RELIGION 2021-2022
New and Forthcoming Titles
CO LU M BIA UN IVERSI T Y P R ESS C U P. C O L U M B I A . E D U
Letter from the Religion Editor:
Dear friends, colleagues, authors, and scholars of religion and beyond—and a special hello to those attending AAR/SBL either in person or virtually: It’s the time of the year I’ve been waiting expectantly for: when we introduce our new titles for 2021–2022. Our catalog showcases so many new books in philosophy of religions, South and East Asian traditions, American religions, science, politics—all reflecting the innovative, field-transforming scholarship that we value. I’m especially enthusiastic about the three books featured on the opening page. I could not be more excited to offer you Jack Miles’ and Mark Taylor’s A Friendship in Twilight. Jack, as you know, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller God: A Biography and many other warmly received and successful books; Mark, as you also know, is one of today’s foremost philosophers of religion, author of many field-changing books, and a storied professor at Columbia. But even I did not know that they had been friends since their graduate-school days. When the pandemic hit, they took advantage of the lockdown to start a project they had wanted to do for years but never found the time for—to write a book together. Their conversations, in the form of letters written over the Covid year through the 2020 election and its aftermath, reflect deeply on matters of “ultimate concern,” as you would expect from two scholars of philosophical bent in the twilight of their careers and their lives during a time of medical, political, and environmental crisis. You will learn much, you will think hard about what life and inevitable mortality can mean, you will mourn. A Friendship in Twilight is a work of profound philosophical and literary intelligence that will change your life. Equally inspiring and life-changing, Columbia philosopher Michele Moody-Adams’s Making Space for Justice is a stunning exploration of the pivotal role played by movements in the major upheavals of our last American century, from the Progressives to Black Lives Matter. These movements, inspired by religious and moral belief and led by powerful, impassioned figures like Martin Luther King, Jr., irrevocably changed American law, culture, politics, and values regarding race, gender, class, and sexuality. Moody-Adams urges us to embrace their passion and vision as we seek justice and equality in our times and for everyone. The final book on the opening page is Josef Sorett’s The Sexual Politics of Black Churches. Josef, a leading scholar of Black religions and an editor of the new series Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past, Present, and Future, jointly sponsored by Howard and Columbia Universities, has collected the insights and insider knowledge of scholars, clergy, and congregation members to reveal for the first time the stark conflicts and disagreements about gender and power that are concealed under the inaccurate descriptor “the Black church” and propose new strategies for reconciliation. There are so many more exciting titles to explore—genre-bending, disciplinary borders-breaking, style-expanding—our authors are challenging conventions and reimagining what religious studies can be in every direction. They—and I—invite you to accompany them on their journeys of discovery, and to continue the dialogue. Wendy Lochner Publisher, Philosophy, Religion, Political Theory, Animal and Critical Life Studies
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RELIGION IN AMERICA
At The Sexual Politics of Black Churches
Religion in America...............................................3 Religion and Politics..............................................5
Edited by Josef Sorett
Religion and Science .............................................7
Buddhism ............................................................8
Hinduism ...........................................................12
Asian Religions ...................................................13
Theory and Philosophy of Religion .......................14 Christianity ........................................................18 Judaism .............................................................20
Islam ..................................................................21 Best of the Backlist .............................................24
Ordering Information .........................................25
Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to Wendy Lochner (wl2003@columbia.edu). For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our website: cup.columbia.edu. Most titles in this catalog published by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the press.
Leading writers reflect on how Black churches have participated in recent discussions about issues such as marriage equality, reproductive justice, and transgender visibility in American society. They consider the varied ways that Black people and groups negotiate the intersections of religion, race, gender, and sexuality across historical and contemporary settings. $35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18833-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19898-1 February 2022 280 pages
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Making Space for Justice
Titles published by Transcript Publishing, ibidem Press, Association for Asian Studies, and Jagiellonian University Press are available from Columbia only in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. To order titles from these publishers in other parts of the world, please contact each press directly.
Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope
Michele Moody-Adams
Michele Moody-Adams explores what social movements have shown about the nature of justice and what it takes to create space for justice in the world. She argues that these insights are critical to bridging the gap between discerning theory and effective practice—and should be transformative for political thought as well as for political activism. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20137-7 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20136-0 July 2022 312 pages
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RELIGION IN AMERICA
A Friendship in Twilight
Take Back What the Devil Stole
Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor
Onaje X. O. Woodbine
An African American Prophet’s Encounters in the Spirit World
Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life
Jack Miles and Mark Taylor have both in different ways brought religious and philosophical concerns into the wider world. Approaching the end of their careers as well as the end of their lives, they were prompted by the advent of a deadly pandemic amid worldwide political crises to discuss among other issues: Can philosophy help us intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually understand and accept our fundamental impermanence? $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20595-5 $110.00 / £92.00 cloth 978-0-231-20594-8 July 2022 400 pages
Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the “spirit realm.” Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the lived religion of the dispossessed. $30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-19716-8 2021 272 pages 10 illus.
The Future of Catholicism in America
Roman Catholicism in America
Edited by Patricia O’Connell Killen and Mark Silk
Chester Gillis
Second Edition
This volume considers Catholicism’s prospects at a pivotal moment. Contributors—scholars from sociology, theology, religious studies, and history—look at the church’s evolving institutional structure, its increasing ethnic diversity, and its changing public presence. $35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19149-4
Chester Gillis chronicles the history of American Catholics from the colonial era to the present, with an emphasis on changes and challenges in the contemporary church. This second edition of Roman Catholicism in America pays particular attention to the tumultuous past twenty years.
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2019 384 pages
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THE FUTURE OF RELIGION IN AMERICA
2020 416 pages 35 illus.
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RELIGION AND POLITICS
At Home and Abroad
Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion
The Politics of American Religion
Edited by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
How Popular Culture Can Defuse Intractable Differences Jeffrey Israel
Foreword by Martha C. Nussbaum CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE
At Home and Abroad bridges the divide in the study of American religion, law, and politics between domestic and international, bringing together diverse authors to explore ties across conceptual and political boundaries. They examine the ideas, people, and institutions that provide links between domestic and foreign religious politics and policies.
Jeffrey Israel offers an innovative argument for the power of playfulness in popular culture to make our capacity for coexistence imaginable. He explores how people from different backgrounds can pursue justice together, even as they play with their divisive grudges, prejudices, and desires in their cultural lives.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19899-8
2020 392 pages
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2021 368 pages
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19017-6
The Limits of Tolerance
Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond
Enlightenment Values and Religious Fanaticism Denis Lacorne
L. Benjamin Rolsky
Translated by C. Jon Delogu and Robin Emlein
L. Benjamin Rolsky examines the ways in which American liberalism has helped shape cultural conflict since the 1970s through the story of how television writer and producer Norman Lear galvanized the religious left. He foregrounds the roles played by popular culture, television, and media in America’s religious history. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19363-4 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19362-7 2019 272 pages
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Denis Lacorne traces the emergence of the modern notion of religious tolerance in order to rethink how we should respond to its contemporary tensions. He defends the Enlightenment concept against recent attempts to circumscribe it, arguing that without it a pluralistic society cannot survive. $35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-18714-5 2019 296 pages
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RELIGION AND POLITICS
Going Low
Religious Statecraft
Finnebar Curtis
Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar
How Profane Politics Challenges
The Politics of Islam in Iran
$28.00 / £23.00 paper 978-0-231-20573-3
Religious Statecraft examines the politics of Islam, rather than political Islam, to achieve a new understanding of Iranian politics and its ideological contradictions. Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar traces half a century of shifting Islamist doctrines against the backdrop of Iran’s factional and international politics, demonstrating that religious narratives in Iran can change rapidly, frequently, and dramatically in accordance with elites’ threat perceptions.
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August 2022 344 pages
2019 392 pages
Recent events have shown, up close and personal, how for many on the far right nothing, no matter how offensive, immoral, or even illegal, is impermissible in pursuit of power. But the left is not immune to such policies and tactics, often against itself. Such transgressive social rulebreaking, argues Finbarr Curtis, is particularly amenable to the analytical tools of religious studies.
