By Ian Henderson DouglasEdited by Gail Minault (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) and Christian W. Troll Abul Kalam Azad (1888-1958)–President of the Indian National Congress from 1939 to 1946, outspoken opponent of Jinnah and Partition, symbol of the Muslim will to coexist in a secular India, and scholar and intellectual–was one of modern India’s most important leaders. … Continued
Edited by Theodore A. Bergren (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) and Michael E. Stone An exciting development of recent years in the study of early Judaism and Christianity has been the growing recognition of the importance of the extra-biblical traditions for understanding these religious movements—apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Nag Hammadi Gnostic … Continued
By Jan Willem Drijvers (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) This volume deals with the episcopate of Cyril of Jerusalem (350 to 387). Its overall theme is the relationship between the city and its bishop and, in particular, Cyril’s efforts to promote Jerusalem as the Christian city par excellence, by employing Jerusalem’s religious symbols – the holy sites and … Continued
Edited by John Corrigan (NHC Fellow, 2014–15) The contributors to Feeling Religion analyze the historical and contemporary entwinement of emotion, religion, spirituality, and secularism. They show how attending to these entanglements transforms understandings of metaphysics, ethics, ritual, religious music and poetry, the environment, popular culture, and the secular while producing new angles from which to approach familiar … Continued
By Karin Schutjer (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) In Goethe and Judaism, Karin Schutjer examines the iconic German writer’s engagement with, and portrayal of, Judaism. Her premise is that Goethe’s conception of modernity—his apprehensions as well as his most affirmative vision concerning the trajectory of his age—is deeply entwined with his conception of Judaism. Schutjer argues that … Continued
By William J. Bouwsma (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1983–84; 1984–85) Calvinism has been widely credited–or blamed–for much that is thought to characterize the modern world: for capitalism and modern science, for secularization and democracy, for individualism and utilitarianism. But John Calvin the man has been largely ignored by historians; most of us, if we think of … Continued
Edited by Brenda Deen Schildgen (NHC Fellow, 2005–06), William S. Campbell, and Peter S. Hawkins This sixth volume of the Romans through History and Culture series consists of 14 contributions by North-American and European medievalists and Pauline scholars who discuss significant readings of Romans through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to the eve of the … Continued
By Stephen Murray (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) A historian of medieval art and architecture with a rich appreciation of literary studies, Stephen Murray brings all those fields to bear on a new approach to understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Plotting Gothic positions the rhetoric of the Gothic as a series of … Continued
Edited by Mark Csikszentmihalyi (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) and P. J. Ivanhoe Leading scholars examine religious and philosophical dimensions of the Chinese classic known as the Daodejing or Laozi. Renowned international scholars examine crucial issues surrounding the Laozi, the third century Chinese classic also known as the Daodejing in this indispensable volume. The work offers diverse interpretations, a wide range of scholarly … Continued
By Christopher Grasso (NHC Fellow, 2016–17) Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith shaped struggles over the place of religion in politics. It produced different visions of knowledge and education in an "enlightened" society. It fueled social reform in an era of economic transformation, territorial expansion, and … Continued