Further information on all the British Museum objects is available on the British Museum website (www.britishmuseum.org) and these bibliographies are regularly updated. Only literature in English is listed here. Comprehensive bibliographies will be found in the books listed for the individual chapters and in the Oxford Handbooks of Ancient Greek Religion (eds. Esther Eidinow and Julia Kindt, 2015), The Archaeology of Ritual and Religion (ed. Timothy Insoll, 2011), Contemporary Buddhism (ed. Michael Jerryson, 2016), Indian Philosophy (ed. Jonardon Ganeri, 2017), Islamic Theology (ed. Sabine Schmidtke, 2016), Jewish Studies (ed. Martin Goodman, 2002) and Medieval Christianity (ed. John H. Arnold, 2014).
Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A Short History, 2000.
Beard, Mary, John North and Simon Price. Religions of Rome, 1998
Fisher, Mary Pat. Living Religions, 2011
Goodman, Martin. A History of Judaism, 2017
Gray, John. Seven Kinds of Atheism, 2018
Grayling, A. C. The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism, 2013
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, 2009
McLeod, Hew. Sikhism, 1997
Neuberger, Julia. On Being Jewish, 1995
Pattanaik, Devdutt. Myth=Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology, 2014
Praet, Istvan, ed. Animism and the Question of Life, 2014
Quirke, Stephen. Ancient Egyptian Religion, 1992
Sengupta, Arputha Rani. Buddhist Art and Culture: Symbols and Significance, 2013
Woodhead, Linda, and Andrew Brown. That Was the Church That Was: How the Church of England Lost the English People, 2017
Woodhead, Linda, and Rebecca Catto, eds. Religion and Change in Modern Britain, 2012
Cook, Jill. Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind, 2013
Gamble, Clive. Settling the Earth: The Archaeology of Deep Human History, 2013
Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 2014
Wehrberger, Kurt, ed. The Return of the Lion Man: History, Myth, Magic, 2013
Kaliff, Anders. ‘Fire’, in Insoll, ed. Ritual and Religion, 51–62
Pyne, Stephen J. Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe’s Encounter with the World, 1997
Stewart, Sarah, ed. The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination, 2013
Wildfang, Robin Lorsch. Rome’s Vestal Virgins: A Study of Rome’s Vestal Priestesses in the Late Republic and Early Empire, 2006
Darian, Steven G. The Ganges in Myth and History, 1978
Eck, Diana L. Banaras: City of Light, 1982
Eck, Diana L. India: A Sacred Geography, 2012
Fagan, Brian. Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind, 2011
Reinhart, A. Kevin. ‘Impurity/No Danger’, History of Religions 30:1 (1990), 1–24
Dowd, Marion, and Robert Hensey, eds. The Archaeology of Darkness, 2016
Hensey, Robert. First Light: The Origins of Newgrange, 2015
Kirkland, Russell. ‘The Sun and the Throne: The Origins of the Royal Descent Myth in Ancient Japan’, Numen 44:2 (1997), 109–52
Stout, Geraldine, and Matthew Stout. Newgrange, 2008
King, J. C. H. First Peoples, First Contacts: Native Peoples of North America, 1999
Laugrand, Frédéric, and Jarich Oosten. Hunters, Predators and Prey: Inuit Perceptions of Animals, 2015
Lincoln, Amber, with John Goodwin et al. Living with Old Things: Inupiaq Stories, Bering Strait Histories, 2010
Mojsov, Bojana. Osiris: Death and Afterlife of a God, 2005
Taylor, John. Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, 2001
Besom, Thomas. Of Summits and Sacrifice: An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices, 2009
Isbell, William H. Mummies and Mortuary Monuments: A Postprocessual Prehistory of Central Andean Social Organization, 1997
Ruitenbeek, Klaas, ed. Faces of China: Portrait Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 2017
Scott, Janet Lee. For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings, 2007
Stuart, Jan, and Evelyn S. Rawski. Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits, 2001
Dresvina, Juliana. A Maid with a Dragon: The Cult of St Margaret of Antioch in Medieval England, 2016
Reader, Ian, and George J. Tanabe, Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion of Japan, 1998
Bolton, Lissant. ‘Teaching the Next Generation: A Lock of Hair from Tanna’, in L. Bolton et al, Melanesia: Art and Encounter, 2013, 285–6
Eis, Ruth. Torah Binders of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, 1979
van Gennep, Arnold. The Rites of Passage, trans. Monkia B. Vizedom and Gabrielle L. Caffee, 1960
Grimes, Ronald L. Deeply into the Bone: Re-Inventing Rites of Passage, 2002
Shaw, Sarah. The Spirit of Buddhist Meditation, 2014
Sperber, Daniel. The Jewish Life Cycle: Custom, Lore and Iconography, 2008
Ettinghausen, Richard, ed. Prayer Rugs, 1974
Mauss, Marcel. On Prayer, trans. W. S. F. Pickering and Howard Morphy, 2003
