RELIGION Spring 2020
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A Greek Thomist
Affective Trajectories
Providence in Gennadios Scholarios
Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes Edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt & Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
Matthew C. Briel
April 2020 272pp 9780268107499 £42.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Examines for the first time Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of providence by Greek Orthodox theologian, Gennadios Scholarios. Investigates Aquinas’s theology, Greek patristic and theological traditions, and Aristotle’s philosophy. Reconsiders current understanding of Byzantine theology and “orthodoxy” within a Western paradigm.
Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People February 2020 320pp 9781478006268 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478005490 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the highly complex entwinements between religion and affect in urban Africa.
Balthasar in Light of Early Confucianism
Bastards and Believers
Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present
Joshua R. Brown
April 2020 260pp 9780268107093 £42.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Edited by Theodor Dunkelgrün & Pawel Maciejko
Seeks to demonstrate usefulness of Chinese philosophy to Christian theology using Confucianism to expand the Christology of the 20th-century Catholic theologian Balthasar. Offers in-depth studies of Confucian idea of xiao (filial piety) and Balthasar’s Christology. Employs Confucian and Balthasarian resources to push the Christological conversation forward.
Jewish Culture and Contexts March 2019 392pp 1 illus. 9780812251883 £65.00 /$75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Highlights how the concepts of the convert and of conversion have histories of their own.
Catholic Activism Today
Chicago Católico
Individual Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice
Making Catholic Parishes Mexican
Deborah E. Kanter
Latinos in Chicago and Midwest February 2020 224pp 9780252084843 £19.99/$24.95 PB 9780252042973 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Maureen K. Day
June 2020 320pp 12 figs. 9781479851331 £34.00/$39.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Uncovers why Catholic organizations fail to foster civic activism. Drawing on three years of interview, survey, and participant observation data, offers a compelling new take on contemporary dynamics of Catholic civic engagement and its potential effect on the Church at large. Sheds light on the impediments to successfully enacting social change. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
The first-ever study of Mexican-descent Catholicism in the city. Tells of neighborhood change and rebirth in Chicago’s Mexican American communities. Shows how the newly arrived mixed memories of home into learning the ways of Chicago to create new identities.
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Church of the Ever Greater God
Circling the Elephant
Aaron Pidel, S.J.
John J. Thatamanil
A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity
The Ecclesiology of Erich Przywara
Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions May 2020 320pp 9780823287734 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288526 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 310pp 9780268107772 £46.00/$60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
The 1st English-language study of the ecclesiology of Erich Przywara, S.J., one of the most important Catholic theologians of the 20th century. Shows the influence of analogia entis (“analogy of being”), and how Przywara used this concept to describe the structure and rhythm of the Catholic Church.
Thatamanil envisions religious diversity as a promise, not a problem, and proposes a new theology of religious diversity that opens the door to robust interreligious learning and Christian transformation through encountering the other.
Confucianism and Catholicism
Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe
Reinvigorating the Dialogue
Edited by Michael R. Slater, Erin M. Cline & Philip J. Ivanhoe
Paola Tartakoff
The Middle Ages Series January 2020 304pp 3 illus. 9780812251876 £56.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
May 2020 272pp 9780268107697 £50.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Explores the ways religious conversion fueled Jewish-Christian tensions. In the process, it elucidates how the interplay of fact and fantasy shaped Christian views of Jews as agents of Christian apostasy to Judaism.
Brings historical and constructive perspectives of Confucianism and Cathloicism together. Seeks not only to understand the past dialogue between these traditions, but also to renew and reinvigorate the conversation between them.
Degrees of Separation
Deza and Its Moriscos
Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism
Schneur Zalman Newfield
April 2020 248pp 9781439918968 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9781439918951 £82.00/$99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Those who exit a religion often find themselves at sea in their efforts to transition to life beyond their community. Schneur Zalman Newfield, who went through this process himself, interviews 74 Lubavitch and Satmar ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews who left their communities. Excludes Asia Pacific
Religion and Community in Early Modern Spain
Patrick J. O’Banion
Early Modern Cultural Studies August 2020 396pp 3 maps, 5 family trees, 9781496216724 £60.00/$70.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
This book reframes historiographical debates about the so-called Morisco problem, a defining crisis for early modern Spain, by focusing on the lives and local context of a community that experienced it.
