Religious Studies / History of Religion

This book examines how embodied, heterosexual, married sexual experiences were constructed for, and by, Canadian women in the postwar era.

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 volume presents the first transcription and edition of the thirteenth-century cartulary of Prémontré.

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

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

The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain.

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

This book examines the reception of medieval authors’ works in order to dispel the inaccurate and misleading prophetic reputations that have been attributed to them.

This pioneering comparative study of Spanish literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries represents key moments and figures of the English Reformation.

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.

Making the Bible French examines the Bible historiale, the most prolific and influential pre-Reformation French-language Bible.

All Things in Common explores the history of a Canadian utopian community, highlighting the roles of family, faith, and business pragmatism in its cohesion and longevity.

All Wonders in One Sight compares the portrayals of the Christ Child in the Nativity poems of the greatest names in seventeenth-century English lyric.

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.