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Mare Nostrum Group
A Misrepresented People
Manhood in Black Religious Thought
Darrius
D'wayne Hills
Religion and Social Transformation
January 2025 216pp
9781479823291 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479823284 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores how African American men grapple with identity and masculinity in relation to Black religious thought. Counters the dominant portrayal of Black men in American society as morally defective, and irredeemable, and showcases the strength and relevance of Black religious thought in developing alternative notions of Black manhood.
Afro-Atlantic Catholics
America’s First Black Christians
Jeroen Dewulf
August 2024 334pp
9780268202811 £40.00/ $45.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Examines the influence of African Catholics on the historical development of Black Christianity in America during the seventeenth century. Black Christianity in America has long been studied as a blend of indigenous African and Protestant elements. Dewulf redirects the conversation by focusing on the enduring legacy of seventeenthcentury Afro-Atlantic Catholics in the broader history of African American Christianity.
Catholicism at a Crossroads
The Present and Future of America’s Largest Church
Maureen K. Day, James C.
Cavendish, Paul M. Perl, Michele Dillon, Mary L.
Gautier & William V. D'Antonio
February 2025 336pp 34 b&w illus.
9781479832187 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781479832170 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the US alone there are many challenges facing the Catholic Church both internally and externally. This book charts this new era of Catholic worship, belonging, and identity in America today.
A Theology of Health
Wholeness and Human Flourishing
Tyler J. VanderWeele
September 2024 386pp
9780268208332 £38.00/ $42.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
VanderWeele argues that health can be understood as wholeness as intended by God and that sin—whether individual wrongdoing, societal injustice, or the fallenness of creation—causes ill health. This book is an essential theological exploration that seeks to promote health, healing, and flourishing of the whole person.
Burdened Agency
Christian Theology and End-ofLife Ethics
Travis Pickell
August 2024 228pp
9780268208417 £45.00/ $50.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
This engaging book offers a historical and philosophical account of the origins of our situation of burdened agency, as well as a Christian solution to the problems that it raises. Pickell devises a radically countercultural approach to death and dying rooted in Christian theological commitments and enacted in the practices of baptism, Eucharist, and prayer.
Christian Apologetics and Philosophy
An Introduction
Paul Herrick
October 2024 228pp
9780268208936 £34.00/ $38.00 PB
9780268208929 £90.00/ $100.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Paul Herrick presents the basics of classical Christian apologetics in the form of an inference to the best explanation argument. With sections on the Socratic method, the Christian examination of conscience, the Big Bang, miracles, the historical reliability of the New Testament, the resurrection of Christ, and more, this book promises to be useful intellectually and spiritually.
Contemporary Humanistic Judaism
Beliefs, Values, Practices
Edited by Adam Chalom & Jodi Kornfeld
JPS Anthologies of Jewish Thought
January 2025 342pp 2 tables, 1 appendix, index
9780827615649
£36.00/ $40.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Opening up multidimensional ideas, values, and practices of Humanistic Judaism to Jews of all backgrounds and beliefs, this book collects the movement’s most important texts for the first time and answers the oft-raised question, “How can you be Jewish and celebrate Judaism if you don’t believe in God?” with new vision.
Family, Sex, and Faith
The Biopolitics of the Russian Orthodox Church
Pål Kolstø
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
January 2025 336pp
9781501779411 £55.00/ $61.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Family, Sex, and Faith is the first systematic examination probing what the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) teaches and how believers respond to its messages regarding issues such as marriage, divorce, contraception, abortion, husband/wife relations, and LGBT+.
Fixing the Liturgy
Friars, Sisters, and the Dominican Rite, 1256-1516
Claire Taylor Jones
The Middle Ages Series
July 2024 456pp 13 b&w illus., 4 tables
9781512825688 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
This book opens a window into the daily practice of medieval liturgy, uncovering what is required to coordinate each day’s worship. Focusing on the Dominican order through a set of unseen records, Jones shows how changes in medieval piety and ritual legislation disrupted the system instituted in the thirteenth century.
