Theory and Philosophy of Religion

THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Sacred Kingship in World History

Between Immanence and Transcendence 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.

$40.00 / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-20417-0 $160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-20416-3 April 2022 392 pages Liquid Light

Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition G. William Barnard

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.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18661-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18660-5 June 2022 360 pages

A Cultural History of the Soul

Europe and North America from 1870 to the Present Kocku von Stuckrad

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 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20036-3 February 2022 352 pages Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of Language

Julia Kristeva Translated by Jody Gladding Foreword by Rowan Williams

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.

$20.00 / £14.99 cloth 978-0-231-20332-6 December 2021 112 pages

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM

THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Philosophy's Big Questions

Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches Edited by Steven M. Emmanuel

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.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17487-9 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-17486-2 2021 336 pages We Testify with Our Lives

How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter Terrence L. Johnson

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.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20045-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20044-8 2021 312 pages

Touch

Recovering Our Most Vital Sense Richard Kearney

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 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-19952-0 2021 216 pages 20 illus.

NO LIMITS

Making Peace with the Universe

Personal Crisis and Spiritual Healing Michael Scott Alexander

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.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19859-2 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-19858-5 2020 288 pages

The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China

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.

$145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-20042-4 2021 328 pages Archives of Conjure

Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures Solimar Otero

$90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19432-7 2020 264 pages 20 illus.

GENDER, THEORY, AND RELIGION

Virtual Immortality

God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism Oliver Krüger 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.

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.

$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5059-4 2020 350 pages

TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING

Power, Piety, and People

The Politics of Holy Cities in the Twenty-First Century Michael Dumper

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.

$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18476-2 2020 384 pages 15 illus.

Contingency and the Limits of History

How Touch Shapes Experience and Meaning Liane Carlson

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.

$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19052-7 2019 304 pages Political Theology of the Earth

Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public Catherine Keller

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.

$28.00 / £21.00 paper 978-0-231-18991-0 2018 248 pages

INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CULTURE

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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.