Religion 2019
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For exam or desk copy requests, please visit cup.columbia.edu/for-instructors Mind Beyond Brain
Neurotheology
Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal
How Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality
David E. Presti “Mind Beyond Brain embraces and celebrates the natural sciences and their materialist frameworks but also suggests that our understanding of the natural almost certainly needs to be expanded, greatly, and that the physicalist frameworks may not be the final answer to our deepest and most difficult questions about subjectivity, mind, or consciousness. Presti is a perfect narrator, host, and guide here. He strikes a wonderful balance between embracing and celebrating the advances of the sciences and wanting them to go further still.”-Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton
Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University
Andrew Newberg
“A tour de force in this emerging field, Neurotheology provides a superb review of the science to date and shows the many directions the field may go in the future. This book has profound implications for neuroscience, medicine, theology, and philosophy. Fascinating and clearly written and accessible for everyone. Truly mindblowing."-Harold Koenig, Duke University Medical Center
$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-17904-1 2018 328 pages
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Pantheologies
2018 240 pages
Forthcoming
Gods, Worlds, Monsters Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Passions of Our Time Julia Kristeva Edited with a foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman
Ranging from literature and the visual arts to psychoanalysis, religion, the question of women, and politics, the essays gathered in this volume deal with the experience of time in birth and rebirth, with the time of events and emergencies and, no less, with the existential dimension of time as opposed to what technologies of sensation are programmed to make of it. In her inimitable and provocative signature style, Kristeva graces her readers with brilliant readings of texts, paintings, sculptures, artists, and political events.... An excellent book.”-Verena Conley, Harvard
“Pantheologies is an elegant and lively tour of pantheism and of the racialized gender panics it has prompted in Euro-American thought. I leave the book with the sense that the goat-god Pan is still roaming around, disrupting the either/ors of Western metaphysics and presenting a cosmos both more amazing and more discomfiting. Rubenstein has written an excellent book.”-Jane Bennett, author
of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18946-0 2018 320 pages
Inventing Afterlives
University
The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Life After Death
February 2019 384 pages
Regina M. Janes
$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-17144-1
―Patrick McNamara, director of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Neurobehavior, Boston University
"This engaging and thought-provoking book has a capacious range that includes those who believe there is no afterlife and spans time from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians to our current scientific, psychological, and religious thinking about what we imagine—or hope—happens after death."-Paula R. Backscheider, Philpott Stevens Eminent Scholar, Auburn University
$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18336-9
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2017 312 pages
$105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-18570-7
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods Early Humans and the Origins of Religion E. Fuller Torrey
"An excellent text that throws new light on where religious ideas come from."
2018 392 pages
Save 30% on religion titles, order online at cup.columbia.edu and enter code CONF The Buddha's Wizards
Forging the Golden Urn
Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism
The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet
Thomas Nathan Patton
"Based on in-depth and long-term ethnographic research, this book provides an intimate and deeply empathetic exploration of the roles wizards play as healers, bestowers of good luck, defenders of the faith, spirit guides and teachers, and, most importantly, as familiar presences in the everyday lives of contemporary Burmese Buddhists."-C. Pierce Salguero, author of Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources $60.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-18760-2 2018 240 pages
Max Oidtmann
“Using new source material, Max Oidtmann’s Forging the Golden Urn opens a window to a better understanding of the dynamics that resulted in Tibet’s increasing incorporation into the Qing empire. Framing these imperial efforts as a legal enterprise first and foremost, Oidtmann provides a fresh approach to examine the Qing’s strategy for expanding and justifying its sovereignty. This excellent book...is a major achievement.” -Peter Schwieger, University of Bonn $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18406-9
2018 352 pages
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Forthcoming
Cognizable Objects in Sa skya Pandita
A Śabda Reader Language in Classical Indian Thought
An edited and annotated translation of the first chapter of Tshad ma rigs gter by Sa skya Pandita
Translated and edited by Johannes Bronkhorst
