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Christianity
The Struggle to Stay
Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church 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.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19674-1 March 2022 272 pages Let in the Light
Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions James Boyd White
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.
$130.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-20501-6 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20500-9 April 2022 320 pages
Barbary Captives
An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa Edited by Mario Klarer
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.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-17525-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-17524-1 March 2022 416 pages Malebranche
Theological Figure, Being 2 Alain Badiou Translated by Jason E. Smith with Susan Spitzer Introduction by Jason E. Smith
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 cloth 978-0-231-17478-7 2019 240 pages
THE SEMINARS OF ALAIN BADIOU
Christian Sorcerers on Trial
Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident 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
The Disappearing Christ
Secularism in the Silent Era Phillip Maciak
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.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18709-1 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-18708-4 2019 264 pages 37 illus. Mary and the Art of Prayer
The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought 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 Russian Orthodox Church and Modernity
A Historical and Theological Investigation into Eastern Christianity between Unity and Plurality Regina Elsner
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.
$60.00 paper 978-3-8382-1568-6 2021 440 pages
