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 Christianity
What do you do when you get sick? What do you do when you are afraid? The COVID-19 pandemic required man...
By Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, author of Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North Africa
When I first encountered the fascinating Moroccan polymath Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (c. 1569 – c.1640), I realized how the many threads of his life and career formulated ...
Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteen...
Below, author Rafael Rachel Neis provides a comic on When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species, a provocative and trailblazing work in the study of rabbinic literature.
Through an original analysis of creaturely generation and species classificatio...
In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, talking with hundreds of incarcerated women, staff, and volunteers. Through their s...
Many readers may not think of the American West as a particularly religious place. What do we gain by paying attention to the role of religion in its history?
It is true that the topic of religion rarely comes up in standard narratives of U.S. western history (Of course there a few ...
Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE) is a new sourcebook that provides an expansive picture of medical and healing practices in ancient Greece and Rome for students and readers interested in the rich history of health and healthcare. We sat down with...
The Bengali stories in this collection are first and foremost tales of survival. Each story in Needle at the Bottom of the Sea underscores the need for people to work together—not just to overcome the challenges of living in the Sundarban swamps of Bengal, but also to ease hostilities ...
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our January 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
Jarrod Hore
2022 Donna Coates Prize Winner Australian, Canadian, and Ne...
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners December 2022. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
Daniel Caner
2023 Phillip Schaff Prize The Photography Network A...