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Faith or Fraud
Far from the Caliph’s Gaze
Fortune-Telling, Spirituality, and the Law
Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian
Jeremy Patrick
Law and Society March 2020 233pp 9780774863322 £60.00/$89.95 HB UBC PRESS
Nicholas H. A. Evans
May 2020 256pp 7 b&w halftones 9781501715693 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781501715686 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Faith or Fraud? Fortune-Telling, Individual Spirituality, and the Law answers an emerging controversy: Should the law’s understanding of religion include the “spiritual but not religious”?
How do you prove that you’re Muslim? In Far from the Caliph’s Gaze, Nicholas Evans explores how a need to respond to this question shapes the lives of Ahmadis in Qadian in northern Indian.
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From Eden to Eternity
In Your Eyes I See My Words
Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages
Homilies and Speeches from Buenos Aires, Vol 2: 2005–2008
Alastair Minnis
The Middle Ages Series March 2020 384pp 32 color illus. 9780812224658 £22.99/$27.50 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Pope Francis
Translated by Marina A. Herrera & Antonio Spadaro Foreword by Patrick J. Ryan
Minnis argues that Eden afforded an extraordinary amount of creative space to late medieval theologians, painters, and poets as they tried to understand the place that God had deemed worthy of the creature made in His image.
April 2020 576pp 9780823287598 £27.99/$34.95 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shows Archbishop Bergoglio’s growth as a pastor and a theologian/scholar in the midst of his people.
Intimate Alien
Jesuit Kaddish
The Hidden Story of the UFO
Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance
David J. Halperin
Spiritual Phenomena March 2020 312pp 9781503607088 £21.99/$26.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
James Bernauer, S.J.
March 2020 210pp 9780268107017 £42.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
This is a book about UFOs that While much has been written goes beyond believing in them or debunking about the Catholic Church and the Holocaust, them and to a fresh understanding of what they little has been published about the hostile role of tell us about ourselves as individuals, as a culture, priests, in particular Jesuits, toward Jews and and as a species. Judaism. Jesuit Kaddish is a long overdue study that looks at Jesuit hostility toward Judaism before the Shoah.
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Lift Every Voice and Swing
Living with Tiny Aliens The Image of God for the Anthropocene
Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century
Adam Pryor
Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology May 2020 240pp 9780823287710 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288311 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Vaughn A. Booker
July 2020 368pp 6 hts 9781479890804 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479892327 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives of African American religion in the 20th century.
Imagines in theological terms how an individuals’ meaningful existence persists within a cosmos pregnant with living-possibilities. In doing so, it works to articulate an astrobiological humanities.
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Making Market Women
Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis
Gender, Religion, and Work in Ecuador
The Evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century
Jill DeTemple March 2020 220pp 9780268107451 £42.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
David B. Ruderman
Tells of the initial success, and later failure, of a liberationist Catholic women’s cooperative in central Ecuador. Argues that when gender and religious identities are capitalized, they are made vulnerable. Using archival and ethnographic methods, shares the story of the women involved in the cooperative, producing cheese and knitted goods for local markets.
Jewish Culture and Contexts April 2020 280pp 7 illus. 9780812252149 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Considers the life and works of prominent evangelical missionary Alexander McCaul (1799– 1863), who was sent to Warsaw by the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity Amongst the Jews.
Muhammad Reconsidered
None of the Above
Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada
A Christian Perspective on Islamic Prophecy
Joel Thiessen & Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme
Anna Bonta Moreland
Secular Studies April 2020 272pp 14 t / 30 figs 9781479860807 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479817399 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 196pp 9780268107253 £35.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Calls for a retrieval of Thomistic thought on prophecy to view Muhammad within a Christian theology of revelation, without either appropriating the prophet as an unwitting Christian or reducing both Christianity and Islam to a common denominator
None of the Above asserts that a growing divide between religious and nonreligious populations could engender a greater distance in moral and political values and behaviors. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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Orthodox Readings of Augustine
Prophetic Authority
Democratic Hierarchy and the Mormon Priesthood
Edited by Aristotle Papanikolaou & George E. Demacopoulos
Michael Hubbard MacKay
April 2020 168pp 9780252084874 £17.99/$22.95 PB 9780252043017 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
March 2020 314pp 9780823288601 £21.99/$28.00 PB 9780823287628 £19.99/$24.95 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
MacKay traces the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ claim to religious authority and sets it within the context of its times. Delving into the evolution of the concept of prophetic authority, he shows how the Church emerged as a hierarchical democracy with power diffused among leaders Smith chose.