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Modern Sufis and the State
The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond Edited by Katherine Pratt Ewing and Rosemary R. Corbett
In recent years, Sufism has been held up as a supposedly peaceful alternative to forms of Islam associated with violence, an embodiment of tolerance and pluralism. Modern Sufism and the State brings together a range of scholars, including anthropologists, historians, and religious studies specialists, to challenge common assumptions. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19575-1 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19574-4 2020 360 pages
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RELIGION AND SCIENCE
Great Minds Don’t Think Alike
A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine
Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, AI, Immortality, and the Human
C. Pierce Salguero
Edited and with commentary by Marcelo Gleiser
Leading scientists, philosophers, historians, and public intellectuals debate the big questions. These public dialogues model constructive engagement between the sciences and the humanities—and show why intellectual cooperation is necessary to shape our collective future.
This book is a wide-ranging and accessible account of the interplay between Buddhism and medicine over the past two and a half millennia. C. Pierce Salguero traces the intertwining threads linking ideas, practices, and texts from many different times and places.
$19.95 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-20411-8
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February 2022 272 pages 29 illus.
February 2022 280 pages
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18727-
Buddhism and Medicine
Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic
An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources
Edited by Nina Käsehage
Edited by C. Pierce Salguero
A companion to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, this work presents a collection of modern and contemporary texts and conversations from across the Buddhist world dealing with the multifaceted relationship between Buddhism and medicine, covering the early modern period to the present. $150.00 / £11600 cloth 978-0-231-18936-1
This multidisciplinary anthology provides deep insights concerning the current impact of Covid-19 on various religious groups and believers around the world. Based on contributions by well-known scholars of religious fundamentalism, the volume offers a window into the origins of religious fundamentalism and the development of these movements.
2019 424 pages 20 illus.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5485-1
2021 250 pages 16 illus.
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BUDDHISM
In the Forest of the Blind
Other Lives
Mind and World in Indian Buddhism
The Eurasian Journey of Faxian’s Record of Buddhist Kingdoms
Sonam Kachru
Matthew W. King
Matthew W. King offers a groundbreaking account of the literary, social, and political history of the circulation, translation, and interpretation of Faxian’s The Record of Buddhist Kingdoms. He reads its many journeys at multiple levels, contrasting the textual and interpretative traditions of the European academy and the Inner Asian monastery.
In his The Twenty Verses, the Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu invites readers to explore experiences in dreams and to inhabit the experiences of nonhuman beings—animals, hungry ghosts, and beings in hell. Sonam Kachru provides a deep engagement with Vasubandhu’s account of mind in a global philosophical perspective.
$40.00 / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-20361-6
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20001-1
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March 2022 304 pages 30 illus.
2021 320 pages
A Partial Enlightenment
Lineages of the Literary
What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection
Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China Nicole Willock
Avram Alpert
Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it represents a rich resource not for attaining perfection but rather for finding meaning and purpose in a chaotic world. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20003-5 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20002-8
In the aftermath of the cataclysmic Maoist period, three Tibetan Buddhist scholars living and working in the People’s Republic of China became intellectual heroes. Nicole Willock reveals how they negotiated the political tides of the twentieth century, shedding new light on Sino-Tibetan relations and Buddhism during this turbulent era.
2021 256 pages
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BUDDHISM
The Renewal of Buddhism in China
A Buddhist Sensibility Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery
Zhuhong and the Late Ming Synthesis Chün-fang Yü
Dominique Townsend
Founded in 1676, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational center. Dominique Townsend investigates the ritual, artistic, and cultural practices inculcated at Mindröling to demonstrate how early modern Tibetans integrated Buddhist and worldly activities through training in aesthetics. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19487-7
Foreword by Daniel B. Stevenson
First published in 1981, Chün-fang Yü’s The Renewal of Buddhism in China challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618–907) and steadily declined afterward. This fortieth anniversary edition features an updated introduction by the author speaking to the ongoing relevance of this classic work.
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$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19853-0
2021 272 pages
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STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
2020 360 pages 10 illus.