9781487561093
9781487557348
Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré
Autobiography
Abraham Rubin
German and European Studies
December 2024 232pp 31 b&w illus.
£20.99/ $27.50 PB
£62.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
A collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath.
Finding God in All the Black Places
Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
October 2024 284pp 44 color illus. 9781978839779 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781978839786 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Finding God in All the Black Places, Beretta E. SmithShomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are the critical crux of Black popular culture. She argues that cultural, community and social support live within the Black church and that spirit, art and progress are deeply entwined and seal this connection.
Freedom and the Captive Mind
Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia
Wallace L. Daniel
NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies
October 2024 348pp 15 b&w hts.
9781501777349 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781501777332 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Freedom and the Captive Mind is a biography of Fr. Gleb Yakunin, the first Orthodox priest to adopt an ecumenical approach to Russian Orthodoxy, earning him the enmity of conservative groups within the Church and gratitude from other religious denominations.
Goodbye Religion
The Causes and Consequences of Secularization
Ryan T. Cragun & Jesse M. Smith
Secular Studies
October 2024 352pp 45 b&w images
9781479825301 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781479825295 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
One of the largest changes in American culture over the last fifty years has been the increase in people exiting religion. At a time where more and more individuals are questioning the implications of our increasingly secular society, Goodbye Religion offers an engaging and fascinating analysis into what religious exiting—and secularization broadly—means for American society.
Heritage and Its Missions
Contested Meanings and Constructive Appropriations
Edited by Cristóbal Gnecco & Adriana Schmidt Dias
Catholic Practice in the Americas
January 2025 224pp 20 b&w illus.
9781531509330 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531509323 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Interdisciplinary in scope and classed under the name “critical heritage studies,” this book makes extensive use of ethnographic perspectives to examine heritage not as a collection of inert things upon which a general historical interest is centered, but as a series of active meanings that have consequences in the social, political, and economic arenas.
Indigenous Sacraments
Christian Rituals and Local Responses at the Fringes of Spanish America, 1529–1800
Oriol Ambrogio Gali
Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
December 2024 378pp 5 maps, index 9781496235770
£63.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Provides the first study of Indigenous perceptions of the Christian sacraments at the fringes of colonial Spanish America. Gali draws on a range of diverse sources to explore the changing attitudes toward the sacraments and to highlight the cultural and religious evolution of the Indigenous groups living at the fringes of Spanish America.
Grieving Pregnancy
Memorializing Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism
Maureen L. Walsh
December 2024 208pp 0 images
9781978826380 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781978826427 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Grieving Pregnancy: Memorializing Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism, Maureen L. Walsh compares how the two religious traditions respond ritually and discursively to miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion experiences marked by grief for the women involved.
In Plain Sight
Muslims of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
Ann E. Zimo
The Middle Ages Series
September 2024 288pp 2 maps 9781512824896 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
This book draws from a wide array of sources to show how Muslims, integrated themselves into the kingdom founded in the First Crusade. By untangling the relations of Muslim communities and their rulers, Zimo explores a society too multifaceted to be reasonably reduced to a black-and-white image.
Jimmy's Faith
James Baldwin, Disidentification, and the Queer Possibilities of Black Religion
Christopher Hunt
November 2024 192pp
9781531508814 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781531508807 £88.00/ $98.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
The relationship of James Baldwin’s life and work to Black religion is in many ways complex and confounding. What is he doing through his literary deployment of religious language and symbols?
Joseph Fielding Smith
A Mormon Theologian
Matthew Bowman
Introductions to Mormon Thought
September 2024 136pp
9780252088056 £12.99/ $14.95 PB
9780252045950 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
In the early and mid-twentieth century, Joseph Fielding Smith’s (1876–1972) life as a public historian and theologian shaped the religious worldview of generations of Latter-day Saints. Bowman examines Smith’s ideas, including the age of the earth and the falseness of evolutionary theory, and his place in American religious history.