Augustine of Hippo offered Latin and Byzantine theologians a thinker with whom they could bridge linguistic, cultural, and confessional divides.
Religion is Raced
Radiance
Creative Mitzvah Living
Understanding American Religion in the Twenty-First Century
Danny Siegel & Neal Gold Foreword by Joseph Telushkin
Edited by Grace Yukich & Penny Edgell
July 2020 360pp 9781479808748 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479808670 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 416pp 9780827615021 £21.99/$26.95 PB THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY
This first anthology of the most important writings by Danny Siegel, spanning and modernizing 50 years of his insights, Radiance intersperses soulful Jewish texts with innovative Mitzvah ideas to rouse individuals and communities to transform our lives, communities, and world.
Makes the case that religion in America has generally been understood in ways that center white Christian experiences of religion, and argues that all religion must be acknowledged as a raced phenomenon. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Send Lazarus
Sites of the Ascetic Self
Catholicism and the Crises of Neoliberalism
John Cassian and Christian Ethical Formation
Matthew T. Eggemeier & Peter Joseph Fritz
Niki Kasumi Clements
May 2020 294pp 9780268107857 £50.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Catholic Practice in North America May 2020 288pp 9780823288007 £27.99/$35.00 PB 9780823288014 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reconsiders contemporary debates about ethics and subjectivity in an extended engagement with the works of ascetic, John Cassian (ca. 360–ca. 435), whose stories of Send Lazarus’ theological critique winds its way extreme asceticism and transformative religious through four neoliberal crises: environmental destruction,slum proliferation, massincarceration, experience by desert elders helped to establish Christian monastic forms of life. and mass deportation all while plumbing the sacrificial and racist depths of neoliberalism.
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Society without God, Second Edition
Speaking Infinities
God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh
What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment
Ariel Evan Mayse
Phil Zuckerman
Jewish Culture and Contexts May 2019 408pp 9780812252187 £60.00 /$69.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
July 2020 250pp 9781479878086 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479844791 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Looks at the homilies of the Maggid to explore the place of words in mystical experience. Shows how Dov Ber’s vision of language emerges from his encounters with Ba’al Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism.
An updated edition showcasing the social health of the least religious nations in the world. This updated edition incorporates new data from recent studies, statistics and a revised introduction. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
The Ancient Roman Afterlife
The Basque Seroras
Local Religion, Gender, and Power in Northern Iberia, 1550–1800
Di Manes, Belief, and the Cult of the Dead
Amanda L. Scott
March 2020 246pp 10 b&w halftones, 2 maps 9781501747496 £43.00/$49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Charles King
March 2020 328pp 9781477320204 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Explores the intersections between local community, women’s work, and religious reform in early modern northern Spain. Scott provides a wonderful depiction of these uncloistered religious women, who took no vows and were free to leave the religious life if they chose.
Exploring the place of the manes in Roman society, King delves into Roman beliefs about their powers to sustain life and bring death to individuals or armies, examines the rituals the Romans performed to honor them, and reclaims the vital role the manes played in the ancient Roman afterlife.
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The Biblical Hero
The Buddha’s Footprint
Elliott Rabin
Johan Elverskog
Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility
An Environmental History of Asia
March 2020 336pp 2 es 9780827613249 £24.99/$29.95 PB THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY
Encounters with Asia February 2020 192pp 32 illus. 9780812251838 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Approaching the Bible in an original way—comparing biblical heroes to heroes in world literature— Elliott Rabin addresses core biblical questions: What is the Bible telling us about what it means to be a hero? Why do we need such heroes, possibly now more than ever?
The Buddha’s Footprint demonstrates how the spread of Buddhist teachings, the extension of Buddhist trading networks, and the increase of Buddhist state power were intimately connected to agricultural expansion, resource extraction, deforestation, urbanization, and the radical transformation and exploitation of Asia’s environment.