Winston-Allen, Anne. Stories of the Rose: The Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages, 1997
Butt, John. The Cambridge Companion to Bach, 1997
Gardiner, John Eliot. Music in the Castle of Heaven, 2013
Joseph, Jordania. Choral Singing in Human Culture and Evolution, 2015
Troeger, Thomas H. Music as Prayer: The Theology and Practice of Church Music, 2013
Wild, Beate. ‘Fur Within, Flowers Without: A Transylvanian Fur Coat Worn to Church’, in eds. Elisabeth Tietmeyer and Irene Ziehe. Discover Europe!, 2008, 26–34
Cohen, Michael, ed. Sacred Gardens and Landscape: Ritual and Agency, 2007
Luckert, Karl W. Stone Age Religion at Göbekli Tepe: From Hunting to Domestication, Warfare and Civilization, 2013
McNeill, William H. Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History, 1997
Morris, Colin. The Sepulchre of Christ and the Medieval West: From the Beginning to 1600, 2005
Rey, Sébastien. For the Gods of Girsu: City-State Formation in Ancient Sumer, 2016
Suter, Claudia E. Gudea’s Temple Building: The Representation of an Early Mesopotamian Ruler in Text and Image, 2000
Cooper, Jago. Lost Kingdoms of South America, BBC 4, 2014
Harris, Diane. The Treasures of the Parthenon and Erechtheion, 1995
Llonch, Elisenda Vila. Beyond El Dorado: Power and Gold in Ancient Colombia, 2013
Whitmarsh, Tim. Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, 2016
Bremmer, Jan N., ed. The Strange World of Human Sacrifice, 2007
Burkert, Walter. Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, trans. Peter Bing, 1983
Cooper, Jago. The Inca: Masters of the Clouds, BBC 4, 2015
Girard, René. Violence and the Sacred, trans. Patrick Gregory, 1977
James, E. O. Sacrifice and Sacrament, 1962
McClymond, Kathryn. Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice, 2008
McEwan, Colin, and Leonardo López Luján. Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler, 2009
Naiden, Fred. ‘Sacrifice’, in Eidinow and Kindt, eds. Ancient Greek Religion, 463–76
Duffy, Eamon. The Heart in Pilgrimage: A Prayerbook for Catholic Christians, 2014
Porter, Venetia, ed. Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, 2012
Spencer, Brian. Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges, 2017
Sumption, Jonathan. Pilgrimage: An Image of Medieval Religion, 1975
Webb, Diana. Pilgrimage in Medieval England, 2000
Falassi, Alessandro, ed. Time Out of Time: Essays on the Festival, 1987
Leach, Edmund. ‘Time and False Noses’, in The Essential Edmund Leach I: Anthropology and Society, eds. Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw, 2000, 182–5
Restad, Penne L. Christmas in America: A History, 1996
Whiteley, Sheila, ed. Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture, 2008
Brading, D. A. Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe, 2001
Budin, Stephanie. Artemis, 2015
MacLean Rogers, Guy. The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos: Cult, Polis, and Change in the Graeco-Roman World, 2013
Rietveld, James D. Artemis of the Ephesians: Mystery, Magic and Her Sacred Landscape, 2014
Warner, Marina. Alone of All Her Sex: Cult of the Virgin Mary, 1976
Banerjee, Sudeshna. Durga Puja: Celebrating the Goddess, 2006
Bobrov, Yury. A Catalogue of the Russian Icons in the British Museum, ed. Chris Entwistle, 2008
Cormack, Robin. Icons, 2007
Guha-Thakurta, Tapati. In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata, 2015
Khilnani, Sunil. The Idea of India, 1997
Williams, Rowan. The Dwelling of the Light: Praying with Icons of Christ, 2003
Lewis-Williams, David, and Sam Challis. Deciphering Ancient Minds: The Mystery of San Bushman Rock Art, 2011
Perry, Grayson. The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, 2011
Smyers, Karen A. The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings of Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship, 1999
Armstrong, Karen. A History of God: From Abraham to the Present, 1999
Beguin, Giles. Buddhist Art: An Historical and Cultural Journey, 2009
Bynum, C. Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond, 2007
Diamond, Debra. Paths to Perfection: Buddhist Art at the Freer|Sackler, 2017
Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400–1580, 1992
MacGregor, Neil, with Erika Langmuir. Seeing Salvation: Images of Christ in Art, 2000
Al-Akiti, Afifi, and Joshua Hordern. ‘New Conversations in Islamic and Christian Thought’, Muslim World 106:2 (2016), 219–25
Freedberg, David. The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response, 1989
Kolrud, Kristine, and Marina Prusac, eds. Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Modernity, 2014
Neuberger, Julia. On Being Jewish, 1995
