History / History of Religion

The Dervishes of the North traces the legacy of the thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi, and examines contemporary Sufism in Canada.

This book offers a history of Mennonites from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire to the collapse of the USSR.

This volume makes available Marsilio Ficino's polemical work De Christiana religione with introduction and notes.

The Persistence of the Sacred examines how Catholic religious practices endured over a century of conflict, revolution, and dramatic social upheaval.

Transforming Dentistry traces the rise and near demise of the dentistry program at Western University.

Between Orders and Heresy suggests new ways of thinking about the modes of religious life that characterized the medieval religious experience.

God Made Word is an interdisciplinary study of mystic language across multiple genres and institutional contexts in early modern Spain.

The Rebirth of Revelation explores the different and important ways religious thinkers across Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism modernized the concept of revelation from 1750 to 1850.

Drawing upon the experiences of Scottish and Irish Catholics in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Newfoundland, and Trinidad, Empire and Emancipation sheds important new light on the complex relationship between Catholicism and the British Empire.

This book delves into over one hundred years of history of the Religieuses de Notre Dame des Missions (RNDM) / Our Lady of the Missions as they moved from ultramontanism to eco-spirituality and a focus on women and social justice.

Persons and Other Things looks closely at the Bible as a philosophical work, asking insightful questions about how to interpret the Hebrew Bible, what it means to be Jewish, and how to live a meaningful and moral life.

This book explores early modern debates over prayer and liturgy from Anglican and Puritan perspectives, highlighting the poetic representation of prayer on both sides of the controversy.

A history of German Protestant missionaries, Heavenly Fatherland investigates the theological, cultural, and political activities of missionaries and their allies in Germany and the German colonial empire before World War I.

European Mennonites and the Holocaust is one of the first books to examine Mennonite involvement in the Holocaust, sometimes as rescuers but more often as killers, accomplices, beneficiaries, and bystanders.

Illness and Authority is the first monograph-length study to examine a well-known medieval saint from the perspective of disability studies.

Through well-chosen excerpts from Erasmus’ writings, this book provides a clear picture of his extensive work on the New Testament.