THE SHENG YEN SERIES IN CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES
The Huayan University Network
Wisdom as a Way of Life
The Teaching and Practice of Avatamsaka Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China
Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined Steven Collins
Erik J. Hammerstrom
Edited by Justin McDaniel
Erik J. Hammerstrom recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism by examining how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced during a period of profound political and social change. He traces the influence of Huayan University, the first Buddhist monastic school founded after the fall of the imperial system in China. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19430-3 2020 288 pages
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Preface by Dan Arnold Afterword by Charles Hallisey
This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravāda Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how to act. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19721-2 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19720-5 2020 304 pages
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BUDDHISM
Thriving in Crisis
Readings of Dōgen’s “Treasury of the True Dharma Eye”
Buddhism and Political Disruption in China, 1522–1620
Steven Heine
Dewei Zhang
Thriving in Crisis is a systematic study of the late Ming Buddhist renewal with a focus on the religious and political factors that enabled it. Dewei Zhang explores the history of the boom in enthusiasm for Buddhism in the Jiajing-Wanli era (1522–1620), tracing a pattern of advances and retrenchment at different social levels in varied regions.
The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shōbōgenzō) is the masterwork of Dōgen), (1200–1253), founder of the Sōtō Zen Buddhist sect in Kamakura-era Japan. Steven Heine provides a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of Dōgen’s treatise.
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$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18229-4
2020 368 pages 10 illus.
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2020 312 pages 10 illus.
COLUMBIA READINGS OF BUDDHIST LITERATURE
Readings of Śāntideva’s Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
Becoming Guanyin
Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China
Edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth
Yuhang Li
Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion, arguing that women used their own bodies to echo that of Guanyin. She combines empirical research with theoretical insights from both art history and Buddhist studies.
Śāntideva’s eighth-century Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (Bodhicaryāvatāra) is one of the crucial texts of the Buddhist ethical and philosophical tradition. This book serves as a companion to the Indian Buddhist classic, illuminating the Guide’s many philosophical, literary, ritual, and ethical dimensions.
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$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19267-5
2020 312 pages
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PREMODERN EAST ASIA: NEW HORIZONS
2019 320 pages
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BUDDHISM
Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
The Original Meaning of the Yijing
Amoghavajra, the Ruling Elite, and the Emergence of a Tradition
Commentary on the Scripture of Change Zhu Xi
Geoffrey C. Goble
Edited and translated by Joseph A. Adler
Chinese Esoteric Buddhism is generally held to have been established as a distinct Buddhist school in the eighth century. Geoffrey C. Goble provides an innovative account of the tradition’s emergence that sheds new light on the structures and traditions that shaped its institutionalization, with a focus on Amoghavajra (704–774).
One of the most influential commentaries on the Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, for the past thousand years has been that of Zhu Xi (1130–1200). Joseph A. Adler’s translation of the Yijing includes for the first time in any Western language Zhu Xi’s commentary in full.
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2019 400 pages 24 illus.
2019 336 pages
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS
THE SHENG YEN SERIES IN CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES
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Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood
Spreading Buddha’s Word in East Asia
A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire
The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon
Matthew W. King
Edited by Jiang Wu and Lucille Chia
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Matthew W. King tells the story of one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times. He reveals an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject. $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19106-7 2019 304 pages
A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the study of politics, and bibliographical research, this volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era. Approaching the subject from a historical perspective, it ties the religious, social, and textual practices of canon formation to the development of East Asian Buddhist culture. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17161-8
2020 432 pages 30 illus.
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HINDUISM
A Genealogy of Devotion
Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men
Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India
An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables
Patton E. Burchett
B. R. Ambedkar
B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace the origin of Untouchability. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated selection from this work, produced in a time when the oppression of and discrimination against Dalits remains pervasive.
Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. He focuses his analysis on the early modern period, when the rise of bhakti communities in North India transformed the religious landscape.
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2019 456 pages
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2020 256 pages
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The Temple Road Towards a Great India
A Śabda Reader
Language in Classical Indian Thought
Birla Mandirs as a Strategy for Reconstructing Nation and Tradition Marta Kudelska, Dorota Kamińska-Jones, Agnieszka Staszczyk, and Agata Świerzowska
Translated and edited by Johannes Bronkhorst
The first reader on language in—and the language of—classical Indian philosophy, A Śabda Reader offers a comprehensive and pedagogically valuable treatment of this topic. Johannes Bronkhorst brings together newly translated passages by authors from a variety of traditions—Brahmin, Buddhist, Jaina—representing a number of schools of thought.