Liberating Spiritualities
Reimagining Faith in the Américas
Christopher D. Tirres
December 2024 176pp
9781531508319 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781531508326 £88.00/ $98.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
This thought-provoking work examines the contributions of Marxist philosopher José Carlos Mariátegui, renowned educator and philosopher Paulo Freire, innovative constructive theologian Virgilio Elizondo, influential cultural and feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa, activist mujerista theologian and social ethicist Ada María IsasiDíaz, and groundbreaking ecofeminist theologian Ivone Gebara.
Muhammad in the Seminary
Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth
Century
David D. Grafton
September 2024 304pp 12 b&w images
9781479831463 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Providing an in-depth look at the information about Islam that was available in seminaries throughout the nineteenth century, Muhammad in the Seminary examines what Protestant seminaries were teaching about this tradition in the formative years of pastoral education. This volume offers new insight into American religious history and the study of Christian-Muslim relations.
Kabbalah and the Founding of America
The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World
Brian Ogren
November 2024 328pp 5 b&w illus. 9781479835225 £20.99/ $24.00 NIP
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Kabbalah and the Founding of America traces the influence of Kabbalah on early Christian Americans. It offers a new picture of Jewish-Christian intellectual exchange in pre-Revolutionary America, and illuminates how Kabbalah helped to shape early American religious sensibilities.
Men of God
Mendicant Orders in Colonial Mexico
Asunción Lavrin Confluencias
December 2024 424pp 20 illus., 1 table, 2 graphs, index
9781496240446 £40.00/ $45.00 PB
9781496237804 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
A broadly researched cultural history, Men of God offers a path to understanding the concept of religious masculinity through an intimate approach to the study of friars and lay brothers in colonial Mexico. Lavrin offers a sweeping yet intimate history of the mendicant friars in New Spain from the late sixteenth century through 1800.
No Matter What Crisis and the Spirit of Planetary Possibility
As we face relentless ecological destruction spiraling around a planet of unconstrained capitalism and democratic failure, what matters most? How do we get our bearings and direct our priorities in such a terrestrial scenario? Species, race, sex, politics, and economics will increasingly come tangled in the catastrophic trajectory of climate change.
Nocturnal Seeing
Hopelessness of Hope and Philosophical Gnosis in Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod
Elliot R. Wolfson
Cultural Memory in the Present
October 2024 312pp
9781503640962 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781503640665 £125.00/ $140.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this erudite new work, Elliot R. Wolfson explores philosophical gnosis in the writings of Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod. The juxtaposition of these three extraordinary, albeit relatively neglected, philosophers provides a prism through which Wolfson scrutinizes the interplay of ethics, politics, and theology.
Origen and the Emergence of Divine Simplicity before Nicaea
Pui Him Ip
August 2024 298pp 2 b&w illus.
9780268203627 £40.00/ $45.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
How can God, conceived as purely one without multiplicity, be a Trinity? This book sets a new historical foundation for addressing this question by tracing how divine simplicity emerged as a key notion in early Christianity.
Politics of Tranquility
The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao
Tibet
Yasmin Cho
January 2025 186pp 18 b&w hts., 1 map
9781501778810 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781501778803 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Politics of Tranquility concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily engagements in the remote, megasized Tibetan Buddhist encampment of Yachen Gar.
Of Corn and Catholicism
A History of Religion and Power in Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days
Andrea Maria McComb
Sanchez
Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
February 2025 222pp 3 photos., 1 illus., 1 map, index 9781496200556 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Examines the development of the patron saint feast days among Eastern Pueblo Indians of New Mexico from the 17th century to the late 19th century. McComb Sanchez explores feast days as sites of religious resistance, accommodation, and appropriation.
Óscar Romero and Catholic Social Teaching
Edited by Todd Walatka
October 2024 376pp 4 b&w illus.
