Eastern Christian Books

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

Nationalism has long been a besetting problem within Eastern Christianity and attracts regular critical attention today, but it has roots th...

The role of Islam in Turkey has been changing since the turn of this century, after having changed a lot at the turn of the previous century...

My two books in ecclesiology both gave pride of place to the Armenian Church, so I always keep an eye out for new scholarship on Armenia a...

The office of the Roman papacy, of course, attracts huge attention, including from scholars. But the patriarchate of New Rome attracts consi...

The historical experiences of, and current realities lived by, Arabic Christians continue to fascinate me. Happily a new book further unfold...

I hope there are archives in heaven, and books too, for I do not think I will ever have the time in my remaining years on Earth to acquire t...

I shall greatly look forward to reading this forthcoming book in September upon its release for it sounds like just the sort of work I take ...

Knowing almost nothing about the latest Palestinian-Israeli conflict, I will say nothing beyond noting, as I have in the past on here, that ...

I previously posted a brief notice about this book,  Christians under the Crescent and Muslims under the Cross c.630 - 1923 by Luigi Berto ...

Paschalis Kitromilides, as you may find here , has written a considerable number of scholarly works largely treating the relationship betwee...

If I had lots of time and money, and the requisite languages, I have long wanted to go and spend endless amounts of time immersed in Ottoman...

When trying to dissuade some of my more gung-ho American students from their romanticized assumptions that political movements for reform al...

If you read my first book on the papacy , or my book last year on the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, then you will know (with more...

For a lecture I was to give in Europe in June (now postponed until next year for obvious reasons), I was asked to focus on the role of traum...

Though this recent publication focuses on 19th-century Protestants, there is a good deal of evidence that such essentializing orientalism li...

With the tender ministrations of Turkey in other countries and against other ethnic groups again in global headlines, this book, released ju...

Well do I recall reading biographies of David Lloyd George, as well as histories of the Great War and its aftermath, and hearing again how m...

Every semester when we talk about the Armenian (and Assyrian and Greek) genocide of 1915, my students are first fascinated and then appalled...

In 2015 I gave several lectures on the centenary of the genocidal massacres of Eastern Christians at Ottoman hands. The best-known of these ...