This book presents research on the temples founded by the Birla family in northern and central India. It examines the whole of the Birlas’ sacral foundations, both their importance in the context of national art and their function in the social or political discourse on identity in pre-independence India.
$95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-18940-8
2020 608 pages 89 illus.
2019 376 pages
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ASIAN RELIGIONS
Confucianism and Sacred Space
Shintō in the History and Culture of Japan
The Confucius Temple from Imperial China to Today
Ronald S. Green
Chin-shing Huang
Translated by Jonathan Chin with Chin-shing Huang
This book brings together studies from Chinshing Huang’s decades-long research into Confucius temples that individually and collectively consider Confucianism as religion. It offers keen insights into Confucius temples and their significance in the intertwined intellectual, political, social, and religious histories of imperial China.
This book is a concise overview of Shintō through a survey of its key concepts, related archeological finds, central mythology, significant cultural sites, political dimensions, and historical developments. Its goal is to promote an understanding of Shintō as an enduring cultural phenomenon central to Japan past and present.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19897-4
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2020 108 pages 24 illus
2020 352 pages 8 illus.
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Living Karma
The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu
Beverley Foulks McGuire
Ouyi Zhixu (1599–1655) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk who, contrary to his contemporaries, believed karma could be changed. Through vows, divination, repentance rituals, and ascetic acts, he sought to alter what others understood as inevitable and inescapable. Exploring Ouyi's unique reshaping of religious practice, Living Karma reasserts the significance of an overlooked individual in the modern development of Chinese Buddhism. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-16803-8 2019 240 pages 6 illus.
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THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Sacred Kingship in World History
Liquid Light
Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition
Between Immanence and Transcendence
G. William Barnard
Edited by A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern
Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative perspective.
The Santo Daime is a syncretic religion whose spiritual practice is based around the sacramental use of ayahuasca. G. William Barnard—an initiate of the religion and a scholar of religious studies—considers the religious practice and transformative inner experiences of the Santo Daime community.
$40.00 / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-20417-0
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18661-2
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April 2022 392 pages
June 2022 360 pages
Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of Language
A Cultural History of the Soul
Julia Kristeva
Europe and North America from 1870 to the Present
Translated by Jody Gladding Foreword by Rowan Williams
Kocku von Stuckrad
$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20036-3
Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it has influenced her own thinking. Reading across his major novels and shorter works, Kristeva offers incandescent insights into the potent themes that draw her back to the Russian master.
February 2022 352 pages
$20.00 / £14.99 cloth 978-0-231-20332-6
December 2021 112 pages
This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin-de-siècle Germany, Kocku von Stuckrad examines an astonishingly wide range of figures and movements. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20037-0
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EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
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THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Philosophy's Big Questions
We Testify with Our Lives
Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches
How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter
Edited by Steven M. Emmanuel
Terrence L. Johnson
The essays in this book turn to the major figures and texts of the Buddhist tradition in order to expand and enrich our thinking on enduring philosophical questions. Featuring striking and generative comparisons, Philosophy’s Big Questions offers readers new conceptual tools, methods, and insights for the pursuit of a good and happy life.
Terrence L. Johnson argues that the Black radical tradition derives its force from its unacknowledged ethical and religious dimensions. We Testify with Our Lives traces Black religion’s sustained influence from SNCC to the present, reconstructing a radical lived ethics of freedom and justice.
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2021 312 pages
2021 336 pages
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Touch
Making Peace with the Universe
Recovering Our Most Vital Sense
Personal Crisis and Spiritual Healing
Richard Kearney
Michael Scott Alexander
Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. Making the case for the complementarity of touch and technology, this book is a passionate plea to recover a tangible sense of community and the joys of life with others.
$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19953-7
In Making Peace with the Universe, Michael Scott Alexander reads diverse classic religious accounts as masterpieces of therapeutic insight. He recasts spiritual confessions as case histories of therapy, showing how they remain radical and deeply meaningful even in an age of scientific psychology.
$75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-19952-0
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2021 216 pages 20 illus.
