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Christianity and Judaism
CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM 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 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 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 2022 416 pages 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
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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
Salo Baron
The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America 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.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20485-9 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20484-2 2022 288 pages 13 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 Arab and Jewish Questions
Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond Edited by Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh
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.
$105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19920-9 2020 320 pages
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
The Femininity Puzzle
Gender, Orientalism and the“Jewish Other” Ulrike Brunotte
The “femininity puzzle” presents itself in two ways: first in the role of effeminization of the male Jew in antisemitic discourse, and then in the transgressive forms of femininity connected to Jewish women, especially the allosemitic Orientalization in the figure of the “Beautiful Jewess.”
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-5821-7 November 2022 236 pages
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Biographies and Geographies, 1870–1960 Edited by Andreas Kraß, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Yuval Yonay 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.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5332-8 2022 300 pages 15 illus.
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Jewish-Ukrainian Relations in Late and Post-Soviet Ukraine
Articles, Lectures and Essays from 1986 to 2016 Aleksandr Burakovskiy
The implementation of perestroika and the unexpected collapse of the USSR provoked unease that long-underlying ethnic tensions could erupt in strife in the post-Soviet world. Of particular concern in Ukraine was the relations between Jews and Ukrainians. In this volume, the author, an activist during this transitional period, offers an overview of the hopes of the Ukrainian and Jewish intellectual elite, as well as the complicated reality and disappointments that thwarted these hopes.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8382-1210-4 2021 250 pages
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Islands of Memory
The Landscape of the (Non)Memory of the Holocaust in Polish Education between 1989–2015 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs
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.
$55.00 / £44.00 cloth 978-83-2334-930-3 2021 482 pages