The first reader on language in—and the Artur Przybysławski language of—classical Indian philosophy, A This volume is an introduction to one of the Śabda Reader offers a comprehensive and key concepts in Tibetan Buddhist epistemolpedagogically valuable treatment of this ogy, the object of cognition. It provides an topic. Johannes Bronkhorst brings together overview of the notion of Cognizable Objects newly translated passages by authors from in Sa skya Pandita (1182–1251), a short suma variety of traditions—Brahmin, Buddhist, mary of Western research on that concept, and an edited translation of Jaina—representing a number of schools of thought. the first chapter of his fundamental work Tshad ma rigs gter together with the canonical commentary by Go rams pa (1429–1489). $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-18940-8 $45.00 / £35.00 paper 978-83-233-4381-3
March 2019 384 pages
Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought
2018 164 pages JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Gender, Power, and Talent
The Oneness Hypothesis
The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China
Beyond the Boundary of Self Edited by Philip J. Ivanhoe, Owen J. Flanagan, Victoria S. Harrison, Hagop Sarkissian, and Eric Schwitzgebel
Jinhua Jia
“Using previously unknown mortuary inscriptions, rare Dunhuang manuscripts, and a broad range of received texts, Jia offers a revealing panorama of women's religious practices from medieval China. This study of Tang Daoist priestesses from various backgrounds brings the lives of these many remarkable women out of the shadows. Cultural and social history at its best."-Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado, Boulder $70.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-18444-1 2018 352 pages
“A fascinating collection of very diverse pieces on a most important and too often neglected subject. Truly notable for the range of approaches exhibited, the different traditions or cultures treated, and the variety of questions, both theoretical and interpretative, that are examined.”-Lee H. Yearley, Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professor
of Oriental Philosophy, Religions, and Ethics, Stanford University $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18298-0 2018 416 pages
Save 30% on religion titles, order online at cup.columbia.edu and enter code CONF Excessive Saints Gender, Narrative, and Theological Invention in Thomas of Cantimpré’s Mystical Hagiographies Rachel J. D. Smith
“By far the best study yet written about the ceaselessly audacious holy women of the thirteenth-century Low Countries and their ceaselessly inventive interpreter, Thomas of Cantimpré. Indeed, it is one of the best studies in any field of medieval hagiography published in the last twenty-five years."-Nicholas Watson, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor
of English Literature, Harvard University $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-1886-0
Pentecostals in America Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh
“‘Pentecostals tell great stories’ and so does Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh in this marvelous new addition to the Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. Combining empathy with insight and deep scholarship with dramatic flair, Sánchez Walsh offers a well-rounded, richly textured picture that tells us a good deal about America as well as about Pentecostalism. This book will engage students, inspire scholars, and advance understanding of the power and complexity of religion in American life.”-Amanda Porterfield, author of Corporate Spirit: Religion and the Rise of the Modern Corporation
December 2018 320 pages
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-14183-3
Gender, Theory, and Religion
$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-14182-6
The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America
2018 192 pages
Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series
The Holocaust and the Nakba
Edited by James Hudnut-Beumler
A New Grammar of Trauma and History
and Mark Silk
Experts in American religious history and the sociology of religion examine the extraordinary decline of mainline Protestantism over the past half century and assess its future. Contributors discuss the demographics of mainline Protestants; their beliefs, practices, and modes of worship; their political views and partisan affiliations; and the social and moral questions that unite and divide Protestant communities. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18361-1 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18360-4 2018 248 pages
The Future of Religion in America
Democratic Transition in the Muslim World A Global Perspective Edited by Alfred Stepan
“In the age of ISIS and growing anti-Muslim bigotry embodied in the rise of Donald Trump, the claim that Islam and Muslim societies are essentially and enduringly antidemocratic has again become mainstream. This book forcefully and convincingly repudiates this proposition. Focusing on the fascinating case of Tunisia... Alfred Stepan makes an important and unique contribution in understanding the relationship between religion and democracy in Muslim societies."-Nader Hashemi, the University of
Edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg Foreword by Elias Khoury. Afterword by Jacqueline Rose
“Rarely do scholarly works attain the moral and political significance of The Holocaust and the Nakba. Bashir and Goldberg’s essential volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of prominent thinkers to address one of the world’s thorniest problems: how to think through the conflicting narratives of Israelis and Palestinians about their respective traumatic experiences. Without flinching but with considerable nuance, the book offers a crucial ethical and political vision of binational coexistence premised on decolonization and mutual recognition.” -Michael Rothberg, author of The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators
$40.00 / £32.95 paper 978-0-231-18297-3 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-18296-6 2018 424 pages / 33 illus.
