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The Thomas Robbins Awards for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements was established in 2002 by the late Thomas Robbins to recognize outstanding articles published in Nova Religio.

UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from October and November 2021. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Lina BrittoPremios Nacionales Alejandro Ángel Esco

We’re proud to share that author Maria E. Doerfler has won the 2021 Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion for her book, Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity. In this interview with Doerfler, we take a deeper look at the

UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from September 2021. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr.15th Annual Hehdey

For this year's American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature virtual meeting, scholar Tony Keddie joined us to discuss his new book, Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels. In this conversation, Tony explains why this book is important for understanding today's

By John Renard, author of Crossing Confessional Boundaries: Exemplary Lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic TraditionsIn this short comment, author John Renard reflects on the cover of his book, Crossing Confessional Boundaries: Exemplary Lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions. Ran

By Amanda Lucia, author of White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational FestivalsAll-white powwows, reggae festivals, and blues festivals are relatively unthinkable in the US context. In contrast, yogic and transformational festivals draw predominantly white spiritual seekers into

Have a book project to pitch? Editor Eric Schmidt is taking appointments Dec. 2-8.

by Jordan D. Rosenblum, author of Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us About Rabbinic LiteratureA good textbook can be dry—so long as it’s dry like a nice red wine and not dry like a boring recitation of tax codes. With this caveat in mind, I endeavored to write the former, even when (admi

This guest post is published as part of our blog series related to the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion & Society for Biblical Literature November 23-26 in San Diego. #aarsbl19By Robin Globus Veldman, author of The Gospel of Climate Skepticism: Why Evangelical Christians O