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2020 288 pages
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THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China
Archives of Conjure Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures Solimar Otero
Ying-shih Yü
Translated by Yim-tze Kwong Edited by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman
The preeminent historian Ying-shih Yü offers a magisterial examination of religious and cultural influences in the development of China’s early modern economy. He investigates how evolving forms of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism created and promulgated their own concepts of the work ethic from the late seventh century into the Qing dynasty.
Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race.
$145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-20042-4
2020 264 pages 20 illus.
2021 328 pages
GENDER, THEORY, AND RELIGION
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Virtual Immortality
Power, Piety, and People
God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism
The Politics of Holy Cities in the Twenty-First Century
Oliver Krüger
Michael Dumper
In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series, and Hollywood movies. This study examines the historical and philosophical context of these futuristic promises by Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Frank Tipler, and other posthumanist thinkers.
Michael Dumper explores the causes and consequences of contemporary conflicts in holy cities. He offers five case studies of important disputes, beginning with Jerusalem, often seen as the paradigmatic example of a holy city in conflict, and discussing Córdoba, Banaras, Lhasa, and George Town in Malaysia.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5059-4
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2020 350 pages
2020 384 pages 15 illus.
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THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Political Theology of the Earth
Contingency and the Limits of History
Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public
How Touch Shapes Experience and Meaning Liane Carlson
Catherine Keller
Liane Carlson historicizes contingency by tying it to its theological and etymological roots in “touch,” contending that its disruptive power is specific to our current moment. A strikingly original reconsideration of one of continental philosophy and critical theory’s most cherished concepts, this book reveals the limits of historicist accounts.
Noted ecotheologian and feminist philosopher of religion Catherine Keller reads the feedback loop of political and ecological depredation as secularized apocalypse. She calls for dissolving the opposition between the religious and the secular in favor of a broad planetary movement for social and ecological justice.
$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19052-7
2018 248 pages
2019 304 pages
INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION,
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Thomas Berry A Biography
Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal
Thomas Berry (1914–2009) was one of the twentieth century’s most prescient and profound thinkers. The first biography of Berry, this book illuminates his remarkable vision and its continuing relevance for achieving transformative social change and environmental renewal. $22.00 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-17699-6 2021 360 pages 53 illus.
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CHRISTIANITY
The Struggle to Stay
Let in the Light
Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church
Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions James Boyd White
Katie Gaddini
The Struggle to Stay is an intimate and insightful portrait of single women’s experiences in evangelical churches. Drawing on unprecedented access to churches in the United States and the United Kingdom, Katie Gaddini relates the struggles of four women, interwoven with her own story of leaving behind a devout faith.
James Boyd White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with St. Augustine’s Confessions. He offers an accessible guide to reading the text in Latin—even for those who have never studied the language— guiding readers to experience the immediacy, urgency, and vitality of Augustine’s writing.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19674-1
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March 2022 272 pages
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April 2022 320 pages
Barbary Captives
Malebranche
An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa
Theological Figure, Being 2 Alain Badiou
Translated by Jason E. Smith with Susan Spitzer
Edited by Mario Klarer
Introduction by Jason E. Smith
In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both men and women, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Barbary Captives brings together a selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation for the first time.
Alain Badiou offers a tour-de-force encounter with a lesser-known seventeenth-century philosopher and theologian, Nicolas Malebranche, a contemporary and peer of Spinoza and Leibniz. The seminar is at once a record of Badiou’s thought at a key moment and a lively interrogation of Malebranche’s key text, the Treatise on Nature and Grace.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-17525-8
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$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-17524-1
2019 240 pages
March 2022 416 pages
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Christian Sorcerers on Trial
Mary and the Art of Prayer
Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident
The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought
Translated and with an introduction by Fumiko Miyazaki, Kate Wildman Nakai, and Mark Teeuwen
In 1829, six people were paraded through Osaka and crucified as devotees of the “pernicious creed” of Christianity. Christian Sorcerers on Trial offers annotated translations of a range of sources on this sensational event. It provides students and scholars alike with an extraordinarily rich picture of late Edo society. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19690-1 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19690-1 2020 408 pages 16 illus
Rachel Fulton Brown
Rachel Fulton Brown traces the history of the medieval practice of praising Mary through the complex of prayers known as the Hours of the Virgin. More than just a work of comprehensive historical scholarship, Mary and the Art of Prayer crosses the boundaries that modern scholars typically place between observation and experience, between the world of provable facts and the world of imagination, suggesting what it would have been like for medieval Christians to encounter Mary in prayer. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18169-3 2019 656 pages 25 illus.