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The Greek Orthodox Church in America
The Imperial Church
Alexander Kitroeff
Katherine D. Moran
Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire
A Modern History
The United States in the World May 2020 320pp 11 b&w halftones 9781501748813 £42.00/$48.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies June 2020 324pp 9781501749919 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781501749438 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Imperial Church undertakes an exploration of how Catholic mission histories served as a useful In this deep history, Kitroeff shows how the Greek reference for Americans narrating US settler Orthodox Church in America has functioned as colonialism on the North American continent and much more than a religious institution, becoming seeking to extend military, political, and cultural the focal point in the lives of the country’s power around the world. Excludes ANZ million-plus Greek immigrants. Excludes ANZ
The Martyrdom of the Franciscans
The Rule of Peshat
Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900-1270
Islam, the Papacy, and an Order in Conflict
Christopher MacEvitt
The Middle Ages Series February 2020 336pp 1 illus. 9780812251937 £56.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Mordechai Z. Cohen
Jewish Culture and Contexts May 2019 496pp 1 illus. 9780812252125 £77.00 /$89.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Shows how, for Franciscans, martyrdom accounts could at once offer veiled critique of papal policies toward the Order, a substitute for the rigorous pursuit of poverty, and a way to symbolically overcome Islam by denying Muslims the solace of conversion.
Sheds new light on key turns in the vibrant medieval tradition of Jewish Bible interpretation. Traces the characterization of the “rule of peshat”: the central, defining feature of Jewish hermeneutics into the modern period.
The Trinitarian Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar
Theological Territories A David Bentley Hart Digest
David Bentley Hart
April 2020 420pp 9780268107185 £21.99/$29.00 PB 9780268107178 £108.00 /$125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
An Introduction
Brendan McInerny
April 2020 248pp 9780268107574 £42.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Hart reflects on the state of theology “at the borders” of other fields of Argues that Balthasar’s vivid description of the discourse—metaphysics, philosophy of mind, immanent Trinity provides a way to speak of how science, the arts, ethics, and biblical “God is love” in himself, beyond his relationship hermeneutics in particular. Advances many of to creatures. Undertakes a sustained treatment of Hart’s larger theological projects, developing and this theme. deepening numerous dimensions of his previous work
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Thinking about God
Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking
Jewish Views
Kari H. Tuling
From Eriugena to Emerson
JPS Essential Judaism August 2020 440pp 9780827613010 £26.99/$32.95 PB THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY
Willemien Otten
Cultural Memory in the Present March 2020 312pp 9781503611672 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503606708 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Investigating how Jewish thinkers from the biblical to the postmodern era have approached questions about God and highlighting interplays between texts over time, Rabbi Kari H. Tuling elucidates many compelling— and contrasting—ways to think about God in Jewish tradition.
Revisiting the history of Western religious thought and the role of nature and creation therein, this book paves the way for a new natural theology by bringing medieval theologian John the Scot Eriugena into conversation with American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.
To Bring the Good News to All Nations
Unbinding Isaac
The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought
Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations
Aaron Koller
July 2020 282pp 3 illus., 9780827614734 £34.00/$40.00 HB THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY
Lauren Frances Turek
The United States in the World May 2020 306pp 12 b&w halftones 9781501748912 £41.00/$47.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Unbinding Isaac takes readers on a trek of discovery for our times into the binding of Isaac story. Nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard viewed the story as teaching suspension of ethics for the sake of faith, and subsequent Jewish thinkers developed this idea as a cornerstone of their religious worldview.
Utilizing archival materials from both religious and government sources in the US, Guatemala, and S.Africa, Turek links the development of evangelical foreign policy lobbying to the overseas missionary agenda. Excludes ANZ
Value and Vulnerability
White Christian Privilege
An Interfaith Dialogue on Human Dignity
The Illusion of Religious Equality in America
Edited by Matthew R. Petrusek & Jonathan Rothchild
Khyati Y. Joshi
June 2020 256pp 1 table 9781479840236 £22.99/$28.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 580pp 9780268106652 £115.00/$150.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Exposes the invisible ways in which Christian privilege disadvantages religious minorities in America. Through the voices of Christians and religious minorities, Joshi explores how Christian privilege and White racial norms affect the lives of all Americans, often in subtle ways.
