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Book cover image for God The Bestseller - How One Editor Transformed American Religion A Book At A Time. By Stephen Prothero, New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy. Book cover image of Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism by Teena U. Purohit Book cover image for Pastoral Care and Community in Late Medieval Germany: Albert of Diessen's Mirror of Priests. Authored by Deeana Copeland Klepper Book cover image for Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism. Authored by April D. Hughes
Cover image for The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion. Edited by Yair Lior and Justin Lane Cover image for The Middle Maccabees: Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom. In the Archaeology and Biblical Studies series. Edited by Andrea M. Berlin and Paul J. Kosmin. Cover image for Moses and Abraham Maimonides: Encountering the Divine. Part of the Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah series. Authored by Diana Lobel Cover image for The New Jewish Annotated Apocrypha: New Standard Revised Edition. Edited by Jonathan Klawans and Lawrence W. Mills.
Cover image for Religion Matters: An Introduction to the World's Religions. Authored by Stephen Prothero Book cover image for the Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World series. Edited by David Frankfurter. Book cover image for Spear-Won Land: Saradis, from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea. Co-edited by Andrea M. Berlin and Paul J. Kosmin. Book cover image for Heresy, Forgery, Novelty: Condemning, Denying, and Asserting Innovation in Ancient Judaism. Authored by Jonathan Klawans.
Book cover image for SOuth ASian FOlklore in Transition: Crafting New Horizons. In the Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series. Co-edited by Frank J. Korom and Leah K. Lowthorp. Book cover image for How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor. Authored by Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller Book cover image for the Kelsey Museum of the UNiversity of Michigan and the museum of Art and Archaeology of the University of Missouri-Columbia. Tel Anafa II, iii: Decorative Wall Plaster, Objexts of Personal Admornment and Glass Counters, Tools for Textile Manufacture and Miscellaneous Bone, Terracotta and Stone Figurines, Pre-Persian Pottery, Attic Pottery, and Medieval Pottery. Co-edited by Andrea M. Berlin and Sharon C. Herbert.. Book cover image for Philosophies of Happiness: A Comparative Introduction to the Flourishing Life. Authored by Diana Lobel
Book cover image of Human in Death: Morality and Mortality in J.D. Robb's Novels. Authored by Kecia Ali Book cover image for Spiritual and Social Transformation in African American Spiritual Churches: More than Conjurers. In the Routledge Studies in Religion series. Authored by Margarita Simon Guillory Book cover image for Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity. Authored by David Frankfurter. Book cover image for Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence. Expanded and Revised Edition. Authored by Kecia Ali
Book cover image for Dignaga's Investigation of the Percept: A Philosophical Legacy in India and Tibet. Edited by Douglas Duckworth, Malcolm David Eckel, Jay L. Garfield, John Powers, Yeshes Thabkhas, and Sonam Thakchoe. Book cover image for Living with DifferenceL How to Build Community in a Divided World. Authored by Adam B. Seligman, Rahel R. Wasserfall, and David W. Montgomery.. Book cover image for Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even when They Lose Elections): The Battles That Define America from Jefferson's Heresies to Gay Marriage. Authored by Stephen Prothero, author of Religious Literacy. Book cover image for After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion. Authored by Anthony M. Petro.
Book cover image for The Lives of Muhammad. Authored by Kecia Ali. Book cover image for A Guide for Women in Religion: Making Your Way from A-Z. Revised Edition. Edited by Mary E. Hunt, Kecia Ali, and Monique Moultrie. Book cover image for Religious Education and the Challenge of Pluralism. Edited by Adam B. Seligman. Book cover image for Esotericism in African American Religion Experience. Edited by Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr.
Book cover image for Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives. Edited by Steven T. Katz and Alan Rosen. Book cover image for Comparative Mysticism: An Anthology of Original Sources. Edited by Steven T. Katz. Book cover image for The Anthropology of Performance: A Reader. Edited by Frank J. Korom. Book cover image for The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation. Authored by Stephen Prothero.
Book cover image for The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonia India. Authored by Teena Purohit. Book cover image for Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism. Authored by Jonathan Klawans. Book cover image for Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity. Authored by Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller. Book cover image for The Quest for God and the Good: World Philosophy as a Living Experience. Authored by Diana Lobel.
Book cover image for The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred-Year Retrospective on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Edited by Richard Landes and Steven T. Katz. Book cover image for Imam Shafi'i: Scholar and Saint. Makers of the Muslim World Series. Authored by Kecia Ali. Book cover image for Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam. Authored by Kecia Ali. Book cover image for God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World. Authored by Stephen Prothero, author of the New York Times Bestseller Religious Literacy