The Disappearing Christ
The Russian Orthodox Church and Modernity
Secularism in the Silent Era Phillip Maciak
A Historical and Theological Investigation into Eastern Christianity between Unity and Plurality Regina Elsner
Phillip Maciak examines filmic depictions of Jesus to argue that cinema developed as a model technology of secularism, training viewers for belief in a secular age. Cinematic depictions of an appearing and disappearing Christ became a powerful vehicle for Americans to navigate a rapidly modernizing society.
The Russian Orthodox Church has faced various iterations of modernization throughout its history. This study examines the historical development of the Church’s arguments against—and sometimes preferences for— modernization and analyzes which positions ended up influencing the official doctrine.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18709-1
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2021 440 pages
2019 264 pages 37 illus.
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JUDAISM
Salo Baron
The Arab and Jewish Questions
The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America
Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
Edited by Rebecca Kobrin
In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions. This book brings together leading scholars to consider how Baron transformed the course of Jewish studies in the United States.
Edited by Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh
$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20484-2
This book brings together leading scholars to consider how the “Jewish Question” and the “Arab Question” are entangled historically and in the present day. It offers critical analyses of Arab engagements with the question of Jewish rights alongside Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish considerations of Palestinian identity and political rights.
March 2022 288 pages 13 illus.
$105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19920-9
2020 320 pages
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20485-9
Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine Biographies and Geographies, 1870–1960 Edited by Andreas Kraß, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Yuval Yonay
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
Islands of Memory The Landscape of the (Non)Memory of the Holocaust in Polish Education between 1989–2015
Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs
This volume offers the first collection of studies on queer Jewish lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine (1870–1960). The first section of the book presents queer geographies including Germany, Austria, and Palestine, and the second introduces queer biographies between Europe and Palestine.
This book examines memory of the Holocaust among young Poles, including the attitudes toward Jews and the Holocaust in comparative context. It focuses on grassroots action, often initiated by local civil society organizations or individual teachers or students.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5332-8
2021 482 pages
2021 300 pages 15 illus.
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ISLAM
The Sound of Salvation
A Culture of Ambiguity
Guangtian Ha
Thomas Bauer
Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China
An Alternative History of Islam
Translated by Hinrich
Biesterfeldt and Tricia Tunstall
The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order in northwest China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The first ethnography of this order in any language, The Sound of Salvation draws on nearly a decade of fieldwork to reveal the intricacies and importance of Jahriyya vocal recitation. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19806-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19806-6
In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and a competing tendency that looks for ways to live with complexity. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-17064-2
February 2022 312 pages 32 illus.
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STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE,
2021 336 pages
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The Language of History
Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context
Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule
A Bibliographical History
Audrey Truschke
Zofia A. Brzozowska, Mirosław J. Leszka, and Teresa Wolińska
For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they have neglected the many histories that India’s learned elite wrote about Indo-Muslim rule in Sanskrit. Audrey Truschke offers a groundbreaking analysis of these texts. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19705-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19704-5 2021 376 pages
This bibliographic dictionary features an overview of medieval texts from the Eastern Orthodox world that discuss Muhammad, the Arabs, and the birth of Islam. These texts shed new light on interreligious polemics in the Middle Ages, previous studies of which have typically focused on texts written in Greek, Latin, or Middle Eastern languages. $50.00 paper 978-83-2334-943-3 February 2022 384 pages 2 illus.
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ISLAM
Gendered Morality
Imperial Mecca
Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society
Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj
Michael Christopher Low
Zahra Ayubi
Michael Christopher Low analyzes the late Ottoman hajj and Hijaz region as transimperial spaces, reshaped by the competing forces of Istanbul’s project of frontier modernization and the extraterritorial reach of British India’s steamship empire in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Imperial Mecca recasts Ottoman Arabia as a distant, unstable semiautonomous frontier that Istanbul struggled to modernize and defend against the onslaught of colonial steamship mobility.
In Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi rethinks the tradition of Islamic philosophical ethics from a feminist critical perspective. She calls for a philosophical turn in the study of gender in Islam based on resources for gender equality that are unlocked by feminist engagement with the Islamic ethical tradition.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19077-0
$105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19076-3 2020 416 pages
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19133-3 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19132-6 2019 368 pages
Muslim Environmentalisms
God and Man in Tehran
GODand M AN
Religious and Social Foundations
in
TEHR AN
Anna M. Gade
CO N T EN D I N G V I S I O N S
of the D I V I N E from the QA JA R S
to the I S L A M I C R E P U B L I C
Contending Visions of the Divine from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic Hossein Kamaly
H O S S E I N K A M A LY
Anna M. Gade explores the religious and cultural foundations of Islamic environmentalisms. She blends textual and ethnographic study to offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the legal, ethical, social, and political principles underlying Muslim commitments to the earth. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19105-0 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19104-3 2019 336 pages
God and Man in Tehran explores the historical processes that have made and unmade contending visions of God in Iran’s capital throughout the past two hundred years. Hossein Kamaly examines how notions of the divine have been mobilized, contested, and transformed, emphasizing the role played by divergent conceptualizations of nature, reason, law, morality, and authority. $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-17682-8 2018 256 pages
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In Remembrance of the Saints
German, Jew, Muslim,Gay
The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari
The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus Marc David Baer
Translated by David Brophy
In the late eighteenth century, Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari wrote an account of religious and political conflicts in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang, on the eve of the Qing conquest. This volume presents the complete, long recension of In Remembrance of the Saints, translated for the first time into any language.
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus’s life and work to investigate a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay rights struggle.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19819-6
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2020 304 pages 3 illus.
2020 320 pages
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
Reforming Modernity
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Women in the Mosque A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice
Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha
Marion Holmes Katz
WINNER, AMEWS BOOK
Wael B. Hallaq
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Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the philosopher Abdurrahman Taha. Wael B. Hallaq explores how Taha’s philosophical project sheds light on recent intellectual currents in the Islamic world and puts forth a formidable critique of Western and Islamic modernities. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-193887 2019 376 pages
Tracing Sunni legal positions on women in mosques from the second century of the Islamic calendar to the modern period, Marion Holmes Katz connects shifts in scholarly terminology and argumentation to changing constructions of gender. She also explores both the concrete social and political implications of Islamic legal discourse and the autonomy of women's mosque-based activities. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-16267-8 November 2021 432 pages
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Waking, Dreaming, Being
The Holocaust and the Nakba
Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy
A New Grammar of Trauma and History
Edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg
Evan Thompson
Foreword by Stephen Batchelor CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE
Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation with Indian and Western philosophy of mind, casting new light on the self and its relation to the brain. $22.95 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-13695-2 $32.95 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-13709-6 2014 496 pages
Foreword by Elias Khoury
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In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. Focusing on similarities and differences, contributors pave the way for a new political, historical, and moral grammar that enables a joint ArabJewish dwelling and supports historical reconciliation in Israel/Palestine. $42.00 / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-18297-3 $135.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-18296-6 2018 424 pages 33 illus.
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Black Gods of the Asphalt
Buddhism and Medicine
An Anthology of Premodern Sources
Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball
Edited by C. Pierce Salguero
Onaje X. O. Woodbine
This anthology combines dozens of Englishlanguage translations of premodern Buddhist texts with contextualizing introductions by leading international scholars in Buddhist studies, history of medicine, and a range of other fields. $170.00 / £144.00 cloth 978-0-231-17994-2 2017 728 pages 28 illus.
Through interviews with and observations of urban basketball players, Onaje X. O. Woodbine composes a rare portrait of a passionate, committed, and resilient group of athletes who use the court to mine what urban life cannot corrupt. If people turn to religion to reimagine their place in the world, then black streetball players are indeed the hierophants of the asphalt. $23.00 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-17729-0 $32.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-17728-3 2016 224 pages
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