3 minute read
Religion in America
Religion in America..............................................3 Religion and Politics..............................................5 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.
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. RELIGION IN AMERICA At The Sexual Politics of Black Churches
Edited by Josef Sorett
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
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
Making Space for Justice
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
A Friendship in Twilight
Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor
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
The Future of Catholicism in America
Edited by Patricia O’Connell Killen and Mark Silk
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 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19148-7 2019 384 pages
THE FUTURE OF RELIGION IN AMERICA
Take Back What the Devil Stole
An African American Prophet’s Encounters in the Spirit World Onaje X. O. Woodbine
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.
Roman Catholicism in America
Second Edition
Chester Gillis
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.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-14267-0 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-14266-3 2020 416 pages 35 illus.
