RELIGION 2020
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 editor: With both sadness to miss seeing so many friends in person and great pleasure to share so many exciting new books, I present the Columbia University Press religion catalog for 2020. These titles, which span subjects from Buddhism to American religion, philosophy of religion, Islam, religion and literature, and more, reflect the interdisciplinary and global approach of our list and exemplify the innovative and field-changing scholarship that we value. Among the many outstanding titles in this year’s wide-ranging catalog, several deserve special attention. Take Back What the Devil Stole by Onaje X. O. Woodbine is an extraordinary portrait of an African American prophet and warrior whose gripping experiences in the spirit world reveal how one Black woman in contemporary America has reclaimed her power in the face of a lifetime of racial injustice. Solimar Otero’s Archives of Conjure examines the stories that the dead tell in Afrolatinx cultures and how they shape experiences of gender, sexuality, and race. Making Peace with the Universe by Michael Alexander narrates poignant testimonies of personal crisis and spiritual healing drawn from the world’s religious traditions, along with his own account. A Partial Enlightenment by Avram Alpert reads modernist literature from Asia and the West alongside his own experience to find a way to understand Buddhism in the contemporary world. We are proud to introduce three entries in our new and innovative interdisciplinary No Limits series, edited by Costica Bradatan. Mark Taylor’s Intervolution reveals that we are already cyborgs, integral cogs in what will become a superorganism of bodies and things. Touch by Richard Kearney argues that touch is our most primordial sense, foundational to our individual and common selves. Aimlessness by Tom Lutz asks us to give up our striving for achievement and instead become sidetracked, get lost, and daydream. Our list offers many exciting new titles in global Buddhisms. To mention just a few, Wisdom as a Way of Life is Steven Collins’s final work, a powerful argument that Theravāda Buddhism offers insights into the self and how to act that are relevant today. Steven Heine’s Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye" offers a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of this Zen Buddhist classic. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated critical selection from B. R. Ambedkar’s classic The Untouchables, which locates the origins of the Dalit caste in Indian Buddhism. And Nicole Willock’s Lineages of the Literary tells the story of three Tibetan Buddhist scholars who kept their tradition alive in twentieth-century China. Among our books on the Islamic world, Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh’s collection The Arab and Jewish Questions examines how European anti-Semitism and Israeli Islamophobia resulted in the historical entanglement of Jewish and Palestinian struggles for self-determination that continues unabated today. Modern Sufis and the State, edited by Katherine Pratt Ewing and Rosemary R. Corbett, exposes the myth of Sufi unworldliness, demonstrating the role of the tradition in political violence from the colonial period to the present. And Anna M. Gade’s Muslim Environmentalisms shows how Muslim scripture, jurisprudence, science, art, and social and political engagement have foregrounded the environment as an ethical idea. And lastly, no religion catalog would be complete without mention of religion and politics in America. At Home and Abroad, edited by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, provides a new theoretical approach to the politics of religion, interrogating American religious exceptionalism and illuminating imperial dynamics beyond the United States. I am confident that you will find much to enjoy and ponder in these pages. My colleagues and I look forward to continuing our dialogue. Wendy Lochner Publisher, Philosophy, Religion, Political Theory, Animal and Critical Life Studies
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RELIGION IN AMERICA
At Home and Abroad
Religion in America...............................................3
The Politics of American Religion
Religion and Science .............................................5 Buddhism ............................................................6
Edited by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Hinduism ..........................................................10
Theory and Philosophy of Religion .......................11 Christianity .......................................................14
Judaism and Islam ..............................................15 Islam .................................................................16
New in Paperback ..............................................18
Best of the Backlist ..............................................19 Ordering Information ........................................20
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.
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. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19899-8 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19898-1 March 2021 344 pages
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
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The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond L. Benjamin Rolsky
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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Roman Catholicism in America
Pentecostals in America
Chester Gillis
Second Edition
Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh
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.
Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh provides a thematic overview of Pentecostalism in America, covering Pentecostal faith and practices, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, trends and offshoots, and the future of American Pentecostalism. She also places it in context within the larger narrative of American religious history.
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The Future of Catholicism in America
The Other Catholics Remaking America’s Largest Religion
Edited by Patricia O’Connell Killen and Mark Silk
Julie Byrne
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The Other Catholics recounts the remarkable history and current activity of independent Catholics. Julie Byrne focuses on the Church of Antioch, one of the first Catholic groups to ordain women in modern times, to explain how these understudied churches change the narrative of modern Catholicism.
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2019 384 pages
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THE FUTURE OF RELIGION IN AMERICA
2018 432 pages 25 illus.
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.
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Buddhism and Medicine
Sacred Knowledge
Psychedelics and Religious Experiences
An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources
William A. Richards
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 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-18936-1
Sacred Knowledge is the first well-documented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Richards argues that, if used responsibly and legally, psychedelics have incredible potential to assuage human suffering and contribute to the quality of life.
2019 424 pages 20 illus.
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Pragmatism and Naturalism
Medicine–Religion– Spirituality
Scientific and Social Inquiry After Representationalism
Global Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Healing
Edited by Matthew Bagger
Distinguished scholars including Nancy Frankenberry, Philip Kitcher, Wayne Proudfoot, and Jeffrey Stout examine pragmatism’s distinctive form of nonreductive naturalism and consider its merits for the study of religion and democratic theory, and as a general philosophical orientation. They display the enduring power and contemporary relevance of pragmatic naturalism. $85.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18188-4 2018 328 pages
Edited by Dorothea Lüddeckens and Monika Schrimpf
How do therapeutic practitioners position themselves between medicine and religion, and what is their appeal for patients? This book investigates the entanglements of medicine, religion, and spirituality. $45.00 paper 978-3-8376-4582-8 2019 274 pages 2 illus.
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BUDDHISM
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.
April 2021 256 pages
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A Buddhist Sensibility
The Renewal of Buddhism in China
Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery
Zhuhong and the Late Ming Synthesis
Dominique Townsend
Chün-fang Yü
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 / £24.00 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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February 2021 272 pages
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BUDDHISM
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
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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2020 368 pages 10 illus.
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BUDDHISM
Becoming Guanyin
Readings of Śāntideva’s Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
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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2020 312 pages
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PREMODERN EAST ASIA: NEW HORIZONS
2019 320 pages
COLUMBIA READINGS OF BUDDHIST LITERATURE
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
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Spreading Buddha’s Word in East Asia
Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood
The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon
A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire 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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Food of Sinful Demons
Forging the Golden Urn
Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet
The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet
Geoffrey Barstow
Max Oidtmann
Geoffrey Barstow examines the centrality of vegetarianism to the cultural history of Tibet through specific ways in which nonreligious norms and ideals shaped religious beliefs and practices. He offers a detailed analysis of the debates over meat eating and vegetarianism, from the first references to such a diet in the tenth century through the Chinese invasion in the 1950s.
A Qing law mandated that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. In Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic technology was exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire and transformed into a ritual for authenticating reincarnations.
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2019 312 pages 13 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. $65.00 paper 978-83-233-4646-3 2020 608 pages 89 illus.
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THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Take Back What the Devil Stole
Touch
Recovering Our Most Vital Sense
An African American Prophet's Encounters in the Spirit World
Richard Kearney
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.
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.
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February 2021 216 pages 20 illus.
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NO LIMITS
Intervolution
Making Peace with the Universe
Smart Bodies Smart Things
Personal Crisis and Spiritual Healing
Mark C. Taylor
Michael Scott Alexander
The combination of artificial intelligence with implants, transplants, prostheses, and genetic reprogramming is transforming medical research and treatment, and it is now also transforming what we thought was human nature. Mark C. Taylor identifies this process as “intervolution” and explores how it is weaving together smart things and smart bodies to create new forms of life. $19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19821-9 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-19820-2 2020 224 pages
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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
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THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Shintō in the History and Culture of Japan
Archives of Conjure
Solimar Otero
Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures
Ronald S. Green
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.