9780268208752 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
This book explores the life, mission, and writings of martyred Salvadorian archbishop St. Óscar Romero in the light of contemporary work for justice and human development. A timely, engaging collection of the most rigorous scholarly engagement with Romero and Catholic social teaching to date.
Prisms, Veils
A Book of Fables
David Bentley Hart
July 2024 208pp
9780268208448 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9780268208455 £45.00/ $50.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Hart explores the elusive nature of dreams and the enduring power of mythologies. Moving over themes ranging from the beauty of the natural world to the very nature of consciousness itself, each narrative is threaded through with Hart’s deep religious, cultural, and historical knowledge, drawing readers into an expertly woven tapestry of diverse allusions and deep meaning.
Queen of Sorrows
Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy
Bianca M. Lopez
Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
September 2024 228pp 6 b&w hts., 2 maps, 5 graphs
9781501775918 £51.00/ $56.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Queen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late-medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of Loreto shrine in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
9780268208486
9780268208479
Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism
Edited by Atalia Omer & Joshua Lupo
Contending Modernities
September 2024 236pp
£29.99/ $35.00 PB
£90.00/ $100.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Even though the formal structures of colonialism have crumbled, with a few notable exceptions, European colonial ideology continues to operate across the globe. Shows convincingly that not only has colonialism had a devastating impact on the colonized, but its reach has turned inward to erode the colonizer’s own social and political systems.
Sheets of Scattered Sand
Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim
Justin Tse
Liu Institute Series in Chinese Christianities
November 2024 304pp 20 b&w illus.
9780268208714 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Tse captures the voices of Cantonese Protestant Christians from the San Francisco, Vancouver, and Hong Kong metropolitan areas as they reflect on their efforts to adapt to secular communities while retaining their identity and beliefs. Tse’s work serves as an illuminating prequel to contemporary stories of the Hong Kong protests and a newly emergent Asian American politics.
Religion and Secular Modernity in Russian Christianity, Judaism, and Atheism
Edited by Ana Siljak
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
November 2024 306pp
9781501778162 £51.00/ $56.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
A multifaceted account of the engagement between religion and the secular in Russia's Christian, Jewish, and atheist traditions. Contributors present unique perspectives on the secularization dynamic in Russia and the Soviet Union.
Restorative Justice and Lived Religion
Transforming Mass Incarceration in Chicago
Jason A. Springs
Religion and Social Transformation
September 2024 272pp
9781479823789 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479823772 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Frames restorative justice as a form of moral and spiritual practice with the capacity to transform injustice. Looking to Chicago’s restorative justice network as a model for developing these transformational social changes, the volume showcases real-life examples of the kinds of initiatives needed to shift the entrenched dynamics that fuel the prison-industrial complex across the United States.
Society of the Righteous
Ibadhi Muslim Identity and Transnationalism in Tanzania
By studying the complexities of a religious community whose significance has been obscured by the limitations of area studies paradigms, Wortmann shifts the discussion of global Muslim religion and politics beyond the usual concerns with tradition versus modernity, contestations between various branches of Islam, and the global war on terror.
Sonia Johnson
A Mormon Feminist
Christine Talbot
Introductions to Mormon Thought
August 2024 136pp
9780252088179 £12.99/ $14.95 PB
9780252046063 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Few figures in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provoke such visceral responses as Sonia Johnson due to her unrelenting public support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Talbot tells the story of Sonia’s historic confrontation with the Church and its engagement with feminism.
Soul Woundedness
Spirituality on the Streets of Seattle
Paul Houston BlankenshipLai
November 2024 240pp 20 b&w illus.
9781531508388 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781531508395 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on over five years of research and as a participantobserver, Paul Houston Blankenship-Lai presents the personal experiences of “street kids,” highlighting how their spiritual beliefs and practices offer them comfort, a sense of community, and a feeling of belonging amidst their struggles.