Brings together scholars of religion to identify and examine conceptions and interpretations of dignity within different religious and philosophical perspectives and their applications to contemporary issues of conflict.
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With Us More Than Ever
Womanpriest
Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad
Tradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church
Yoram Bilu
Spiritual Phenomena July 2020 312pp 9781503612419 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503608344 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jill Peterfeso
Catholic Practice in North America June 2020 272pp 9780823288274 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288281 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Combining ethnographic fieldwork and cognitive science with nuanced analysis, Bilu documents the birth and development of a new religious faith, describing the emergence of new spiritual horizons, a process common to various religious movements old and new.
Womanpriest analyzes the womenpriests’ actions and lived theologies in order to explore ongoing tensions in Roman Catholicism around gender and sexuality, priestly authority, and religious change.
Colonizing Christianity
American and Catholic Experiments in Work and Economy
Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade
Edited by John C. Seitz & Dr. Christine Firer Hinze
George E. Demacopoulos
Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought March 2019 272pp 9780823284436 £27.99/$35.00 PB 9780823284429 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Catholic Practice in North America July 2020 304pp 9780823288342 £27.99/$35.00 PB 9780823288359 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
By offering a close reading of a handful of texts from the early 13th century, this book illuminates mechanisms by which Western Christians authorized and exploited the Christian East.
Explores economic life from a humanistic and multidisciplinary perspective, with a particular eye on religions’ implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange.
Film as Religion, 2nd Edition
Invisible Companions
Encounters with Imaginary Friends, Gods, Ancestors, and Angels
Myths, Morals, and Rituals
John C. Lyden
November 2019 320pp 9781479811991 £22.99 / $28.00 9781479802074 £77.00 / $89.00 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
J. Bradley Wigger
Spiritual Phenomena July 2019 240pp 9781503609112 £20.99 /$25.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Thoroughly updating his examples, Lyden examines a range of film genres and individual films, from The Godfather to The Hunger Games to Frozen, to show how film can function religiously.
Based on interviews conducted with children around the world, this book explores the wild territory of children's imaginations and the religious significance of our profoundly social minds, which make possible relationships with the seen and unseen alike.
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Recent
Working Alternatives
Music, Education, and Religion
On Roman Religion
Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome
Intersections and Entanglements
Edited by Alexis Anja Kallio, Philip Alperson and Heidi Westerlund Counterpoints: Music and Education October 2019 344pp 9780253043726 £34.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253043719 £86.00 / $100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jörg Rüpke
Townsend Lectures Series/Cornell Studies in Classical Philology April 2019 208pp 10 b&w halftones 9781501735110 £20.99 /$24.95 NIP CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Rüpke’s view, lived ancient religion is as much about variations or even outright deviance as it is about attempts and failures to establish or change rules and roles and to communicate them via priesthoods, practices related to images or classified as magic, and literary practices.
Explores the critical role that religion can play in formal and informal music education.
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Religious Freedom Under Scrutiny
Women Performers and World Religions
Heiner Bielefeldt & Michael Wiener
Sarah Weiss
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights December 2019 280pp 9780812251807 £56.00 / $65.00 HB University of Pennsylvania Press
Argues that without freedom of religion or belief, human rights cannot fully address the needs, yearnings, and vulnerabilities of human beings and that marginalizing freedom of religion or belief would weaken the plausibility and legitimacy of the entire system of human rights
New Perspectives on Gender in Music March 2019 198pp 9780252084089 £19.99/$25.00 PB 9780252042294 £82.00/$99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Around the world, women actively claim agency through performance during ritual events. These moments allow them a rare freedom to move beyond culturally determined boundaries. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia, and the Internet Edited by Courtney M. Dorroll
March 2019 240pp 9780253039804 £19.99/$25.00 PB 9780253039798 £52.00/$60.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Provides clear, feasible suggestions and theoretical tools to address the challenges teachers of Islamic Studies face.
Ritual Soundings
The Discourses
Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume 1
Abu ‘Ali al-Hasan al-Yusi Edited & translated by Justin Stearns
Library of Arabic Literature January 2020 372pp 9780814764572 £28.99/$35.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Translated into English for the 1st time, The Discourses offers readers access to the intellectual landscape of the early modern Muslim world. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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