Religion, Culture, and Public Life
The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity
Protestant Paths to the Afterlife in Early Modern English Poetry
Cyril L. Caspar
Cyril L. Caspar explores five major English poets—John Donne, Sir Walter Raleigh, George Herbert, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton—to unveil the poetical potential of the last pilgrimage as a life-transcending metaphor.
Denver
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18431-1 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18430-4 2018 272 pages
Religion, Culture, and Public Life
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-4254-4 2018 262 pages TRANSCRIPT VERLAG
For exam or desk copy requests, please visit cup.columbia.edu/for-instructors Political Theology of the Earth
American Immanence
Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public
Democracy for an Uncertain World Michael S. Hogue
Catherine Keller
“This is one of the finest integrations of complex streams of American thought that I “How is a political theology of the earth have read in a long time. Hogue has given us a distinctive? It resists the hegemony theopolitical vision of “nature” that is at once of those theologies (and postphilosophically stirring and religiously reltheologies) organized around divine evant to the perplexities of our Anthropocene omnipotence, absolute sovereignty, paradox. American Immanence draws upon and human dominion over the earth. James, Dewey, Whitehead, and their lineage to Doing so, it can now mine rich veins in traditions that explore liveliness beyond the human and human make a sophisticated case for pragmatic naturalism. It is elegant, erudite, and morally urgent.” -Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College entanglements with a multifaceted, morphing earth. In this inspiring book Keller calls upon eco-activists to explore the $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-17233-2 spiritual affinities between us, as we foment energies needed $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-17232-5 to respond to the Anthropocene. An indispensable book for 2018 256 pages today!”-William E. Connolly, author of Facing the Planetary: Entangled Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Humanism and the Politics of Swarming
$27.00 / £21.00 paper 978-0-231-18991-0
Open to Reason
$80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-18990-3
Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition
2018 248 pagesI
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
The Sacrality of the Secular Postmodern Philosophy of Religion Bradley B. Onishi
The Sacrality of the Secular is a sophisticated study of religious resources implicit in ostensibly secular culture. Onishi demonstrates how the American appropriation of Heidegger and post-Heideggerian philosophy contributed to “the religious turn” in continental philosophy. The significance of this work extends far beyond the field of religious studies. Through a critical reassessment of theories of modernization and disenchantment, Onishi charts new directions for cultural inquiry at a time when the humanities have lost their way.”-Mark C. Taylor, Columbia University
Translated by Jonathan Adjemian
“This is a remarkable and interesting book. Open to Reason is tremendously valuable on two levels: first, as an account of the place of philosophy in Muslim history; and, second, as a philosophical proposal of some depth and substance that could orient Muslims and others in understanding Islam today.”-Charles
Taylor, author of A Secular Age
$26.00 / £20.00 cloth 978-0-231-18546-2 2018 136 pages
Religion, Culture, and Public Life
Atheism Alexandre Kojève
$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18392-5
Translated by Jeff Love
2018 280 pages
Faithful to Secularism The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines David T. Buckley
In Faithful to Secularism, David T. Buckley develops the concept of “benevolent secularism” to describe institutions that combine a basic division of religion and state with extensive room for participation of religious actors in public life. $60.00 /£47.00 cloth 978-0-231-18006-1 2017 288 pages
Religion, Culture, and Public Life
“Kojève is a riddle, his Russian roots eclipsed by his legendary role as explicator of German idealism to French intellectuals in the 1930s. This splendid translation of his erudite, eccentric 1931 text reveals him taking on the most Dostoevskian of questions with all the wisdom of Western Europe at his back. What is our relation to what is outside the world? Here is an inquiry into atheistic anthropology that would have thrilled Heidegger himself.” -Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
$32.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-18000-9 2018 248 pages
Save 30% on religion titles, order online at cup.columbia.edu and enter code CONF Secular Translations
Secularism and Cosmopolitanism
Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics
Talal Asad
nonreligious ones.
In Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. In a consideration of translatability and untranslatability, he explores the ways ideas move between histories and cultures and the ways religious ideas are translated into
$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18987-3 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-18986-6 December 2018 232 pages
Ruth Benedict Book Series
God and Man in Tehran Contending Visions of the Divine from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic Hossein Kamaly
Étienne Balibar
“One of our best European activist philosophers here considers the question of secularism, religion, and cosmopolitanism in a broad range: Islam, the historical contradictions of secularism in the Israeli state, the implications of French laïcité, the history of the term ‘monotheism’ from European antiquity, and serious considerations of gender at every step. ‘Generalized heresy as philosophical fiction’ is, for Balibar, our persistent, repeated, heterogeneous, and collective political task of invention. Those of us trying to work away from the Abrahamic and toward the rural subaltern electorate find in Balibar a powerful ally.” -Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of Death of a Discipline and Other Asias
$28.00 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-16860-1 2018 288 pages
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Pragmatism and Naturalism
"A masterful mapping of the intellectual and spiritual currents that roiled Iran's capital for a century and a half before bursting forth in the Iranian Revolution."-Richard Bulliet, Columbia
Scientific and Social Inquiry After Representationalism Edited by Matthew Bagger
“This book is a stellar collection of many of the most brilliant and influential philosophers engaged with pragmatism and naturalism. The revival of pragmatism—after its emergence forty years ago—continues in new and nuanced ways as manifest in this gem of a text!”
University
With a focus on the diversity of ideas of the divine, God and Man in Tehran offers a novel perspective on the intellectual movements that have shaped Iranian modernity. $60.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-17682-8
-Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University
2018 256 pages
Sharī'a Scripts A Historical Anthropology
$75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-18188-4 2018 328 pages
Brinkley Messick
Religious Statecraft
Brinkley Messick uses the richly varied writings of the Yemeni past to offer a uniquely comprehensive view of the sharī 'a as a localized and lived phenomenon. Presenting a new understanding of Islamic legal history, Sharī 'a Scripts is a groundbreaking examination of the interpretative range and historical insights offered by the anthropologist as reader.
The Politics of Islam in Iran Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar
Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar traces half a century of shifting Islamist doctrines, demonstrating that religious narratives in Iran can change rapidly, frequently, and dramatically in accordance with elites’ threat perceptions. Religious Statecraft constructs a new picture of Iranian politics in which power drives Islamist ideology.
$70.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-17874-1 2018 546 pages
$60.00 /£47.00 cloth 978-0-231-18366-6 2018 392 pages
Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
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Kosher USA
New in paper
The Other Catholics
How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food
Remaking America's Largest Religion
Roger Horowitz
Julie Byrne
Winner, Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in the history of the Jewish Diaspora, American Historical Association
"Byrne's field-shaping work will be an indispensable touchstone for future scholarship."-Journal of Religious History
Winner, National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish Studies Choice Outstanding Academic Title
"The single best book that I have ever read on the American kosher industry. It will entertain and educate both general readers and serious scholars."-H-Judaic $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-15833-6 $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-15832-9 2018 320 pages
Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
Friends and Other Strangers
$24.00 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-16677-5
$29.95 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16676-8 2018 408 pages
Black Gods of the Asphalt Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball Onaje X. O. Woodbine
"In this majestic study of basketball as ritual, religion, and culture, Woodbine plunges into the courts of Boston with an insider's savvy to catalogue the urban sport's pulsating (and potentially transcendent) dialogue."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) $22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-17729-0
Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture
$30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17728-3
Richard B. Miller
2018 224 pages
“An important book for theological ethics and public theology as well as religious ethics."—Theological Studies
Altered States
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-17489-3
Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America
$60.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-17488-6
Douglas Osto
2018 416 pages
Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History The Rashidun Caliphs Tayeb El-Hibri
“An invigorating new reading of the story of the early Islamic succession to the Prophet Muhammad."—Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-15083-5 $70.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-16056-8 2018 448 pages
Waking, Dreaming, Being Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy Evan Thompson Foreword by Stephen Batchelor
Choice Outstanding Academic Title “A landmark and a tipping point in consciousness investigations. -Journal of Mind and Behavior $22.95 / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-13695-2 $32.95 / £26.00 cloth 978-0-231-13709-6 2018 496 pages
"[Altered States]....will appeal to anyone interested in Buddhism, psychedelic possibilities, and understanding how both are forging a controversial new American religious experience."-Publishers Weekly $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-17833-4 $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-17832-7 January 2019 368 pages
Sacred Knowledge Psychedelics and Religious Experiences William A. Richards
“Part memoir, part manifesto, Sacred Knowledge charts the birth, death, and resurrection of psychedelic research. . . . The conclusion to be drawn from this book is that it’s time—in a safe setting and with careful guidance—that we started taking our miracles in tablet form.”-Independent $24.00 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-17407-7 $29.95 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17406-0 2018 280 pages