Stormy Weather
Pagan Cosmologies, Christian Times, Climate Wreckage
William E. Connolly
September 2024 272pp
9781531509217 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781531509200 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Composed as a counter-history of western philosophical and political thought, Stormy Weather explores the role western cosmologies have played in the conquests of paganism in Europe and the Americas, the production of climate wreckage, and the concealment of that wreckage from western humanists and earth scientists until late in the day.
Sonic Icons
Relation, Recognition, and Revival in a Syriac World
To the extent that Middle Eastern Christians register in Euro-American political imaginaries, they are usually invoked to justify Western military intervention into countries like Iraq or Syria, or as an exemption to antiIslamic immigration policies because of an assumption that their Christianity makes them easily assimilable in the so-called “Judeo-Christian” West.
Spiritualism's Place
Reformers, Seekers, and Séances in Lily Dale
Averill Earls, Sarah HandleyCousins, Marissa C. Rhodes & Elizabeth Garner Masarik
October 2024 240pp 22 b&w hts. 9781501777264 £24.99/ $28.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Spiritualism's Place, four friends and scholars who produce the acclaimed Dig: A History Podcast, share their curiosity and enthusiasm for uncovering stories from the past as they explore the history of Lily Dale. Located in western New York State, the world's largest center for Spiritualism was founded in 1879.
Talmud and Philosophy
Conjunctions, Disjunctions, Continuities
Edited by Sergey Dolgopolski & James Adam Redfield
New Jewish Philosophy and Thought August 2024 314pp 8 b&w illus.
9780253070678 £40.00/ $45.00 PB
9780253070661 £90.00/ $100.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rather than using the Talmud and its modes of argumentation to develop existing philosophical themes, these wide-ranging and astutely argued essays probe the question of how the Talmud as an intellectual discipline sheds new light on the unfolding of philosophy in the history of thought.
The Church of Stop Shopping and Religious Activism
Combatting Consumerism and Climate Change through Performance
George González
North American Religions
December 2024 336pp 8 b&w images
9781479817733
£29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781479817702
£89.00/ $99.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The grassroots performance activist group the Stop Shopping Church has advanced a sophisticated anticapitalist critique in what they call “Earth Justice.” González offers an insight into the Church and its activities.
The Emergence of Arabic Poetry
From Regional Identities to Islamic Canonization
Nathaniel A. Miller
August 2024 376pp 6 b&w illus, 2 maps
9781512825305 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In combining a reconstruction of pre-Islamic poetry’s social function, The Emergence of Arabic Poetry offers an urgently needed reappraisal of a significant but underexamined poetic corpus, as well as a new literary history of the origins of Arabic poetry from 500 to 750 CE.
The Covenant's Veil
Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition of Elaboration
Alexandra Sellassie Antohin
Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
December 2024 240pp 20 b&w illus. 9781531508654 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531508647 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
By reframing covenant as expanding beyond Ethiopian religious and political exceptionalism, The Covenant’s Veil provides us with a timely reappraisal of this concept in light of increased social fragmentation and the urgency for negotiating harmony in a country with many forms of diversity.
The Gospel of John Marrant
Conjuring Christianity in the Black Atlantic
Alphonso F. Saville IV
Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Using the Black folk magic tradition of conjure as a lens for understanding Reverend John Marrant’s religious imagination, Alphonso F. Saville IV outlines the importance of Africana religious and cultural themes, symbols, and cosmologies in the biblical interpretation and ritual culture in early Black North American Christian communities.
Edited
The Life and Martyrdom of the Father Diego Luis de San Vitores, S.J.
Francisco García, S.J.
Translated by Margaret M. Higgins, Felicia Plaza, M.M.B. & Juan M.H. Ledesma, S.J
by James A. McDonough, S.J.
A collection of letters collected shortly after the death of Diego Luis de San Vitores, S.J., the Jesuit priest who established the Catholic religion in the island of Guam in the late 1600s.
