Catholicism in 20th-Century Ireland: Locality, Identity and Culture
Book
For much of the 20th century, Catholics in Ireland spent significant amounts of time engaged in...

Real and Imagined
Book
During the Heian period (794-1185), the sacred mountain Kinpusen, literally the "Peak of Gold," came...

Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe
Book
The visible increase in religious practice among young European-born Muslims has provoked public...