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January 2022 336 pages • 6 x 9 17 black & white illustrations Paper • $35.00S(£26.99) 9781479805822 Cloth • $99.00X(£79.00) 9781479805815 In Religion and Social Transformation

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February 2022 208 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $27.00S(£20.99) 9781479812530 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479808922

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NETWORKING THE BLACK CHURCH

Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop ERIKA D. GAULT

Provides a timely portrait of young Black Christians and how digital technology is transforming the Black Church

Networking the Black Church explores how deeply embedded digital technology is in the lives of young Black Christians, offering a first-of-its-kind digital-hip hop ethnography. The volume examines the ways in which Christian hip hop artists who have adopted Blackpreaching-inspired spoken word performances create alternate kinds of Christian communities both inside and outside the walls of traditional Black churches. In the process, these digital Black Christians are changing Black churches as institutions, transforming modes of religious activism, inventing new communication practices around evangelism and Christian identity, and streamlining the accessibility of Black Church cultural practices in popular culture.

Erika D. Gault is Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Program at the University of Arizona.

SMART SUITS, TATTERED BOOTS

Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century KORIE LITTLE EDWARDS and MICHELLE OYAKAWA

Explores the complex role that Black religious leaders play—or don’t play—in twenty-first-century racial justice efforts

Why don’t we see more Black religious leadership in today’s civil rights movements, such as Black Lives Matter? Drawing on fifty-four in-depth interviews with Black religious leaders and civic leaders in Ohio, Korie Litte Edwards and Michelle Oyakawa uncover several reasons, including religious leaders’ nostalgia for and personal links to the legacy of the civil rights movement, the challenges of organizing around race-based oppression in an allegedly post-racial world, and the hierarchical structure of the Black religious leadership network, which may impede ministers’ work towards collective activism. Black clergy continue to care deeply about social justice and racial oppression. This book offers important insights into how they approach these issues today, illuminating the social processes that impact when, how, and why they participate in civic action.

Korie Little Edwards is Associate Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Michelle Oyakawa is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Muskingum University.

RELIGION, RACE, AND COVID-19

Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic Edited by STACEY M. FLOYD-THOMAS With a Foreword by MICHAEL ERIC DYSON

Examines how the dynamics emerging from the pandemic affect our most vulnerable populations and shape a new religious landscape

The COVID-19 pandemic upset virtually every facet of society and, in many cases, exposed gross inequality and dysfunction. The particular dynamics emerging from the coronavirus pandemic have been felt most intensely by America’s most vulnerable populations, who are disproportionately people of color and the working poor, the people whom the Bible refers to as “the least of these.”

This book makes the case that the pandemic was not just a medical phenomenon, or an economic or social one, but also a religious one. Religious practice has been altered in profound ways. Controversies around religious freedom have been re-ignited over debates concerning whether government can restrict church services. Christian white supremacists not only defied shelter in place orders, but found new ways to propagate racist attacks, with their White Christian identity fueling their reactions to the pandemic. Some religious leaders, including those in communities of color, saw the virus as an indicator of God’s wrath, or as a divine test, and viewed altering their traditional practices to mitigate the virus’s spread as a weakening of faith. Religion, Race, and COVID-19 argues that there is a religious hierarchy in US society that puts “the least of these” last while prioritizing those who benefit most from white privilege. The volume shows how social transformation occurs when faith is both formed and informed during crises, offering compelling insight into the saliency and lasting impact of religiosity within human culture.

Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair and Associate Professor of Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University.

February 2022 320 pages • 6 x 9 4 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479810222 • $30.00S(£22.99) Cloth • 9781479810192 • $89.00X(£71.00) In Religion and Social Transformation

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December 2021 224 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479808854 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479808847

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December 2021 352 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $35.00S(£26.99) 9781479811946 Cloth • $99.00X(£79.00) 9780814717288

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ADOPTING FOR GOD

The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption SOOJIN CHUNG

Explores the role played by missionaries in the twentieth-century transnational adoption movement

Missionaries pioneered the transnational adoption movement in America. Though their role is known, there has not yet been a full historical look at their theological motivations—which varied depending on whether they were evangelically or ecumenically focused—and what the effects were for American society, relations with Asia, and thinking about race more broadly. Adopting for God shows that, somewhat surprisingly, both evangelical and ecumenical Christians challenged Americans to redefine traditional familial values and rethink race matters. By questioning the perspective that equates missionary humanitarianism with unmitigated cultural imperialism, this book offers a more nuanced picture of the rise of an important twentieth-century movement: the evangelization of adoption and the awakening of a new type of Christian mission.

Soojin Chung is Assistant Professor in the Department of Intercultural Studies at California Baptist University.

POWERS OF PILGRIMAGE

Religion in a World of Movement SIMON COLEMAN

A groundbreaking reframing of religious pilgrimage

Pious processions. Sites of miraculous healing. Journeys to far-away sacred places. These are what are usually called to mind when we think of religious pilgrimage. Yet while pilgrimage can include journeying to the heart of sacred shrines, it can also occur in apparently mundane places. Powers of Pilgrimage argues that we must question the universality of Western assumptions of what religion is and where it should be located, including the notion that “genuine” pilgrimage needs to be associated with discrete, formally recognized forms of religiosity. Offering a new theoretical lexicon and framework for exploring human pilgrimage, Powers of Pilgrimage presents a broad overview of how we can understand pilgrimage activity and proposes that it should be understood not solely as going to, staying at, and leaving a sacred place, but also as occurring in ordinary times, places, and practices.

Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto.

CIVIL RELIGION TODAY

Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century Edited by RAYMOND HABERSKI JR., RHYS H. WILLIAMS, and PHILIP GOFF

Moves the discussion of American civil religion into the twenty-first century

Civil Religion, a term made popular by sociologist Robert Bellah a little over fifty years ago, describes how people might share in a sacred sense of their nation. Civil Religion Today reassesses the term to take stock of its usefulness after fifty years of engagement in the field. Looking both at the concept and at ground-level studies of how we might find civil religion in practice, this book aims to push the conversation forward, considering how and in what ways it is helpful in our current social and political context, evaluating which parts are worth keeping, which can be reformulated, and which can now be usefully discarded.

Raymond J. Haberski, Jr. is Professor of History and American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Rhys H. Williams is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. Philip Goff is Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture and Chancellor’s Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. October 2021 240 pages • 6 x 9 11 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479809851 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479809844

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CHRISTIAN ANARCHIST

Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left WILLIAM MARLING

A biography of a remarkable figure, whose politics prefigured today’s social justice, ecology, and gender equality movements

Ammon Hennacy was a forerunner of contemporary progressive thought, and he remains a beacon for challenges that confront the world and especially the US today. In this exceptional biography, William Marling tells the story of this fascinating figure, who remains particularly important for the Catholic Left. In addition to establishing Hennacy as an exemplar of vegetarianism, ecology, and pacificism, Marling illuminates a broader history of political ideas now largely lost: the late nineteenth-century utopian movements, the grassroots socialist movements before World War I, and the antinuclear protests of the 1960s. A nuanced study of when religion and anarchist theory overlap, Christian Anarchist shows how Hennacy’s life at the heart of radical libertarian and anarchist interventions in American politics not only galvanized the public then, but offers us new insight for today.

William Marling is Professor of English and World Literature at Case Western Reserve University. January 2022 320 pages • 6 x 9 24 black & white illustrations Cloth • $45.00S(£36.00) 9781479810079

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February 2022 352 pages • 6 x 9 5 black & white illustrations Paper • $35.00S(£26.99) 9781479804528 Cloth • $99.00X(£79.00) 9781479804511

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FAITH AND POWER

Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 Edited by FELIPE HINOJOSA, MAGGIE ELMORE, and SERGIO M. GONZÁLEZ

Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community building

Too often, religious politics are considered peripheral to social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power seeks to correct this misinterpretation, focusing on the post–World War II era. It shows that the religious politics of this period were central to secular community-building and resistance efforts. The volume traces the interplay between Latino religions and a variety of pivotal movements, from the farm worker movement to the sanctuary movement, offering breadth and nuance to this history. It illuminates how broader currents involving immigration, the rise of the religious left and right, and the Chicana/o, immigrant, and Puerto Rican civil rights movements helped to give rise to political engagement among Latino religious actors.

Felipe Hinojosa is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Maggie Elmore is Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Sergio M. González is Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies at Marquette University.

THE MYTH OF COLORBLIND CHRISTIANS

Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era JESSE CURTIS

Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals

In The Myth of Colorblind Christians, Jesse Curtis shows how white evangelicals’ efforts to grow their own institutions in the years after the civil rights movement created an evangelical form of whiteness and infused the politics of colorblindness with sacred fervor. Curtis argues that white evangelicals deployed Christian colorblindness not for antiracist purposes, but rather to protect new investments in whiteness. In the process, they anchored their own identities and shaped the very meaning of whiteness in American society. At once compelling and timely, The Myth of Colorblind Christians exposes how white evangelical communities avoided antiracist action and yet continue to thrive today.

November 2021 320 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $32.00S(£24.99) 9781479809387 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479809370

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Jesse Curtis is Assistant Professor of History at Valparaiso University.

STUDYING LIVED RELIGION

Contexts and Practices NANCY TATOM AMMERMAN

Offers an overarching definition and framework for the study of religion as it manifests itself in everyday life

Look around you as you walk down the street; somewhere, usually hidden in plain sight, there will be traces of religion. Perhaps it is the person who walks past with a Christian tattoo or a Muslim hijab. Perhaps it is the poster announcing a charity auction at the local synagogue. Or perhaps you open your Instagram feed to see what inspiring images and meditations have been posted by spiritual guides to help start the day. Studying Lived Religion examines religious practices wherever they happen—both within religious spaces and in everyday life. Although the study of lived religion has been around for over two decades, there has not been an agreed-upon definition of what it encompasses, and we have lacked a sociological theory to frame the way it is studied. This book offers a definition that expands lived religion’s geographic scope and a framework of seven dimensions around which we can analyze lived religious practice. Examples from multiple traditions and disciplines show the range of methods available for such studies, offering practical tips for how to begin. The volume opens up how we understand the category of lived religion, erasing the artificial divide between what happens in congregations and other religious institutions and what happens in other settings. Nancy Tatom Ammerman draws on examples ranging from Singapore to Accra to Chicago to show how deeply religion permeates everyday lives. In revealing the often overlooked ways that religion shapes human experience, she invites us all into new ways of seeing the world around us.

Nancy Tatom Ammerman is Professor of Sociology of Religion, Emerita, at Boston University and the author of Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday Life and Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners.

“Meticulous, comprehensive, and intelligent, this marvelous book is a must-read for everyone interested in lived religion.” —David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School

December 2021 288 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 9781479804344 • $30.00S(£22.99) Cloth • 9781479804351 • $89.00X(£71.00)

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