The stories recorded in these collections—by Herman of Tournai; Hugh Farsit; Haimo of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives; John, son of Peter; and Gautier of Compiègne—offer descriptions of travel, living conditions, medical knowledge, conflict between and among lay and religious authorities, and the burgeoning cult of the Virgin Mary.
The New Political Islam
Human Rights, Democracy, and Justice
Emmanuel Karagiannis
Haney Foundation Series
August 2024 280pp 6 illus.
9781512826883 £25.99/ $29.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Synthesizing prodigious research and integrating insights from the globalization debate and the literature on social movements, The New Political Islam seeks to explain the processes and factors leading to distinctive fusions of "the global" and "the local" across the landscape of contemporary political Islam.
The Requirements of the Sufi Path
A Defense of the Mystical Tradition
Ibn Khaldūn
Translated by Carolyn Baugh
Library of Arabic Literature
September 2024 224pp
9781479834198 £12.99/ $15.00 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ibn Khaldūn applies his analytical powers to Sufism, which he deems a bona fide form of Islamic piety. He writes from the perspective of an Islamic jurist and legal scholar. He characterizes Sufism and the stages along the Sufi path and takes up the question of the need for a guide along that path.
The Service of Faith
An Ethnography of Mennonites and Development
Philip Fountain
September 2024 372pp 7 figures
9780228022480 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Braiding together extensive ethnographic and archival research, Philip Fountain explores the diverse ways in which Mennonite convictions permeate the Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) work in Indonesia, and confronts the question of whether religion has a legitimate place in international development work.
One of the enduring claims in the Christian tradition is that creation is good. Given the diversity of experience and the abundance of suffering in the world, however, such an affirmation is not always straightforward. The Play of Goodness provides a phenomenology of creation’s goodness that clarifies the ongoing relevance of the doctrine today.
The Saint's Life and the Senses of Scripture
Hagiography as Exegesis
Ann W. Astell
July 2024 400pp 7 color illus.; 4 b&w tables
9780268208110 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation of hagiography as a genre correlates with similar changes in biblical studies. Astell convincingly shows how this radical shift in hagiography’s status serves as a bellwether for modern biblical reception.
Thinking the Unknowable
The Essential Louis Dupré Louis Dupré
Edited by Peter J. Casarella
November 2024 200pp
9780268207953 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
This book explores the relationship between faith and metaphysics, charting the course for an innovative Christian philosophy of religion. Dupré seeks to open up a space for faith in contemporary philosophy of religion by arguing that metaphysics cannot claim authority in the realm of the transcendent. Instead, Dupré shows that philosophers must learn to accommodate mystery in their metaphysical frameworks.
Veiled Threats
Women and Global Jihad
Mia Bloom
February 2025 222pp 2 charts
9781501777820 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781501777813 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the range of roles of the women involved in Jihad—not only across secular and religious groups, but within affiliated religious groups—and how these extremist groups have used rape as a weapon of war. Bloom explains how women are used and abused, deployed and destroyed, and the many ways in which their roles in terrorism have evolved over the past three decades.
Drawing on a five-year study of fourteen sites, including church plants, congregations, and para-church agencies, Ross Lockhart explores the evolving spectrum of religious identity in Vancouver and the significant cultural shifts taking place in how Christian mission and witness are approached in a secular city.
Vote of Faith
Democracy, Desire, and the Turbulent Lives of Priest Politicians
A richly cinematic and compelling look at priestpoliticians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglements. The first work by an anthropologist to explore the unique phenomenon of the mayor-priest, this book offers an essential new angle on emerging debates about secularity as the condition of separation of the religious from the political.
Why the Church? Self-Optimization or Community of Faith
Hans Joas
Cultural Memory in the Present October 2024 200pp 9781503640795 £23.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503638037 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this accessible and questioning new work, Hans Joas traverses theological, church-historical, sociological, and ethical territory in search of a viable conception of the church adequate to contemporary globalized societies. This book considers the relation of a community of faith to contemporary ideas about the optimization of life.