Noyes, James. The Politics of Iconoclasm: Religion, Violence and the Culture of Image-Breaking in Christianity and Islam, 2013
Porter, Venetia, and Heba Nayel Barakat, eds. Mightier than the Sword: Arabic Script, 2004
George, A. R. The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, 2003
Haeussler, Ralph, and Anthony King, eds. Celtic Religions in the Roman Period: Personal, Local, and Global, 2017
Henig, Martin. Religion in Roman Britain, 1984
Crouch, C. L., Jonathan Stökl and Anna Louise Zernecke, eds. Mediating Between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East, 2012
Hoffmeier, James K. Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism, 2015
Kemp, Barry. The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and its People, 2013
Mitchell, Stephen, and Peter Van Nuffelen, eds. One God: Pagan Monotheism in the Roman Empire, 2010
Bell, Michael Mayerfeld. ‘The Ghosts of Place’, Theory and Society 26:6 (1997), 813–36
Bolton, Lissant. ‘Dressing for Transition: Weddings, Clothing and Change in Vanuatu’, in Susanne Küechler and Graeme Were, eds. The Art of Clothing: A Pacific Experience, 2005, 19–32
Brody, A. M. Larrakitj: Kerry Stokes Collection, 2011
Terwiel, B. J. Monks and Magic: Revisiting a Classic Study of Religious Ceremonies in Thailand, 1975
Barnett, Michael. The Rastafari Movement: A North American and Caribbean Perspective, 2018
Binns, John. The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia: A History, 2016
Henry, William ‘Lez’. ‘Reggae, Rasta and the Role of the Deejay in the Black British Experience’, Contemporary British History 26:3 (2012), 355–73.
Lee, Hélène. First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism, trans. Lily Davis, 2003
Habib, Irfan, ed. Akbar and his India, 1997
Khan, Iqtidar Alam. ‘Akbar’s Personality Traits and World Outlook: A Critical Reappraisal’, Social Scientist 20:9/10 (1992), 16–30
Khera, Paramdip Kuar. Catalogue of Sikh Coins in the British Museum, 2011
Khilnani, Sunil. Incarnations: India in 50 Lives, 2016
Sen, Amartya. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity, 2006
Shani, Giorgio. Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age, 2008
Spear, Percival. A History of India II: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, 1965
Tully, Mark. India: The Road Ahead, 2012
Wink, André. Akbar, 2008
Barley, Nigel. The Art of Benin, 2010
Fagg, William. Divine Kingship in Africa, 1970
Loewe, Michael. Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China, 1994
Pines, Yuri. The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy, 2012
Plankensteiner, Barbara, ed. Benin Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria, 2007
Abdy, Richard, and Amelia Dowler. Coins and the Bible, 2013
Avni, Gideon and Guy D. Stiebel, eds. Roman Jerusalem: A New Old City, 2017
Goodman, Martin. Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations, 2007
Kramer, Robert S. Holy City on the Nile: Omdurman During the Mahdiyya, 1885–1898, 2010
Menahem, Mor. The Second Jewish Revolt: The Bar Kokhba War, 132–136 CE, 2016
Nicoll, Fergus. Sword of the Prophet: The Mahdi of Sudan and the Death of General Gordon, 2004
Sebag Montefiore, Simon. Jerusalem: The Biography, 2011
Boxer, C. R. The Christian Century in Japan 1549–1650, 1993
Chappell Lougee, Carolyn. Facing the Revocation: Huguenot Families, Faith, and the King’s Will, 2016
Clark, Tim, ed. Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave, 2017
Hesselink, Reiner H. The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560–1640, 2015
Sample Wilson, Christie. Beyond Belief: Surviving the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France, 2011
Tombs, Robert. France 1814–1914, 1996
Buck, Paul. ‘Revolution in Time’, British Museum Magazine, 2015
Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion, 2006
Grayling, A. C. The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism, 2013
Hosking, Geoffrey. The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within, 1993
Hosking, Geoffrey. Russia and the Russians: From Earliest Times to the Present, 2001
Maier, Hans. ‘Political Religion: A Concept and its Limitations’, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 8:1 (2007), 5–16
Pop, Virgiliu. ‘Space and Religion in Russia: Cosmonaut Worship to Orthodox Revival’, Astropolitics 7:2 (2009), 150–163
Shaw, Matthew. Time and the French Revolution: The Republican Calendar, 1789–Year XIV, 2011
Symth, Jonathan. Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being: The Search for a Republican Morality, 2016
Mehrotra, Rahul, and Felipe Vera, eds. Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity, 2015
Sopa, Geshe. ‘The Tibetan “Wheel of Life”: Iconography and Doxography’, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 7:1 (1984), 125–46