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.
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Virtual Immortality
Thomas Berry
God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism
A Biography
Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal
Oliver Krüger
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
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. $28.95 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-17698-9 2019 360 pages 53 illus.
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THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Contingency and the Limits of History
Confucianism and Sacred Space
How Touch Shapes Experience and Meaning
The Confucius Temple from Imperial China to Today
Liane Carlson
Chin-shing Huang
Translated by Jonathan Chin with Chin-shing Huang
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
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. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19897-4 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-19896-7 2020 352 pages 8 illus.
Living Karma
Religious Statecraft
Beverley Foulks McGuire
Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar
The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu
The Politics of Islam in Iran
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
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. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18367-3
2019 240 pages 6 illus.
2019 392 pages
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CHRISTIANITY
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
Malebranche
Theological Figure, Being 2
Secularism in the Silent Era
Alain Badiou
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
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.
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2019 264 pages 37 illus.
2019 240 pages
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JUDAISM AND ISLAM
German, Jew, Muslim,Gay
The Arab and Jewish Questions
The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus
Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
Marc David Baer
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
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. $95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-19670-3 2020 320 pages
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Jewish-Ukrainian Relations in Late and Post-Soviet Ukraine
Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine
Articles, Lectures and Essays from 1986 to 2016
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 January 2021 300 pages 15 illus.
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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. $40.00 paper 978-3-8382-1210-4 July 2021 250 pages
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ISLAM
The Language of History
Modern Sufis and the State
Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule
The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond
Audrey Truschke
Edited by Katherine Pratt Ewing and Rosemary R. Corbett
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.
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.
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2020 360 pages
January 2021 376 pages
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In Remembrance of the Saints
The “Spectral Turn” Jewish Ghosts in the Polish Post-Holocaust Imaginaire
The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari
Zuzanna Dziuban
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. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19819-6 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19818-9
Over the last decades, studies on cultural memory have taken a “spectral turn,” exploring the potential of haunting metaphors for addressing past instances of violence that affect present cultural realities. Locating this new interest in Jewish ghosts on the map of other Polish (and Jewish) ghostologies, this study seeks to explore the cultural and political functions of the post-Holocaust haunted imaginaire.
2020 304 pages 3 illus.
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TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS
2020 200 pages 5 illus.
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ISLAM
The Closed Circle
Gendered Morality
Lorenzo Vidino
Zahra Ayubi
Joining and Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood in the West
Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society
The Closed Circle offers an unprecedented inside view into how one of the world’s most influential Islamist groups operates. Lorenzo Vidino marshals unique interviews with prominent former members and associates of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West, shedding light on why and how people join and leave the organization.
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.
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2020 296 pages
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COLUMBIA STUDIES IN TERRORISM AND IRREGULAR
2019 368 pages
WARFARE
Muslim Environmentalisms
God and Man in Tehran
GODand M AN in
TEHR AN 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
Religious and Social Foundations Anna M. Gade
Hossein Kamaly
H O S S E I N K A M A LY
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
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
2018 256 pages
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Mind Beyond Brain
China’s Green Religion
Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal
Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
David E. Presti
James Miller
$25.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18957-6
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2020 240 pages
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Neurotheology
Pantheologies
How Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality
Gods, Worlds, Monsters Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Andrew Newberg
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-17905-8
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2020 328 pages
Atheism
The Buddha’s Wizards
Alexandre Kojève
Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism
Translated by Jeff Love
Thomas Nathan Patton
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18761-9 2020 240 pages 33 illus.
Modern Things on Trial
Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935 Leor Halevi
WINNER J. WILLARD HURST BOOK PRIZE, LAW AND SOCIETY $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18867-8 2020 384 pages
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18001-6 2020 248 pages
Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion
How Popular Culture Can Defuse Intractable Differences Jeffrey Israel Foreword by Martha C. Nussbaum CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE $26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19017-6 2020 392 pages
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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
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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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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
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