Eastern Christian Books

I am greatly looking forward to reading this new study which will begin filling a very considerable gap in the literature on conversion: Pr...

Is it just me, or has Albania long been difficult to see as part of the Eastern Christian world? It seems about as obscure as, say, the Mold...

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, I have been moderately surprised at the level of commentary in the Western media about the role Orthodoxy play...

I do apologize for the silence on here the last few weeks. I was busy running my annual iconography camp and that is an exhausting period in...

I confess that the "culture wars" engrossing (truly the apt word in so many ways) so-called American Christianity, already so swol...

I have long watched the history and development of the Coptic tradition with great affection and interest. Tim Vivian, editor of this new bo...

As I have noted on here over the years, and in public lectures about iconoclasm and iconographic history, all artwork is political, and some...

As noted earlier in the week, interest in all aspects of Byzantine art and its history remains high. Late next month another scholarly work ...

Interest in Byzantine iconography has seemed to remain constant for a decade and more now. Later this year we will have a new book form a do...

Freshly released last week from the world's oldest and most prestigious academic press is  The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagi...

The older I get the more I realize that too much Christian hagiography, and more generally treatment of pre-Christian history, in whatever c...

I have to think that one trick of maintaining a profitable press in these days is to slap the word "Byzantine" on something. Books...

It always cheers the heart to see that increasingly scholars studying disciplines they label "politics" realize that things labell...

Ethiopian Orthodox Christians are noteworthy and unique for many things, not least their vibrant iconography on which I commented  here . Th...

This book won't be out until December, and it's a Festschrift--the mileage of which always varies--but still it looks both interesti...

Ottoman imperial history remains utterly fascinating to me, though my interests tend to focus on the sunset of empire rather than, as with t...

When a young boy more than a decade ago my oldest son was fascinated with the concept that a man could live atop a pillar. So I have always ...

The Christian East has abounded in images, and celebrates them annually on more than one occasion. But what is an icon exactly? What does it...

The hardback having been out for nearly two years, a more affordable paperback version is coming later this year of Anne P. Alwis,  Narratin...

In the dozen years this wee blog has been going, there has never been a year, I don't think, without one or more significant publication...

If you don't know the works of Marcus Plested, you need to remedy that immediately. I've interviewed him on here and discussed some...

I have watched, even in my own short lifetime, how Christian theology has recovered a sense of the ecological and its importance. In 1991 at...

Not a week ago were my students insistently asking me everything I knew about the role of the evil eye in Greek Orthodox culture. I am now i...

With so much attention justifiably focused on the complete surrender of Russian Orthodoxy to Russian nationalism and its wars of aggression,...

Why is anyone a nationalist in any context, at any point, and in and for any nation-state ("that most dangerous and unmanageable of ins...